Her research addresses the social and political dimensions of adaptation, resilience and transformation in face of global environmental and socio-economic change. Currently she is coordinating the work of the North American Hub of the ISSC-STEPS Centre T2S Pathways Network, focusing on transformative processes in the Xochimilco wetland in Mexico City, and coordinating an international NSF-funded initiative exploring the sustainability and resilience implications of adaptation to social-hydrological risk in Mexico City. Her work also addresses tensions between development investment and climate change adaptation, the implications of “telecoupling” in social-ecological systems for understanding emergent vulnerabilities, and methods to foster social learning for sustainability transformation.