selected publications
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academic article
- Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law to manage accelerating in the commons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. 2021
- Designing Law to Enable Adaptive Governance of Modern Wicked Problems. Vanderbilt Law Review. 73:1687-1732. 2020
- Mapping Legal Authority for Terrestrial Conservation Corridors Along Streams. Conservation Biology. 34:943-955. 2020
- Scale mismatch in social-ecological systems: a Costa Rican case study of spring water management. Sustainable Water Resources Management. 6:UNSP 40. 2020
- Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water. 6:e1381. 2019
- Incorporating Social System Dynamics in the Columbia River Basin: Food-Energy-Water Resilience and Sustainability Modeling in the Yakima River Basin. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 6:104. 2018
- Reconciliation of development and ecosystems: the ecology of governance in the International Columbia River Basin. Regional Environmental Change. 18:1679-1692. 2018
- The role of law in adaptive governance. Ecology and Society. 22:1-30. 2017
- Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems. Ecology and Society. 22:1-31. 2017
- Adaptive governance of riverine and wetland ecosystem goods and services. Journal of Environmental Management. 183:353-360. 2016
- Avoiding Decline: Fostering Resilience and Sustainability in Midsize Cities. Sustainability. 8. 2016
- Adaptive Governance of Water Resources Shared with Indigenous Peoples: The Role of Law. Water. 8. 2016
- Soil Moisture Differences between Terracette Benches and Risers on Semiarid Rangeland Hillslopes. Vadose Zone Journal. 15. 2016
- A riparian conservation network for ecological resilience. Biological Conservation. 191:29-37. 2015
- Barriers and bridges to the integration of social-ecological resilience and law. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13:332-337. 2015
- Identifying Legal, Ecological and Governance Obstacles, and Opportunities for Adapting to Climate Change. Sustainability. 2014
- Legitimacy, Adaptation, and Resilience in Ecosystem Management. Ecology and Society. 18:3. 2013
- Resilience in Transboundary Water Governance: the Okavango River Basin. Ecology and Society. 18. 2013
- Resilience and Law as a Theoretical Backdrop for Natural Resource Management: Flood Management in the Columbia River Basin. Environmental Law Review. 42. 2012
- Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin. Ecology and Society. 17:3. 2012
- Sustainable Water Resource Management and Participatory System Dynamics. Case Study: Developing the Palouse Basin Participatory Model. Sustainability. 3:720-742. 2011
- Interdisciplinary Methods in Water Resources. Issues in Integrative Studies . 29:118-143. 2011
- Energy Independence: Challenges Facing the West in Adopting Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources. Idaho Law Review. 46. 2010
- Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty: Resilience Theory and the Columbia River Treaty. Journal of Land Resources and Environmental Law. 30:229. 2010
- Development of Drinking Water Standards for Perchlorate Ion in the United States. Journal of Environmental Management. 91:303. 2009
- The Eternal Quest for Water: Historical Overview and Current Examination of Interbasin Transfers of Water. Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute Conference Proceedings. 55. 2009
- Resolving Conflict in Non-Ideal, Complex Systems: Solutions for the Law-Science Breakdown in Environmental and Natural Resource Law. Natural Resources Journal. 48:257. 2008
- 2005 Indian Water Rights Settlement Conference Keynote Address. Denver Water Law Review. 9:285. 2006
- The Role of Hydrology in the Resolution of Water Disputes. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education. 133:17. 2006
- Truth or Consequences: Settling Water Disputes in the Face of Uncertainty. Idaho Law Review. 42:717. 2006
- A New Approach in Water Management or Business as Usual? The Milk River, Montana. Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation. 1. 2003
- Farmers, Fish, Tribal Power, and Poker: Reallocating Water in the Truckee River Basin, Nevada and California. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. 89. 2003
- Water Dispute Resolution in the West: Process Elements for the Modern Era in Basin-wide Problem Solving. Environmental Law Review. 33. 2003
- The Measure of Indian Water Rights: The Arizona Homeland Standard, Gila River Adjudication. Natural Resources Journal. 835. 2002
- The 1997 Water Rights Settlement Between the State of Montana and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation - The Role of Community and of the Trustee. UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. 16. 1998
- Initiation and Collapse of active Circulation in a Hydrothermal System at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 23 degrees N. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 89:3275. 1984
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article
- The Future of the Columbia River Treaty. Munk School of Global Affairs website. 2012
- A Legal Framework for Water Resources Management in the Palouse Basin. University of New Mexico Press. 2007
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book
- The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty. Oregon State University Press. 2012
- The Future of Indian and Federal Reserved Water Rights : the Winters Centennial. University of New Mexico Press. 2012
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chapter
- Resilience and Water Governance: Addressing Fragmentation and Uncertainty in Water Allocation and Water Quality Law. Resilience and Law. 2013
- A Vision of Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in Water and Environmental Resources in 2050. Toward a sustainable water future: Visions for 2050. 2012
- Introduction to Parts I, II, and III. The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty. Oregon State University Press. 1-11. 2012
- Filling the Gaps in Western and Federal Water Law. Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy and Economics. 155-169. 2006
- The Arizona Homeland Standard Measure of Indian Water Rights. Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy and Economics. 2006
- The Northern Cheyenne Compact: Implementation Achieved. Negotiating Tribal Water Rights. 2005
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conference paper
- The Eternal Quest for Water: Historical Overview and Current Examination of Interbasin Transfers of Water. Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute Conference Proceedings. 2009
- The Legacy of Winters v. United States and the Winters Doctrine, One Hundred Years Later. ABA Section on Energy and Environment. 2008
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conference poster
- Adaptive governance and resilience: The Columbia River Basin. American Geophysical Union Conference. 2012