Laura Lopez-Hoffman

Dr. Laura Lopez-Hoffman is an Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Policy at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and an Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Studies at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Arizona. Much of López-Hoffman’s work focuses how the ecosystem services approach can improve natural resource governance. In addition, she and others are working on strategies to increase stakeholder resilience when faced with loss of ecosystem services due to abrupt climate change. López-Hoffman is also very interested in the ecology and policy of managing transboundary systems. With colleagues at the USGS and UNAM, she has been studying how migratory species facilitate the sharing of ecosystem services between the United States and Mexico, and approaches to protecting migratory species. In addition, with colleagues across North America, she is investigating strategies to make transboundary conservation efforts more adaptive to climate change.