Current Research Interests
Public health imperatives and poverty; environmental justice; risk analysis; vulnerability assessment; impacts assessment; watershed stewardship; water supply and sanitation; sustainable development and capacity building; the Latin American region and transitional countries.
Selected Publications
Ross, L. and T.J. Downs. 2006. University-community partnerships to promote environmental health and justice in Worcester, Massachusetts. In Scholarship in Action: Applied Research and Community Change. Washington, DC: HUD Office of University Partnerships.
Downs, T.J. 2002. A participatory integrated capacity-building approach to the theory and practice of sustainability: Mexico and New England watershed case studies. In International Experiences on Sustainability, eds. Leal Filho et al., Chapter 12, 179-205. Bern, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang Scientific Publications.
Downs T.J. and R.F. Ambrose. 2002. Syntropic ecotoxicology: A heuristic model for understanding the vulnerability of ecological systems to stress. Journal of Ecosystem Health 7 no. 4.
Downs T.J. and I.H. Suffet. 2002. Sanitation for developing countries. In The Encyclopedia of Public Health, ed. L. Breslow, 1067-1074. New York: Macmillan Reference.
Downs, T.J. 2001. Making sustainable development operational: Capacity building for the water supply and sanitation sector in Mexico. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 44 no. 4: 525-544.
Downs, T.J. 2001. Sustainable health risk management and the role of cross-disciplinary professionals in developing countries: The Mexican experience. Environment, Development and Sustainability 3 no. 1: 60-81.
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