Research Bio

Nancy Peluso is a Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, (Division of Society and Environment), and Director,  Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics. She conducts research on the social processes that affect the management of land-based and coastal resources. Her work explores various dimensions of resource access, use, and control, while contrasting local, national, and international influences on management structures and processes. She grounds her analyses of contemporary resource management policy and practice in local and regional histories. She is particularly interested in how people who identify with different and multiple social groups (e.g., by ethnicity, class, gender, age, or citizenship) and government and non-government agencies define, make claims upon, contest, and attempt to manage natural resources.

Research Expertise and Interest

political ecology, Indonesia, resource policy and politics, forest and agrarian change, property and access