Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Lilian Alessa Professor, Co-Director of the Center for Resilient Communities

Positions

Co-Director, Center for Resilient Communities , College of Art & Architecture
Professor, Landscape Architecture , College of Art & Architecture 2013 -

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Socio-Ecological Futures: Embedded Solutions for Stakeholder-Driven Alternative Futures. Sustainability. 14. 2022
- Understanding Effects of Permafrost Degradation and Coastal Erosion on Civil Infrastructure in Arctic Coastal Villages: A Community Survey and Knowledge Co-Production. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10. 2022
- Cycling Phosphorus and Nitrogen through Cropping Systems in an Intensive Dairy Production Region. Agronomy. 11:1005. 2021
- Transforming Sustainability Science for Practice: A Social-ecological Systems Framework for Training Sustainability Professionals. Sustainability Science. 2020
- Landscape social-metabolism in food-energy-water systems: Agricultural transformation of the Upper Snake River Basin. Science of the Total Environment. 705:135817. 2020
- Planning for Idaho's Waterscapes: A Review of Historical Drivers and Outlook for the Next 50 Years. Environmental Science and Policy. 94:191-201. 2019
- Using the Arctic water resources vulnerability index in assessing and responding to environmental change in Alaskan communities. Climate Risk Management. 23:19-31. 2019
- An integrated dataset for stakeholder perceptions of environmental change and instrumented measures of change. Data in Brief. 21:1721-1723. 2018
- The role of perceptions versus instrumented data of environmental change: Responding to changing environments in Alaska. Environmental Science and Policy. 90:110-121. 2018
- Community-based observing networks and systems in the Arctic: Human perceptions of environmental change and instrument-derived data. Regional Environmental Change. 18:547-559. 2018
- Expectations for habitat-adapted symbiosis in a winter annual grass. Fungal Ecology. 29.0:111.0-115.0. 2017
- Role of perception in determining adaptive capacity: communities adapting to environmental change. Sustainability Science. 12:3-13. 2017
- A social-ecological systems approach for environmental management. Journal of Environmental Management. 83-91. 2016
- The role of Indigenous science and local knowledge in integrated observing systems: moving toward adaptive capacity indices and early warning systems. Sustainability Science. 11:91-102. 2016
- The Contributions of Community-Based Monitoring and Traditional Knowledge to Arctic Observing Networks: Reflections on the State of the Field. Arctic. 68:28-40. 2015
- The Rotten Renaissance in the Bering Strait: Loving, loathing, and washing the smell of foods with a (re)acquired taste. Current Anthropology. 55:619-646. 2014
- Water Relationships in the U.S. Southwest: Characterizing Water Management Networks Using Natural Language Processing. Water. 6:1601-1641. 2014
- Walrus harvest locations reflect adaptation: A contribution from a community-based observation network in the Bering Sea. Polar Geography. 37:48-68. 2014
- Integrating complexity in the management of human-wildlife encounters. Global Environmental Change. 26:73-86. 2014
- Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North Part II. Arctic. 67:296-315. 2014
- Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska and the Circumpolar North Part III. Arctic. 67:320-339. 2014
- Sustainable circumpolar agriculture: Alaska and beyond Part I. Arctic. 67:271-295. 2014
- Mapping human interaction with the Bering Sea ecosystem: comparing seasonal use areas, lifetime use areas, and "calorie sheds". Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 94:292-300. 2013
- Sustained debate: Methods to better integrate the social sciences into sustainability science. International Innovation. 116:39-41. 2013
- Minding our methods: How choices of time scales, reference dates and statistical approaches can influence climate reports and policy. Environmental Science and Technology. 46:7435-7441. 2012
- The Role of the Agent Types in Detecting and Responding to Environmental Change. Human Organization. 71:1-10. 2012
- The Integration of Digital Terrain Visualization in Ethnography: The Historic Village of Belkofski, Alaska. Visual Anthropology. 24:455-467. 2011
- Indigenous knowledges driving technological innovation. AAPI Nexus Journal. 9:241-248. 2011
- Assessing the Impacts of Local Knowledge and Technology on Climate Change Vulnerability in Remote Communities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 8:733-761. 2011
- Alaska's Freshwater Resources: Issues Affecting Local and International Interests. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 47:143-157. 2011
- Water in Alaska: The Next 50 Years. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 47:143-157. 2011
- Integration of Aquaculture and Arid Lands Agriculture for Water Reuse and Reduced Fertilizer Dependency. Experimental Agriculture. 46:173-190. 2010
- A framework to structure agent-based modeling data for social-ecological systems. Structure & Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences. 4:1-18. 2010
- Forgetting Freshwater: Technology, Values, and Distancing in Remote Arctic Communities. Society and Natural Resources. 23:254-268. 2010
- Forgetting freshwater: The effect of modernization on water values in remote Arctic communities. Society and Natural Resources. 23:254-268. 2010
- Influence of statistical methods and reference dates on describing temperature change in Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. 115. 2010
- Livelihoods on Thawing Ground: Relationships with Water Resources Near the Bering Strait. Anthropology News. 2010
- Monitoring Land Use: Capturing Change Through an Information Fusion Approach. Sustainability. 2:1182-1203. 2010
- Social Influence and Decision-making: Evaluating Agent Networks in Village Response to Change in Freshwater. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 13:15. 2010
- Visualizing Situational Data: Applying Information Fusion for Detecting Social-Ecological Events. Social Science Computer Review. 28:497-514. 2010
- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 45:1379-1389. 2009
- Forecasting Resilience in Arctic Societies: Creating Tools for Assessing Social-hydrological Systems. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 45:1379-1389. 2009
- Toward a Typology of Social-Ecological Systems. Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy. 5:31-41. 2009
- Athropogenic Biomes: A Key Contribution to Earth-System Science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 23:529-531. 2008
- The arctic water resource vulnerability index: An integrated assessment tool for community resilience and vulnerability with respect to freshwater. Environmental Management. 42:523-541. 2008
- Freshwater Vulnerabilities and Resilience on the Seward Peninsula: Integrating Multiple Dimensions of Landscape Change. Global Environmental Change. 18:256-270. 2008
- Memory, Water and Resilience: Perception of Change in Freshwater Resources in Remote Arctic Resource-Dependent Communities. Global Environmental Change. 18:153-164. 2008
- Perception of change in freshwater in remote resource-dependent Arctic communities. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions. 18:153-164. 2008
- Social-ecological hotspots mapping: A spatial approach for identifying coupled social-ecological space. Landscape and Urban Planning. 85:27-39. 2008
- Towards a Community Framework for Agent-Based Modelling. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 11. 2008
- The Distancing Effect of Modernization on the Perception of Water Resources in Arctic Communities. Polar Geography. 30:175-191. 2007
- Potential impacts of a changing Arctic on freshwater resources on the Seward Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research. 112. 2007
- The Arctic Freshwater System: Changes and Impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research. 112. 2007
- Potential impacts of a changing Arctic on community water sources on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 112. 2007
- An "All Hands" Call to the Social Science Community: Establishing a Community Framework for Complexity Modeling Using Agent Based Models and Cyberinfrastructure. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 9:6-13. 2006
- A comparison of perceptions of biological value with scientific assessment of biological importance. Applied Geography. 24:161-180. 2004
- Extending the wilderness concept as a cultural resource. Wilderness and Wildness. 297-293. 2004
- Effects of knowledge, personal attribution and perception of ecosystem health on depreciative behaviors in the intertidal zone of Pacific Rim National Park and Reserve. Journal of Environmental Management. 68:207-218. 2003
chapter
- Subsistence Density Mapping Brings Practical Value to Decision Making. Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change. Ed. Carothers, Courtney. University of Alaska Fairbanks. 193-210. 2012
- The role of fresh water in Alaska's communities. North By 2020 - Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems. Ed. Lovecraft, Amy Lauren. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2011
- Integrating local and traditional ecological knowledge for marine resilience. Managing for Resilience: New Directions for Marine Ecosystem-based Management. Ed. McLeod, K. Island Press. 145-161. 2009
- Ecological impacts of ecotourist visitation on macroalgal beds in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism. Ed. Buckley, R. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 349-360. 2004

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Lilian Alessa