Dr. Alida Cantor is a geographer working in the areas of political ecology and human-environment interactions. In her research, she seeks to answer questions around how we can manage natural resources in ways that are more sustainable and equitable. Her research is situated in the areas of political ecology, water governance and hydropolitics, resource policy, and legal geography, primarily in the Western United States. She also studies issues around the intersection of water with energy, agricultural systems, and other issues related to sustainability, environmental justice, and human-environment geography. Dr. Cantor teaches and advises in the areas of environmental studies and sustainability, political ecology, local and global water resource governance, food systems, resource geography, environmental justice, environmental law and policy, human dimensions of climate change, and social theory and the environment.