Catherine Ashcraft is an Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment and Master in Public Policy Faculty of the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.  She is interested in the human dimensions of ecological systems and focuses on how environmental policies and institutions are negotiated and designed, how they respond to change, and are renegotiated. Her current research projects include adaptive and integrated approaches to flood risk management in Europe and New England, institutions for managing conflict and uncertainty in the Danube and Nile Rivers, and international water diplomacy.