Alexander, Steven

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Environmental Change & Governance Group (University of Waterloo), Resilience Design Group (Antioch University New England)

The ‘wicked’ problems and environmental challenges of the 21^st century characterized by complexity and uncertainty require not only new approaches, but also new modes of inquiry. If novel solutions are to be devised and developed to address these challenges we must be willing and open to bridging both disciplines and research strategies. As an applied human ecologist, my teaching, research, and writing seeks to explore and address the inherent complexity and uncertainty of complex social-ecological systems. More specifically, my work is situated at the intersection of complexity, environmental change, and governance.

Research Interests:

environmental governance, social-ecological systems, network analysis, resilience, complex adaptive systems, coastal marine resources

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Steven M. Alexander

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Resilience Design Group

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National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are integrated systems in which humans and natural components interact. CHANS research has recently emerged as an exciting and integrative field of cross-disciplinary scientific inquiry, with research projects covering a variety of coupled systems in locations spanning the globe. Although individual projects have generated many important insights, it is essential to systematically transform the field to be more than the sum of its parts and provide broader insights of greater scientific and societal significance than those resulting from individual projects alone. The goal of CHANS-Net is to foster this transformation by facilitating communication and collaboration among members of the CHANS research community.

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