Research Summary
I am a political ecologist and development geographer with regional interests in South Asia and the United States, empirical interests in water development, and methodological expertise in mixed methods field research. I draw primarily on political economy and science and technology studies (STS) frameworks to examine the links between technological and environmental change, the politics of water-supply development, and the livelihoods of farmers and other natural-resource dependent people. In my research, I collaborate with engineers, physical scientists and economists to examine the articulation of these processes with market-based natural resource governance reforms.
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Re-conceptualizing climate maladaptation: Complementing social-ecological interactions with relational socionatures
Shah, S. H., Harris, L. M., Joy, K. J., Birkenholtz, T. & Ajibade, I., Sep 2024, In: Global Environmental Change. 88, 102910.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions
Stock, R. & Birkenholtz, T., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Globalizations.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Geographies of big water infrastructure: Contemporary insights and future research opportunities
Birkenholtz, T., Aug 2023, In: Geography Compass. 17, 8, e12718.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Infrastructuring drip irrigation: The gendered assembly of farmers, laborers and state subsidy programs
Birkenholtz, T., Mar 2023, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 6, 1, p. 132-152 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The relationship between household structures and everyday adaptation and livelihood strategies in northwestern Pakistan
Nixon, R., Ma, Z., Birkenholtz, T., Khan, B., Zanotti, L., Lee, L. S. & Mian, I. A., Jun 2023, In: Ecology and Society. 28, 2, 31.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Introduction to themed issue: Ignorance and uncertainty in environmental decision-making
Birkenholtz, T. & Simon, G., Jun 2022, In: Geoforum. 132, p. 154-161 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Uncertain Waters: Participatory groundwater modelling in Chicago's suburbs
Mannix, D. H., Birkenholtz, T. L., Abrams, D. B. & Cullen, C., Jun 2022, In: Geoforum. 132, p. 182-194 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Adaptation to Social–Ecological Change in Northwestern Pakistan: Household Strategies and Decision-making Processes
Nixon, R., Ma, Z., Zanotti, L., Khan, B., Birkenholtz, T., Lee, L. & Mian, I., May 2022, In: Environmental Management. 69, 5, p. 887-905 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social influence shapes adaptive water governance: empirical evidence from northwestern Pakistan
Nixon, R., Ma, Z., Khan, B., Birkenholtz, T., Lee, L. & Mian, I. A., Sep 2022, In: Ecology and Society. 27, 3, 37.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India
Misquitta, K. & Birkenholtz, T., 2021, In: Water International. 46, 1, p. 112-129 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The sun and the scythe: energy dispossessions and the agrarian question of labor in solar parks
Stock, R. & Birkenholtz, T., 2021, In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 48, 5, p. 984-1007 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Photons vs. firewood: female (dis)empowerment by solar power in India
Stock, R. & Birkenholtz, T., Sep 10 2020, In: Gender, Place and Culture. 27, 11, p. 1628-1651 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Let the people speak: improving regional adaptation policy by combining adaptive capacity assessments with vulnerability perceptions of farmers in Gujarat, India
Stock, R., Birkenholtz, T. & Garg, A., Feb 7 2019, In: Climate and Development. 11, 2, p. 138-152 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Putting rooted networks into practice
Cantor, A., Stoddard, E., Rocheleau, D., Brewer, J. F., Roth, R., Birkenholtz, T., Foo, K. & Nirmal, P., 2018, In: ACME. 17, 4, p. 958-987 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Assessing India’s drip-irrigation boom: efficiency, climate change and groundwater policy
Birkenholtz, T., Aug 18 2017, In: Water International. 42, 6, p. 663-677 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review