Melinda Morgan

Geography & Environmental Studies

Professor

Albuquerque, NM 87131-1221

United States

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A Framework for Resilience-Based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Ecology and Society 18 (1): 9, 2013
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2016
Ahjond S. Garmestani and Melinda Morgan
Government of the United States of America - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Geography & Environmental Studies
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panarchy, resilience, adapative governance, reflexive law

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New Materialism: An Ontology for the Anthropocene

Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 59, No. 2, 2019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2019
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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new materialism, nonhuman, ontology, Anthropocene

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Replacing Sustainability

46:4 Akron Law Review 841-880 (2013), University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 25
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2014
Robin Kundis Craig and Melinda Morgan
USC Gould School of Law and Geography & Environmental Studies
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sustainability, sustainable development, resilience, resilience thinking, climate change, adaptation

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Integrating Adaptive Management and Oil and Gas Development: Existing Obstacles and Opportunities for Reform

Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 39, No. 10, 2009
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2015
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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adaptive management, Bureau of Land Management, energy development

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Water Governance Challenges in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande Valley: A Resilience Assessment

Idaho Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 195, 2014
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2015
Melinda Morgan, Dagmar Llewellyn, Ryan Morrison and Mark Stone
Geography & Environmental Studies, Independent, University of New Mexico and University of New Mexico
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Can We Manage for Resilience? The Integration of Resilience Thinking into Natural Resource Management in the United States

Environmental Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Jun 2011
Melinda Morgan and Ahjond S. Garmestani
Geography & Environmental Studies and Government of the United States of America - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Resilience, Social-Ecological Systems, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Management, Governance, Agencies

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Adaptive Management Approaches by Resource Management Agencies in the United States: Implications for Energy Development in the Interior West

Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 87-118, 2010
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Adaptive Management, Coalbed Methane, Energy Development

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Intelligent Tinkering: The Endangered Species Act and Resilience

Ecology and Society 17 (4): 28, 2012
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 09 Feb 2013
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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resilience, social-ecological systems, Endangered Species Act, adaptive capacity

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Embracing Panarchy, Building Resilience and Integrating Adaptive Management Through a Rebirth of the National Environmental Policy Act

Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 92, pp. 1420-1427, 2011
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Mar 2011
Melinda Morgan and Ahjond S. Garmestani
Geography & Environmental Studies and Government of the United States of America - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Rules of Engagement: The Spatiality of Judicial Review

in The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography, (2014), I. Braverman, N. Blomley, D. Delaney & A. Kedar, editors Stanford University Press.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Jul 2014
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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legal geography, socio-legal, judicial review, standing, ripeness, Administrative Procedure Act

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Reconceptualizing Environmental Challenges — Is Resilience the New Narrative?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2015
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Resilience, Anthropocene, environmental discourse

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Are We Addicted to Oil? Lessons from Mental Health

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Are We Addicted to Oil? Lessons from Mental Health

Southwestern Geographer, Vol. 14, pp. 122-136, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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climate change, addition, oil consumption, U.S. energy policy

Are We Addicted to Oil? Lessons from Mental Health

Southwestern Geographer 14: 121-136
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2013
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Oil, Climate Change, Energy Policy

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Shifting Public Land Paradigms: Lessons from the Valles Caldera National Preserve

34 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 1-51, 2016
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Valles Caldera National Reserve, Science-based Adaptive Management, National Park Service

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Enforcing Traditional Cultural Property Protections

Human Geography 7(2) 60-72, 2014
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Jul 2014
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Traditional Cultural Property; National Historic Preservation Act; legal geography, socio-legal; judicial review; Mount Taylor, New Mexico

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Identifying Legal, Ecological and Governance Obstacles, and Opportunities for Adapting to Climate Change

Sustainability, 6, 2338-2356, 2014, DOI:10.3390/su6042338
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Jun 2014
Barbara A. Cosens, Lance Gunderson, Craig Allen and Melinda Morgan
University of Idaho - College of Law, Emory University - Department of Environmental Studies, Leader of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Geography & Environmental Studies
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adaptive governance; ecological resilience; water law; sustainability

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Regional Initiatives: Scaling the Climate Response and Responding to Conceptions of Scale

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 100, No. 4, pp. 1025-1035, 2010
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Dec 2010
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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climate change, governance, politics of scale, regional approaches, scalar fixity

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Governing for Resilience: Institutionalized Perceptions of Stationarity and Their Implications for Ecosystem-Based Adaptive Management

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Apr 2010
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Adaptive Management, Resilience, Environmental Governance

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Bringing Resilience to Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Protection

in Social-Resilience and Law. Craig Allen and Ahjond Garmestani, eds. New York: Columbia University Press. 2014
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Jun 2014
Melinda Morgan and Matthew Hopton
Geography & Environmental Studies and Government of the United States of America - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Endangered Species Act, resilience

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Mining Sacred Space: Law’s Enactment of Competing Ontologies in the American West

Environment and Planning A 44: 1443-1458, 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 Feb 2013
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States

Benson, M. H. and A. B. Stone (2013). “Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States.” Ecology and Society 18 (3): 32
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2014
Melinda Morgan and Asako Stone
Geography & Environmental Studies and University of New Mexico
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adaptive management, organizational change, Collaborative Adaptive Management Network

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Regulatory Takings — Rights or Relations?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Oct 2014
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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legal geography, socio-legal studies, relationality, performativity, Fifth Amendment Takings Clause

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A Classification Framework for Running Adaptive Management Rapids

Benson, M. H., R. R. Morrison and M. C. Stone (2013). “A Classification Framework for Running Adaptive Management Rapids.” Ecology and Society 18 (3):30
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2014
Melinda Morgan, Ryan Morrison and Mark Stone
Geography & Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico and University of New Mexico
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adaptive management, conceptual model, river restoration, Rio Chama

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Opportunities for Building Social-Ecological Resilience in New Mexico Forest Communities

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 4:4, 253-269, 2012
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Feb 2013
M. Roybal and Melinda Morgan
University of New Mexico - Department of Geography and Geography & Environmental Studies
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resilience, social-ecological systems, Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Act, forest management

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Five Ways to Support Interdisciplinary Work Before Tenure

J Environ Stud Sci, 2015, DOI 10.1007/s13412-015-0326-9
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jan 2016
Melinda Morgan, Chris Lippitt, Ryan Morrison, Barbara A. Cosens, Jan Boll, Brian Chaffin, Alexander Fremier, Robert Heinse, Derek Kauneckis, Timothy Link, Caroline Scruggs, Mark Stone and Vanessa Valentin
Geography & Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, University of New Mexico, University of Idaho - College of Law, Washington State University, University of Montana, Washington State University, University of Idaho, Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University, University of Idaho, University of New Mexico, University of New Mexico and University of New Mexico
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Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary,Tenure, Coupled Human Natural Systems

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Legislative Reallocation: How Compliance with Federal Legislative Initiatives can Redistribute Water Resources

Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, No. 144, pp. 11-17, March 2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Apr 2010
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Endangered Species Act, Methow Valley, Water Allocation

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Water Utility Engagement in Wildfire Mitigation in Watersheds in the Western United States

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Aug 2023
Kelly Jones, Julie Padowski, Melinda Morgan and Jaishri Srinivasan
Colorado State University, Washington State University, Geography & Environmental Studies and University of New Mexico
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Conservation Finance, Investments in Watershed Services, Nature-based solutions, Payments for Watershed Services, Watershed Partnerships

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Conservation-Reliant Species as a Boundary Object for Interdisciplinary Engagements

Idaho Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2020
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Apr 2022
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies
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Conservation-Reliant Species, Endangered Species Act, biodiversity, boundary objects, interdisciplinary engagements

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Adaptive Governance Strategies to Address Wildfire and Watershed Resilience in New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande Watershed

Morgan M, Webster A, Piccarello M, Jones K, Chermak J, McCarthy L and Srinivasan J (2023) Adaptive governance strategies to address wildfire and watershed resilience in New Mexico’s upper Rio Grande watershed. Front. Clim. 5:1062320.doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1062320
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Jul 2023
Melinda Morgan, Alex Webster, Matt Piccarello, Kelly Jones, Janie M. Chermak, Laura McCarthy and Jaishri Srinivasan
Geography & Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, The Nature Conservancy, Colorado State University, University of New Mexico - Department of Economics, The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department (EMNRD) - Forestry Division and University of New Mexico
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adaptive governance, climate change, resilience, Rio Grande watershed, Rio Grande Water Fund

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Transformative Environmental Governance

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 41, pp. 399-423, 2016
Posted: 27 Oct 2016
Brian Chaffin, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Lance Gunderson, Melinda Morgan, David G. Angeler, Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, Barbara A. Cosens, Robin Kundis Craig, J. B. Ruhl and Craig Allen
University of Montana, Government of the United States of America - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Emory University - Department of Environmental Studies, Geography & Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) - Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, University of Louisville - Brandeis School of Law, University of Idaho - College of Law, USC Gould School of Law, Vanderbilt University - Law School and Leader of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

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The End of Sustainability

Society and Natural Resources, 1-6, 2014, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2014.901467, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 83
Posted: 08 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2016
Melinda Morgan and Robin Kundis Craig
Geography & Environmental Studies and USC Gould School of Law

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Anthropocene, resilience, sustainability

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Rules of Engagement: The Spatiality of Judicial Review (Chapter 10)

The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (Chapter 10). Editors: Irus Braverman, Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney & Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (Stanford University Press), 2013, Forthcoming
Posted: 19 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2014
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies

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legal geography, judicial review, standing, law and space, nomosphere

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Was the Lorax an Outfitter and Guide? A Shift in Idaho’s Standing Doctrine: Boundary Backpackers v. Boundary County and Selkirk-Priest Basin Association

Idaho Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1997
Posted: 15 Dec 2009
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies

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standing doctrine, environmental governace

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The Tulare Case: Water Rights, the Endangered Species Act, and the Fifth Amendment

Environmental Law, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2002
Posted: 12 Aug 2009
Melinda Morgan
Geography & Environmental Studies

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