Dr. David Casagrande

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Professor of Anthropology

Dept of Sociology/
Anthropology
and
Environmental
Studies

 

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Bethlehem, PA 18015

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  • Pinter, N., D. Casagrande, and Guðrún María Þorsteinsdóttir. 2026. Managing the Sundhnúkagígar-Grindavík Volcanic Emergency in Iceland, 2023–2026. Natural Hazards. Vol. 122, Article 361. doi.org/10.1007/s11069-026-08084-y
  • Casagrande, D.G., J. Roper, and P. Bocchini. 2026. Resilience Bonds as a Public-Private Partnership for Managing Increasing Risks of Climate Change. Pp. 974-983 in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Flood Management. May 20-22, London, Ontario, Canada. ICFM Proceedings
  • Roper, J., and D.G. Casagrande. 2025. Victims of resilience: an evaluation of social vulnerability’s applicability to disaster justice. Frontiers in Human Dynamics. Vol. 7. doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2025.1615833
  • Roper, J., D.G. Casagrande, and P. Bocchini. 2025. Climate Change and Insurance: Embracing Resilience for Private Market Survival. Sustainable Development. Vol. 33: 8499-8510. doi/10.1002/sd.70106
  • Casagrande, D.G., and A. Lampman. 2025. Ecomyopia on the Chesapeake: Social and Cultural Barriers to Climate-Induced Managed Retreat. Frontiers in Climate 7:1483086. doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1483086
  • Casagrande, D.G., & C. Matherly. 2024. Lehigh Launch Ecuador: A Case Study for First Semester Experience Abroad. Pp. 236-257 in Promoting Intercultural Agility and Leadership Development at Home and Abroad for First-Year Students, Jon Stauff and Jill E. Blondin (Eds.). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
  • Siders, A.R., A. Idowu, and D.G. Casagrande. 2021. Transformative Potential of Managed Retreat as Climate Adaptation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 50:272-280. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.007
  • Wolf Tice, J., and D.G. Casagrande. 2021. The Sovereignty Paradox: Negotiating Values Amid Tribal Adaptation to Shale Oil Extraction. Chapter 2 in Global Im-Possibilities: Exploring the Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities, Phoebe Godfrey and Mary Buchanan (Eds.). London: Zed Books.
  • Pinter, Nicholas, Mikio Ishiwateri, Atsuko Nonoguchi, Yumiko Tanaka, David Casagrande, Susan Durden, and James Rees. 2019. Large-Scale Managed Retreat and Structural Protection following the 2011 Japan Tsunami. Natural Hazards. doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03602-7
  • Casagrande, D.G., E. C. Jones, F. S. Wyndham, J. R. Stepp & R. Zarger. 2017. Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene. Anthropology Today 33(1):23-25. doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12326
  • Jalbert, K., A. Willow, D.G. Casagrande, and S. Paladino (Eds.). 2017. Extraction: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures. New York: Routledge Press.
  • Cooley, R., and D.G. Casagrande. 2017. Marcellus Shale as Golden Goose: The discourse of development and the marginalization of resistance in Northcentral Pennsylvania. Pp. 46-60 in Extraction: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures, Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, and Stephanie Paladino (Eds.). New York: Routledge Press.
  • Jalbert, K., A. Willow, D.G. Casagrande, and S. Paladino. 2017. Introduction: Confronting Extraction, Taking Action. Pp.1-13 in Extraction: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures, Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, and Stephanie Paladino (Eds.). New York: Routledge Press.
  • Casagrande, D.G. 2017. Ethnoscientific implications of classification as a socio-cultural process. Pp. 55-68 in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. H. Kopnina & E. Shoreman-Ouimet (Eds.). New York: Routledge Press.
  • Casagrande, D.G., H. McIlvaine-Newsad, & E.C. Jones. 2015. Social Networks of Help-Seeking in Different Types of Disaster Responses to the 2008 Mississippi River Floods. Human Organization 74(4):351-361.
  • Casagrande, D.G., and C. Peters. 2013. Ecomyopia meets the longue durée: An information ecology of the increasingly arid Southwestern United States. Pp. 97-144, in H. Kopnina & E. Shoreman (Eds.), Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions. New York: Routledge Press.
  • Casagrande, D.G., and H. McIlvaine-Newsad. 2010. Slow Road to Recovery: Small Rural Community Resilience in Illinois after the Mississippi River Floods of 2008: Preliminary Findings. Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL. (Download PDF).
  • Casagrande, D.G., and M. Vasquez. 2009. Restoring for cultural-ecological sustainability in Arizona and Connecticut. Pp. 195-209, in Marcus Hall (Ed.), Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past. Routledge Press.
  • Larson, K. L., D. G. Casagrande, S. Harlan, and S. Yabiku. 2009. Residents' yard choices and rationales in a desert city: Social priorities, ecological impacts, and decision tradeoffs. Environmental Management. 44 (5): 921-937.
  • Yabiku, S., D. G. Casagrande and E. Farley-Metzger. 2008. Preferences for landscape choice in a Southwestern desert city. Environment and Behavior. 40: 382-400.
  • Rands, G., B. Ribbens, D. Casagrande, and H. McIlvaine-Newsad. 2007. Envisioning an ecologically sustainable society: An ideal type and an application. Pp. 22-59, in S. Sharma, M. Starik and B. Husted (Eds.), Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Casagrande, D. G., D. Hope, E. Farley-Metzger, W. Cook, and S. Yabiku. 2007. Problem and opportunity: Integrating anthropology, ecology, and policy through adaptive experimentation in the urban American Southwest. Human Organization 66(2):125-139.
  • Haenn, N., and D. G. Casagrande. 2007. Citizens, Experts, and Anthropologists: Finding Paths in Environmental Policy. Human Organization 66(2):99-102.
  • Hope, D., C. Gries, D. Casagrande, C. L. Redman, N. B. Grimm, and C. Martin. 2006. Drivers of spatial variation in plant diversity across the Central Arizona-Phoenix ecosystem. Society and Natural Resources 19(2):101-116.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 2005. Who Wins? Globalization, migration, and indigenous commodification of medicinal plants in Chiapas, Mexico. Pp. 83-106, in G. Guest (Ed.), Globalization, Health, and the Environment: An Integrated Perspective. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 2005. Encyclopedia entries: Urban Ecology, Ethnopharmacology, Cybernetic Modeling, Steven Pinker, Venezuela Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. James Birx (Ed.). Sage Publications.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 2004. Ethnobiology lives! Theory, collaboration, and possibilities for the study of folk biologies. Reviews in Anthropology 33(4):351-370.
  • Cook, W., D. Casagrande, D. Hope, P. M. Groffman, and S. L. Collins. 2004. Learning to roll with the punches: Adaptive experimentation in human-dominated systems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(9): 467-474.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 2004. Conceptions of primary forest in a Tzeltal Maya community: Implications for conservation. Human Organization 63:189-292.
  • Stepp, J. R., E. C. Jones, M. Pavao-Zuckerman, D. Casagrande, and R. K. Zarger. 2003. Remarkable properties of human ecosystems. Conservation Ecology 7(3): 11.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 2002. Ecology, Cognition, and Cultural Transmission of Tzeltal Maya Medicinal Plant Knowledge. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Georgia. (Download PDF)
  • Casagrande, D. G. 2000. Human Taste and Cognition in Tzeltal Maya Medicinal Plant Use. Journal of Ecological Anthropology. 4:57-69.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 1999. Information as verb: Reconceptualizing information for cognitive and ecological models. Journal of Ecological Anthropology 3:4-14.
  • Casagrande, D. G. and S. R. Beissinger 1997. Evaluation of four methods for estimating parrot population size. Condor 99:445-457.
  • Casagrande, D. G. (ed.). 1997. Restoration of an urban salt marsh: An interdisciplinary Approach. Bulletin No. 100, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 1997. The full circle: A historical context for urban salt marsh restoration. Pp. 13-40, in D. Casagrande (Ed.), Restoration of an urban salt marsh: An interdisciplinary approach. Bulletin No. 100, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 1997. Values, perceptions and restoration goals. Pp. 62-75, in D. Casagrande (Ed.), Restoration of an urban salt marsh: An interdisciplinary approach. Bulletin No. 100, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT.
  • Lewis, C. and D. G. Casagrande. 1997. Using avian communities to assess salt marsh restoration. Pp. 204-236, in D. Casagrande (Ed.), Restoration of an urban salt marsh: An interdisciplinary approach. Bulletin No. 100, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 1997. The Human Component of Urban Wetland Restoration. Pp. 254-270, in D. Casagrande (Ed.), Restoration of an urban salt marsh: An interdisciplinary approach. Bulletin No. 100, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT.
  • Casagrande, D. G. 1996. A value based policy approach: The case of urban salt marsh restoration. Coastal Management 24:327-337.
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