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Environmental Science Faculty

Matthew R. Auer
Professor, and Director, Undergraduate Programs

Ph.D., Yale University, 1996

Prof. Auer is professor and director of undergraduate programs at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. He is also editor-in-chief of the public policy journal, Policy Sciences. Prof. Auer has published widely in the public policy and environmental policy literatures. He has authored more than 40 refereed articles and book chapters.

Prof. Auer has taught at Indiana University since 1996 where he has earned more than ten teaching awards, including the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

For more than 15 years, Prof. Auer has helped U.S. federal agencies formulate, implement, and appraise foreign aid programs dealing with environmental protection, environmental and energy technology policy, and sustainable development. For the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other agencies, he has developed and administered energy and environmental programs, served as a technical expert in international environmental negotiating fora, conducted end-of-program energy and environmental audits, and surveyed program beneficiaries and implementers.

In his role as senior adviser to the U.S. Forest Service and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Tropical Timber Organization, Prof. Auer approved over one-half million dollars of USG aid resources to developing countries for forest management and conservation projects. Between 2001 and 2005, he participated on the U.S. delegation to the UN Forum on Forests. At annual meetings of the forum, he negotiated global-scale, legally non-binding arrangements governing aid for the forest sector.

Prof. Auer has also served on or led accreditation teams that have evaluated academic programs in public affairs and public administration in countries as diverse as the United Arab Emirates and Macedonia.

Prof. Auer earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in biological anthropology, a master of arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University.

Awards

Recent Publications

Auer, Matthew R. (2008). “Presidential Environmental Appointees in Comparative Perspective,” Public Administration Review, 68(1): 68-80.

Auer, Matthew R. (2008). “Sensory Perception, Rationalism, and Outdoor Environmental Education,” International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, Vol. 16 (accepted for publication and forthcoming).

Auer, Matthew R. (2007). “More Aid, Better Insitutions, or Both,” Sustainability Science, 2(2): 189-197.

Auer, Matthew R. (2007). “Policy Sciences in Critical Perspective,” in Jack Rabin, Gerald J. Miller, and W. Bartley Hildreth (Eds.), Handbook of Public Administration. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 545-566.

Auer, Matthew R, Catherine Karr-Colque, Jan McAlpine, and Brian Doench (2006). “Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: Resolve Needed from All Sides” in The Georgetown Public Policy Review, 11(1): 57-67.

Auer, Matthew R. (2006). “Contexts, Multiple Methods, and Values in the Study of Common-Pool Resources,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(1): 215-227.

Andersson, Krister and Matthew R. Auer. (2005). “Incentives for Contractors in Aid-Supported Activities,” in Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, Sujai Shivakumar, and Krister Andersson (Eds.), The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 160-170.

Auer, Matthew R. and Rafael Reuveny. (2005). “Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment: Key Players in the Environmental Restoration of Central and Eastern Europe,” in John Maxwell and Rafael Reuveny (Eds.), Trade and Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Transition Economies. London: Edward Elgar: 182-206.

Auer, Matthew R. (2005). “Foreign Aid to Promote Energy Efficiency in Mexico: An Institutional Analysis,” Journal of Energy and Development, 31(1): 85-100.

Auer, Matthew R. (2005). “Prospects for Improved Air Quality at the Regional Level in Poland,” European Urban and Regional Studies, 12(2): 133-148.

Matthew R. Auer, Catherine Karr-Colque, and Safiya Samman. (2005). “Taking Stock of the International Arrangement on Forests.” Journal of Forestry, 103(3): 126-133.

Matthew R. Auer. (2004). Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield.

Matthew R. Auer. (2003). “The Study of Global Environmental Politics in the Information Age,” in Michael Maniates (Ed.), Encountering Global Environmental Politics: Teaching, Learning, and Empowering Knowledge, pp. 181-95. Oxford, UK: Rowman and Littlefield.

Matthew R. Auer. (2003). “Reflections on the Craft of Advising: Expert Advice and U.S. Foreign Aid Policy-Making.” International Studies Perspectives, 4(2): 211-227.

Matthew R. Auer. (2003). “Policy Sciences and the Maverick Career.” Policy Sciences, 36(1): 37-45.

Matthew R. Auer and Christopher Farley. (2003). “Nontimber Forest Values: The ‘Understory’ of the International Tropical Timber Organization.” Journal of Forestry, 101(5): 42-45.

Matthew R. Auer and Anto Raukas. (2002). “Determinants of Environment Cleanup in Estonia.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 20(5): 679-698.

Matthew R. Auer and Eve Nilenders. (2001). “Verifying Environmental Cleanup: Lessons from the Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Action Programme.” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 19(6): 881-901.

Matthew R. Auer. (2001). “Energy and Environmental Politics in Post-Corporatist Mexico.” Policy Studies Journal, 29(3): 437-455.

Matthew R. Auer, Rafael Reuveny, and Lisa Adle. (2001). “Environmental Liability and Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe,” Journal of Environment and Development, 10(1): 5-34.