Stephanie Buechler

Affiliate Researcher

Stephanie Buechler joined Penn State in July 2021 as an Associate Research Professor in Ag Sciences Global, working with GEARE (Gender Equity in Agricultural Research and Education) and with Extension, including the Globalizing Extension, Innovation Network (GEIN) initiative.  Previously, she was an Associate Research Professor in Geography and the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona and prior to that, Research Scientist with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Mexico and India and project manager with Caritas in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She has lived, worked and conducted applied research in Latin America, South Asia and the SW and NE U.S.  Her work explores the intersections of gender, environmental change and agriculture (including urban agriculture) and gender, renewable energy and agriculture.

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Recent Publications

Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania's farmland

Spangler, K., Smithwick, E. A. H., Buechler, S. & Baka, J., Feb 2024, In: Energy Research and Social Science. 108, 103394.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Evaluación del proyecto de saneamiento transfronterizo en Ambos Nogales. Identificación de lo homogéneo y lo diverso

Translated title of the contribution: Cross-border sanitation project evaluation in Ambos Nogales. Identifying the homogeneous from the diverseOchoa, R. G., Zuniga-Teran, A., Gómez, L. E. C., Scott, C. A., Peña, S., Vasquez, T. B., Buechler, S., Valencia, J. A. M. & Martínez-Molina, K. G., Aug 10 2023, In: Estudios Fronterizos. 24, e122.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Energy justice, renewable energy, and the rural-urban divide: Insights from the Southwest U.S.

Buechler, S. & Martínez-Molina, K. G., Dec 2021, In: Energy and Climate Change. 2, 100048.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Dialogic science-policy networks for water security governance in the arid Americas

Lutz-Ley, A. N., Scott, C. A., Wilder, M., Varady, R. G., Ocampo-Melgar, A., Lara-Valencia, F., Zuniga-Teran, A. A., Buechler, S., Díaz-Caravantes, R., Ribeiro Neto, A., Pineda-Pablos, N. & Martín, F., Jun 2021, In: Environmental Development. 38, 100568.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Urban food accessibility and diversity: Exploring the role of small non-chain grocers

Bao, K. Y., Tong, D., Plane, D. A. & Buechler, S., Dec 2020, In: Applied Geography. 125, 102275.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Livelihoods with multiple stressors: Gendered youth decision-making under global change in rural Northwest Mexico

Buechler, S. & Lutz-Ley, A., Dec 2020, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 3, 4, p. 1096-1119 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Patriarchy and (electric) power? A feminist political ecology of solar energy use in Mexico and the United States

Buechler, S., Vázquez-García, V., Martínez-Molina, K. G. & Sosa-Capistrán, D. M., Dec 2020, In: Energy Research and Social Science. 70, 101743.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Mining and women in northwest Mexico: a feminist political ecology approach to impacts on rural livelihoods

Lutz-Ley, A. N. & Buechler, S. J., Mar 2020, In: Human Geography(United Kingdom). 13, 1, p. 74-84 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Gendered vulnerabilities and grassroots adaptation initiatives in home gardens and small orchards in Northwest Mexico

Buechler, S., Dec 1 2016, In: Ambio. 45, p. 322-334 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Re-linking governance of energy with livelihoods and irrigation in Uttarakhand, India

Buechler, S., Sen, D., Khandekar, N. & Scott, C. A., Oct 8 2016, In: Water (Switzerland). 8, 10, 437.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A synthesis of convergent reflections, tensions and silences in linking gender and global environmental change research

Iniesta-Arandia, I., Ravera, F., Buechler, S., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Fernández-Giménez, M. E., Reed, M. G., Thompson-Hall, M., Wilmer, H., Aregu, L., Cohen, P., Djoudi, H., Lawless, S., Martín-López, B., Smucker, T., Villamor, G. B. & Wangui, E. E., Dec 1 2016, In: Ambio. 45, p. 383-393 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review

Honduran boys confronting adversity: urban multi-locality and kin mobilization

Schmidt, L. A. & Buechler, S., Jul 4 2015, In: Children's Geographies. 13, 4, p. 482-495 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Iterative driver-response dynamics of human-environment interactions in the arizona-sonora borderlands

Scott, C. A. & Buechler, S. J., Jan 10 2013, In: Ecosphere. 4, 1, 2.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Gender, water, and climate change in Sonora, Mexico: Implications for policies and programmes on agricultural income-generation

Buechler, S., 2009, In: Gender and Development. 17, 1, p. 51-66 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Wastewater irrigation in the developing world-Two case studies from the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal

Rutkowski, T., Raschid-Sally, L. & Buechler, S., Mar 16 2007, In: Agricultural Water Management. 88, 1-3, p. 83-91 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review