research overview
- Dr. Lydia Lawhon has nearly two decades of experience working on natural resource management issues in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and Colorado.
- Contact Info
Lawhon, Lydia
Positions
- Associate Teaching Professor, Masters of the Environment
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- natural resources management and policy, local citizen and stakeholder engagement in policy processes, coalition dynamics, environmental studies pedagogy, experiential learning,
Publications
selected publications
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journal article
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Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government.
Review of Policy Research.
564-589.
2018
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Remembering the Past, Anticipating the Future: Community Learning and Adaptation Discourse in Media Commemorations of Catastrophic Wildfires in Colorado.
Environmental Communication.
132-147.
2018
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A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Wildfire Policy Discussions in Two Colorado Communities.
Politics and Policy.
626-656.
2017
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Local media coverage of wildfire disasters: An analysis of problems and solutions in policy narratives.
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
849-871.
2017
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Wildfire Outreach and Citizen Entrepreneurs in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Cross-Case Analysis in Colorado.
Society & Natural Resources.
918-923.
2015
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Information, Resources, and Management Priorities: Agency Outreach and Mitigation of Wildfire Risk in the Western United States.
Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy.
69-90.
2015
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Do Disasters Lead to Learning? Financial Policy Change in Local Government.
Review of Policy Research.
564-589.
2018
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 2016
- M.S., Yale University 2003
- B.A., Dartmouth College 2001