Faculty

Brian King
Assistant Professor

• Office: GRG 208
• Phone: 512-232-1580
• Office Hours: Friday 10-11, 12-1
• E-mail: brian.king@mail.utexas.edu
• Curriculum Vita (PDF)





• Education: Ph.D. , Dr. King graduated with Honors from Bucknell University in 1995 with a degree in environmental studies. After working for two years as a legislative assistant for Clean Water Action and as an environmental educator, he received his M.A. in geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. He received his Ph.D. in geography with a certificate in development studies from the University of Colorado in 2004.
• Area(s): Environmental Resource Management; Cultural Geography
  
• Courses Taught:
  Dr. King teaches a number of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He regularly teaches courses on conservation and environmental policy, national parks and protected areas, and sustainable development. His graduate courses concentrate on environment and development in the developing world.


• Research Interests:
  Dr. King's research concentrates upon human-environment interactions, conservation planning, and the impacts of development processes upon local populations. The bulk of thus work has been completed in South Africa, with particular attention to understanding how the democratic transition is reshaping demographic patterns, livelihood decision-making, and the institutions of environmental governance within rural areas. This work demonstrates that households are undergoing livelihood and demographic transformations from environmental resource use to an engagement with formal and informal economies within the region. Additionally, these livelihood patterns are shaped by historical and contemporary geographies that impact the effectiveness of development initiatives. More recently, Dr. King is examining the impacts of health and disease upon social and environmental systems with the intention of understanding how local environments are transformed by HIV/AIDS.


• Selected Publications:
  

  King, B. Forthcoming. Commercializing conservation in South Africa. Environment and Planning A

  King, B.H., and B. McCusker (Guest editors). 2007. Environment and development in the former South African bantustans. The Geographical Journal 173(1): 6-12.

  King, B.H. 2007. Developing KaNgwane: Geographies of segregation and integration in the new South Africa. The Geographical Journal 173(1): 13-25.

  King, B.H. 2007. Conservation and community in the new South Africa: A case study of the Mahushe Shongwe Game Reserve. Geoforum 38: 207-219.

  King, B.H. 2006. Placing KaNgwane in the new South Africa. The Geographical Review 96(1): 79-96.

  King, B.H. 2005. Spaces of change: Tribal authorities in the former KaNgwane homeland, South Africa. Area 37(1): 64-72.

  King, B.H. 2004. The state of NGOs in post-apartheid South Africa: Changing roles in conservation and development. African Geographical Review 23: 65-84 (December).

  King, B.H. 2002. Towards a participatory GIS: Evaluating case studies of participatory rural appraisal and GIS in the developing world. Cartography and GIS 29(1): 43-52