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Overview

Edella Schlager is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations, public administration, and sociology. Their work integrates environmental and policy challenges, addressing complex governance mechanisms and institutional design.

Their publications demonstrate engagement with key topics including public policy and administration research, policy transfer and learning, and sustainability and climate change governance. Other areas of interest include water-energy-food nexus studies, local government finance and decentralization, experimental behavioral economics studies, and management and organizational studies.

Edella Schlager's research appears frequently in several academic venues. Notably, these include:

  • Ecology and Society
  • Policy Studies Journal
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Public Administration
  • International Journal of the Commons

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Developing a sustainability science approach for water systems" (2020, Ecology and Society)
  • "Institutional design for a complex commons: Variations in the design of credible commitments and the provision of public goods" (2020, Public Administration)
  • "Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements" (2021, Policy Studies Journal)
  • "Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks" (2021, Ecology and Society)
  • "Prescribed by law and therefore realized? Analyzing rules and their implied actor interactions as networks" (2021, Policy Studies Journal)

Frequent collaborators include Tomás Olivier, Jeffrey Hanlon, Anna Puggaard, Nicolaj Hansen, and Louise Sandberg Sørensen.

Best Publications

  • Property rights regimes and natural resources: A conceptual analysis

    E. Schlager;Elinor Ostrom

  • Political Pitfalls of Integrated Watershed Management

    William Blomquist;Edella Schlager

  • Mobile flows, storage, and self-organized institutions for governing common-pool resources

    E. Schlager;W. Blomquist;S. Y. Tang

  • Policy making and collective action: Defining coalitions within the advocacy coalition framework

    Edella Schlager

  • A Comparison of Three Emerging Theories of the Policy Process

    Edella Schlager;William Blomquist

  • Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

    Daniel A. DeCaro;Brian C. Chaffin;Edella Schlager;Ahjond S. Garmestani

  • Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado

    William A. Blomquist;Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

  • The Role of Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages in Common Pool Resource Management: Assessing Interstate River Compacts

    Tanya Heikkila;Edella Schlager;Mark W. Davis

  • Varieties of Policy Feedback Research: Looking Backward, Moving Forward

    Daniel Béland;Edella Schlager

  • The role of law in adaptive governance.

    Barbara A Cosens;Robin K Craig;Shana Lee Hirsch;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold

  • A Comparison of Frameworks, Theories, and Models of Policy Processes

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  • Embracing Watershed Politics

    Edella Schlager;William A. Blomquist

  • Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: An analysis of tools available in U.S. environmental law

    Robin Kundis Craig;Ahjond S. Garmestani;Craig R. Allen;Craig R. Allen;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold;Craig Anthony Tony Arnold

  • Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems.

    Lance Gunderson;Barbara Cosens;Barbara Cosens;Brian C. Chaffin;Craig Anthony Arnold;Craig Anthony Arnold

  • Institutions and the performance of coupled infrastructure systems

    John M. Anderies;Marco A. Janssen;Edella Schlager

  • Resolving Water Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Interstate River Compacts

    Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

  • Les approches cognitives des politiques publiques : perspectives américaines

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  • Left High and Dry? Climate Change, Common-Pool Resource Theory, and the Adaptability of Western Water Compacts

    Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

  • New Theories of the Policy Process

    Edella Schlager;Christopher M. Weible

  • Rationality, Cooperation, and Common Pool Resources:

    Edella Schlager

  • Community management of groundwater.

    E. Schlager;M. Giordano;K. G. Villholth

  • Balancing Open Science and Data Privacy in the Water Sciences

    Samuel C. Zipper;Kaitlin Stack Whitney;Jillian M. Deines;Kevin M. Befus

  • Challenges of governing groundwater in U.S. western states

    Edella Schlager

  • Resolving Water Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of

    Edella Schlager;Tanya Heikkila

  • The Role of Cross-Scale Institutional Linkages in Common Pool Resource Management: Assessing

    Tanya Heikkila;Edella Schlager;Mark W. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

J. B. Ruhl
J. B. Ruhl Vanderbilt University
Kaveh Madani
Kaveh Madani Yale University
John M. Anderies
John M. Anderies Arizona State University
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Marco A. Janssen
Marco A. Janssen Arizona State University
David B. Resnik
David B. Resnik National Institutes of Health
Karen G. Villholth
Karen G. Villholth International Water Management Institute
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano Georgetown University
Paolo D'Odorico
Paolo D'Odorico University of California, Berkeley
Patricia Gober
Patricia Gober Arizona State University

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