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Overview

Andrea K. Gerlak is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, contributing a notable body of work on topics such as sustainability, climate change governance, and water resources management.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Stakeholder engagement in the co-production of knowledge for environmental decision-making, 2023, World Development
  • Agency and governance in green infrastructure policy adoption and change, 2021, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

Although not the primary author, they are connected to several influential papers including:

  • Urban resilience and green infrastructure systems: towards a multidimensional evaluation, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • The unjust distribution of urban green infrastructure is just the tip of the iceberg: A systematic review of place-based studies, 2021, Environmental Science & Policy
  • International river basin organizations, science, and hydrodiplomacy, 2020, Environmental Science & Policy

Andrea K. Gerlak frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Adriana A. Zúñiga-Terán
  • Tanya Heikkila
  • Tyler Swanson
  • Alison Elder
  • Michele M. Betsill

Their research is often published in the following venues:

  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Energy Policy
  • Socio-Ecological Practice Research

Andrea has contributed to books published by Cambridge University Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, including:

  • Agency in Earth System Governance, 2020
  • Learning for Environmental Governance, 2024
  • The Conversation on Water, 2023

Their main research fields include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Subfields of study encompass:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Political Science and International Relations

The topics addressed frequently in their work are:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands

    Greg A. Barron-Gafford;Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman;Rebecca L. Minor;Leland F. Sutter

  • Building a Conceptual Approach to Collective Learning: Lessons for Public Policy Scholars

    Tanya Heikkila;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • The Formation of Large‐scale Collaborative Resource Management Institutions: Clarifying the Roles of Stakeholders, Science, and Institutions

    Tanya Heikkila;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • Building a Theory of Learning in Collaboratives: Evidence from the Everglades Restoration Program

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Tanya Heikkila

  • New directions in earth system governance research

    Sarah Burch;Aarti Gupta;Cristina Y.A. Inoue;Agni Kalfagianni

  • Adaptation in collaborative governance regimes.

    Kirk Emerson;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions

    Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran;Chad Staddon;Laura de Vito;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • Water security: A review of place-based research

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Lily House-Peters;Robert G. Varady;Tamee Albrecht

  • Water resources data and information exchange in transboundary water treaties

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Jonathan Lautze;Mark Giordano

  • Science-policy processes for transboundary water governance.

    Derek Armitage;Rob C de Loe;Michelle Morris;Tom W D Edwards

  • Contributions of green infrastructure to enhancing urban resilience

    Chad Staddon;Sarah Ward;Laura De Vito;Adriana Zuniga-Teran

  • The Promise and Performance of Collaborative Governance

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Tanya Heikkila;Mark Lubell

  • Urban resilience and green infrastructure systems: towards a multidimensional evaluation

    Adriana A Zuniga-Teran;Andrea K Gerlak;Brian Mayer;Tom P Evans

  • Learning our way out of environmental policy problems: a review of the scholarship

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Tanya Heikkila;Sharon L. Smolinski;Dave Huitema;Dave Huitema

  • Groundwater Governance in the United States: Common Priorities and Challenges.

    Sharon B. Megdal;Andrea K. Gerlak;Robert G. Varady;Ling Yee Huang

  • Understanding Human–Landscape Interactions in the “Anthropocene”

    Carol P. Harden;Anne Chin;Mary R. English;Rong Fu

  • Comparing Collaborative Mechanisms in Large-Scale Ecosystem Governance

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Tanya Heikkila

  • Interorganizational Engagement in Collaborative Environmental Management: Evidence from the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force

    Ramiro Berardo;Tanya Heikkila;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • The nexus: reconsidering environmental security and adaptive capacity

    R de Grenade;L House-Peters;CA Scott;B Thapa

  • Federalism and U.S. Water Policy: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century

    Andrea K. Gerlak

  • 'Ways of knowing' water: integrated water resources management and water security as complementary discourses

    Andrea K. Gerlak;Farhad Mukhtarov

  • Conflict and Cooperation along International Rivers: Crafting a Model of Institutional Effectiveness

    Ramiro Berardo;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • Working on learning: how the institutional rules of environmental governance matter

    Tanya Heikkila;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • River Basin Organizations in the Global Water Discourse: An Exploration of Agency and Strategy

    Farhad Mukhtarov;Andrea K. Gerlak

  • Examining the adaptability of collaborative governance associated with publicly managed ecosystems over time: insights from the Front Range Roundtable, Colorado, USA

    Antony S. Cheng;Andrea K. Gerlak;Lisa Dale;Katherine Mattor

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanya Heikkila
Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver
Dave Huitema
Dave Huitema Wageningen University & Research
Carsten Daugbjerg
Carsten Daugbjerg University of Copenhagen
Victor Galaz
Victor Galaz Stockholm University
Derek Armitage
Derek Armitage University of Waterloo
Ellen Wohl
Ellen Wohl Colorado State University
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Ramiro Berardo
Ramiro Berardo The Ohio State University
Ryan Plummer
Ryan Plummer Brock University

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