Patricia Gober
Patricia Gober received a PhD in Geography from the Ohio State University in 1975 and is currently Professor of Public Policy in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan and Research Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. At ASU she directed the National Science Foundation’s Decision Center for a Desert City which studies water management decisions in the face of climatic uncertainty in Phoenix. Her current activities center on climate adaptation in the USA and Canada. She is especially interested in the use of science and visualization for real-world decision-making. Her most recent book, Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2006, examines the environmental history and climate adaptation opportunities for Greater Phoenix. She was President of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), member of the Population Reference Bureau’s Board of Trustees, and member of NOAA’s Science Advisory Board. She holds an honorary doctorate of science from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was awarded the Prince Sultan Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in November, 2008. Since 2010, she has published 18 journal articles using decision making under uncertainty tools for policy analysis, exploring the implications of high outdoor water use for heat island mitigation in Phoenix, and advocating for the new field of socio-hydrology.
Related Resources from Speaker
Getting Outside the Water Box: The Need for New Approaches to Water Planning and Policy
Water Resources Management, January 2013