Melinda Morgan

Melinda Benson

Regents' Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
J.D., University of Idaho 

mhbenson@unm.edu | CV | Transformation Network Website

Melinda Morgan is a Regents’ professor in Geography and Environmental Studies, and lead principal investigator of the Transformation Network. Along with University of Utah law professor Robin Craig, she is the author of The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene.

Interests:

Environmental governance, social-ecological systems, new materialism, legal geography

Research:

Dr. Morgan’s research focuses on environmental governance. She is particularly interested in understanding the next generation of tools and approaches to biodiversity loss, climate change and other environmental challenges and how those new ideas interface with existing legal and regulatory requirements.