Professor Holland’s primary research is in the areas of environmental policy and political theory and focuses on issues of valuation, justification, and participation in contemporary approaches to policy analysis and administrative rulemaking. She is the author of Allocating the Earth: A Distributional Framework for Protecting Capabilities in Environmental Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2014) and she has published in various journals, such as the Journal of Environmental Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities, the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and Political Research Quarterly.
Professor Holland is currently working on two research projects addressing air pollution in the Lehigh Valley. The first project, which is a collaboration with Lehigh and Northampton counties, involves creating a distributed air monitoring network for fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) in the Lehigh Valley. The second project is on ethylene oxide pollution in Allentown, PA, and is a collaboration with Dr. Hyunok Choi in Lehigh’s Health College, the PA Department of Environmental Protection, and Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley.
Professor Holland also has ongoing research projects related to climate adaptation politics and justice for non-human animals. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Values and the Journal of Environmental Ethics. She is active in the “Environmental Political Theory” section of the Western Political Science Association, where she has served as section chair and on the “best paper” award committee.