Mark Lapping
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Education: State University of New York, New Paltz, B.S., 1967; Emory University, Ph.D., 1972.
Research Interests: community and rural planning and development; regional and local economic development; natural resources policy and economics; social capital; democratization; food systems planning and policy.
Professor Lapping teaches Land Use Policy & Planning, Community Development, Foundations of Public Policy and Management, Food Systems Planning and Policy, Intellectual Foundations of Public Policy. A planner by profession, Lapping, prior to joining USM, was Founding Dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Author of several books that are "best-sellers" in planning, he has also written well over 150 articles and monographs, and has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Rural Studies, Agriculture and Human Value, and the Journal of Planning Research and Education. He has been a consultant to governments and agencies throughout North America and in several other nations and is currently working on problems in Canada and Estonia, as well as Maine.
Dr. Lapping acted as the Interim President of Unity College for the Academic Year of 2005-06 and served as USM's provost from 1994-2000 and 2007-2009.
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