PROFILE

Jeff Vance Martin
Researcher
Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Researcher
USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station and UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
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Jeff works at the intersection of environmental governance, political economy, and food systems studies, drawing insights from political ecology, critical physical geography, and the environmental humanities.
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Publications

Wildfire smoke exposure has significant economic impacts on California’s licensed cannabis industry

2023

Dillis, C., Butsic, V., Martin, J., Reiman, A., Starrs, G., Grantham, T.

Environmental Research Letters

California supports the largest legal cannabis market in the world and cannabis crops across the state face increasing risk from wildfire.

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Policy Findings & Recommendations Regarding California Cannabis: Farming, Regulation and the Environment

2022

Polson, M., Butsic, V., Dillis, C., de Genova, H., Grantham, T., Herrera, L.R., Hossack, J., Laudati, A., Martin, J.V., Parker-Shames, P., Petersen-Rockney, M., Sorgen, J., Starrs, G.

This report presents multiple pathways for consideration by state and local governments in their efforts to improve cannabis cultivation policy.

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