Tamee Albrecht
Postdoctoral Researcher
Primary Interests
Institutions, water resources, environmental governance, water-energy-food nexus, transboundary water, science-policy
Current Projects
Water Supplier Decisions & Institutional Change During Transitions
Courses Taught
Previous
Our Changing Climate (University of Arizona)
Environment & Society (University of Arizona)
Education
Ph.D. Geography, University of Arizona
M.S. Hydrology, Colorado School of Mines
B.S. Geology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Selected Publications
Varady, R.G., Albrecht, T.R., Gerlak, A.K., Zuniga-Teran, A.A., and Staddon, C. (2021). The water security discourse and its main actors. In Handbook of Water Resources Management, ed. by J. J. Bogardi, K. D. Wasantha Nandalal, R. R. P. van Nooyen, and A. Bhaduri. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60147-8_8
Petersen-Perlman, J.D., Albrecht, T.R., Megdal, S.B., Varady, R.G., & Tapia, E.M. (2021). Science and Binational Cooperation: Bidirectionality in the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region. Water, 13(17), 2364. doi.org/10.3390/w13172364
Milman, A., Gerlak, A.K., Albrecht, T., Colosimo, M., Conca, K., Kittikhoun, A., Kovács, P., Moy, R., Schmeier, S., Wentling, K., Zavadsky, I., & Ziegler, J. (2020). Addressing Knowledge Gaps for Transboundary Resource Governance. Global Environmental Change, 64, 102162. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102162
Varady, R.G., Albrecht, T.R., Gerlak, A.K., Wilder, M.O., Mayer, B.M., Zuñiga-Terán, A., Ernst, K.C., & Carmen Lemos, M. (2020). The exigencies of transboundary water security: Insights on community resilience. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, 74-84. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.005
Scott, C.A., Albrecht, T.R., de Grenade, R., Varady, R.G., Zuñiga-Terán, A., & Thapa, B. (2018). Water security and the pursuit of food, energy, and earth system resilience. Water International, 43(8), 1055-1074. doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2018.1534564 “Best Paper Award 2018”
Albrecht, T.R., Varady, R.G., Zuñiga-Terán, A.A., Gerlak, A.K., De Grenade, R., Lutz-Ley, A., Martín, F., Megdal, S.B., Meza, F., Ocampo Melgar, D., Pineda, N., Rojas, F., Taboada, R., & Willems, B. (2018). Unraveling transboundary water security in the arid Americas. Water International, 43(8), 1075-1113. doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2018.1541583
Albrecht, T.R.*, Crootof, A.*, & Scott, C.A. (2018). The water-energy-food nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 043002. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa9c6 *co-first author “Best Review Paper Award 2018”
Gerlak, A.K., House-Peters, L., Varady, R.G., Albrecht, T., Zuñiga-Terán, A.A., Scott, C.A., Routson de Grenade, R.C., and Cook, C. (2018). Water security: A review of place-based research. Environmental Science & Policy, 82, 79-89. doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.01.009
Albrecht, T.R., Varady, R.G., Zuñiga-Terán, A.A., Gerlak, A.K., & Staddon, C. (2017). Governing a shared hidden resource: A review of governance mechanisms for transboundary groundwater security. Water Security, 2, 43-56. doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2017.11.002