Associate Professor Anne Short Gianotti receives NSF grant for research on the politics of urban and suburban wildlife management
Associate Professor Anne Short Gianotti has been awarded $375,000 for the project “Deer in the Suburbs: A Comparative Study of the Mobilization and Mutation of Wildlife Management Strategies.” Along with collaborator John Casellas Connors (Texas A&M; E&E Adjunct djunct Research Assistant Professor), Short Gianotti will examine the shifting management strategies related to growing white-tailed deer populations in municipalities across Massachusetts and New York State. The project will help wildlife managers tackle the growing challenge of (sub)urban wildlife and produce new knowledge about how management strategies spread among municipal actors and the ways that environmental politics unfold in (sub)urban areas.