Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy
Faculty Fellow, Center for International Trade and Security
Affiliate, UGA River Basin Center
Emily V. Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. Her work examines cognition and representation in the policy process and collaborative governance. Dr. Bell focuses, specifically, on local and regional water- and energy-related decision-making processes to build theory and develop new knowledge for actors collectively navigating uncertainty and complexity in planning, management, and policy innovation. With current projects in the US and Latin America, she is examining barriers to substantive representation in collaborative regional water planning, as well as innovative efforts to advance groundwater and soil remediation on Tribal land impacted by nuclear legacy waste.
