Anita Milman

Affiliated Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation

Consortium Institution: 

University of Massachusetts

Education: 

MS Energy & Resources Group at University of California Berkeley 2004

MEng Civil & Environmental Engineering Cornell University 1999
PhD Energy & Resources Group at University of California Berkeley 2009


Website: 

http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/milman-anita

Experience: 

Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia in the UK.  (2010-2012)
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012 to present

Research Interests: 

I research environmental governance, with a focus on water resources in the context of global change. I am particularly interested in how adaptation to climate change in the water sector is influenced by a) institutional structures 2) the socio-political-cultural lenses used in interpreting information and c) the need to make decisions and act under uncertainty.  My research is itself a form of boundary work, and I am especially interested in connecting those who produce knowledge with stakeholders, policy makers, and government agencies.
 
Key concepts I study include: environmental governance; climate change adaptation; transboundary water; energy-water nexus; coupled-human environmental systems; collaborative governance; decision-making under uncertainty; environmental policy integration; integrated water resources management.

Recent Publications

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Milman, A., Bunclark L., Conway D., & Adger W. Neil (2013).  Assessment of institutional capacity to adapt to climate change in transboundary river basins. Climatic Change. 121, 755 - 770.
Milman, A., & Arsano Y. (2013).  Climate adaptation and development: Contradictions for human security in Gambella, Ethiopia. Global Environmental Change.
Kiparsky, M., Milman A., & Vicuña S. (2012).  Climate and Water: Knowledge of Impacts to Action on Adaptation. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 37, 163 - 194.
Milman, A., & Ray I. (2011).  Interpreting the unknown: uncertainty and the management of transboundary groundwater. Water International. 36, 631 - 645.
Milman, A., & Scott C. A. (2010).  Beneath the surface: intranational institutions and management of the United States – Mexico transboundary Santa Cruz aquifer. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 28, 528 - 551.