Dr. Juan Ma Assistant Professor of Public Administration   Office : JKSA 105 Phone : 672-1935 Fax : 672-1090 Email : jma@uncfsu.edu Personal Homepage:
BIOGRAPHY		Ph.D. (Candidate) Public Policy, Southern University and A&M College, USA Ph.D. Ecology Science, Academy of Forestry, P.R. China M.S. Natural Resources Potential Research and Management Beijing Normal University, P.R. China B.S. Geography (including Physical and Economic Geography), Beijing Normal University, P.R. China Other training Grid Analysis and its application in GIS, P.R. China, (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing) FAO Fellowship on GIS techniques and Data Management, Hosted by Bureau of Rural Science, Canberra Australia
TEACHING COURSES		GEOG 210- 01: Principles of Geography GEOG 310-01: Economic Geography GEOG 320-01: Intro to Geographic Information Systems GEOG 340-01: Cultural Geography GEOG 410-01: Human Being and the Environment POLI 331-01: Politics and Urban Planning POLI 442-01: Public Policy Analysis POLI 490 -01: Advanced Reading and Research POLI 220 -44: Principle of Public Administration
RESEARCH INTERESTS		Environmental Policy Analysis; GIS application; Grant: 2006: “The Impact of Brownfields Sites on Population Spatial Distribution Patterns and Residential Segregation at Census Tract Level – a Case Study in North Carolina” (Funded by Health Disparities Research Center)
PUBLICATIONS		2002 State Administration of Forestry (ed.) - National Level Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management in China. State Administration of Forestry. 2000 Xiao Wenfa et. (ed.) - Terrestrial Animal and Plant Ecology of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. Ma Juan - Vegetation Characteristics in Three Gorges Areas and Conservation Strategies. Pp: 173-209. Southwest Normal University Press. 2006 Ma Juan – Application of Multiple Streams Framework for Land Management Policymaking in the United States: A Case study on Homestead Act of 1862 (In progress). 2007 Ma Juan- Two Political Philosophies of Environ-Capitalism, Environ-Socialism for Natural Resource Management – Case Studies on Ownership and Land Management in the United States and China. (accepted by International Congress held by FSU during April 2-5, 2007 and will be published soon)