Aalayna Green, ABD

Aalayna Green is a conservation social scientist studying environmental peacebuilding, conservation, security, and governance in Southern Africa. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University. Her work examines how protected-area management intersects with state-making, race, security, and local governance, with particular attention to militarized conservation and alternatives that rely more heavily on community participation. Her dissertation focuses on Botswana's Chobe National Park and the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, drawing on network analysis to map the institutional and community relationships that shape conservation governance. Aalayna is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Cornell Sloan Fellow.

Use for climate and environmental security, conservation governance, protected areas, community-state relations, and Southern Africa.