WHAT
WE DO
Note that Dr. Bailey is not accepting new graduate students at this time.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Research Areas
We are a force for joy in the environment. Our research is at the intersection of human wellbeing, sustainability, and justice. We aim to study human-environment interactions to facilitate joyful relationships between people and their environments. We have three main research areas:
Inclusive Social Science
Broadly, we rely on social science methods, while integrating ecological and environmental data, to understand complex human-environment interactions. In our efforts, we work to center local community perspectives, rely on equitable and participatory social science methods, and conduct research that supports both human wellbeing and environmental sustainability.
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Climate Adaptation, Equity
& Natural Resource Management
Climate adaptation has become an important focal point for local decision-makers in communities around the world. However, strategies and policies aimed at increasing resilience have the potential to exacerbate existing social-inequities if they are not designed to yield equitable distributions of costs and benefits. Through work funded by NOAA and The Nature Conservancy, we are studying climate adaptation through an equity and justice lens with broad implications for more just approaches to managing a changing climate.
Wildlife Coexistence & Conservation
With an eye towards wildlife conservation that considers the needs and challenges of local communities, we are working on multiple projects, from wolves to elephants, to understand how to elevate the human dimension of wildlife conservation. This includes research on climate change and wildlife populations, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and approaches to centering Indigenous and local ecological knowledge in conservation.
