His research explores how societies make choices about using and protecting the environment and how they do and might plan for making such choices in the future.  He teaches a class on the campus as a living laboratory and is Editor of the Selected Works of Arne Naess, Director of the Campus Sustainability Assessment Project, and Chair of Western Michigan University¹s Sustainability Committee. Glasser has written on deep ecology, environmental policy, multicriteria analysis, green accounting, education for ecocultural sustainability, and campus sustainability assessment.