Richard Moore

Professor

Area of expertise:

Agroecosystems Management Watershed Social Ecology Ohio and Japan

Professor of Rural Sociology
Director of the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
OARDC Research Faculty Member
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology

Curriculum Vita

Area of Research
Specializes in community social organization and agroecology within a watershed context. Ongoing research projects include:

• Sugar Creek Watershed (located in Holmes and Wayne counties of Ohio) biocomplexity linking social and natural ecosystems. See http://sugarcreekmethod.osu.edu/ for details.
• Participatory rural community social structure and learning communities in headwaters streams
• Water quality trading in Sugar Creek, Upper Scioto Watershed, and the U.S.
• Japanese rural social structure
• Grants: USDA SARE, USDA Water Quality, EPA, National Science Foundation