Place-Based Collaboratives
The Transformation Network’s Place-Based Collaboratives (PBCs) provide a platform for place-based, convergent research, and ensure integration of research themes and educational activities.
This PBC aims to address the complex water management challenges in the Columbia River Basin, fostering collaboration among stakeholders to integrate data, reports, and models and explore transformative solutions for community and environmental well-being.
The Front Range PBC focuses on addressing biophysical changes and water management challenges in the Colorado Front Range corridor, emphasizing resilience following wildfires, impacts of urban expansion, and the colonization of water right law.
This PBC focuses on understanding and addressing the impacts of climate change and wildfires on New Mexico's Rio Grande Fireshed, particularly in the Santa Fe Watershed. It seeks to advance knowledge through partnerships with Indigenous communities, NGOs, and local government, aiming to mitigate water insecurity and ecological transformations in the region.
This PBC focuses on addressing challenges related to food sovereignty, the transition of the carbon economy, and water conflicts in the convergence of four states and three rivers. With partnerships including the Navajo Nation Tri-Chapters, it centers around principles of regional Food-Energy-Water Systems (rFEWS) to promote sovereignty in these essential resources.