August 30, 2008
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Raul P. Lejano

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., D.Env. UCLA
Phone: (949) 824-9825
Office: 218G SE I, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7075 USA
Email: rplejano@yahoo.com

I received my doctoral degrees from UCLA, master's degree from UC Berkeley, and bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines. Before joining UCI, I had been a visiting assistant professor at MIT.  I theorize about collective action. I also work professionally in the area of policy analysis and program evaluation, with a special focus on environmental and community-based governance. I am not sure, but I may or may not have coined the words, proactive, and greenscape --which, if true, is embarrassing.

Summary of Research Interests:
My research is about new directions in policy analysis, e.g., a topological approach to modeling institutions, which I develop in the book, Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context (Routledge). My foremost area of research is in theorizing collective action, especially in policy arenas characterized by multiple values (the vector payoff case) and incommensurability (the nontransferable utility case). My theory work at present revolves around: modeling relationships as multi-dimensional identities (a qualitative model), and modeling Coasean bargains under nontransferable utility (a mathematical model). These models help explain new institutional designs for addressing intractable social problems and, in particular, how network modes of governance work. Basically, the models attempt to explain collective behavior when the rational model cannot. For example, the vector decision model I am developing better simulates outcomes of ultimatum games. Much of my work on new institutional designs derives from collaboration with Helen Ingram on network governance. I developed a model of institutions as structurings of care, which we use to study innovative institutional designs. Recent work with Dan Stokols is focusing on combining positivist and narrative elements in policy analysis (a critical aspect of the multi-dimensional question).  Collective action is like Indian curry --complex, coherent, and so interesting.

Selected Publications

  • Lejano, Raul (2006), Frameworks for Policy Analysis: Merging Text and Context, Routledge, New York.

  • Lejano, Raul (2008), "The phenomenon of collective action: Modeling institutions as structures of care," Public Administration Review May/June, 491-504.

  • Lejano, Raul (2008), "Technology and institutions: A critical appraisal of GIS in a planning domain," Science, Technology & Human Values 33(5).

  • Lejano, Raul and Daniel Stokols (2008), "Understanding minority residents' perceptions of neighborhood health risks and environmental justice:  New methods, findings, and policy implications," Journal of Architectural Planning and Research (accepted for publication).  

  • Lejano, Raul (2008), "A solution concept for Coasean transactions under nontransferable utility," (forthcoming). 

  • Lejano, Raul and Helen Ingram (2008), "New perspectives on the tragedy of the commons: Environmental governance in a network age," (forthcoming).

  • Lejano, Raul and Helen Ingram (2007), "Place-based conservation: Lessons from the Turtle Islands," Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 49(3):24-28.

  • Lejano, R., Ingram, H., Whiteley, J., Torres, D., and S. Agduma (2007), "The importance of context: Integrating resource conservation with local institutions," Society and Natural Resources 20:177-185.

  • González , E.R., R. Lejano, G. Vidales, R.F. Conner,Y. Kidokoro, B. Fazeli, R. Cabrales (2007), "Participatory action research for environmental health: Encountering Freire in the urban barrio, Journal of Urban Affairs 29(1):79-102.

  • Smith, C. Scott, Raul P. Lejano, Oladele Ogunseitan, and Aaron Hipp (2007), ""Cost Effectiveness of Regulation-Compliant Filtration to Control Sediment and Metal Pollution in Urban Runoff" Environmental Science & Technology (in press).

  • Lejano, Raul (2007), "Problematizing the people power revolution," Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 10(1):71-110.

  • Lejano, Raul and Helen Ingram (2007), "How social networks enable adaptation to system complexity and extreme weather events," in Pahl-Wostl, Kabat and Moltgen (eds.), Adaptive and Integrative Management: Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 

  • Lejano, Raul and C. Scott Smith (2006), "Incompatible land uses and the topology of cumulative risk," Environmental Management 37(2):230-246.

  • Lejano, Raul (2006), "Theorizing peace parks: Two models of collective action," Journal of Peace Research 43(5):563-581.

  • Lejano, Raul (2006). "The design of environmental regimes: social construction, contextuality, and improvisation," International Environmental Agreements 6(2):187-207.

  • Lejano, Raul and Anne Taufen Wessels (2006), "Community and economic development: Seeking common ground in discourse and in practice," Urban Studies, 43(9):1469-1489

  • Lejano, Raul and Alma Ocampo-Salvador (2006), "Context and differentiation: Comparative analysis of two community-based fishers' organizations," Marine Policy 30(7).

  • Hipp, A., O. Ogunseitan, R. Lejano, and C. S. Smith (2006), "Optimization of stormwater filtration at the urban/watershed interface, Environmental Science & Technology 40(15):4794-4801.

  • Nixon, H., R. Lejano, and R. Funderburg (2006), "Planning methodology for predicting spatial patterns of risk potential from industrial land uses," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 49(6).

  • Kolodjiez, K., Lejano, R., Sassa, C., Maharjan, S., Ghaemghami, and T. Plant (2004), "The industrial archeology of Boston," URISA Journal 16(1):5-14.

  • Lejano, R. and J. Ericson (2004), "Tragedy of the temporal commons: Soil-bound lead and the anachronicity of risk," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 48(2):299-318.

  • Lejano, Raul and Hirose Rei (2005), "Testing the assumptions behind emissions trading in non-market goods: The RECLAIM Program in Southern California, Environmental Science and Policy 8:367-377.

  • Lejano, R., B. Piazza, and D. Houston (2002), "Rationality as social justice and the spatial-distributional analysis of risk," Environment and Planning C 20:871-888. 
  • Lejano, Raul (2002), "Towards a topological concept of rationality," Budhi, a Journal of Ideas and Culture 6(2/3):145-155.
  • Lejano, R. and C. Davos (2002), "Fair share: Siting noxious facilities as a risk distribution game," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 43:251-266.

  • Lejano, Raul (2006), "Optimizing the layout and design of branched pipeline water distribution systems, Irrigation and Drainage Systems 20(1):125-137.

  • Lejano, Raul and Hiro Iseki (2001), "The question of environmental justice: The spatial distribution of hazardous waste TSDs in Los Angeles, J.of Urban Planning and Development 127(2):51-62.

  • Lejano, Raul and Climis Davos (2001), "Siting noxious facilities with victim compensation: n-person games under transferable utility, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 35:109-124.

  • Lejano, Raul and Climis Davos (1999), "Cooperative solutions for sustainable resource management, Environmental Management 24(2):167-175.

  • Lejano, Raul, Pacita Ayala, and Erlinda Gonzales (1997) "Optimizing the mix of strategies for the control of vehicular emissions, Environmental Management 21(1):79-87.

  • Lejano, Raul and Climis Davos (1995) "Cost allocation of multi-agency water resource projects, Water Resources Research 31(5):1387-1393.

 

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