James E. Kundell
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Senior Public Service Associate
Governmental Services and Research
706.542.6250
kundellcviog.uga.edu

Dr. Kundell is the author of more than 150 books, articles, and policy reports on environmental policy topics. Recent projects include conducting water policy research for the comprehensive state water management plan; research on vegetative buffer requirements along trout streams; and research relating to regional water planning and management in the Southeastern United States. In 2004, he served as the co-project leader for Governor Sonny Perdue’s Land Conservation Partnership Advisory Council and is the major author of the Georgia Land Conservation Partnership Plan. Previously he served as chairman of the 50 member Water Plan Advisory Committee and was the lead staff person for the Joint Water Plan Study Committee of the Georgia General Assembly. Dr. Kundell was appointed by Governor Barnes to serve on his special advisory committee on the ACT/ACF river compacts and serves on the technical advisory committee of the Upper Floridan Aquifer Sound Science Initiative. He has conducted studies relating to water allocation, regional water management, watershed management, source water protection, confined animal feeding operations, and impacts of urban sprawl. Dr. Kundell is the principal author of the Georgia Solid Waste Management Plan and former chairman of the Georgia Recycling Market Development Council. He has served on numerous legislative committees and was appointed by Governor Zell Miller to chair the Legislative Study Committee on Wetlands and to serve on the Georgia Coastal Zone Advisory Committee. Dr. Kundell staffed Governor Roy Barnes’ Community Green Space Committee and provided technical support to the Georgia Municipal Association/Association County Commissioners of Georgia Water Policy Task Force and Water Management Campaign. He was co-director of the Georgia Land Use Trends (GLUT) project, funded by the Turner Foundation, and is former policy director of the University of Georgia’s River Basin Center. He is a member of
the Environmental Advisory Board to the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Joseph Jones Ecological Research Center and the Robert Woodruff Foundation. He served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers and is a delegate from the University of Georgia to the Universities Council on Water Resources. He served twice as the staff chairman of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Science, Energy and Environmental Resources Committee and was vice chairman of the Southern Legislative Conferences’ Recycling Committee (RENEWS). He has conducted policy research for both the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Association of Counties.

Professor Kundell has a joint appointment with the Eugene Odum School of Ecology where he teaches a graduate course in environmental policy and management and serves as advisor to doctoral and masters students. He conducts a popular environmental management training program for local government officials. Dr. Kundell has also worked with governmental officials on environmental matters in Brazil, China and Ukraine.

Fields of interest: environmental and natural resource policy, including water resources, wetlands, air quality solid and hazardous waste management, growth management.