Vermont EPSCoR Publications

Zia A, Koliba C. Climate Change Governance and Accountability: Dilemmas of Performance Management in Complex Governance Networks. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. 2011;13(5):479-497.

Koliba C, Zia A. Governance Informatics: Managing the Performance of Inter-Governmental Governance Networks. In: Association for Public Policy and Management National Conference. Association for Public Policy and Management National Conference. Washington, DC; 2011. p. .

Koliba C, Zia A, Lee B. Governance Informatics: Utilizing Computer Simulation Models to Manage Complex Governance Networks. The Innovation Journal: Innovations for the Public Sector [Internet]. 2011;16(1):Article 3. Available from: http://www.innovation.cc/scholarly-style/koliba_governance_informaticsv16i1a3.pdf

Zia A, Metcalf S, Koliba C, Widner M. Agent Based Models of Cross-Jurisdictional Governance Networks: Simulating the Emergence of Project Prioritization Patterns Under Alternate Policy Theoretical Frameworks and Network Structures. Emergence: Complexity & Organization. 2012.

Koliba C, Zia A. Governance Informatics: Using computer simulation models to deepen situational awareness and governance design considerations. In: Policy Informatics. Policy Informatics. Cambridge, MA.; 2012. p. .

Koliba C, Zia A. Governance Informatics: Using Computer Simulation Models to Deepen Situational Awareness and Governance Design Considerations. In: 8th Annual TransAtlantic Dialogue. 8th Annual TransAtlantic Dialogue. Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 2012. p. .

Koliba C, Zia A. Harnessing Complexity to Govern. In: 8th Annual TransAtlantic Dialogue. 8th Annual TransAtlantic Dialogue. Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2012. p. .

Zia A, Koliba C. Lags and Inertia in the Proactive Management of Environmental Risks: How Scale and Ideology Affect Climate Change Risk Perceptions?. In: 2012 Annual Meeting of Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. 2012 Annual Meeting of Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. ; 2012. p. .

Zia A. Land Use Adaptation to Climate Change: Economic Damages from Land-Falling Hurricanes in the Atlantic and Gulf States of the USA, 1900–2005. Sustainability. 2012;4(5):917 - 932.

Zia A, Glantz MH. Risk Zones: Comparative Lesson Drawing and Policy Learning from Flood Insurance Programs. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. 2012;14(2):143 - 159.

Koliba C, Zia A. Theory Testing Using Complex Systems Modeling in Public Administration and Policy Studies: Challenges and Opportunities for a Meta-Theoretical Research Program. Emergence: Complexity & Organization. 2012.

Zia A, Koliba C. Using Pattern-Oriented Models as the Foundation of Governance Informatics Platforms: Examples from the Field. In: American Society of Public Administration National Conference. American Society of Public Administration National Conference. Las Vegas, NV; 2012. p. .

Zia A, Koliba C. Adaptive Management of Critical Transitions in the Social Ecological Systems: Governing Alternate Stable States in Multi-Jurisdictional Lake Champlain Basin. In: The American Society for Public Administration, Section on Complexity and Network Studies (SCNS), and Erasmus University Rotterdam, research group Governance of Complex Systems (GOCS) Joint Conference on “Challenges of Making Public Administration and Com. The American Society for Public Administration, Section on Complexity and Network Studies (SCNS), and Erasmus University Rotterdam, research group Governance of Complex Systems (GOCS) Joint Conference on “Challenges of Making Public Administration and Com. La Verne, CA,; 2013. p. .

Zia A, Koliba C. Agent-Based Modeling of Intergovernmental Networks: A Complex Systems Approach to Analyze Transportation Policy Implementation Processes. In: Earth System Governance Annual Meeting. Earth System Governance Annual Meeting. United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan; 2013. p. .

Zia A, Kelman I, Glantz M. Arctic Melting Tests the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. In Polar Diplomacy. In: New Haven CT; 2013. p. .

Zia A, Bomblies A, Betts AK, Koliba C, Beckage B. Assessing Numerical versus Verbal Frames of Communicating Uncertain Climate Risks: Findings from an Experimental Survey Pre- and Post-Tropical Storm Irene. This article is in preparation. 2013.

Koliba C, Zia A. Complex Systems Modeling in Public Administration and Policy Studies: Challenges and Opportunities for a Meta-Theoretical Research Program. In: COMPACT I: Public Administration in Complexity. COMPACT I: Public Administration in Complexity. Litchfield Park, AZ; 2013. p. .

Koliba C, Zia A. Complexity Friendly” Meso-Level Public Administration and Policy Studies Frameworks for Modeling Complex Governance Systems: Challenges and Opportunities for a Meta-Theoretical Research Program. In: COMPACT I: Public Administration in Complexity. COMPACT I: Public Administration in Complexity. Litchfield Park, AZ; 2013. p. 119-136.

Zia A, Koliba C. The Emergence of Attractors Under Alternate Institutional Designs: Agent Based Modeling of Intergovernmental Decision Making for Funding Transportation Projects. AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication. 2013.

Scheinert S, Reynolds A, Koliba C, Zia A. Emerging Environmental Governance Networks: The Development of the Network in the Lake Champlain Basin Program’s Opportunities for Action Plans. In: Sunbelt XXXIII. Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks. Sunbelt XXXIII. Mechanisms of Change in Organizational Networks. Hamburg, Germany; 2013. p. .

Zia A. Global Democracy-Deficit and Accountable Climate Governance: Do We Need an Elected Global Parliament. In: American Society for Public Administration annual meeting. American Society for Public Administration annual meeting. New Orleans LA; 2013. p. .

Zia A, Koliba C, Tian Y. Governance Network Analysis: Experimental Simulations of Alternate Institutional Designs for Intergovernmental Project Prioritization Processes. In: COMPACT I: Public Administration in Complexity. COMPACT I: Public Administration in Complexity. Litchfi eld Park, AZ; 2013. p. 144-165.

Zia A, Koliba C. How Multi-Level Institutional Mechanisms Generate Basins of Attraction in Infrastructure Investments. In: International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Annual Conference. International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Annual Conference. Prague, Czech Republic; 2013. p. .

Tsai Y, Zia A, Koliba C, Guilbert J, Bucini G, Beckage B. Impacts of Land Managers’ Decisions on Landuse Transition within Missisquoi Watershed Vermont: An Application of Agent-based Modeling System. IEEE International Systems Conference. 2013.

Reynolds A, Koliba C, Scheinert S, Zia A, Ricketson J. Isomorphic Properties of Network Governance: Comparing Two Watershed Governance Initiatives in the Lake Champlain Basin Using Institutional Network Analysis. 2013.