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anne browning-aikenAnne Browning-Aiken, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Environmental Policy Programs

Address: 803 E. First St., Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone: (520) 626-1735
E-mail: browning@u.arizona.edu

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Anne Browning-Aiken is a cultural anthropologist and senior researcher at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy with working ties tothe Center for Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA), Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), and the Water Resources Research Center at The University of Arizona and with the UNESCO Program Hydrology for the Environment, Life, and Policy (HELP)

Her work focuses on natural resources policy and practice, watershed governance, community collaboration, and educational outreach on environmental and sustainability issues, with particular focus on natural resources collaborative governance and building social and learning capital in watershed groups. Her research examines the impacts of climate variability and change on water policy and management and the gap between policy planning and community water management practices.

Anne holds a Ph.D. degree in cultural anthropology with an emphasis on Latin America from The University of Arizona, a Master’s Degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. from Northwestern University. She also has additional training for environmental conflict resolution with the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and ESL teaching from the University of Michigan.

She has five years of experience living and teaching in Greece, has lived and conducted research in Mexico, and worked with communities on water governance and development issues in Ecuador, Brazil, and the western United States. She speaks fluent Spanish and has a working knowledge of Greek.

Prior to beginning her Ph.D., Anne worked for archaeological groups such as Crow Canyon Archaeological Center on sites in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico during the summers and taught British and American literature and composition at public schools and private colleges during the school year.

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • Transboundary Water Collaboration (San Pedro Binational Commission, Upper San Pedro Partnership)
  • Hydrology for the Environment, Life, and Policy Program (UNESCO)
  • Water and Climate in the Southwest U.S./Northern Mexico (Inter American Institute and NOAA)
  • Water Reuse to Offset Scarcity (WateReuse Foundation)


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Browning-Aiken, Anne. Regional Development and Social Memory: Border Voices, 2009 (under development).

Browning-Aiken, Anne. The gap between economic policy and sustainable use of natural resources: water case studies in Sonora, Mexico. In Neoliberalism and Commodity Production in Mexico, eds. Thomas Weaver, Anne Browning-Aiken, James Greenberg, and William Alexander, 2008 (under review).

Browning-Aiken, Anne, Floyd Gray, and Denisse Fisher de Leon. 2008. Energy and Water in the U.S.-Mexico Border Mining Industry: Looking Towards Sustainable Development. Under review.

Browning-Aiken, Terry Sprouse, Matt Iles, George Saliba, and Amy McCoy. Collaborative resource management theory and practice: lessons from three Arizona watershed organizations, 2008. (under review).

Browning-Aiken, A., A. Davis, F. Delgado, R. Carter, R. G. Varady, and B. Morehouse. Climate, water management, and policy in the San Pedro basin: results of a survey of mexican stakeholders near the U.S.-Mexico Border.” . Climate Change 85 (2007): 3-4.

Browning-Aiken, A., R. G. Varady, D. Goodrich, H. Richter, T. Sprouse, and W. J. Shuttleworth. Integrating science and policy for water management: a case study of the Upper San Pedro River Basin. In Hydrology and Water Law — Bridging the Gap: A Case Study of HELP Basins, ed. by J. S. Wallace and P. Wouters. IWA Publishing, 2006.

Browning-Aiken, Anne, Holly Richter, David Goodrich, Bob Strain, & Robert Varady. The Upper San Pedro Basin: Fostering collaborative binational watershed management. International Journal of Water Resources and Development 20(2004): 353-368.

 

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