Institutional Lead
Utah State University
Department of Environment & Society, Quinney College of Natural Resources
Interests:
Resource sociologist for environmental and community sustainabilityBio:
Dr. Courtney Flint is a community and natural resource sociologist and interdisciplinary environmental social scientist. Her work focuses on people’s perspectives and collective actions in changing landscapes and social and natural resource conditions. She prioritizes providing sound data to support local and regional decisions on land use, natural resource management, and local and regional wellbeing.
Dr. Flint’s PhD is in Rural Sociology from The Pennsylvania State University. She has a MS in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BS in Geography from Northern Arizona University. She previously served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and in the Sociology Program at Utah State University.