Andrew Kliskey
University of Idaho, ID·Earth & Environmental Science
Energy and water systems in the western U.S. face pressure from climate change, population growth and new technology.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Social Science
Engineering
- Topics
energy-water nexus
water resources
energy systems
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2028
What they work on
- Characterize and evaluate energy-water system configurations in Idaho's Snake River Basin, including storage, efficiency, conservation and governance, across a range of resilience strategies.
- Test whether socio-environmental-technological systems (SETS) typologies can classify communities at different scales and reveal patterns of resilience to climate, demographic and technological change.
- Model energy-water configurations and develop alternative future scenarios to test whether SETS interventions increase resilience and reduce vulnerability.
- Examine how competing goals such as energy, water, public use and local values interact in community decisions, through engagement with Tribal nations and other partners.
More about the research
Communities must choose how to store, save and govern these resources. The trade-offs are hard. This statewide project uses Idaho's Snake River Basin as a test case. It asks two questions. What role do trade-offs and changes in energy-water systems play in shaping resilience strategies? And does combining diverse ways of knowing, community engagement and advanced modeling lead to fairer, more resilient futures? Idaho's mix of small rural towns, Native American communities and growing cities across varied terrain makes it a useful testbed.
Why it matters
The results could help Idaho communities, Tribal nations, land managers and policymakers choose energy and water strategies that hold up under climate, population and technological change. The work aims to give locally valued options for managing these resources. Lessons from the Snake River Basin may inform energy-water decisions in other western watersheds.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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University of Maryland, MD·Social Science
Identify and inventory the ice, snow and permafrost 'frozen commons' recognized by Indigenous and local communities and regional stakeholders, and describe how each is governed within its cultural setting.
Brian Codding
University of Utah, UT·Ecology & Evolution
Quantify long-term Indigenous socio-environmental dynamics in the Bear River Basin by combining traditional knowledge, archaeology, paleoecology, historical ecology and community ecology.
The school
University of Idaho: 8 labs on PI Pages, $140M a year on research, 71 research doctorates a year.
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