Community and Natural Resources
Dr. Courtney Flint-Assistant Professor
Our work examines the interactions and decisions of rural people in their shared places as they respond to landscape change and risks and participate in natural resource management. We focus on rural people, communities and regions using multiple methodologies and approaches to encourage local input to mitigating social and environmental vulnerabilities and improving local capacities to respond to change. A key theme in our work is the importance of local ecosystem knowledge in understanding changing environments and the implications of new policies and resource management strategies in forestry, watershed management, and agricultural production, and those affecting Alaska Native communities.
Our work falls in the interdisciplinary research areas of rural and natural resource sociology, environmental social science, natural resource management, and risk, hazards, and disaster studies.
The Flint Community and Natural Resources Lab is strongly supported by the work of graduate and undergraduate students (see People).
