Richard Marcantonio

Richard (Drew) Marcantonio is the Assistant Profess of Environment, Peace, and Global Affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Richard is a researcher, teacher, and practitioner focused on regenerative and durable livelihoods, environmental management and policy, environmental and other violence, and peacebuilding. He is the author of The Environment in Conflict: Implications and Pathways (2026; Cambridge University Press) Environmental Violence: In the Earth System and the Human Niche (2022; Cambridge University Press), co-author of the textbook Environmental Management: Concepts and Practical Skills (2022; Cambridge University Press), lead co-editor (with John Paul Lederach and Agustin Fuentes) of Environmental Violence Explored (2024; Cambridge University Press). He has published numerous peer-reviewed, policy, and public facing articles in periodicals ranging from Peacebuilding to Environmental Science and Policy to the popular periodical the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists . He has conducted research and practice on these critical issues on five continents working with communities, elected officials, regulators, corporations, and NGOs alike.