Funding Years: 2008-2013

The EGWG was a multi-disciplinary community seeking to advance research on environmental governance at Colorado State University. For the purposes of this multidisciplinary project, we define environmental governance as the formal and informal institutions/policies/rules/practices that shape how humans interact with the environment at all levels of social organization. This broad working definition recognizes the variation in disciplinary approaches and specific research foci. The study of environmental governance includes—but is not limited to—research on environmental policies and management practices, community conservation programs, common property resource regimes, collaborative decision-making processes, and markets for environmental goods and services. Environmental governance research may investigate particular arrangements and/or address broader questions of authority, accountability, legitimacy, participation, and fairness and equity.

Principal Investigators:

• Michele Betsill, Department of Political Science
• Tony Cheng, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
• Pete Taylor, Department of Sociology

Website: https://polisci.colostate.edu/egwg/