Robert Lawrence France

Robert L. France is an environmental scholar who has taught at the universities of Harvard, McGill, and Ca’ Foscari, and is currently a professor at Dalhousie University. He is the author or editor of over twenty books and two hundred journal papers on a wide range of environmental subjects in both the physical and social sciences, which have been cited more than ten thousand times in the professional literature. Dr. France has undertaken conservation biology research on organisms from bacteria to whales, from the High Arctic to the tropics, and is a leading authority on many aspects of ecology, environmental history, land-use planning, and ecocriticism.