Community Economies

Elizabeth (Za) Barron

Contact Details:

 

Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University:

http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pringle/people.php

http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/people/fellows/elizabeth-barron/

Qualifications

PhD  Geography, Rutgers University

MS    Forest Resources, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Areas:

Environmental governance, environmental knowledges, political ecology, science and technology studies.

My long-term reserch interests are at the intersection of environmental knowledge, environmental governance and conservation. I am interested in delineating and understanding different knowledge systems, and ways in which this work can contribute to ecological and social dimensions of natural resource management, conservation, and sustainability. The exploration of the limits of systems approaches through critical theoretical analysis is the other major componment of my research.

I have two research projects currently underway. The first is an interdisciplinary approach to developing adaptive co-management of fungal resources in the mid-Atlantic United States. The second examines the effects rapidly changing technologies in molecular biology are having on our understanding of biodiversity, and the implications for conservation policy at national and international levels.