Achievement

Trainee Christina Hoffman completed her dissertation focused on the principles for successful common-pool resource management through both qualitative and quantitative assessments to gain robust insight into how Nebraska’s current water management system is working, as seen by stakeholders. Her research qualitatively explored the perspectives, opinions, and experiences of stakeholders in the overappropriated region of the Platte River Basin (PRB), Nebraska to gain an understanding of how the current water management system is working, used Nebraska’s complex water resource governance system as a study subject from which to build upon established principles of successful common-pool resource governance, developed and implemented a survey instrument to measure how well Nebraska’s newly devised integrated management system is working as seen by water users in the PRB, and generated a comprehensive assessment into the characteristics that either promote or impede success.