Alternative Governance & climate Change

This project explores the dynamics of nonstate actors as governors over issues related to environmental hazard and climate change.  

Research Team

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham 
Principal Investigator
Professor, University of Maryland

Cyanne Loyle
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Penn State University

Elisabeth Gilmore
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Carleton University

Reyko Huang
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Texas A&M

Danielle Jung
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Emory University

Leonardo Gentil-Fernandes
Former Post-Doctoral Researcher
Assistant Professor,  Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville

Environmental Hazards

This project answers key questions about how different actors contribute to or impede climate governance (from long-term challenges to crisis response), how these actors compete or cooperate as governors, how these connections impact actors’ legitimacy and authority, and how civilians interact with them and attribute responsibility (negatively or positively) for climate hazard management. It examines governance related to both slow-moving and rapid environmental hazards.

 Supporters 

​This project if funded by the Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative. 

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