Elizabeth Baldwin

Interests

Teaching

Environmental policy; environmental law; energy law and policy; policy implementation; the role of civil society and other stakeholders in the policy process

Research

Public administration; public policy implementation; stakeholder involvement in the policy process; energy policy; water policy; policy implementation in developing countries; international environmental law

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Thiel, A., Pacheco-Vega, R., & Baldwin, E. (2018). Institutional change in polycentric governance: Performance, evolution and institutional crafting. In Governing Complexity. Cambridge.
• Baldwin, E., Dell'Angelo, J., McCord, P., Cox, M., Gower, D., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2014). Multi-level Governance of Irrigation Systems and Adaptation to Climate Change in Kenya. In The Global Water System in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance.

Journals/Publications

• Ahn, M. W., & Baldwin, E. (2020). Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector. . Public Management Review.
• Gornish, E., Franklin, K., Li, M., Baldwin, E., Lien, A., & Hovanes, K. (2023). Relationships between local-scale topography and vegetation and invasive C4 perennial bunchgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) size and reproduction . Invasive Plant Science and Management, 38-46.
• Hovanes, K., Lien, A., Baldwin, E., Li, Y., Franklin, K., & Gornish, E. (2022). Effects of local scale topography and density on invasive C4 perennial bunchgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) size and reproduction.. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 15.
• Baldwin, E., & Ahn, M. (2022). Who benefits from collaborative governance? An empirical study from the energy sector. Public Management Review, 1-25. doi:10.1080/14719037.2022.2044505
• Baldwin, E., Lien, A., Breshears, D. D., Lopez Hoffman, L., & Soto, J. R. (2021). Diverse stakeholders and their interests matter to the U.S. Forest Service: A Network of Action Situations analysis of how stakeholders affect forest plan outcomes. . Sustainability Science.
• Baldwin, E., Lien, A., Swann, A., Soto, J. R., López-Hoffman, L., Breshears, D. D., Woods, D., Jasso, V., & McLaughlin, D. M. (2022). Diverse stakeholders and their interests matter to the U.S. Forest Service: a network of action situations analysis of how stakeholders affect forest plan outcomes. Sustainability Science. doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01173-4
• Baldwin, E., Villamayor-Tomas, S., Oberlack, C., Kellner, E., & Kimmich, C. (2022). Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research. Sustainability Science. doi:10.1007/s11625-022-01121-2
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  Abstract “Action situations”—events, venues, or physically interdependent instances of decision-making—have become a central unit of analysis in the social–environmental sciences, particularly among scholars interested in bridging the social with the biophysical or ecological side of interdependent decisions. A growing body of empirical studies in social–ecological systems research has recently used case and comparative studies to analyse multiple interdependent action situations, structured into networks. In this article, we take stock of this body of empirical research, synthesize the diverse approaches that scholars have taken to assess “networks of action situations”, and identify fruitful paths forward. We conduct a systematic review of the empirical literature in the field, reviewing and summarizing the key characteristics of the empirical studies, including network features, topologies, methods, and data sources used in each case. We summarize and discuss the conceptualizations, methods, diagnostic procedures, and conclusions used in this body of work in a narrative framework synthesis. The review indicates that an increasingly coherent approach is taking shape, but a systematic, protocol-driven, or formalized approach is only partly emerging. We derive future research needs that could help accumulate knowledge from empirical research.
• Emerson, K., Baldwin, E., Scott, T. A., Pidot, J. R., Lien, A., Currim, F., Bethard, S. J., Ram, S., Miller, M. L., & Lopez Hoffman, L. (2020). NEPA performance: A framework for assessing EIAs. Environmental Impact Assessment Review.
• Kimmich, C., Baldwin, E., Kellner, E., Villamayor-Tomas, S., & Oberlack, C. (2021). Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research. . Sustainability Science.
• Pillet, M., Baldwin, E., Ernst, K., Maitner, B. S., Newman, E. A., Lien, A., Breshears, D. D., Enquist, B. J., Feng, X., Park, D. S., Boyle, B., Gallagher, R. V., Burger, J. R., Merow, C., Li, Y., Huynh, K. M., Foden, W., Hannah, L., Jørgensen, P. M., , Kraft, N. J., et al. (2022). A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(7), 1242-1260. doi:10.1111/geb.13497
• Baldwin, E., & Tang, T. (2020). Hierarchies, markets, and collaborative networks in energy governance: Multilevel drivers of renewable energy deployment. Journal of Environmental Management.
• Lien, A. M., Baldwin, E., & Franklin, K. (2021).

  Collective Action and Invasive Species Governance in Southern Arizona

  . Rangeland Ecology & Management. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2020.10.004
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  Invasive plants can have significant negative effects on human and ecological communities, including reduced productivity and biodiversity and increased fire risk. Effective mitigation of invasive species likely requires action by heterogeneous actors who span jurisdictions, sectors, and levels of governance. While there has been significant research to develop targeted mitigation techniques that slow or halt the spread of specific invasive plants, there has been relatively little complementary work to develop knowledge about the implementation of these management techniques through effective governance systems. To address this gap, we interviewed and conducted archival research on land managers involved in the mitigation of buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare, syn: Cenchrus ciliarus) invasion in southern Arizona to investigate how existing and emerging governance arrangements encourage or undermine individual and collective action to manage invasive plants. Our results show that a key challenge of managing invasive species is identifying the mechanisms that will allow heterogeneous actors to overcome internal barriers to coordination with others and enable collective action. These internal barriers are multifaceted, involving laws and policies, cultural traditions and mandates, the availability of monetary and human resources, and information on causes and consequences of species invasion and effective approaches to mitigation. Approaches to solving these problems must include improved knowledge of internal institutional structures and the opportunities and barriers they present to collective action, the preferences of heterogeneous actors when presented with information about future ecosystem conditions absent coordination, the factors that prevent individuals within different organizations from following through on commitments to participate in collective action institutions, and how each of these conditions affects the availability and persistence of resources for mitigation. Together, improved knowledge of the relationships between these factors may provide new approaches to proactive management of emerging resource management challenges, from invasive species to emerging diseases.
• Rountree, V., Baldwin, E., & Hanlon, J. (2021). A review of stakeholder participation in water and renewable electricity: does the resource context matter.. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences..
• Rountree, V., Baldwin, E., & Hanlon, J. W. (2021).

  A review of stakeholder participation studies in renewable electricity and water: does the resource context matter?

  . Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.. doi:10.1007/s13412-021-00726-w
• Wilder, B. T., Jarnevich, C. S., Baldwin, E., Black, J. S., Franklin, K. A., Grissom, P., Hovanes, K. A., Olsson, A., Malusa, J., Kibria, A. S., Li, Y. M., Lien, A. M., Ponce, A., Rowe, J. A., Soto, J. R., Stahl, M. R., Young, N. E., & Betancourt, J. L. (2021). Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9.
• Cole, D., & Baldwin, E. (2019). Goldilocks Deference. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
• Lien, A., Baldwin, E., & Franklin, K. (2019). Collective action and Invasive Species Governance in Southern Arizona.. Journal of Rangeland Management.
• Baldwin, E. (2019). Why and How Does Participatory Governance Affect Policy Outcomes? Theory and Evidence from the Electric Sector. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 30(3), 365-382. doi:10.1093/jopart/muz033
• Baldwin, E., & Emerson, K. (2019). Effectiveness in NEPA decision making: in search of evidence and theory. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 21(4), 427-443. doi:10.1080/1523908x.2019.1615421
• Baldwin, E., Carley, S., & Nicholson-Crotty, S. (2019). Why Do Countries Emulate Each Others' Policies? A Global Study of Renewable Energy Policy Diffusion. World Development.
• Baldwin, E., Chen, T., & Cole, D. (2018). Institutional analysis for new public governance scholars. Public Management Review.
• Brass, J., Schon, J., MacLean, L., & Baldwin, E. (2019). Spatial Analysis of Bureaucrats’ Attempts to Resist Political Capture in a Developing Democracy: The Distribution of Solar Panels in Ghana. Political Geography.
• Gore, C., Brass, J., Baldwin, E., & MacLean, L. (2019). Political Autonomy and Resistance in the Liberalization of the Electricity Sector in Africa. World Development.
• Rowe, M. J., Baldwin, E., & Finley, J. (2019). Consultation without accountability: An analysis of tribal consultation under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act.. Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.
• Baldwin, E. (2018). Exploring How Institutional Arrangements Shape Stakeholder Influence on Policy Decisions: A Comparative Analysis in the Energy Sector. Public Administration Review, 79(2), 246-255. doi:10.1111/puar.12953
• Baldwin, E. (2018). From Regulation to Governance in the Electric Sector. Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports, 5(1), 86--92.
• Baldwin, E., Chen, T., & Cole, D. (2018). Institutional analysis for new public governance scholars. Public Management Review, 21(6), 890-917. doi:10.1080/14719037.2018.1538427
• Baldwin, E., McCord, P., Dell'Angelo, J., & Evans, T. (2018). Collective action in a polycentric water governance system. Environmental Policy and Governance, 28(4), 212-222. doi:10.1002/eet.1810
• Baldwin, E., Rountree, V., & Jock, J. (2016). Distributed Resources and Distributed Governance: Stakeholder Participation in Clean Energy Governance. Energy Research and Social Science.
• McCord, P., Dell'Angelo, J., Waldman, K., Baldwin, E., & Evans, T. (2018). Assessing multi-level drivers of adaptation to climate variability and water insecurity in smallholder irrigation systems.. World Development.
• Rountree, V., & Baldwin, E. (2017). State-Level Renewable Energy Policy Implementation: Why and How Do Stakeholders Participate?. Frontiers in Communication.
• Carley, S., Baldwin, E., Brass, J., & MacLean, L. (2015). Global Expansion of Renewable Energy Generation: An Analysis of Policy Instruments. Environmental and Resource Economics.
• Carpenter, S., Baldwin, E., & Cole, D. (2016). The Evolution of Legal Institutions for Decentralized Control of Irrigation Water in Kenya. Natural Resources Journal.
• MacLean, L. M., Gore, C., Baldwin, E., & Brass, J. N. (2016). Expectations of Power: Electricity Provision and the Politics of State-Building in Ghana and Uganda. Journal of African Political Economy and Development.
• McCord, P., Dell'Angelo, J., Baldwin, E., & Evans, T. (2015). Polycentric transformation and outcomes in Kenyan watershed management: A dynamic combined IAD-SES analysis. Policy Studies Journal.
• Baldwin, E., Carley, S., Brass, J. N., & MacLean, L. M. (2016). Global Renewable Electricity Policy: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Countries by Income Status. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 19(3), 277-298. doi:10.1080/13876988.2016.1166866
• Baldwin, E., Washington-Ottombre, C., Dell'Angelo, J., Cole, D., & Evans, T. (2015). Polycentric Governance and Irrigation Reform in Kenya. Governance.
• George, B., MacLean, L., Baldwin, E., & Dickey, E. (2015). The Construction of Citizenship and the Public Provision of Electricity during the 2014 World Cup in Ghana. Journal of Modern African Studies.
• Baldwin, E., Carley, S., Brass, J. N., & MacLean, L. M. (2014). Electrification and rural development: issues of scale in distributed generation.. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment.

Presentations

• Breshears, D. D., Lopez Hoffman, L., Woods, D., Jasso, V., Baldwin, E., Lien, A., Breshears, D. D., Lopez Hoffman, L., Woods, D., Jasso, V., Baldwin, E., & Lien, A. (2021, may). Networks of action situations: an empirical application to forest planning. International Associations for the Study of the Commons, Polycentricity Virtual Conference. Online: International Association for the Study of the Commons.
• Evans, T., Lien, A., Boustead, A., Baldwin, E., Zimmer, A., McCann, L., Joshi, N., & Rowitt, J. (2021, October). Rural vs. urban differences in COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Online: American Public Health Association.
• Evans, T., McCann, L., Joshi, N., Baldwin, E., Boustead, A., & Lien, A. (2021, November). Design of a national database of state and local COVID-19 policies using the institutional grammar. Institutional Grammar Research Institute Seminar. Online: Syracuse University.
• Franklin, K., Baldwin, E., & Lien, A. (2021, February). Collective action and invasive species governance in southern Arizona. Society of Range Management Annual Conference. Online: Society for Range Management.
• Jia, J., Lien, A., Henry, A. D., & Baldwin, E. (2021, June). Environmental contingency and network effectiveness. Public Management Research Conference.
• Ahn, M. W., & Baldwin, E. (2020, Fall). Examining the Distributive Effects of Participatory Governance: An Empirical Study from the Energy Sector. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management fall research conference (virtual).
• Baldwin, E., & Thiel, A. (2020, Fall). Polycentric Governance: A literature review.. European Consortium for Political Research.
• Baldwin, E., & Thiel, A. (2020, Spring). Polycentric Governance: A literature review.. International Association for the Study of the Commons workshop. Tempe, Arizona.
• Lien, A., & Baldwin, E. (2020, February). Cooperation and collective action for buffelgrass mitigation in southern Arizona. Society of Range Management Annual Conference. Denver, CO: Society of Range Management.
• Ernst, K. C., Lopez Hoffman, L., Feng, X., Enquist, B. J., Ferguson, D. B., Huang, T., Merideth, R., Lien, A., Park, D. T., Swann, A. L., Dang, T., Breshears, D. D., Nuñez-Regueiro, M. M., Soto, J. R., Baldwin, E., Baldwin, E., Nuñez-Regueiro, M. M., Soto, J. R., Dang, T., , Breshears, D. D., et al. (2018, June). Crops in a Changing World: Hidden Forest-Agriculture Teleconnections. 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. Jyväskylä, Finland: European Congress of Conservation Biology.

Others

• Baldwin, E., Lopez Hoffman, L., & Emerson, K. (2018, February). Research Brief on Interagency Cooperation on the U.S. Mexico Border. Testimony before a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations February 15, 2018..
• Lopez-Hoffman, L., Baldwin, E., & Emerson, K. (2018, Fall). Interagency Cooperation on the U.S. Mexico Border. PMRC's Management Matters Blog.
• Emerson, K., Lopez Hoffman, L., & Baldwin, E. (2017, April). Border Security vs. Environmental Protection? It’s a False Choice.. Houston Chronicle Op Ed.
• Baldwin, E., & Gajarsa, J. (2015, November). Country Report and Case Study Summary - Tanzania Decentralized Energy Portfolio Review. Submitted to USAID.
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  After conducting field research to evaluate USAID-funded energy projects in Tanzania in Summer 2015, I completed a summary report of my findings for USAID, with editorial assistance from a staff member at Management Systems International.