I am an associate professor in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. There, I co-direct the Metropolitan Governance and Management Transitions Laboratory. Our lab focuses on the collective-action challenges surrounding community resilience, technological innovation and sustainability of public goods in metropolitan regions. We care about how communities are adapting to environmental and technological changes, and the disproportional impacts of these changes on more resource-constrained or disadvantaged rural and urban communities.
Over time, our work has begun to focus more closely on knowledge-building and the "soft" infrastructures (formal and informal institutions) which support such adaptive change. Thus, our research projects are closely aligned with the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis developed by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the subsequent systems-based analysis of shared public infrastructures. You can read my open-access book on these general topics from Cambridge University Press here: "Organizing and Institutionalizing Local Sustainability.'
Over time, our work has begun to focus more closely on knowledge-building and the "soft" infrastructures (formal and informal institutions) which support such adaptive change. Thus, our research projects are closely aligned with the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis developed by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom and the subsequent systems-based analysis of shared public infrastructures. You can read my open-access book on these general topics from Cambridge University Press here: "Organizing and Institutionalizing Local Sustainability.'
