I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College, where my work focuses on the application of theories drawn from the study of common-pool resources and resilience to the governance of large scale environmental problems. The research team which I coordinate includes 14 scholars on 3 continents. We are building a database which will enable us to compare the outcomes of environmental governance for different kinds of large social-ecological systems (e.g. forests in Indonesia, the Great Barrier Marine Park, stratospheric ozone, water pollution in the basin of the Rhine river, Atlantic tuna fisheries). The project builds on prior work by my mentor, the late Elinor Ostrom, whose database-building projects led to the publication of Governing the Commons, which was cited by the Nobel committee when it awarded her the Nobel prize in 2009. The project is unique in that enables comparison between governance and ecological system parameters in determining what contributes to sustainable governance of resources. A project website is forthcoming.
I recently completed my PhD in the Joint Program in Public Policy at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science, where I was a research assistant at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. My dissertation was titled, "Public Servant Behavior and Forest Policy Implementation in Central India." I used ethnographic and case study methods to understand the decision-making of forest officials in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. This research informs my current work on managing large-scale social-ecological systems because government officials often play key roles in developing and enforcing rules in large-scale environmental governance systems, yet their contributions are often ignored by analysts from resilience and common-pool resource research communities. I am preparing several chapters of the dissertation for publication - if you are interested, please send me email. My email address consists of my first name, followed by a period, followed by my last name, at Stanfordalumni dot org.
Please explore my site, where you will find a copy of my most recent CV, a list of publications, information on my teaching, and a link to the blog I kept about fieldwork & travel while I was conducting field research for my dissertation.
Last Update: March 2013
I recently completed my PhD in the Joint Program in Public Policy at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science, where I was a research assistant at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. My dissertation was titled, "Public Servant Behavior and Forest Policy Implementation in Central India." I used ethnographic and case study methods to understand the decision-making of forest officials in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. This research informs my current work on managing large-scale social-ecological systems because government officials often play key roles in developing and enforcing rules in large-scale environmental governance systems, yet their contributions are often ignored by analysts from resilience and common-pool resource research communities. I am preparing several chapters of the dissertation for publication - if you are interested, please send me email. My email address consists of my first name, followed by a period, followed by my last name, at Stanfordalumni dot org.
Please explore my site, where you will find a copy of my most recent CV, a list of publications, information on my teaching, and a link to the blog I kept about fieldwork & travel while I was conducting field research for my dissertation.
Last Update: March 2013
