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Dr. King carries out independent consulting, research and writing for clients: NGOs, think tanks, policy institutions, publishers, US and foreign governments, and universities. He is a Columnist with the Elephant Journal and you can find books he’s written, or contributed to, on his Author Page with Amazon. He has written for a broad range of clients that include, but are not limited to:
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Environmental Law Institute (ELI) University of Tokyo-Armed Conflict and the Environment; IUCN Commission on Environmental Law; IUCN World Parks Congress; United States Southern Command; US Department of State; US Department of Defense; One Earth Future Foundation; Central American Commission on Environment and Development; Elsevier Publishing; Marine Policy Journal; Journal of Biological Conservation; Routledge Publishing; Rocky Mountain Books Publishing; US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States Sea Grant College Program; UN Peacebuilding Commission; Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Armed Conflict Program; US Institute for Peace; Search for Common Ground; University of Illinois; Cure Violence; University of Colorado; Living Oceans Foundation; Kinship Foundation; SRA International; World Watch Institute; University of Zamorano, Honduras; United States Army War College; National Defense University; Alex and Ana Bogusky; Sidney and Phyllis Krystal Foundation; Colorado Conservation Summit; George Washington University; Common LLC; Mantra Magazine Yoga + Health; and McGill University
Select Topics Covered:
- Environmental Governance and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Central America: Lessons from the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (Governance, Natural Resources, and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Paperback) Editors: Carl Bruch, Carroll Muffett, and Sandra S. Nichols (2016)
- Impact Accelerators Strategic Options for Development and Implementation (2015 Report)
- A Strategic Approach to Corporate Engagement in Violent Conflict Zones in Honduras (Cure Violence Private Report 2015)
- Should Biodiversity Offsets Help Finance Underfunded Protected Areas?, Journal of Biological Conservation: Volume 191, pp. 819–826, Oct 2015
- Strategic Market-Based Approaches to Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation (Khalid bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Private Report 2014)
- Governing for Sustainability: Understanding Governance 2014 World Watch Institute -State of the World: (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2014)
- Can Networked Governance Help? Apr 2014 publication description World Watch Institute – State of the World: Governing for Sustainability (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2014), pp. 36–37.
- Global Chorus: A 365-Person Anthology of Worldwide Concern and Enduring Hope 2014 (Book Contributor)
- Yoga, Global Sustainability and Personal Transformation Jun 6, 2014 Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine
- Food Security and Population Growth, One Earth Future Foundation Report (2013)
- Residential Fellowship Program Development, One Earth Future Foundation Report (2013)
- Addressing Corruption in Development, One Earth Future Foundation Report (2013)
- Solving the Globalization Paradox, One Earth Future Foundation Report (2013)
- Evolutionary Theories of Governance, One Earth Future Foundation Report (2013)
- Political Ecology of Mangroves in Southern Honduras: the emergence and evolution of environmental conflict in the Gulf of Fonseca 1973-2006 (VDM Verlag 2009)
- Sea Grant in Latin America: Adapting the US Sea Grant model of linked applied research, extension, and education to a Latin American Context—Is there a fit? May 2007 publication description Elsevier Publishing – Marine Policy Journal
- Sea Grant International: Final Report to the Department of State, Oceans Environmental and International Scientific Affairs Initiative Grant July 2004
- Sea Grant Internacional: Informe Final al Departamento del Estado Océanos e Iniciativa Ambiental y Científica Internacional de Los Asuntos July 2004
- A Network of Centers for the Governance of Coastal Ecosystems: The Establishment of Long-Term University-Based Marine and Coastal Resource Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean March 2004
- An Assessment of the Sea Grant Program Model of Extension, Education, and Applied Research in the Marine and Coastal Environment, A Revision of International Experience and Opportunities March 2004
- Integrating Education, Applied Research, and Extension; A Justification for Pilot Projects in the Gulf of Fonseca and Coastal Ecuador March 2004
- Watershed Management. Civil-Security Forces Environmental Cooperation in Central America and the Caribbean Conference Report; pp. 20-23, Belize City, Belize, Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College, Carlyle, Pennsylvania. (2003)
Columnist Articles in the Elephant Journal
May 29, 2017 Memorial Day—Remember This Today.
February 3, 2017 How a Visit from Death Saved My Life
January 31, 2017 A Painless way to Rebel against the Current Political Situation in America.
January 28, 2017 My Ode to Nature: a Message of Love. {Poem}
January 28, 2017 Tips for Standing Up to a Corrupt & Unethical President.
January 24, 2017 How Yoga can Reverse Climate Change. Really!
January 22, 2017 Eight Ways to Ensure Biodiversity on Earth: Insights from the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity.
January 12, 2017 The Assault on the White Working Class & their Trump Card for us All.
March 16, 2016 Why President Obama Chose the Wrong Guy for the Supreme Court Job.
June 23, 2014 5 Steps Toward an Ecological Worldview. ~ Dr. Matthew Wilburn King
February 14, 2014 Can Evolution Save Us From Climate Change? ~ Dr. Matthew Wilburn King
December 4, 2012 McKibben Calls for Divestment in the Fossil Fuel Industry.
Nature
When I think of you I’m absorbed;
Affection moves me, making me feel alive;
Always amazed by my deep appreciation for you, astonished and aroused;
Intensely fascinated and free simply because you’re so calming, you fulfill me.
With you, I’m giggly and glad, gloriously glowing;
Enjoying your good-humor and gracious ways;
Gratified by passions of surrender and a happy state of mind;
Blissful, breathless, and buoyant, I become calm.
You are the carefree nature that brings me comfort;
Composed and contented by your beauty, shared so effortlessly;
Inquisitively inspired, integrated;
Invigorated, my soul, intensely.
I am interested in you;
You make me feel depth and passion
Arising only through the light of you;
I am mellow and free, light-hearted with glee.
You make me feel cool;
Curiously being dazzled by your delighted ways;
I am eager to fall into your embrace and be enveloped;
Entangled in words that will never capture your beauty.
When I am with you, I am, always;
Ecstatically magnified by your colorful and energetic presence;
Elated, encouraged, and soothed as I’m overjoyed by your presence and pleasance;
Humbled that you share your quiet radiance with me, love.
With you I am raptured, refreshed, relieved and satisfied;
Securely engrossed by the feeling and the thought of you;
Your simplicity and complexity breeds an enlivening, enthusiastic, and exalted peace;
I am so excited that I know you; I am you.
Exhilarated, touched;
Your being expansively enveloping all that I am, the sea that I see;
Exuberant one, sensitive nature embracing all that I am;
Spellbound by the power that you have over me; I am thankful that I know you.
I am thrilled and delighted in your trusted tranquility;
Life with you is wonderful;
There isn’t anything I want to feel other than how I feel when I am with you, alive;
In nature!
~Matthew Wilburn King