Name | General Research Interests | Geographical Area |
| Abiodun Adegboye Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria | Public economics for development; development macroeconomics | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Dolapo Adeniji Indiana University | Social isolation | Africa |
| Gabriel O. Adesina Ladoke Akintola University | Natural resource management; ecology; arable weed control; environmental assessment; food hygiene; food safety | Nigeria |
| Paiman Ahmad University of Raparin | Climate change; sustainable development; resource economics; public sector | Conflict affected countries, Global |
| Linda Ahunu Resource Governance Advisor, Independent Researcher | Prosocial behavior; human governance; gender governance; natural resource governance | Ghana, Africa |
| Michael Alexeev Economics, IU | New institutional economics; economics of natural resources; fiscal federalism | Russia, US |
| Gwen Arnold Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis | Institutions; governance; policy entrepreneurs; policy process; policy theory; fracking; wetlands | US |
| Paula Arzadun School of Business, Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Costa Rica | Common-pool resources; social economy; experimental economics | Costa Rica, Argentina, Spain |
| Shahzeen Attari SPEA, IU | Individual perceptions, motivations, and biases related to resource use; application areas include efficiency | US, Kenya, Zambia |
| Matthew Auer School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia | Sustainable forest management; international environmental policy; foreign aid; policy sciences | Global |
| K.K. Baiju Cochin University of Science and Technology, India | Natural resource governance; political, economic and legal institutions; legal pluralism; climate change and adaptation | Asian countries, US, Europe |
| Carla Rene Baldivieso Soruco Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Fisheries; agriculture; socio-ecological systems; agrobiodiversity; political ecology | Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina) |
| William Blomquist Political Science, IUPUI | Institutions; water resource management | |
| Ute Brady Syracuse University | Institutional design and analysis; environmental policy; conservation governance; collective action and decision-making; complex social-ecological systems; environmental ethics | Global |
| Eduardo S. Brondizio Anthropology, IU | Human-environment interaction; land use; global change; institutional analysis; mixed methods; complex systems; rural-urban linkages | Amazon, Latin America |
| Brian Bruns Independent Consultant | Sociology of development; Southeast Asian studies;agricultural economics; institutional analysis and development; institutional design | Southeast Asia, Middle East (Yemen and Egypt), South Asia (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka) |
| Sanya Carley SPEA, IU | Energy policy; economic development; policy instruments; applied econometrics | Mostly US, but some research on global & comparative contexts; some work in developing countries |
| Stefan Carpenter Florida Gulf Coast University | Wildlife governance; natural resource governance; environmental law and policy; collective action; human-wildlife conflict | US, Africa |
| Giovanna Chavez-Miguel International Potato Center (CIP, Peru); Humboldt Univesity | Traditional governance systems of the Andes: peasant movements, farmer organizations, agroecology market and seed networks | Colombia, Peru, Philippines |
| Lingxi Chenyang Mauer Law School | Sustainable agriculture; property law; climate law; agricultural policy | US |
| Todd Cherry Economics, University of Wyoming | Environmental and natural resource economics; behavioral and experimental economics; energy and climate policy; public economics | Global |
| Elia Cia Alves Federal University of Paraiba | Non-state influence in foreign policy; ocean governance; climate politics; policy diffusion; energy politics | Latin America, Brazil |
| Victor Cobs Technical University of Dortmund | Sacrifice zones; environmental justice; geography of health; environmental geography; socio-ecological systems | Chile, Germany, US |
| Nathan Cook SPEA, IUPUI | Environmental policy, politics, and behavior; inequality; participation; local governance | Globally focused, South Asia |
| Jampel Dell'Angelo Environmental Policy Analysis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Water governance; cooperation-competition-conflict related to water resources; environmental conflicts; political economy of natural resources; Ostromian theory and analytical frameworks | Kenya, China, Italy, Global Studies |
| Aaron Deslatte SPEA, IU | Local sustainability; strategic planning; performance management | US |
| Jackson Dorsey Business Economics and Public Policy, IU | Environmental economics; energy economics; and industrial organization | US |
| Jon Eldon SPEA, IU | Agriculture; natural resource management; environmental science | West Africa, South Pacific, American Midwest |
| Ashley Enrici Lilly Family School of Philanthropy | Ocean philanthropy; environmental justice; marine conservation governance systems | Pacific Islands, Indonesia |
| Kelly Eskew Kelley School of Business | Sustainability; human rights; poverty alleviation | |
| James Farmer Recreation, Park, & Tourism Studies, IU | Sustainable behavior (agriculture & land use) | Midwest, Great Lakes, Central Appalachia |
| Burney Fischer SPEA, IU | Urban forestry and urban ecology; natural resource management | US |
| John Foppert Paul Smith's College | Forest management; contract theory; institutional analysis; bioeconomic modeling | Eastern North America, Global |
| Robert Fischman Maurer School of Law, IU | Public land law; conservation policy; endangered species recovery | US |
| Christian Freitag Maurer School of Law | Social entrepreneurship; conservation; land and property; wills, trusts, and estates; philanthropy; non-profit businesses; wildlife and endangered species; habitat protection; public lands; fundraising; advocacy | US, Central and South America, India |
| Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah Urban & Regional Planning, University of Buffalo | Polycentric governance; water and food systems planning; land tenure; social network theory and analysis | US, sub-Saharan Africa |
| Brett Frischmann Law, Business & Economics, Villanova University | Infrastructure; knowledge; humanity; technology; data; intelligence; AI; techno-social engineering; governance; commons; institutions; public goods; built environment; GKC; Governing Knowledge Commons framework; spillovers; Internet; smart systems | US, global/international |
| Maria Gerullis University of Bonn | Social-ecological systems; agricultural systems; seed systems; seed commons | EU, Germany |
| Amineh Ghorbani Delft University of Technology | Collective action; new commons; urban commons; agent-based modelling and simulation; institutional modelling; institutional dynamics | The Netherlands, Europe |
| Sara Gregg History | Environmental policy; environmental law; agriculture; land use planning | US, North America |
| Tara Grillos Purdue University | Sustainable development; natural resource management; common-pool resources; public goods; collective action; participation; deliberation; procedural justice | Latin America, East Africa |
| Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Arizona State University | Farmer behavior and the conservation of water resources; psychology and economics of water resources | Iran, Middle East |
| Brian Hathaway Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Organizational theory; nonmarket strategy; stigma; microfinance; business ethics; philosophy of science | Global |
| Alex Hollingsworth SPEA, IU | Health outcomes; air pollution; environmental regulations; substance abuse | US |
| Ngaio Hotte Forestry, University of British Columbia | Co-management; collaborative governance; Indigenous governance; trust | US, Canada |
| Christian Iaione Luiss Guido Carli | Urban commons; internet of humans; tech justice | US, EU |
| Sylvanus Ikhide University of Stellenbosch Business School | Pension funds; race relations; diversity; poverty and inequality | Sub-Sahara Africa |
| Mark Kanazawa Economics, Carleton College | Law; economics; public choice; water law; natural resource law; environmental law; economic history | US |
| Christian Kimmich Masaryk University | Social-ecological systems; ecology of games; networks of action situations; ecological economics; institutional analysis; behavioral economics; macroeconomics | Europe, South Asia |
| Reuben Kline Stony Brook University | Climate change mitigation; behavioral game theory; behavioral ethics; social dilemmas; experimental social science | US |
| David Konisky SPEA, IU | American politics and public policy, with particular emphasis on environmental politics and policy, regulation, federalism, state politics, and public opinion | US |
| Ore Koren Political Science, IU | International relations; political methodology; applied economics | Global |
| Kerry Krutilla SPEA, IU | Environmental economics; federal regulatory evaluation; political economy; transaction cost economics; property rights theory | |
| Myungsuk Lee Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University | Collaborative governance; network governance; metagovernance; governance syndrome | Korea |
| Bryan Leonard School of Sustainability, Arizona State University | Natural resource economics; economic history; political economy; common pool resources; law and economics | Western US |
| Sally Letsinger Geography, IU | Risk assessment; hydrology; modelling | US |
| Antung Liu O'Neill SPEA, IU | Climate change policy; environment in developing countries | China, US |
| Taha Loghmani Technical University of Dresden | anagement of the nexus of resources; governance; water sciences | MENA region |
| Deisi Luna-Celino University of Florida | Environmental governance | Latin America, Peru |
| Roger Madrigal Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) | Water; ecosystem services; coastal and marine resources | Latin America |
| João Marinotti Maurer School of Law, IU | Property law; private law; cognitive science; data; linguistics; ownership; blockchain; AI; technology | US |
| Janet McCabe Environmental Resilience Institute | Resilience; climate change; renewable energy; adaptation; air pollution; fossil fuels; local government planning | US, Global |
| Leonardo Medina Santa Cruz Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) | Environmental peacebuilding; social learning; collaborative governance | Latin America |
| Sarah Mincey SPEA/IPE, IU | Sustainable social-ecological systems; urban forests | US |
| Lionel Mok Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Climate finance; climate risk; ESG reporting; micro/macro-prudential regulation; climate policy; public policy; institutional arrangements; policy capacity | ASEAN, EU |
| Ernest Molua University of Buea | Climate change; economics; commons management; policy analysis | Africa, Central Africa sub-region, Congo Basin Forest |
| Ameet Morjaria Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | Development economics; organizational economics; political economy | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Gary Motz Indiana Geological and Water Survey, IU | Museum informatics, natural history collections, biodiversity, data management, information governance, digitization | Southeast Asia |
| Praneeta Mudaliar Ithaca College | Power dynamics; socio-cultural inequalities; government interactions; water and fisheries governance; polycentric systems | India, US, East Africa |
| Arfan Muhammad US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water | Participatory irrigation management; water governance; common pool resource management; water policy; climate change adaptation; integrated water resource management | Pakistan, South Asia |
| Erik Nordman Natural Resources Management Program, Grand Valley State University | Natural resource commons; renewable energy; ecosystem services; economic valuation; environmental policy; voluntary environmental programs; space commons; science communication | US Great Lakes Region, Kenya, Caribbean (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Cabo Verde |
| Ron Oakerson Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Houghton College | International development; commons governance; US metropolitan governance; American res publica | US, West Africa |
| Nosayaba Oka University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham | Natural resource governance; institutions; socioecological systems; political sociology; socioeconomic performance | Africa |
| Jessica O'Reilly International Studies, IU | Environmental anthropology; science and technology studies; Antarctica; climate change; scientific assessments; environmental policy and management; cultural theory and methods | Polar regions, New Zealand |
| Benson Osikabor Federal College of Forest Resources Management, Nigeria | Communication; innovation; agriculture and forestry | |
| Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde Clark Atlanta University | Land resource management; polycentric governance; institutional analysis | Africa (Nigeria) |
| Pablo Paniagua Prieto King's College London | Institutional economics; polycentric governance; nested externalities; collective action | Europe, Latin America |
| Jon Racek Art, Architeture + Design, IU | Public space; architecture; urban design | Spain, East Africa |
| H.M. Tuihedur Rahman McGill University | Institutional analysis; sustainability; natural resource management; Indigenous communities; social-ecological systems; adaptation; vulnerability; collective active | Bangladesh, Canada |
| Pricilla Rakotoarisoa Centre for Marine Socioecology | Governance of the ocean as a common property; institutional and critical analysis | Indian Ocean, Africa, Australia |
| Rijal Ramdani University of Eastern Finland | Peatland fires; tropical peatland; palm oil, tragedy of the commons; open acces; IAD; collaborative governance; governmentality | Indonesia |
| Julio A. Ramos Pastrana School of Public Policy, Pennsylvania State University | Political economy; public finance; resource and environmental economics; health economics | US, Latin America |
| Zara Riaz Columbia University | Common pool resources and external threats; coastal fisheries; migration and common pool resources | West Africa (Senegal) |
| Kenneth Richards SPEA, IU | Environmental and natural resource policy; trisectoral sustainability cooperation | North America, Europe, Asia |
| Christina Rosan Temple University | Metropolitan governance; fragmented governance; regional climate research; urban sustainability governance; environmental justice; urban politics and governance; green stormwater infrastructure and equity planning | North American cities & metropolitan regions, Philadephia, PA |
| Raj Sahoo Jawaharlal Nehru University | Plastic waste; pollution; consumption; regulation; urban sustainability; environmental cooperative behaviors; social norms; behavior change; informal norms; SDG (11,12,14); interdisciplinary; mix methods; empirically grounded work | India, Global South |
| Tim Samples Terry College of Business, University of Georgia | Global governance; investor-state relations; international law | Latin America, US |
| Charlie Schweik University of Massachusetts Amherst | Commons-based peer production; knowledge commons; commons self governance; commoning; institutional grammar | US, Global (Internet) |
| Kalim Shah University of Delaware | Energy; environmental; climate change; industry; sustainable development | Global Islands, Coastal Regions |
| David Soto-Oñate University of Vigo | Institutional economics; ecological economics; polycentric governance; social-ecological systems | EU, Spain |
| Godfreyb Ssekajja Political Science, IU | Common property institutions; natural resource management; migration; collective action | Africa |
| Jessica Steinberg International Studies, IU | Conflict; natural resources; strategic governance; local institutions | Africa |
| Andrea Steiner Federal University of Pernambuco | Environmental governance and policy; marine governance and policy; international environmental policy; international agreements | Brazil, Antarctica, Global |
| Lavanya Suresh Birla Institute of Technology & Science | Political ecology; public administration; environmental governance; decentralisation | India |
| Gustavo Torrens Economics, IU | Political economy; economic development; international economics | Latin America |
| Larry Trautman Prairie View A&M University | Public policy; accounting and auditing; blockchain; business law; climate policy; constitutional law; corporate governance; cyber security; environmental, social & governance (ESG); entrepreneurship; ethics; international relations; law and technology; virtual currencies; world peace studies | US, Global |
| Patricia Uberhuaga Universidad Mayor de San Simón | Environmental services and climate change; forest governance | Bolivia, Latin America |
| Hita Unnikrishnan University of Sheffield | Urban commons; urban political ecology; urban environmental history; water; energy; climate studies | India |
| Rachanadevi Vaishnav Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Land; resistance; governance of land; commons | India |
| Sechindra Vallury University of Montana | Natural resource management; common pool resources; institutional economics; agricultural policy | Western US, South Asia |
| George Varughese Niti Foundation | Public policy; politics; governance; local government | Asia |
| Phrueksaphong Visuthduangdusdee Visiting Scholar, SPEA, IU/GSPA, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand | Policentric governance; policy networks; community-based research | Thailand |
| Seemi Waheed University of Management and Technology | Common pool resource; sustainability; climate change | |
| Rebecca Wai University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Water politics; collective action; water resource governance; climate migration; water scarcity; bureaucracy; common pool resource institutions | China, South Asia |
| Kurt Waldman Geography, IU | Agricultural decision making; heuristics; judgment and bias food policy | Africa (Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda), Philippines |
| Juan Wang McGill University | Law and politics; contentious politics | China, East Asia |
| Andre Westin Indiana University | Water; forestry; agricultural economics; climate change investing | US, Brazil, Chile |
| Karen Woody School of Law, Washington & Lee University | Conflict minerals; corporate governance; security regulation | US, Europe, Africa |
| Landon Yoder O'Neill SPEA | Collaborative governance; water resources management; human-environment interaction; sustainable agriculture | US Midwest, South Florida |
| Abigail York School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University | Governance; collective action; urban; institutions; water; environment; forestry; land use | US, Nepal |
| Ali Yousefi Isfahan University of Technology | Water governance; building state capacity; institutions | Middle East, North Africa (MENA) |
| Eric Zeemering Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia | Local governance; intergovernmental relations; urban sustainability; networks | US, Canada |
| Afsheen Zeeshan National Defence University, Islamabad | Climate change governance | Pakistan, South Asia |
| Nikos Zirogiannis SPEA, IU | Applied econometrics; environmental and resource economics | US |
