Environmental Sustainability Faculty

Gemma Smith

santander — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:16:41 +0000

Gemma Smith santander Mon, 01/08/2024 - 11:16

Social Sciences 439A

Gemma Smith holds a joint appointment as Assistant Research Professor at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona.

Gemma is an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of environmental policy, governance, and justice, and water resources engineering. She graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Environment and Resources and a Minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2023.

Her current research focuses on the governance of international freshwater resources. She works to improve the management of transboundary water quality and climate change adaptation through better understanding of governance processes and outcomes in North American borderlands. Her methods draw on social, political, economic and environmental qualitative and quantitative data with the goal of making more robust causal connections between institutional design, policy decisions, and environmental outcomes. Her research has been published in Policy Studies Journal, Environmental Science & Policy, and International Journal of the Commons, among others.

Prior to her PhD, Gemma completed her Master’s in International Policy (Environment and Energy specialization) at Stanford University and a Graduate Diploma in Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She previously worked in international investment management in Europe and Asia, having completed her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Spanish at the University of Exeter, UK, in 2013.

Assistant Professor

gemmasmith@arizona.edu

GSmith_CV_Jan2024_0.pdf

Environmental and water policy

Borderlands studies

Gemma Smith

Edella Schlager

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:13:18 +0000

Edella Schlager nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:13

Social Sciences 314C

My research focuses on comparative institutional analyses of water laws, policies, property rights, and compacts in the western US. I am particularly interested in the design and performance of polycentric systems of water governance and how well such systems of water governance adapt to changing environmental, legal, and social circumstances. Journals I have published in include Land Economics, Policy Studies Journal, Publius, and the American Journal of Political Science. I am co-author of two books on western water governance, Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado (with William Blomquist and Tanya Heikkila); and Embracing Watershed Politics (with William Blomquist). I am also the lead editor of Navigating Climate Change Policy: The Opportunities of Federalism (with Kirsten Engel and Sally Rider).

My teaching centers on environmental policy and public policy. I teach both undergraduate and graduate survey courses on environmental policy, an undergraduate course on climate change policy; and a PhD seminar on theories of the policy process.

Professor

schlager@arizona.edu

Prof. Schlager's CV (8/23)

Institutional analysis

Multi-level governance

Water policy/politics

Edella Schlager

Adam Douglas Henry

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:11:31 +0000

Adam Douglas Henry nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:11

Social Sciences 329

Adam Douglas Henry is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, and is Director of the University of Arizona's Computational Social Science Program. Dr. Henry's research focuses on policy learning and sustainable development, asking particularly how networked groups of actors in the policy process collaborate to manage complex and divisive issues of environmental policy and sustainability. Henry's recent research has focused on the integration of science and policy in issues of environmental risk (in a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation) and the development of computational models of social influence and the adoption of residential solar energy (in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Henry uses a variety of approaches to study questions of policy learning and sustainability, including agent-based modeling, statistical models of network structure, and mathematical models of self-organizing networks.

Dr. Henry joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2012, and teaches courses in environmental policy, program evaluation, and statistics. Henry is a core faculty member in the University of Arizona's Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Master of Public Policy (MPP) programs. Henry was a recipient of a Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowship in Sustainability Science and spent two years as a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Henry is originally from Virginia, completed a B.A. and B.S. at Washington and Lee University, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis.

Professor

adhenry@arizona.edu

Adam Douglas Henry's CV (8/23)

Social networks

Environmental sustainability

Computational modeling

Adam Douglas Henry

Elizabeth Baldwin

nriddel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:35:06 +0000

Elizabeth Baldwin nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 10:35

Social Sciences 318A

Elizabeth Baldwin researches environmental, energy and water policy in the U.S. and internationally. She is broadly interested the role that non-state actors play in implementing natural resource policies, the way that laws and legal rules structure stakeholder involvement, and the degree to which such stakeholder involvement affects policy outcomes. One of her current research projects examines ways that private sector and non-profit organizations affect U.S. state energy efficiency and renewable energy policies. She also has an ongoing research project evaluating the use and governance of off-grid and decentralized energy systems in sub-Saharan African countries.

Baldwin’s work has been published in Governance, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Environment and Resource Economics, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, and Natural Resources Journal.

Baldwin earned her Ph.D. in 2015 from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she was a research assistant at the Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis. She also holds a J.D. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a B.S. in Environmental Policy from Unity College.

Associate Professor

Director of MPA & MPP Programs

elizabethb@arizona.edu

Prof. Baldwin's CV (8/23)

Environmental policy

Energy policy

Institutional analysis

Elizabeth Baldwin

Laura Bakkensen

nriddel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:33:25 +0000

Laura Bakkensen nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 10:33

Social Sciences 327

Dr. Laura A. Bakkensen utilizes applied microeconomic and econometric techniques to study the economics of natural disasters, identifying current hazard risks and evidence of adaptation to damages and fatalities across the globe. She also evaluates individual and policy responses to natural disasters as well as community resilience to threats including hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. Her research informs public policy on insurance regulation, pre- and post-disaster aid, severe weather warnings, and public adaptation projects. Her research has been published in journals including the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Nature Climate Change, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Risk Analysis. Dr. Bakkensen received her Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from Yale University. She was previously a visiting researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change in Venice, Italy and received a Fulbright Teaching Grant to South Korea. In 2017, she was awarded a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship.

Associate Professor

laurabakkensen@arizona.edu

Prof. Bakkensen's CV (8/23)

Prof. Bakkensen's website

Environmental economics

Natural disaster policy

Risk and adaptation