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Aaron Lien studies governance and adaptation in response to emerging ecological threats such as global change and invasive species. Lien’s research interests are focused on developing new knowledge about how to encourage private land conservation in the context of landscape-scale ecological systems, how environmental governance systems influence conservation outcomes, and how the attitudes of resource managers and users impact conservation and governance decisions. By linking surveys, interviews, and institutional analysis with environmental data, he seeks to answer questions about social-ecological systems.Show Less
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Research Opportunities
- Undergrad Research Opp Paid
Grant: Not Listed
Majors: All SNRE majors, geography, public policy/political science ...
Courses
- CNEConservation of Natural Environments
- RPCWRangeland Plant Communities of the West
- CASConservation and Agriculture in the Southwest
Grants
- Collaborative Training for Virtual Fence Implementation for Sustainable Rangeland Management Under Environmental Uncertainty
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$99.7K
Active - DISES: Governance Across Space: Discovering Principles of Equity and Sustainability to Conserve Migratory Species within Telecoupled Social Environmental Systems
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.6M
Active - CNH2-L: Solving Grand Challenges in Coupled Natural Human Systems: Predicting Effective Governance Strategies for Manning Invasive Species
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$1.6M
Active - CNH-L: Revealing the Hidden Ecoclimate Teleconnections Between Forest and Agriculture in the U.S. Enables Novel Governance Strategies for a Telecoupled World
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$1.4M
Active - A Future Without Fences? Optimizing Animal and Land Management Through Applications of Precision Animal Management on Complex Southwestern Rangelands
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$220.1K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Bringing Policy and Law Into Fight Against Buffelgrass
2019
- Urban Land Institute Provides Scholarships to UA Students
2007
Publications (51)
Recent
- Relationship between local-scale topography and vegetation on the invasive C4 perennial bunchgrass buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) size and reproduction
2023
- Diverse stakeholders and their interests matter to the US Forest Service: A network of action situations analysis of how stakeholders affect forest plan outcomes
2023
- Toward NEPA performance: A framework for assessing EIAs
2022
- A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base
2022
- Multi‐species, multi‐country analysis reveals North Americans are willing to pay for transborder migratory species conservation
2022
- Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation
2022
- Politics Vs Public Health: What Factors Drive County-Level Covid-19 Policy Diffusion?
2022
- Trust is Essential to the Implementation of Adaptive Management on Public Lands
2021
- Towards a global list of accepted species V. The devil is in the detail
2021
- NEPA performance: conceptualizing multi-dimensional policy objectives
2021
- Towards a global list of accepted species IV: Overcoming fragmentation in the governance of taxonomic lists
2021
- Towards a global list of accepted species I. Why taxonomists sometimes disagree, and why this matters
2021
- Evaluating the design and outcomes of adaptive management
2021
- Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States
2021
- How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity
2021
- Advances in understanding the evolution of institutions in complex social-ecological systems
2020
- Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species
2020
- Migratory species, spatial subsidies, and redressing inequitable outcomes in transboundary conservation
2020
- Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s taxa
2020
- Leveraging intrinsic motivations and collaborative conservation to improve the effectiveness of incentives for endangered species conservation.
2020
- The Institutional Grammar Tool in Policy Analysis and Applications to Resilience Research
2020
- The institutional grammar tool in policy analysis and applications to resilience and robustness research
2020
- Historical legacies and the diagnosis of complex social-ecological systems
2020
- Equity, Environmental Justice, and Migratory Species Conservation across International Borders
2019
- Inferring missing metadata from environmental policy texts
2019
- Multi-country willingness to pay for transborder migratory species conservation: A case study of northern pintails
2019
- Opportunities and barriers for endangered species conservation using payments for ecosystem services
2019
- Land Tenure and Ecosystem Services of Migratory Bats in Mexico and the US: Who Pays Whom
2019
- Using the Spatial Subsidies Framework for Conservation of Transboundary Ecosystem Services from Migratory Species
2019
- Can land management alter ecoclimate teleconnections across North America in the face of forest die-off?
2019
- Using the IGT and QCA to evaluate the institutional structures of water quality trading programs
2019
- Institutional analysis of rules-in-form coding guidelines
2018
- Crops in a Changing World: Hidden Forest-Agriculture Teleconnections
2018
- Do economic values and expenditures for viewing waterfowl in the US differ among species?
2018
- Q methodology: A method for understanding complex viewpoints in communities served by extension
2018
- Willingness to pay for conservation of transborder migratory species: A case study of the Mexican free-tailed bat in the United States and Mexico
2018
- Barriers to PES programs in Indigenous communities: A lesson in land tenure insecurity from the Hopi Indian reservation
2018
- Using institutional grammar to improve understanding of the form and function of payment for ecosystem services programs
2018
- The land ethic of ranchers: a core value despite divergent views of government
2017
- Incentives for Ecosystem Services on Rangelands: Institutional Design and Stakeholder Attitudes
2017
- The effects of Federal policies on rangeland ecosystem services in the southwestern United States
2015
- Jaguar critical habitat designation causes concern for southwestern ranchers
2015
- Atlas of the upper Gila River watershed
2014
- Using Watershed Assessments to Inform Planning for Rural Watersheds
2014
- Conserve to Enhance: An Innovative Mechanism for Environmental Benefits
2011
- The Marcellus Shale: Resources for Stakeholders in the Upper Delaware Watershed Region
2010
- Conservation Stewardship and Monitoring: A Guide for the Rincon Institute, Tucson, AZ
2008
- Evolution and evaluation of the active management area management plans
2008