PATRICK H. BUCKLEY
Department of Environmental Studies: Policy, Planning, Education and Geography
Huxley College of Environmental Studies
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225, U.S.A.
Phone: (360) 650-4773 , Fax: (360) 650-7702
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. - Economic Geography Boston University Awarded 1/25/88
Dissertation: An Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Model of the United States for Policy Analysis with Applications to Regional Impacts of Acid Rain Pollution Control Costs. Advisor: Prof. T.R. Lakshmanan.
M.A. - Economic Geography University of Washington 1977-1981
M.A. - South Asian Studies
Thesis: A Study of Labor Migration in India: Regionalization of India based on 1961, 1971 Migration Streams. Advisor: Prof. Craig ZumBrunnen.
B.S. - Geology University of Notre Dame 1966-1971
B.S. - Civil Engineering
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor (September 1993 - present)
Assistant Professor (September 1988 - June 1993)
Instructor (September 1987- June 1987)
Department of Environmental Social Sciences: Policy, Planning, Education and Geography, Huxley Environmental College, Western Washington University.
Current Courses: Human Geography, Geography of the World Economy, East Asia, Japan, Spatial Statistical Analysis (Graduate and Undergraduate), Geographic Information Systems (Introductory, Advanced, and Graduate), Pacific Rim, Planning Process, Regional Economic Modeling, Transportation Planning, Third World Development, and Borderlands.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Economic Geography: Regional Development and Sustainability
Operations Research and Game Theoretical Approaches
Quality of Life and Delphi Modeling
Eco Pioneers and Social Entrepreneurship
International
Japan and Pacific Rim Quality of Life and Sustainability
U.S./Canada Borderlands – Cross Border Governance and the Environment
PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
A. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Buckley, Patrick, Belec, John, and Levy, Jason. forthcoming 2012. Resource Management In Borderlands: Evolution From Competing Interests To Common Aversions, in The Governance of Borders and Borderlands in an Era of Security. University of Ottawa Press.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Takahashi, Akio. submitted August 2011, under review. The Role of Sister Cities’ Staff Exchanges in Urban Sustainability, Quality of Life, and Social Capital Creation. submitted to: Habitat International.
Belec, John and Buckley, Patrick. submitted June 2011, under review. One Public or Two: The Geography of Jurisdiction on the US-Canada Border. Submitted to: Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2011. Cascadia Reconsidered: Questioning Micro-Scale Cross-Border Integration in the Fraser Lowland. University of the Fraser Valley Research Review, vol. 3, issue 3 (winter 2011). http://journals.ufv.ca/rr/RR33/article-PDFs/4-buckley.pdf
Buckley, Patrick, Belec, John, and Levy, Jason. forthcoming 2011. Resource Management In Borderlands: Evolution From Competing Interests To Common Aversions, in The Governance of Borders and Borderlands in an Era of Security. University of Ottawa Press.
Buckley, Patrick and John Belec. 2009. Investigation of Cross Border Environmental Management and Consciousness at the Local Level: Power Plant Development within a Confined International Air Shed. Memoirs of the Muroran Institute of Technology, 59 (2009) pp. 213-227.
Li, K.W., Levy, J.K. and P. Buckley. 2009. Enhancing National Security and Energy Security in the Post-911 Era: Group Decision Support for Strategic Policy Analysis under Conditions of Conflict, Group Decision and Negotiation Vol. 18, No. 4 pp. 369-386.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Takahashi, Akio. 2008. Etic and Emic Perspectives of a Regional Cross-Cultural Delphi Study -- Quality of Life in the United States and Japan. In Akio Takahashi, editor, Quality of Life and Marketing; Towards the Development of Quality of Life Theory. (pp. 147-200), Tokyo: Doyukan.
Li, K.W., J.K. Levy, P.H. Buckley, and J. Belec. 2007. A Multiple-Criteria Group Decision Support System for Risk Reduction and Community Resilience in the Fraser Lowlands Eco-Region, In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 1794-1799, Montreal, Canada, October 2007.
Nicol, Doug, John Belec, and Patrick Buckley. 2003. Teaching Geography in an International Region: Challenges of the Pacific Northwest Borderland, Journal of Geographer. Mar/Apr. vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 47-57.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Debnath Mookherjee. 1999, Non-Metric Clustering: A New Tool for Investigating Urban Quality of Life, CYBERGEO, The Electronic European Journal of Geography. ( 06 Oct. 1999; 22 p.) http://cybergeo.revues.org/4963
Buckley, Patrick. 1992. "A Transportation-Oriented Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Model of the United States," The Annals of Regional Science, December 1992.
Osleeb, J.P. and S.J. Ratick with P. Buckley, K. Lee and M. Kuby, 1986. "Evaluating Dredging and Offshore Loading Locations for U.S. Coal Exports Using The Local Logistics System" Annals of Operations Research, no. 6, 1986, pp.163-180.
B. BOOK REVIEWS
Buckley, Patrick. 2006. Review of Arab Political Demography, Vol. 1: Population Growth and Natalist Policies, ONN WINCKLER, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, and Portland, OR (2005), 'Book reviews', Regional Studies, June, vol. 40, issue4, 431- 432.
Buckley, Patrick. 2005. Review of Sustainable Regions: Making Sustainable Development Work in Regional Economies. Meirion Thomas and Martin Rhisiart (Eds). St Bride's Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK; Aureus Publishing Limited, Regional Studies, Oct, vol. 39, issue 7.
Buckley, Patrick. 2003 .Review of 'Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams. Patrick McCully. London: Zed Books, Limited; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. Professional Geographer. May, vol. 55, no. 2, pp.285-287.
Buckley, Patrick. 1996. "Review of 'The Asian Pacific Rim and Globalization: Enterprise, governance and territoriality,'" Professional Geographer, August 1996.
C. OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Buckley, Patrick, Belec, John, and Levy, Jason. 2008. Resource Management In Borderlands: Evolution From Competing Interests To Common Aversions Proceedings of the Border Regions in Transition IX Conference, Victoria, BC and Bellingham, WA. January 12-15, 2008.
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2008. Evaluating Necessary Conditions for the Emergence of a Cross Border Region in the Fraser Lowland using a Delphi Model, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference of the Western Division of Canadian Association of Geographers, Bellingham, WA, March 5-8, 2008.
Buckley, Patrick H. and John Belec. 2006. Issues of Cross Border Management of the Fraser Lowlands Eco-Region, In Convergence and Divergence in North America: Canada and the United States, Proceedings of the International Association of Canadian Studies 2004 colloquium, eds. Karl Froschauer, Nadine Fabbi, and Susan Pell. Vancouver: Simon Fraser University, pp. 221-234.
Buckley, Patrick and Eugene Hoerauf. 1996. "Alliances to Improve GIS Education in a Budget Cutting Climate," Business Geographics for Educators and Researchers Proceedings, May 30, 1996, Chicago, IL.
Buckley, Patrick, 1988. An Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Model of the United States for Policy Analysis with Applications to Regional Impacts of Acid Rain Pollution Control Costs. Boston University, Ph.D. Dissertation (unpublished).
Lakshmanan, T.R. and Patrick Buckley, 1987. "Recent Regional Patterns of Occupational Sex Segregation in the U.S.," in Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 18, Part 1, pp.25-32, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Pittsburgh Conference, April 23-24, 1987.
Buckley, Patrick, 1986. "An Interregional Computable General Equilibrium Model for National-Regional Policy Impact Analysis", Research Paper No. 5, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, Boston.
Reissued as: Working Paper from CERUM (Centrum for Regionalvetenskaplig Forskning), Infrastructure and Building Sector Series. Umea Universitet, Umea, Sweden.
Lakshmanan, T.R., Lata Chatterjee, and Patrick Buckley, 1986, "Productivity and Scale in Agriculture: Some Further Evidence from Bangladesh," in Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 17, Part 1, p. 1-6, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Pittsburgh Conference, April 24-25, 1986, p. 163-180.
D. REPORTS
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2012. Final Report: Evaluation and Analysis of the Role Played by the International Mobility & Trade Corridor Project (IMTC) in the Cascade Gateway Region http://faculty.wwu.edu/patrick/Reports/IMTC%20Final%20Report%202012%207%2026.pdf
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2007. Imagining the Future of Cross Border Environmental Resource Management within the Fraser Lowland: A Delphi Analysis. Final Joint Report. October 2007.
Buckley, Patrick H. 2007. Final Report to the Canadian Studies Research Grant Program: Imagining the Future of Cross Border Environmental Resource Management within the Fraser Lowland: A Delphi analysis. February 14, 2007.
Osleeb, Jeffrey P., Samuel J. Ratick, Patrick Buckley, et al, 1983. Implications of World Coal Demand on U.S. Port Strategic Planning, Final Report, United States Maritime Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.
INVITED LECTURES
Buckley, Patrick H. 2009. Japan - US Sister City exchanges: Accessing the value Bellingham-Tatayama, presented to the Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia, February 6, 2009.
Buckley, Patrich and John Belec. 2009. Airshed Management Issues in the Lower Fraser Valley: The impact of the SE2 Controversy, presented to the Coordinating Committee of the Georgia Basin-Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy, January 28, 2009.
Buckley, Patrick H., 2008. In the USA Where Do Young Adults Live and Why? Combining Quality of Life [QOL] with Geographic Information Systems [GIS]. Presented to Marketing Students at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, July 11, 2008.
Buckley, Patrick. 2008. The Pig War: The last major boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain/Canada 1859-1872. Presented at Border Regions in Transition IX Conference, Victoria, BC and Bellingham, WA. January 12-15, 2008.
Buckley, Patrick H., 2007. Resource Management in the Transnational Fraser Lowlands: Investigating the Emergence of a Cross Border Region using Delphi Modeling. Presented at Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan, July 25, 2007.
Buckley, Patrick H. 2006. Utilization of Delphi Methodology for Cross Border Resource Management under Conditions of Uncertainty, Presented at the “Joint Seminar on Environmental Science and Disaster Mitigation Research – CEDAR (Center of Environmental Science and Disaster Mitigation for Advanced Research, MuroranT) and Huxley College (WWU)” at Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan, March 15 and 16, 2006.
PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS
Buckley, Patrick H., Takahashi, Akio, and Anderson, Amy. 2012. How different are the Japanese: Comparative evaluation of Quality of Life Indices between Tateyama, Japan and Bellingham, WA. Presented at 46th Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Gonzaga University, June 15 to 16, 2012.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Belec, John. 2012. International Mobility and Trade Corridor (IMTC) project: a model for saving time and energy in the US-Canada Cascade Gateway. Presented to the Association for Borderlands Studies General Meeting at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, Houston, Texas, April 11-14, 2012.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Belec, John. 2012. Creative and effective solutions to manage and enhance trade and security across our borders in the BC-WA Cascade Gateway. Presented at the 54th Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC. March 10, 2012.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Belec, John. 2011. Heeding the call of the Obama-Harper ‘Beyond the Border’ Declaration: Evaluation of a Public Sector attempt in the Cascade Gateway. Presented at the 6th Cascadia Critical Geographies Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, November 18-19, 2011.
Belec, John and Buckley,Patrick. 2011. One Public or Two: Environmental Resource Management along the US-Canada Border. Presented at the Triennial meeting of the Nordic Association of Canadian Studies, Aarhus Denmark, 11-13 August 2011.
Buckley, Patrick; Jones, Riley; and Belec, John. 2011. Cross-Border Cooperation and Social Capital Development: A Micro Level Delphi Study in the Cascadian Gateway. Presented to the Association for Borderlands Studies General Meeting at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 13-16, 2011.
Buckley, Patrick and Jones, Riley. 2011. A Deconstruction of Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) and Cross Border Region (CBR) Theory: Distillation Into Four Dimensions, Presented at the 53rd Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Simon Fraser University, March 12, 2011.
Buckley, Patrick; Belec, John; and Gadwa, Ryan. 2010. Preliminary Micro Level Cross Border Regional (CBR) Activity: Trade and Transportation Presented at the Cascadia Critical Geographies Mini-Conference, University of Victoria, October 29 – 30, 2010.
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2010. International Mobility and Trade Corridor (IMTC) as a model for Cross-Border Regional Development: a Delphi Study. Presented at the Border Policy Research Institute Fall Colloquium Series, Western Washington University, October 14, 2010.
Belec, John and Buckley, Patrick .2010. International Mobility and Trade Corridor (IMTC) Delphi Study Round 1. Presented to the International Mobility and Trade Corridor Core Meeting at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal, Bellingham, WA September 30, 2010.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Takahashi, Akio. 2010. Delphi Evaluation of a US-Japan Sister City Relationship. Presented at 44th Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Portland State University, June 18 to 20, 2010.
Buckley, Patrick; Belec, John; Gadwa, Ryan; and Helstrom, Henrik. 2010. Preliminary Investigation of Micro Level Cross Border Regional Activity. Presented at the 14th Spring Meeting of the Association of Washington Geographers, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, May 15, 2010.
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2010. Precursors to Cross-Border Synaptic Networks in the US-Canada Fraser Lowland. Presented to the Association for Borderlands Studies General Meeting at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, Reno, Nevada, April 14-17, 2010.
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2009. One Public or Two: Environmental Resource Management along the US-Canada Border. Presented at the 20th Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)Biennial Conference; San Diego, November 18 to 22, 2009.
Buckley, Patrick, organizer. 2009. Roundtable: Potentials and Pragmatics of Cross-Border Educational Ventures in Borderland Areas. Presented at the 20th Association of Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)Biennial Conference; San Diego, November 18 to 22, 2009.
Buckley, Patrick and John Belec. 2009. Investigation of Cross Border Environmental Management and Consciousness at the Local Level: Power Plant Development within a Confined International Air Shed. International Seminar on Resources, New Energy, Environment and Disaster Mitigation at Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan, China, September 18 to 20, 2009.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Belec, John. 2009. Cascadia Reconsidered: Questioning Micro-Scale Cross-Border Integration in the Fraser Lowland Presented to the Association for Borderlands Studies General Meeting at the 51st Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 15-18, 2009.
Buckley, Patrick H. and Takahashi, Akio. 2009. Perceptions of Quality of Life: Comparing Japanese and American Impressions through Sister City Exchanges . Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27, 2009.
Buckley, Patrick and Belec, John. 2009. Paradiplomacy and Regional Consciousness: A Micro Scale Investigation in Cascadia. Presented at the 51st Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Vancouver Island University, March 5-7, 2009.