Tom Daniels
Biography
B.A., Harvard University
M.S., University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Ph.D., Oregon State University
Tom Daniels is a Full Professor who directs the concentration in Environmental Planning and Growth Management. Tom's main areas of interest are farmland preservation, growth management, and connection between land use and water quality.
Tom often serves as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where for nine years he managed the county's nationally-recognized farmland preservation program.
Tom has taught at SUNY-Albany, Kansas State University, and Iowa State University. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and in 2002 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
Publications
Tom is the author of When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe (1999), and co-author of Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farmland (1997) and The Environmental Planning Handbook (2003), published by the American Planning Association.
A third edition of the Small Town Planning Handbook was released in 2007.
Professor Daniels recently published "A Trail Across Time: American Environmental Planning from City Beautiful to Sustainability" in the Spring 2009 edition of the Journal of the American Planning Association.
Courses
Professor Daniels teaches Introduction to Land Use Planning & Principles, Introduction to Environmental Planning, Innovations in Growth Management and Planning for Land Conservation.
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