Co-Lab-orators

Aireona Raschke is a political ecologist and conservation practitioner who specializes in collaborative conservation. She's the Associate Director of Practice at Colorado State University's Center for Collaborative Conservation, where she leads efforts to support on-the-ground conservation work and connect practitioners with researchers. 

Elke Kellner is a climate scientist and human geographer working on the governance of conflictual trade-off situations. Kellner's research seeks to understand how complex multi-level trade-offs are governed in multi-actor, multi-interest governance systems. 

Theresa Lorenzo Bajaj, PhD, is an honorary fellow at the Centre for Civil Society and Governance at the University of Hong Kong. Her broad research interests lie in collaborative governance, environmental policy, and natural resource management, given exposure to multiple stressors. Dr. Lorenzo is currently investigating rural sustainability, rural revitalization, and urban commons in Hong Kong and the greater Asia-Pacific region. She has also previously analyzed water management and policy in developing countries using different qualitative methods.  

Jaishri Srinivasan is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California Merced. Jaishri's research focuses on the many dimensions of water scarcity and the coupled socio-political and ecological processes of transformation it induces in arid watersheds and landscapes. Methodologically she employs qualitative and mixed methods approaches. 

Christopher Rojas is an Assistant Teaching Professor in life science ethics at Arizona State University. Dr. Rojas's research interests broadly cover environmental ethics, bioethics, sustainability ethics, and adaptive collaborative management.