Christopher Scott

Prof. Christopher Scott
Prof. Geography, Dev't & Envr; Dir. Ctr. Public Policy Studi
Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
University of Arizona
803 E. 1st St.
Tucson, AZ 85719
United States of America


Phone: +1 (520) 626-3741
E-mail: cascott(at)arizona.edu
URL Institution: udallcenter.arizona.edu
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Mountain Chair, 2020-22, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - Himalayan University Consortium, Kathmandu, Nepal, icimod.org

Fulbright Scholar, 2020-21, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), Mendoza, Argentina

Fellow, International Water Resources Association

Chair, National Academies Consensus Study on Sustainability Partnerships in the U.S.-Mexico Drylands Region, US National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine; Mexican Academy of Science, 2019-20


Key Publications of Christopher Scott (up to ten) :
Scott, C.A., F. Zhang, A. Mukherji (coordinating lead authors); W. Immerzeel, L. Bharati, D. Mustafa (lead authors); H. Zhang, T. Albrecht, A. Lutz, S. Nepal, A. Siddiqi, H. Kuemmerle, M. Qadir, S. Bhuchar, A. Prakash, R. Sinha (contributing authors). 2019. Water in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, Chapter 8 in P. Wester, A. Mishra, A. Mukherji, A.B. Shrestha (eds.), The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment – Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People, Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_8.

Thapa, B., C.A. Scott. 2019. Institutional strategies for adaptation to water stress in farmer-managed irrigation systems of Nepal. International Journal of the Commons, 13(2):892-908, doi: 10.5334/ijc.901.

Everard, M., N. Gupta, C.A. Scott, P.C. Tiwari, B. Joshi, G. Kataria, S. Kumar. 2019. Assessing livelihood-ecosystem interdependencies and natural resource governance in Indian villages in the Middle Himalayas. Regional Environmental Change 9:165-177, doi:10.1007/s10113-018-1391-x.

Scott, C.A., T. Albrecht, R. de Grenade, A. Zuniga-Teran, R.G. Varady, B. Thapa. 2018. Water security and the pursuit of food, energy, and earth systems resilience. Water International 43: 1055-1074, doi: 10.1080/02508060.2018.1534564

Albrecht, T.R., A.B. Crootof, C.A. Scott. 2018. The water-energy-food nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment. Environmental Research Letters 13, 043002, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaa9c6

Mukherji, A., C.A. Scott. D. Molden, A. Maharjan. 2018. Megatrends in Hindu Kush Himalaya: Climate change, urbanisation, and migration and their implications for water, energy, and food. In A.K. Biswas, C. Tortajada, P. Rohner (eds.), Assessing Global Water Megatrends, Springer, Berlin, Ch. 8. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6695-5_8.

Wang, L., F. Zhang, H. Zhang, C.A. Scott, C. Zeng, X. Shi. 2018. Intensive precipitation observation greatly improves hydrological modelling of the poorly gauged high mountain Mabengnong catchment in the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology 556: 500-509, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.11.039.

Gimblett, H.R., C.A. Scott, M.A. Hammersley. 2017. Dam removal on the Lower White Salmon River: Rewilding, sacred spaces, and ‘outstandingly remarkable values.’ International Journal of Wilderness 23(2): 34-40, 48.

Scott, C.A., A. Crootof, B. Thapa, R.K. Shrestha. 2016. The water-food-energy nexus in the Ganges Basin: Challenges and opportunities. In L. Bharati, B.R. Sharma, V. Smakhtin (eds.), The Ganges River Basin: Status and Challenges in Water, Environment and Livelihoods, Routledge, London, pp. 138-153.

Scott, C.A., M.F. Walter. 1993. Local knowledge and conventional soil science approaches to erosional processes in the Shivalik-Himalaya. Mountain Research & Development 13(1): 61-72, doi: 10.2307/3673644, www.jstor.org/stable/3673644.




Expertise of Christopher Scott:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Expert Type
	Research Interface / Management
Topic Hydrosphere	Hydrosphere
	Fresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Topic Integrated Systems	Integrated Systems and Ecology
Topic Economy/ResourceUse	Economy / Resource Use
	Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery
	Energy
	Water
Topic Politics/Law	Politics / Law
	Adaptation
Topic Sustainability	Sustainability
Methods	Method
	Policy Analysis and Formation
	Integrated Assessment
	Collaboration with developing and transition countries ; Capacity Building
Mountain Research Initiative	MRI Research area
	Sustainable land use and natural resources management
	MRI Regions (please tick your mountain regions of interest)
	Latin America
	Hindu Kush Himalayas

Last update: 7/2/20
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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