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.