Local-Global Research is a New Zealand company established in 2009 specialising in research of the interactions, influences, and interfaces between local and global economy, human geography, natural resources and the environment.
Dr Edward Challies
Associate Professor
Water Management and Policy,
School of Earth and Environment,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Team Governance, Participation and Sustainable Development,
Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication,
Leuphana University,
Lüneburg, Germany
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding how communities and groups collectively decide on the distribution of environmental goods and bads in society. This entails examining a variety of processes and arrangements for participatory and collaborative environmental governance, with a view to understanding the extent to which they are
- (a) effective in terms of securing or advancing social and environmental sustainability, and
- (b) democratically legitimate in terms of procedural and distributional justice.
While my work is primarily focused on water governance, I am also interested in environmental politics and governance more broadly. I research collaborative environmental governance in diverse settings, and across scales, from the governance of global flows and networks, to grassroots community initiatives and local projects .
- Environmental governance
- Water resource management
- Groundwater governance
- Collaborative and participatory governance
- Common pool resource management
- Social-ecological resilience
- Flood risk management and resilience
- Political ecology
- Environmental justice
- International development and environment