Assistant Professor, joint appointment with the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs. Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1997, Government

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Professor Vivian E. Thomson is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Politics at the University of Virginia. Her professional specialty is environmental policy and politics. In 2001 she helped to create--and she now directs--the Environmental Thought and Practice B. A. program, which is one of the University's newest interdisciplinary undergraduate degree programs and which regularly attracts thirty majors. This demanding major is possible because the University of Virginia is home to environmental scholars representing virtually all academic disciplines.

Professor Thomson's recent work includes a completed book manuscript (Garbage In, Garbage Out: Virginia Is for Landfills) that discusses domestic policy debates about interstate trash transport in the United States within an international context. Waste management practices in the European Union and Japan provide points of comparison.

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