A5048559297- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Forest Management and Policy
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Climate change and permafrost
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Regional Development and Policy
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
University of Wyoming
2019-2024
Colorado State University
2008-2020
Western Colorado University
2014-2020
University of Alaska System
2017
University of Alaska Fairbanks
2011-2015
International Arctic Research Center
2013
Waters (United States)
2010
Moore, M.-L., O. Tjornbo, E. Enfors, C. Knapp, J. Hodbod, A. Baggio, Norström, P. Olsson, and D. Biggs. 2014. Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations. Ecology Society 19(4): 54. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06966-190454
Knapp, C. N., F. S. Chapin III, G. P. Kofinas, N. Fresco, Carothers and A. Craver 2014. Parks, people, change: the importance of multistakeholder engagement in adaptation planning for conserved areas. Ecology Society 19(4): 16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06906-190416
Abstract Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that attributable to directional environmental changes, especially intensifying climate change. To better steward facing unprecedented lasting change, a new management paradigm forming, supported by decision-oriented framework presents three distinct choices: resist, accept, or direct the trajectory. make these choices strategically, managers seek understand nature of could...
Abstract Ecological transformation creates many challenges for public natural resource management and requires managers to grapple with new relationships change ways manage it. In the context of unfamiliar trajectories ecological change, a manager can resist, accept, or direct choices that make up resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework. this article, we provide conceptual framework how think about decision space must navigate. We identify internal factors (mental models) external (social...
Abstract. Unlike much of the contiguous United States, new hydropower development continues in Far North, where climate models project precipitation will likely increase over next century. Regional complexities Arctic and sub-Arctic, such as glacier recession permafrost thaw, however, introduce uncertainties about hydrologic responses to change that impact water resource management. This work reviews hydroclimate changes North their impacts on hydropower; it provides a template for...
Resilience thinking is increasingly used as both a theoretical framework and tool for managing governing social social–ecological systems. However, resilience may lead to undesirable outcomes if it fails critically engage with issues of power, justice equity, or what we call the politics resilience. This potential pitfall can be addressed by incorporating critical theory, which aims critique transform historically inequitable realities: goal being actively pursued scholars who publish in,...
In recent years, federal land management agencies in the United States have been tasked to consider climate change vulnerability and adaptation their planning. Ecological approaches dominant framework, but these significant limitations for fully understanding complex social-ecological systems around multiple-use public lands. this paper, we describe context of lands with an emphasis on Bureau Land Management highlight unique decision-making context. We then assess strengths weaknesses...
Kachergis, E. J., C. N. Knapp, M. Fernandez-Gimenez, J. P. Ritten, G. Pritchett, Parsons, W. Hibbs, and R. Roath. 2013. Tools for resilience management: multidisciplinary development of state-and-transition models northwest Colorado. Ecology Society 18(4): 39. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05805-180439
Pastoralists and researchers (and others) are finding new ways of working together worldwide, attempting to sustain pastoral livelihoods rangelands in the face rapid profound changes driven by globalization, growing consumption, land-use change, climate change. They doing this partly because a greater need address increasing complex or “wicked” problems, but also local voices sometimes science) still have little impact on decision-making governmental private sectors. We describe here, using...
Alaska residents are already feeling the tangible impacts of climate change and concerned about future impacts. In response, they have generated a large quantity documents that describe their change-related research needs. This paper reviews codes 63 stakeholder-generated address needs in order to synthesize common assess gaps assessment. We find related infrastructure, economics, hazards safety, terrestrial ecosystem most frequently mentioned. The review identifies current focus on...
Successful conservation requires adequate understanding of focal species and ecology, practices that may assist survival, a community people willing able to conserve the species. For many at risk, we operate with imperfect knowledge in complex contexts. In this case study involving Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus), interviewed 26 community-defined local experts, including both those without related academic degrees, assess utility for informing opportunities.This project suggests...