France has authored over 150 publications in peer-reviewed international journals on the ecology and conservation biology of organisms from bacteria and algae to birds and whales, on research topics from environmental pollution to theoretical biodiversity, and in locations ranging from the High Arctic to the tropics. He has also authored or edited over a dozen books on various aspects of landscape architecture, land-use planning, and environmental theory. France currently teaches courses at the Graduate School of Design and the College (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) at Harvard University focusing on the influence of landscape processes and development on (sub)urban and rural aquatic systems, on how the design of these systems can be used to mitigate watershed development pressures, on design principles in the restoration of degraded waterways, and on the ecopsychology of human/nature relationships. France is a series editor at CRC Press focusing on Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development.