H. Paul Friesema
Professor of Political Science
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
pfree@northwestern.edu
Paul Friesema has been a member of Northwestern's political science
department and an IPR faculty fellow since 1968. He has a PhD in
political science from the University of Iowa (1968) and a JD from
the Detroit College of Law (1961). He was policy studies director
of The Institute of Ecology (TIE), a university research consortium,
from 1980 to 1981 and taught at both the University of Michigan
and the University of Iowa.
Friesema is author and co-author of four books, 17 monographs
and technical reports, and some 30 scholarly articles. Much of his
recent work has focused on the politics and policy issues arising
from the environmental assessment process, including examining how
the assessment process can be incorporated into land use planning.
He has also been conducting a long-term study of the political empowerment
of native peoples on issuies concerning natural resources. Friesema
also serves on a study team that is examining the possible outlines
of a series of national parks in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
Among his current research projects is a study of the new biological
and cultural roles that national parks will struggle to assume in
the next century.
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