Joshua Abbott’s research and teaching concerns economic dimensions of sustainable resource governance, with a focus on sustainable oceans, water policy, and the economic valuation of natural capital.

Buyung Agusdinata addresses sustainability issues in domains such as energy, transportation, critical minerals, food-energy-water nexus, and sustainable development.

Dr. Brewington is a Research Professor and Senior Global Futures Scholar, who co-leads the Pacific RISA climate adaptation research program in Hawaii and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands. She is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Caseldine is the Curator of Collections for the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Netra Chhetri works to advance innovative approaches to climate adaptation that tie together and link multi-scalar processes between environmental dynamics and social outcomes.

Corley’s research interests focus on environmental policy and management, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions for local governments.

Susan leads the Impact Water – Arizona program, part of the AZ Water Innovation Initiative, to foster community understanding and engagement in AZ’s water challenges and solutions.

Eakin’s research interests include household vulnerability and sustainability of adaptations to global change, governance, globalization, rural development, sustainable food systems, and agricultural change.

Sara El-Sayed researches the power of deliciousness and wisdom of Indigenous foodways in addition to leading outreach for the Swette Center’s organic farming initiatives in Arizona.

Gober is the founding co-director of the National Science Foundation’s Decision Center for a Desert City and previously served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Geographical Sciences.

Michael Hanemann a professor of economics, Julie A. Wrigley Chair in Sustainability and director of the Center of Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy at ASU.

Hirt is a historian specializing in the American West, environmental history, environmental policy, and sustainability studies.

Dr. Johnson’s team provides technical and business solutions that facilitate the global transition to a resilient low-carbon economy.

Keeler is a sustainability scientist and futures scholar. Her research focuses on advancing decarbonization and climate action through engaged foresight with communities and practitioners.

Victoria Keener is a Research Professor at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability & Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. She is a Co-Lead Principal Investigator of the NOAA-funded Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments (Pacific RISA) program. She earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Biological Engineering from the University of Florida, specializing in hydro-climatological research. Dr. Keener does interdisciplinary and applied research working with Pacific Island communities to transform climate research into resource management policies aiming to reduce climate-induced vulnerabilities. She was the Lead Author of the Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands Chapter of…

Lara-Valencia’s major areas of inquiry include socio-environmental vulnerability, urban health, regional development, binational planning, and the role of community networks on sustainable development.

Kelli Larson is a professor of geography and sustainability with expertise in human-environment interactions related to urban ecology, landscape sustainability, and biological conservation.

Laubichler is a complex systems scientist, theoretical biologist and historian of science. He is director of the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and the Decision Theater at ASU.

Ross Maciejewski is an Ira A. Fulton Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and Director of the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency.

Mays’ research interests include water resources sustainability, real-time operation of water resources systems, ancient water technologies, and hydrologic and hydraulic modeling.

Rob Melnick has authored, managed and contributed to nearly 200 funded policy studies on topics such as economic development, education reform, urban growth, quality of life, workforce development and sustainability.

An expert in food and agriculture with an extensive background in policy and academics, Dr. Merrigan is the driving force and visionary leader behind all of the Swette Center’s endeavors.

Miller is professor and director of the Center for Energy and Society in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU.

Morehart is an environmental anthropologist, an ethnobotanist/paleoethnobotanist, an archaeologist, and a Latin Americanist.

Pasqualetti is an energy geographer specializing in the societal aspects of energy, especially renewable energy.

Porter is an expert on Arizona water law and policy.

Ray Quay is currently a Research Professional with the Decision Center for a Desert City project in the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University where he is involved in research on water resources, climate change, urban heat island and regional growth policy issues.  Previously he was the Assistant Director of Water Services for the City of Phoenix responsible for growth and water resource planning, and previous to that the Assistant Director of Planning for Phoenix responsible for growth and strategic issues.  He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and has authored numerous books and…

Redman is in the School of Sustainability and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. His interests include human impacts on the environment, sustainable landscapes, rapidly urbanizing regions, urban ecology.

Wellington “Duke” Reiter, FAIA, is the Special Advisor to the President of Arizona State University, the Executive Director of the University City Exchange at ASU and the Ten Across (10X) initiative.

Richter explores the different social, political, and cultural effects of energy technologies and policies, and their effects on society at different scales, from the local to the global.

Troy Rule’s research focuses on emerging property law and regulatory issues involving wind energy, solar energy, domestic drones and other technologies.

Core research topics are on modeling theories, methodologies, and frameworks that can support the development of composable, heterogenous, multi-scale systems-of-systems.

Research focuses on distribution of benefits and costs of environmental, natural resource, and climate policy.

Smith’s studies focus on environmental economics, public economics and applied econometrics.

Tong’s research primarily focuses on the use of spatial analytics including spatial optimization, geographic information system, and spatial statistics to support urban and regional studies concerning location.

Her research interests include: shape and pattern analysis, geographic information science, applications of GIS to urban environment, urban remote sensing and water resource management.

Dave White is Associate Vice President, Research Advancement in ASU Knowledge Enterprise and Director of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation within the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

York advances understanding of governance dynamics and multi-level collective action with a focus on climate change.