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Rachel Golden Kroner, Ph.D.

Social Scientist, Environmental Governance & Impacts, Moore Center for Science

Location
U.S. (Arlington)
Languages
English, Spanish

Rachel Golden Kroner, Ph.D.

Social Scientist, Environmental Governance & Impacts, Moore Center for Science

Rachel Golden Kroner is a social scientist at the Moore Center for Science at Conservation International, focused on environmental governance. She leads the organization’s work on protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (known as PADDD).

Rachel uses mixed methods including archival research, spatial analysis and impact evaluation to study the abandonment of conservation governance and its impacts.

Rachel is an award-winning speaker and has published in leading peer-reviewed journals. She is an active member of the Society for Conservation Biology, Graduate Women in Science, and the Association for American Geographers. Rachel is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science and policy at George Mason University and holds an M.S. in sustainable development and conservation biology from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in biology with a specialization in ecology and conservation biology from Boston University.

Rachel uses mixed methods including archival research, spatial analysis and impact evaluation to study the abandonment of conservation governance and its impacts.

Rachel is an award-winning speaker and has published in leading peer-reviewed journals. She is an active member of the Society for Conservation Biology, Graduate Women in Science, and the Association for American Geographers. Rachel is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science and policy at George Mason University and holds an M.S. in sustainable development and conservation biology from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in biology with a specialization in ecology and conservation biology from Boston University.

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Biodiversity, Biodiversity Policy, Conservation Policy, Conservation Science, Conservation Social Science, Environmental Politics and Policy, Forests, GIS, International Policy, Natural Resource Governance, Natural Resource Management, Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD), Protected Areas, Social Dimensions of Conservation, Tropical Conservation
Location
U.S. (Arlington)
Languages
English, Spanish