Paul Berne Burow
Paul Berne Burow
Paul Burow is an environmental anthropologist and Ph.D. Candidate in the combined doctoral degree program between the School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology at Yale University. His work examines the cultural dynamics of environmental change in the American West, looking at how Indigenous and non-Indigenous rural communities are impacted by changing ecosystems tied to historical land-use practices, climate change, and settler colonialism. He also studies environmental governance and how rural communities, Indigenous nations, and US federal government agencies interact over contentious land management issues in forests and rangelands of California and Nevada. He is currently working on a National Science Foundation-funded project to examine the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural communities in the US West. His work has previously appeared in Environment & Society, Environmental Research Letters, Springer’s Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation series, and the forthcoming volume Public Lands in the Western U.S.: Place and Politics in the Clash between Public and Private.