FACULTY PROFILE

Dr. Douglas Murray

NEW! This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade will be of strong interest to students and scholars of politics, globalization, sociology, geography, economics and business. Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization Laura T Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson   Co-Director, Center for Fair and Alternative Trade Studies Interview with Prof. Murray

Professor Murray has been a two-time recipient of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grants for Individuals, for research on the interface of environmental problems and social change in Latin America. He has also been a Fulbright Research Scholar and recipient of several other major research grants related to environmental and social change in Latin America.

Professor Murray also works as an advisor and consultant to international development organizations, governments and non-governmental organizations on pesticide hazard reduction and related development problem-solving.

Professor Murray is currently involved in research in two separate but related areas:

1. chemical intensive farming and social change in the developing world

2. the potential and limits of fair and alternative trade in the global economy

Recent Publications

• .Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization (Book)

• The Future of Fair Trade Coffee: Dilemmas Facing Latin America's Small Scale
  Producers

• Surveillance of Pesticide-related Illness in the Developing World:Putting the Data to Work

• Safe Use and Beyond: Strategies for pesticide reduction. In Encyclopedia of Pest Management