Damon M Hall

Damon M. Hall, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Author of more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and reports, his research and teaching focus on the human dimensions of sustainability challenges where science, policy, and culture meet. He is interested in questions about how to make knowledge useful for sustainable transitions.

His work addresses two related themes: (1) the representation and communication of social–ecological systems in decision making and (2) meaningful stakeholder participation in environmental policy and science. He argues that research that contributes to the resiliency of social–ecological systems must be transdisciplinary in that it engages communities of diverse experts including scientists, stakeholders, managers, and local practitioners to design innovations that make sense to how people—whose behavior is the target of policy—commonly experience their world.

His research lab is located in the Coastal Sustainability Institute at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center.

His work can be found at SustainabilityScienceLab org.