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Robert Durant is professor of public administration and policy in the
School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. His teaching and research focus on
executive branch politics, public management, policy implementation,
environmental management/planning/policy, and administrative reform. His most recent book is The Greening
of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational
Change (Georgetown University Press, 2007). He recently coedited Environmental
Governance Revisited: Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (MIT Press,
2004) with Daniel Fiorino of the Environmental Protection Agency and
Rosemary O'Leary of the Maxwell School at Syracuse
University. His book, Managing for the
Environment: Understanding the Legal, Organizational, and Policy Challenges
(Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999), coauthored with Rosemary O’Leary, Daniel
J. Fiorino, and Paul S. Weiland, won the 2000 Best Book Award from the Public
and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management and the Best Book Award
from the Section on Environmental and Natural Resources Management of the
American Society for Public Administration. In 1993, he won the Gladys M. Kammerer
Award for the best book on national policy from the American Political Science
Association for his book, The Administrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands,
the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution. In 2003, he received the prestigious
Charles H. Levine Memorial Award, given jointly by the American Society for
Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs
and Administration for excellence in research, teaching, and service to the
wider community. In addition, he
has won seven teaching awards and two best journal article awards, is on the
editorial boards of seven disciplinary journals, was a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand,
and is a founding member and chair of the Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public
Service Research and Education. In 2007, he won the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence
in Teaching Award from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and
Administration. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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