Amber Wutich

Biographic Data

ID3619569
NAMEAmber Wutich
GIVEN NAMESAmber
FAMILY NAMEWutich
SIGNATUREWUTICH A
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • “We Are Exhausted”

    Oswaldo Medina-Ramírez, Amber Wutich et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2026

    Public participation is central to participatory water governance (PWG), yet integrating non-state actors in public decision-making introduces challenges that, if left unaddressed, can undermine the participatory process. This paper introduces and conceptualizes “participation fatigue” – the cumulative stress, frustration, and exhaustion experienced by state water managers facilitating PWG mandates. Drawing on the challenges these managers face i…

  • Fragile moral economies

    Patrick Thomson, Melissa Beresford et al.ARTICLEHuman Organization2026

    We investigate how a moral economy for water operates in colonia communities, peri-urban neighborhoods lacking political power and basic infrastructure, on the U.S. border with Mexico. Using a Community-Based Participant Observation (CBPO) approach in 64 colonias across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, we interviewed 239 residents (including 64 trained participant-observers) and systematically coded their responses with respect to thre…

  • Framing rural groundwater management in Arizona

    Krista L Lawless, Margaret Garcia et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2026

  • Deny, Reassure, and Deflect

    Cindi L Sturtzsreetharan, Monet Ghorbani et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2024

    Fat talk is a conversational interaction recognized through comments like “Does this make me look fat?” In the US, based on psychological lab-based investigations, fat talk is defined as highly damaging for women and actively targeted for various interventions. Using a discourse completion task (DCT), we present normative responses ( N = 313) to fat talk prompts testing women’s fat talk patterns across diverse languages and socio-cultural context…

  • Extreme Weight Loss

    Alexandra Brewis, Amber Wutich et al.BOOKExtreme Weight Loss2021

  • Third-Party Effects in Stakeholder Interviews

    Open AccessMelissa Beresford, J Leah Jones et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020Cited by: 1References: 24

    This paper examines the effect of having a third-party scientific expert present in stakeholder interviews. The study was conducted as part of a larger project on stakeholder engagement for natural resource management in the Verde Valley region of Arizona. We employed an experimental design, conducting stakeholder interviews both with and without an identified scientific expert present. Our sample consisted of 12 pairs of interviewees (24 total p…

  • Anger and Sadness

    Margaret du Bray, Amber Wutich et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2019

    Climate change presents an important threat to community livelihoods and well-being around the world. Biophysical vulnerability to the effects of climate change, such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, changing flora and fauna, and changing precipitation patterns are predicted to affect island nations in particular. Emotional geographies offers a theoretical entry point to understand how changing landscapes, which are often imbued with emotion a…

  • Does ecosystem services valuation reflect local cultural valuations? Comparative analysis of resident perspectives in four major urban river ecosystems

    Margaret V Du Bray, Rhian Stotts et al.ARTICLEEconomic Anthropology2019

    Anthropologists have long considered how people create and perceive the value of goods and services. While valuation of nature as a commodity is one means of conservation, locally resonant values of nature may not follow market logic. We apply the ecosystem services valuation (ESV) framework to four major urban river ecosystems (Australia, New Zealand, United States, and United Kingdom) to compare and contrast value (the alienable goods that are …

  • Charitable Christians, Punitive Neighbors

    Benjamin Jewell, Amber WutichCHAPTERThe Economics Of Religion…2011

    This chapter examines how religion and religiosity shape economic norms in Villa Israel, an urban squatter settlement in Cochabamba, Bolivia. In Villa Israel, residents share water with others to help overcome limited access to drinking water. Using a mixed methods approach, we draw on the results of ethnographic research and economic experiments. The analyses yield three key results. First, there were strong norms of generosity and charitable gi…