Katherine R. Clifford, Ph.D. (Former Employee)
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A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation
Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially intensifying climate change. To better steward ecosystems facing unprecedented and lasting change, a new management paradigm is forming, supported by a decision-oriented framework that presents three distinct...
Authors
Shelley Crausbay, Helen Sofaer, Amanda E. Cravens, Brian C. Chaffin, Katherine R. Clifford, John E. Gross, Corrine N. Knapp, David J Lawrence, Dawn Magness, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Gregor W. Schuurman, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann
Responding to ecological transformation: Mental models, external constraints, and manager decision-making Responding to ecological transformation: Mental models, external constraints, and manager decision-making
Ecological transformation creates many challenges for public natural resource management and requires managers to grapple with new relationships to change and new ways to manage it. In the context of unfamiliar trajectories of ecological change, a manager can resist, accept, or direct change, choices that make up the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework. In this article, we provide a...
Authors
Katherine R. Clifford, Amanda E. Cravens, Corrine N. Knapp
Navigating climate adaptation on public lands: How views on ecosystem change and scale interact with management approaches Navigating climate adaptation on public lands: How views on ecosystem change and scale interact with management approaches
Managers are increasingly being asked to integrate climate change adaptation into public land management. The literature discusses a range of adaptation approaches, including managing for resistance, resilience, and transformation; but many strategies have not yet been widely tested. This study employed in-depth interviews and scenario-based focus groups in the Upper Gunnison Basin in...
Authors
Katherine R. Clifford, Laurie Yung, William Travis, Renee Rondeau, Betsy Neely, Imtiaz Rangwala, Nina Burkardt, Carina Wyborn
Natural resource management decision-making under climate uncertainty: Building social-ecological resilience in southwestern Colorado Natural resource management decision-making under climate uncertainty: Building social-ecological resilience in southwestern Colorado
The goal of this project was to facilitate climate change adaptation that contributes to social-ecological resilience, ecosystem and species conservation, and sustainable human communities in southwestern Colorado. The team developed and piloted integrated adaptation planning tools and principles that merge the strengths of the iterative scenario process, the Adaptation for Conservation...
Authors
Nina Burkardt, Marcie Bidwell, Katherine Clifford, Betsy Neely, Patricia Orth, Imtiaz Rangwala, Renee Rondeau, Carina Wyborn, Laurie Yung
Non-USGS Publications**
Clifford, K. R., & Travis, W. R. (2018). Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct. Global Environmental Change, 49, 1-9.
Clifford, K. R., Travis, W. R., & Nordgren, L. T. (2020). A climate knowledges approach to climate services. Climate Services, 18, 100155.
Kelley, L. C., Clifford, K. R., Reisman, E., Lea, D., Matsler, M., Liebman, A., & Malone, M. (2018). Charting a critical physical geography path in graduate school: sites of student agency. In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography (pp. 537-557). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Koebele, E., Crow, D. A., Lawhon, L. A., Kroepsch, A., Schild, R., & Clifford, K. (2015). Wildfire outreach and citizen entrepreneurs in the wildland–urban interface: A cross-case analysis in Colorado. Society & Natural Resources, 28(8), 918-923, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1054975
Clifford, K.R., and Travis, W.R. (2021). The New (ab)Normal: Outliers, everyday exceptionality and the politics of data management in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111:3, 932-943, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1785836
Katherine R. Clifford (2021) Problematic Exclusions: Analysis of the Clean Air Act’s Exceptional Event Rule Revisions, Society & Natural Resources, 34:2, 135-148, DOI:10.1080/08941920.2020.1780358
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation
Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially intensifying climate change. To better steward ecosystems facing unprecedented and lasting change, a new management paradigm is forming, supported by a decision-oriented framework that presents three distinct...
Authors
Shelley Crausbay, Helen Sofaer, Amanda E. Cravens, Brian C. Chaffin, Katherine R. Clifford, John E. Gross, Corrine N. Knapp, David J Lawrence, Dawn Magness, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Gregor W. Schuurman, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann
Responding to ecological transformation: Mental models, external constraints, and manager decision-making Responding to ecological transformation: Mental models, external constraints, and manager decision-making
Ecological transformation creates many challenges for public natural resource management and requires managers to grapple with new relationships to change and new ways to manage it. In the context of unfamiliar trajectories of ecological change, a manager can resist, accept, or direct change, choices that make up the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework. In this article, we provide a...
Authors
Katherine R. Clifford, Amanda E. Cravens, Corrine N. Knapp
Navigating climate adaptation on public lands: How views on ecosystem change and scale interact with management approaches Navigating climate adaptation on public lands: How views on ecosystem change and scale interact with management approaches
Managers are increasingly being asked to integrate climate change adaptation into public land management. The literature discusses a range of adaptation approaches, including managing for resistance, resilience, and transformation; but many strategies have not yet been widely tested. This study employed in-depth interviews and scenario-based focus groups in the Upper Gunnison Basin in...
Authors
Katherine R. Clifford, Laurie Yung, William Travis, Renee Rondeau, Betsy Neely, Imtiaz Rangwala, Nina Burkardt, Carina Wyborn
Natural resource management decision-making under climate uncertainty: Building social-ecological resilience in southwestern Colorado Natural resource management decision-making under climate uncertainty: Building social-ecological resilience in southwestern Colorado
The goal of this project was to facilitate climate change adaptation that contributes to social-ecological resilience, ecosystem and species conservation, and sustainable human communities in southwestern Colorado. The team developed and piloted integrated adaptation planning tools and principles that merge the strengths of the iterative scenario process, the Adaptation for Conservation...
Authors
Nina Burkardt, Marcie Bidwell, Katherine Clifford, Betsy Neely, Patricia Orth, Imtiaz Rangwala, Renee Rondeau, Carina Wyborn, Laurie Yung
Non-USGS Publications**
Clifford, K. R., & Travis, W. R. (2018). Knowing climate as a social-ecological-atmospheric construct. Global Environmental Change, 49, 1-9.
Clifford, K. R., Travis, W. R., & Nordgren, L. T. (2020). A climate knowledges approach to climate services. Climate Services, 18, 100155.
Kelley, L. C., Clifford, K. R., Reisman, E., Lea, D., Matsler, M., Liebman, A., & Malone, M. (2018). Charting a critical physical geography path in graduate school: sites of student agency. In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography (pp. 537-557). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Koebele, E., Crow, D. A., Lawhon, L. A., Kroepsch, A., Schild, R., & Clifford, K. (2015). Wildfire outreach and citizen entrepreneurs in the wildland–urban interface: A cross-case analysis in Colorado. Society & Natural Resources, 28(8), 918-923, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1054975
Clifford, K.R., and Travis, W.R. (2021). The New (ab)Normal: Outliers, everyday exceptionality and the politics of data management in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111:3, 932-943, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1785836
Katherine R. Clifford (2021) Problematic Exclusions: Analysis of the Clean Air Act’s Exceptional Event Rule Revisions, Society & Natural Resources, 34:2, 135-148, DOI:10.1080/08941920.2020.1780358
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.