Lilian Alessa
Associate Professor, Environment and Natural Resources Institute, University of Alaska-Anchorage
Environment and Natural Resources Institute
University of Alaska-Anchorage
3211 Providence Dr
Anchorage, AK 99506
USA
Titles
- Associate Professor, Environment and Natural Resources Institute, University of Alaska-Anchorage
Biography
Dr. Lilian Alessa heads the Resilience and Adaptive Management Group at UAA, and has served on the board of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. Her expertise is in the conceptual development and application of complex systems thinking and in the development of research strategies.
Education
- PhD, Cell Biology, University of British Columbia
External Links
Journal Articles
2008
Alessa, L., A. Kliskey, P. Williams and M. Barton. 2008. Perception of change in freshwater in remote resource-dependent Arctic communities. Global Environmental Change 18(1):153-164.
2006
Alessa, L., M. Laituri and M. Barton. 2006. An "all hands" call to the social sciences community: Establishing a community framework for complexity modeling using agent based models and cyberinfrastructure. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 9(4):. (link )
Books
2015
Alessa, L., A. Kliskey, M. Altaweel, M. Barton, S. Bankes, E. Bondizio, D. Brown, J. Feddema, C. Grier, J. Liu, E. F. Moran, J. Ozik, T. Park, W. Rand, S. Wang and D. Rogers. 2015. Best Practices for Integrating Social Sciences into Social Ecological Systems Science: Future Directions for Building a More Resilient America. Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho. Moscow, ID. ISBN: 978-0-692-45080-2. (link )