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JOHN F. MUNRO, PH.D.
Adjunct Professor
Graduate Environmental Management Program
University of Maryland, University College
Adelphi, Maryland
(410) 964-2345
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Dr. John F. Munro holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A.
and Ph.D. in Political Science (with an emphasis on Environmental and Natural Resource
Planning) from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently an Adjunct Professor
at the University of Maryland, University College, in the Graduate Environmental Management
Program. He specializes in land-use planning as well as sustainable and resilient communities.
Dr. Munro also teaches Introduction to Public Administration in the Masters of Public
Administration program at Fairfield University in Connecticut.
As a former member of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Munro has a long work history
supporting the Department of Energy on spent fuel disposal, environmental clean-up, and
chemical weapon disposal and impacts. He has published extensively on issues related to
environmental, energy, transportation policy, and the climate change. In 2013, Dr. Munro was a
panel member on the Climate Change Symposium held during the Annual Conference of the
National Association of Environmental Professionals (Los Angeles, California), where he had
the honor of joining some of the world’s best known climatologists (JPL/Caltech) in a lively
discussion of institutional and political factors underlying global climate change.
In January 2014, Dr. Munro was hired by the Greek Ministry of Science to conduct evaluations
of research centers across Greece. He was also commissioned by the Transportation Research
Board to develop a white paper on obstacles to transportation research implementation that was
presented to the European Commission and members of the U.S. Department of Transportation
in Paris in April 2014. The results of this symposium were published in March 2015 by the
Transportation Research Board and are now available at
http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/172318.aspx.
Dr. Munro is a member of the International Cooperation Committee of Transportation Research
Board. He is currently developing a research project on long-term drought as an enduring
emergency management issue.
May 8, 2015