The focus of Dr. Buck’s work is on facilitation of multi-stakeholder innovation to strengthen systems of natural resource management that integrate ecological conservation, agricultural production, livelihood security and institutional capacity development goals. She specializes in designing and testing analytic frameworks and instructional resources that stimulate social learning across different professional structures (disciplines, sectors, management roles) and knowledge systems (indigenous, scientific). Current applications are in integrated landscape management for people, food and nature primarily in eastern Africa.
Research Focus
Analysis of collaborative, multi-stakeholder processes in transitional pathways to integrated landscape management for building socio-ecological resilience and realizing goals for sustainable development
Outreach and Extension Focus
Facilitating regional, national and global landscape learning networks
Building cross-sectoral leadership capacities for integrated landscape management
Developing frameworks and tools to support the collaborative management of landscapes
Teaching Focus
Teaching "Special Topics" courses around graduate student interest in themes related to integrated landscape management, and oriented to producing useful knowledge products.
Design, development and use of dynamic “living case studies” to connect university classrooms with field based practitioners for practical problem-solving in complex landscapes
Selected Publications
Journal Publications
- Gomez, M., Barrett, C., Buck, L. E., De Groote, H., Ferris, S., Gao, O. H., & et al., E. (2011). Research Principles for Developing Country Food Value Chains. Science. 332:1154-1155.
Book Chapters
- Buck, L. E., & Scherr, S. J. (2011). Moving ecoagriculture into the mainstream. p. 15-24 State of the World, Innovations that Nourish the Planet. Danielle Nierenberg and Brian Halweil (ed.), WW Norton & Co, New York, NY.