Richard Rushforth

Biographic Data

ID	1572499
NAME	Richard Rushforth
GIVEN NAMES	Richard
FAMILY NAME	Rushforth
SIGNATURE	RUSHFORTH R
AFFILIATIONS	Northern Arizona University
ORCID	0000-0001-9179-7665
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	10
TOTAL CITATIONS	17
WORKS AS AUTHOR	10
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	2

Sustainability and resilience through connection
Open AccessEric Sjöstedt, Kat Fowler et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025
Regional social, environmental, and economic systems form a rich web of connections that both create opportunities and pose risks. Regional economies, characterized by their interconnectedness across jurisdictional boundaries, might be better managed at a transboundary scale because they can leverage a broad resource pool and greater economic diversity compared to a single jurisdiction alone. The technical challenge is to identify which economies…
Convergence, transdisciplinarity, and team science
Open AccessMelinda Morgan, Yolanda Lin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025
The challenges facing the Intermountain West are characterized by extreme complexity and enormous consequences. They include climate change and associated ecological effects, such as catastrophic wildfire and drought. They are also inextricably linked to social inequities, including freshwater availability, land conversion, and access to basic human needs such as quality food, affordable energy, and access to healthcare. A meaningful response to …
Guided transformations for communities facing social and ecological change
Open AccessMelinda Morgan, Alex Webster et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024
Communities and their surrounding landscapes are intricately interconnected. This is evident in the Intermountain West of the United States of America, where large cities sit within vast landscapes otherwise containing small rural communities with farm, forest, and rangeland. Climate change and other stresses increase the tensions along the gradient of urban to rural communities and landscapes, and theoretical frameworks are needed to conceptuali…
Mapping local food self-sufficiency in the U.S. and the tradeoffs for food system diversity
Open AccessDarren R Bingham, Richard Rushforth et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2022
Reducing water scarcity by improving water productivity in the United States
Open AccessLandon Marston, Gambhir Lamsal et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
Nearly one-sixth of U.S. river basins are unable to consistently meet societal water demands while also providing sufficient water for the environment. Water scarcity is expected to intensify and spread as populations increase, new water demands emerge, and climate changes. Improving water productivity by meeting realistic benchmarks for all water users could allow U.S. communities to expand economic activity and improve environmental flows. Here…
Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production
Open AccessBrian D Richter, Dominique Bartak et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 2References: 3
Guidance on the usability-privacy tradeoff for utility customer data aggregation
Open AccessBenjamin L Ruddell, Dan Cheng et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2020References: 2
From Public Engagement to Research Intervention
Rider W Foley, Richard Rushforth et al.ARTICLEScience as Culture2020Cited by: 7References: 6
Two years of observations and interviews provided evidence of injustices as state officials ignored calls for monitoring by residents at a toxic waste site in Phoenix Arizona. When federal investigators arrived, they found toxic vapours exceeded regulatory levels in 17 homes and businesses out of the 77 locations sampled. That prompted a shift among the research team from observation to research intervention. Two public engagements were designed …
The U.S. food–energy–water system
Open AccessChristopher Lant, Jacopo A Baggio et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2019References: 40
Ideal and reality of multi-stakeholder collaboration on sustainability problems
Open AccessRider W Foley, Arnim Wiek et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2016Cited by: 8References: 7

Ideal and reality of multi-stakeholder collaboration on sustainability problems
Open AccessRider W Foley, Arnim Wiek et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2016Cited by: 8References: 7
The U.S. food–energy–water system
Open AccessChristopher Lant, Jacopo A Baggio et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2019References: 40
Reducing water scarcity by improving water productivity in the United States
Open AccessLandon Marston, Gambhir Lamsal et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020
Nearly one-sixth of U.S. river basins are unable to consistently meet societal water demands while also providing sufficient water for the environment. Water scarcity is expected to intensify and spread as populations increase, new water demands emerge, and climate changes. Improving water productivity by meeting realistic benchmarks for all water users could allow U.S. communities to expand economic activity and improve environmental flows. Here…
Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production
Open AccessBrian D Richter, Dominique Bartak et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 2References: 3
Guidance on the usability-privacy tradeoff for utility customer data aggregation
Open AccessBenjamin L Ruddell, Dan Cheng et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2020References: 2
From Public Engagement to Research Intervention
Rider W Foley, Richard Rushforth et al.ARTICLEScience as Culture2020Cited by: 7References: 6
Two years of observations and interviews provided evidence of injustices as state officials ignored calls for monitoring by residents at a toxic waste site in Phoenix Arizona. When federal investigators arrived, they found toxic vapours exceeded regulatory levels in 17 homes and businesses out of the 77 locations sampled. That prompted a shift among the research team from observation to research intervention. Two public engagements were designed …
Mapping local food self-sufficiency in the U.S. and the tradeoffs for food system diversity
Open AccessDarren R Bingham, Richard Rushforth et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2022
Guided transformations for communities facing social and ecological change
Open AccessMelinda Morgan, Alex Webster et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024
Communities and their surrounding landscapes are intricately interconnected. This is evident in the Intermountain West of the United States of America, where large cities sit within vast landscapes otherwise containing small rural communities with farm, forest, and rangeland. Climate change and other stresses increase the tensions along the gradient of urban to rural communities and landscapes, and theoretical frameworks are needed to conceptuali…
Sustainability and resilience through connection
Open AccessEric Sjöstedt, Kat Fowler et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025
Regional social, environmental, and economic systems form a rich web of connections that both create opportunities and pose risks. Regional economies, characterized by their interconnectedness across jurisdictional boundaries, might be better managed at a transboundary scale because they can leverage a broad resource pool and greater economic diversity compared to a single jurisdiction alone. The technical challenge is to identify which economies…
Convergence, transdisciplinarity, and team science
Open AccessMelinda Morgan, Yolanda Lin et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2025
The challenges facing the Intermountain West are characterized by extreme complexity and enormous consequences. They include climate change and associated ecological effects, such as catastrophic wildfire and drought. They are also inextricably linked to social inequities, including freshwater availability, land conversion, and access to basic human needs such as quality food, affordable energy, and access to healthcare. A meaningful response to …