Active Research Themes

  • Collaborative Governance

  • Transboundary Water & Environmental Governance

  • Environmental and Climate Justice

  • PFAS (“forever chemicals”) governance and policy

  • Text as Big Data analytical methods

Publications

Yoder, L., Hammond Wagner, C., Sullivan-Wiley, K., Smith, G. 2022. The promise of collective action for large-scale commons dilemmas: reflections on common-pool resource theory. International Journal of the Commons, 16(1): 47 – 63. http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1163

Hui, I., and Smith, G. 2021. Private Citizens, Stakeholder Groups, or Governments? Perceived Legitimacy and Preferred Representation in Water Collaborative Governance. Policy Studies Journal, 50(1): 241 – 265. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12453

Santana, F.N., […], Smith,G. 2021. A Path Forward for Qualitative Research on Sustainability in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00894-8

Smith, G., Bayldon Block, L., Ajami, N., Pombo, A., Velasco Aulcy, L. 2020. Trade-offs Across the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Assessment of Desalination for Agriculture in the San Quintin Valley, Mexico. Environmental Science and Policy, 114: 445 – 452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.08.008

Hui, I., Smith, G., and Kimmel, C. 2019. Think Globally, Act Locally: Adoption of Climate Action Plans in California. Climatic Change, 155: 489 – 509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02505-7

Christian-Smith, J., Moran, T., Persad, G., Smith, G., Szeptycki, L. 2017. Navigating a Flood of Information: Evaluating and Integrating Climate Science into Groundwater Planning in California. Union of Concerned Scientists.