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Edella Schlager

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

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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)

Research Area

risk management, governance, commons, public policy, institutional design, polycentric systems, research methods, environmental science, hydroclimatic risk, river management

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    Recent

    The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Policy Analysis: A Literature Review.

    2023

    Rules and the ruled: understanding joint patterns of institutional design and behavior in complex polycentric systems

    2021
    institutional design, behavior, polycentric systems, complex systems, joint patterns

    Prescribed by Law and Therefore Realized? Analyzing Rules and Their Implied Actor Interactions as Networks

    2021
    legal, network analysis, actor interactions, regulation, policy implementation

    Equity and Inclusion for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

    2020
    faculty diversity, equity, inclusion, non-tenure-track, academic employment

    Lessons Learned From Synthetic Research Project Based on the Ostrom WorkshoFrameworks for Environmental Science and Policy

    2020
    synthetic research, environmental science, policy frameworks, lessons learned, ostrom workshop

    Policy Feedback in Public Policy Research: Looking Backward, Moving Forward

    2019
    policy feedback, public policy, research methods, policy evaluation, political science

    Balancing Open Science and Data Privacy in the Water Sciences

    2019
    open science, data privacy, water sciences, balancing, data sharing

    Suspicious Collaborators: How governments in polycentric systems monitor behavior and enforce public good provision rules against one another

    2018
    government surveillance, polycentric systems, public good provision, behavior monitoring, enforcement mechanisms

    Institutional design for a complex commons: variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods

    2018
    institutional design, commons, credible commitments, public goods, variations

    Using institutional grammar to improve understanding of the form and function of payment for ecosystem services programs

    2017
    ecosystem services, institutional grammar, payment, form, function

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    • Environmental Policy

    • Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Security

    • Theories of Public Policy Making Processes

    • Leadership and Ethics for Nonprofits and Public Management

    • Federalism in Comparative Perspective

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