Angela

Guerrero

PhD

Postdoctoral researcher (Centre associate)

angela.guerrero@su.se

+44 794 843 33 14

@aggwarrior

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Profile summary

  • Collaborative governance
  • Environmental decision-making
  • Governance effectiveness
  • Social-ecological networks
  • Statistical network methods
  • Mental models

Angela Guerrero's research focuses on collaborative environmental governance

In her work, Guerrero applies methods from multiple disciplines,primarily from the social sciences but also from ecology and decision science, to tackle environmental problems. Her key interest is on the processes, structures and dynamics that drive environmental and social outcomes.

Guerrero’s research approach is underpinned by systems thinking. Her interdisciplinary training allows her to understand environmental problems as complex systems of interactions between humans and nature, and to analyse these interactions using network models. She uses this approach to study important questions such as the factors that drive performance in collaborative governance approaches to wildfire management, or the collaborative network structures influencing the effectiveness of large-scale conservation programs.

Guerrero works on multiple projects in the areas of governance, collaboration and organisational networks, food system sustainability and stakeholder values and perspectives in environmental decision making.

Guerrero started her career as an engineer before embarking into environmental management and conservation. She has a PhD in Conservation Science and Masters degrees in Environmental Management and International Business. Guerrero also has significant experience working in government and industry sectors in the areas of business strategy, international trade and supply chain management.

Prior to her position in the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Guerrero worked at the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and the Luc Hoffman Institute. She also holds an honorary postdoctoral position at the University of Bristol.

Publications by Guerrero, Angela

Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response

Journal / article | 2023

Angela M. Guerrero, Örjan Bodin, Daniel Nohrstedt, Ryan Plummer, Julia Baird, Robert Summers. 2023. Collaboration and individual performance during disaster response. Global Environmental Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102729

Disasters occurring in the wake of extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate and anthropogenic changes and require urgent responses under uncertain and dynamic conditions. In these situations, multi-agency collaboration becomes integral to an effective response due to the need to coordinate actions across geographical scales, levels of authority and sectors of society. Consequently there is...

Unravelling how collaboration impacts success of invasive species management

Journal / article | 2023

Nisansala Abeysinghe, Christopher J. O'Bryan, Angela M. Guerrero, Jonathan Rhodes, Eve McDonald-Madden. 2023. Unravelling how collaboration impacts success of invasive species management. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10544

Invasive species cause severe threats to biodiversity and the economy, but often across multi-actor landscapes. Therefore, collaboration among multiple actors across landscapes is often essential for managing invasive species. Deciding whether to collaborate depends on available resources and potential benefits. As such, it is vital to identify how different factors can influence the outcomes of collaborations. We developed...

Choose your collaborators wisely

Journal / article | 2022

Bodin, Ö., Guerrero, A., Nohrstedt, D., Baird, J., Summers, R., Plummer, R., Jasny, L. 2022. Choose your collaborators wisely. Public Administration Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/puar.13518

Responding to disastrous wildfires traversing geographical scales requires multi-actor collaboration to address a series of interdependent operational tasks. While this type of distributed collective action problem is salient across governance contexts, less is known about if and how collaboration helps individual actors effectively address their tasks. Applying a novel network-centric method to wildfire responder networks in...

Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

Journal / article | 2021

Chambers, J.M., Wyborn, C., Klenk, N.L., Ryan, M., Serban, A., Bennett, N.J., Brennan, R., Charli-Joseph, L., Fernandez-Gimenez, M.E., Galvin, K.A., Goldstein, B.E., Haller, T., Hill, R., Munera, C., Nel, J.L., Osterblom, H., Reid, R.S., Riechers, M., Spierenburg, M., Tengo, M., Bennett, E., Brandeis, A., Chatterton, P., Cockburn, J.J., Cvitanovic, C., Dumrongrojwatthana, P., Duran, A.P., Gerber, J.-D., Green, J.M.H., Gruby, R., Guerrero, A.M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Montana, J., Steyaert, P., Zaehringer, J.G., Bednarek, A.T., Curran, K., Fada, S.J., Hutton, J., Leimona, B., Pickering, T. & Rondeau, R. 2021. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations. Global Environmental Change doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102422

Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productiv...