Popular Writing

Crootof, A. A Life of Science: Rivers of Caution (2017) Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments

Japhet, A. and Crootof, A. (2024). Moving In: Adapting to Grizzlies in Southwest Montana: Grizzly Bear Management reveals the complexity of balancing different interests. ESRI StoryMap.

Crootof, A. (2023) It’s What We Do: Engage Students in Authentic Practices. ESRI StoryMap.

Walsh, C., Harrison, J., and Spillman, J. (2023) The Future Isn’t Written: A look at the Warm Springs Ponds—past, present, and how you can be involved moving forward. A. Crootof and E. Freeman (Eds.). ESRI StoryMap.

Refereed Journal Articles

Wilmer, H., Spiess, J., Clark, P.E., Anderson, M., Burns, A., Crootof, A., Fanok, L., Hruska, T., Mincher, B.J., Munger, W., Posbergh, C.J., Wilson, C.S., Winford, E., Windh, J., Strong, N., Eve, M., Taylor, J.B. (2025) Collaborative Adaptive Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: A Rangeland Living Laboratory at the US Sheep Experiment Station. Sustainability, 17(7), 3086. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17073086

Ptak, T., Crootof, A., Harlan, T., & Kelly, S. (2022). Critically evaluating the purported global “boom” in small hydropower development through spatial and temporal analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 163(April), 112490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112490

Crootof, A., Shrestha, R., Albrecht, T., Ptak, T., & Scott, C. A. (2021). Sacrificing the local to support the national: Politics, sustainability, and governance in Nepal’s hydropower paradox. Energy Research & Social Science, 80, 102206.

Albrecht, T*., A. Crootof*, and C.A. Scott (2018) The water-energy-food nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment. Invited review for Environmental Research Reviews, 13(4), 043002.
* These authors contributed equally to this work
Won Best Review Award for 2018 by Editorial Board, Environmental Research Letters

Kelly-Richards, S., N. Silber-Coats, A. Crootof, D. Tecklin, and C. Bauer (2017) Governing the transition to renewable energy: A review of impacts and policy issues in the small hydropower boom. Energy Policy, 101, 251-264.

Mills-Nova, M., S. Borges, A. Crootof, and. B. Thapa (2016) Bringing the hydro-social cycle into climate change adaptation planning: lessons from the mountain water towers of the Andes.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107(2), 393-402

Rosen, M.R., A. Crootof, L. Reidy, L. Saito, B. Nishnonov, J. Scott (2018) The origin of shallow lakes in the Khorezm Province, Uzbekistan, and the History of Pesticide Use around these lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology, 59(2) 201-219.

Crootof, A., N. Mullabaev, L. Saito, L. Atwell, M.R. Rosen, M. Bekchonova, E. Ginatullina, J. Scott, S. Chandra, B. Nishonov, J.P. Lamers, and D. Fayzieva (2015) Hydroecological condition and potential for aquaculture in lakes of the arid region of Khorezm, Uzbekistan. Journal of Arid Environments, 117, 37-46.

Book Chapters

Scott, C.A., A. Crootof, S. Kelly-Richards (2016) The urban water-energy nexus: Drivers and responses to global change in the ‘urban century’. In H. Hettiarachchi, R. Ardakanian (eds.) Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach: Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change, Springer, Berlin

Scott, C.A., A. Crootof, B. Thapa, R.K. Shrestha (2016) The water-energy-food nexus in the Ganges Basin: Challenges and opportunities. In L. Bharati, V. Smakhtin, B.R. Sharma (eds.) The Ganges River Basin: Status and Challenges in Water, Environment and Livelihoods, Earthscan, London