Craig E. Colten
Professor
Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
United States of America
Biography
Craig E Colten earned his PhD from Syracuse University in 1984. He began his career working for the State of Illinois documenting historical hazardous waste sites and moved to the private sector to participate in litigation-support research for a number of years. In 2000, he joined the Geography faculty at Louisiana State University. He wrote the award winning book, “Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature” and recently published “Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance”.
Research Interest
Dr. Colten is working on a range of topics including community resilience, adaptation to changing environments in coastal Louisiana, water and hazards in the American south.
Publications
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Craig E. Colten. Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014.
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Craig E. Colten and Geoffrey Buckley, (co-eds.). Historical Geographies for the 21st Century, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
