Adena Rissman
Position title: Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Email: arrissman@wisc.edu
Website: Adena Rissman's website
Adena Rissman is a professor in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and an affiliate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the agroecology program, the Land Tenure Center, the La Follette Institute for Public Affairs, and the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. Her research investigates the relationships between society and environment, focusing on conservation, ecosystem management, and resource use.
She examines forests, wildlife, rangelands, agriculture, and water resources both locally and nationally, through participatory research approaches. Her research centers around three themes:
- Natural resource policy design, implementation, and evaluation
- Ecological outcomes of resource policy and conservation strategies
- Social and legal adaptation to environmental change