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Education
Ph.D.: Geography, Michigan State University, 2013
Dissertation: “Technology and Place: A Geography of Waste-to-Energy in the United States”; Advisor: Dr. Kyle T. Evered
M.B.A.: General Management, Rowan University, 2021
M.S.: Geography, Michigan State University, 2010
B.A.: Anthropology, College of William & Mary, 2008
Professional Appointments
Associate Professor of Sustainable Business, Department of Management, Rowan University (2021-pres)
Director, Rowan Center for Responsible Leadership (2019-pres)
Program Coordinator, Environmental & Sustainability Studies, Rowan University (2016-2022)
Visiting Scholar, Research Program, East-West Center Honolulu (January 2015)
Political Appointments
New Jersey Pinelands Commission, Camden County representative (three-year term, 2018-2021)
Chair’s Designee, Pinelands Development Credit Bank, 2019-2021
Five Most Recent Publications
Howell, Jordan P. 2023. Garbage in the Garden State. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
Moore, Jordan, Jordan P. Howell, and Daniel Folkinshteyn. 2022. The Potential for Exchange Traded Futures on Recycled Materials to Improve Recycling Efficiency. Investment Management and Financial Innovations 3.
Howell, Jordan P., Mahbubur Meenar, Christina Friend, Jack Kelly, and Owen Feeny. 2022. The Pinelands Development Credit Program: Using Market Mechanisms to Achieve Preservation Goals. Case Studies in the Environment 6.
Meenar, Mahbubur, Jordan P. Howell, Devon Moulton, Shane Walsh. 2020. “Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning in Urban Landscapes: Understanding Context, Appearance, Meaning, and Perception”. Land 9: 534.
Howell, Jordan P. 2020. “Sweetness and HPOWER: Waste, Sugar, and Ecological Identity in the Development of Honolulu’s HPOWER Waste-to-Energy Facility”. Global Environment 13: 285-316.
Five Most Recent Presentations
Invited Panelist, “The Role of Businesses in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Opportunities in the Sports Industry”. 2023 Sustainable Hockey Canada Workshop; York University, Ontario, Canada
Invited Panelist, “ESG: Concept vs. Reality vs. Potential”. 2022 1st annual conference on Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance Investing co-hosted by the Global Interdependence Center and the Rohrer College of Business; Glassboro, NJ.
(with Jordan Moore) “The Statistics and Economics of More Sustainable Golf Course Design”. 2022 World Scientific Congress of Golf; Sioux Falls, SD.
(with Jordan Moore and Patrick Crumrine) “A Framework for Biodiversity Assessment of Golf Courses”. 2022 World Scientific Congress of Golf; Sioux Falls, SD.
Invited Panelist, “The Business of Sustainability: Profits, People, and the Planet” 2021 virtual event at the Rohrer College of Business; Glassboro, NJ.
Media Coverage
JCFPL New Jersey Room - 04/2024
NJ Studies Academic Alliance - 03/2024
UC Press - 11/2023
South Jersey Climate News - 10/2023
Rowan Today - 3/2023
New Jersey Monthly magazine — 3/2023
Behind the Markets podcast - 10/2022
FOX Weather - 05/2022
Resource Recycling magazine — 12/2021
Planet Philadelphia — 11/06/2020
Rowan Today - 04/16/2020
Rowan Confidential podcast - 02/20/2020
Hawai’i Public Radio - 01/17/2020
Press of Atlantic City - 05/01/2019
Rowan Today - 03/28/2019
Press of Atlantic City - 01/24/2018
Burlington County Times - 01/23/2018
Rowan University Student Affairs Profile - 12/01/2017
Rowan Today - 03/31/2017