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Edella Schlager

Professor, Natural Resources | Associate Professor, School of Geography and Development | Professor, School of Government and Public Policy | Professor, Global Change - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty

School of Govt & Public Policy

About

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).

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  • Federalism in Comparative Perspective

  • Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Security

  • Global Climate Change: Integrating Science, Policy, and Decision Making

  • Theories of Public Policy Making Processes

  • Formation of Public Policy

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