Scholars

Brannstrom, Christian

Professor and Associate Dean

Positions:

Professor and Associate Dean, Geography, College of Geosciences
Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute

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cbrannst@tamu.edu

1 979 845 5923

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overview

Dr. Brannstrom's research focuses on social and political aspects of renewable energy and unconventional fossil fuels in Texas. He also studies geographical dimensions of wind-power expansion in Brazil, where he has partnered with geographers at the Universidade Federal do Cear?. He regularly hosts visiting scholars interested in theoretical and empirical dimensions of environmental governance. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, Texas Sea Grant, the TAMU Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and Brazilian funding agencies.

education and training

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States) 1998
M.S. in Geography, University of Wisconsin - Madison - (Madison, Wisconsin, United States) 1992
A.B. in International Relations, University of California, Davis - (Davis, California, United States) 1990

selected publications

Academic Articles84

Beckner, S., Jepson, W., Brannstrom, C., & Tracy, J. (2019). 'The San Antonio River Doesn't Start in San Antonio, It Now Starts in Burleson County': Stakeholder Perspectives on a Groundwater Transfer Project in Central Texas. Society and Natural Resources. 32(11), 1222-1238.
Frate, C. A., & Brannstrom, C. (2019). How do stakeholders perceive barriers to large-scale wind power diffusion? A q-method case study from Ceará State, Brazil. ENERGIES. 12(11), 2063-2063.
Frate, C. A., Brannstrom, C., de Morais, M., & Caldeira-Pires, A. (2019). Procedural and distributive justice inform subjectivity regarding wind power: A case from Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. ENERGY POLICY. 132, 185-195.
Liliana Huaranca, L., Alejandro Iribarnegaray, M., Albesa, F., Norberto Volante, J., Brannstrom, C., & Seghezzo, L. (2019). Social Perspectives on Deforestation, Land Use Change, and Economic Development in an Expanding Agricultural Frontier in Northern Argentina. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS. 165, 106424-106424.
Arozarena Llopis, I., Gutierrez Echeverria, A., Trimble, S., Brannstrom, C., & Houser, C. (2018). Determining Beach User Knowledge of Rip Currents in Costa Rica. Journal of Coastal Research. 34(5), 1105-1115.

Chapters13

Brannstrom, C., & Fry, M. (2017). New geographies of the Texas energy revolution. The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies. (pp. 17-31). Routledge.
Jepson, W. E., & Brannstrom, C. (2016). Techno-nature and Scaling Water Governance in South Texas. Norman, E. S., Cook, C., & Cohen, A. (Eds.), Negotiating Water Governance Why the Politics of Scale Matter. (pp. 155-172). Ashgate Publishing.
Brannstrom, C., & Vadjunec, J. M. (2014). Notes for avoiding a missed opportunity in sustainability science: Integrating land change science and political ecology. Brannstrom, C., & Vadjunec, J. (Eds.), Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability Synergies and Divergences. (pp. 1-23). Routledge.
Brannstrom, C. (2012). Agriculture. Crocitti, J. J., & Vallance, M. M. (Eds.), Brazil Today An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. (pp. 20-24). ABC-CLIO.
Brannstrom, C. (2012). Cerrado. Crocitti, J. J., & Vallance, M. M. (Eds.), Brazil Today An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. (pp. 142-145). ABC-CLIO.