Publications

Selected Publications by theme:

Indigenous water governance & co-governance:

Sibyl Diver, John R. Oberholzer Dent, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Nathaniel Ramos, and Ron Reed. Accepted. Indigenous well-being indicators and social impact assessment: Redefining restoration success for Klamath River dam removal.  Environmental Science and Policy.

Sibyl Diver, John R. Oberholzer Dent, Daniel Sarna-Wojcicki, Ron Reed, and Cole Dill-De Sa. 2024. Recasting Klamath Dam Removal as Eco-Cultural Revitalization and Restorative Justice through Karuk Tribal Leadership. Water 16(16), 2295; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16162295

Diver, S., J. R. Oberholzer Dent, D. Sarna-Wojcicki, R. Reed, N. Ramos, and C. Dill-De Sa. (2024). Klamath Dam Removal and Karuk Tribal Community Well-Being: Baseline Social Impact Assessment. Final Technical Report. Available from https://damremovalsocialimpact.com/.

Diver, S. Eitzel, M.V., Brown, M., Hazel, A. Fricke, S., and Reed, R. 2022. Indigenous nations at the confluence: Water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin. Ecology and Society. 22(4): 4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12942-270404

Diver, S., Eitzel, M.V., Fricke, S. and Hillman, L. 2022. Networked sovereignty: polycentric water governance and Indigenous self-determination in the Klamath Basin. Water Alternatives. 15(2): 523-550.

Diver, S., Ahrens, D., Arbit, T. Bakker, K. 2019. Engaging Colonial Entanglements: “Treatment as a State” Policy for Indigenous Water Co-Governance. Global Environmental Politics. 19(3):33-56.  https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00517

Diver, S. 2018. Native Water Protection Flows Through Self-Determination: Understanding Tribal Water Quality Standards and “Treatment as a State”. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education. 163: 6-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2018.03267.x

Diver, S. Vaughan, M. Baker-Médard, M., and Lukacs, H. 2019. Recognizing “reciprocal relations” to restore community access to land and water. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1). http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.881

Bartolome, N., Crosby, E., Diver, S., Fricke, S., Hladik, M, and Johnson, G. Karuk Tribe Watershed Research Collaboration: A Pilot Study to Understand the Pesticide Impacts from Cannabis Cultivation within Karuk Aboriginal Territory (Surface Water and Sediments). Technical Report Prepared for the Karuk Tribe, December 2019.

Arsenault, R., Diver, S., McGregor, D., Witham, A., and Bourassa, C. 2018. Shifting the Framework of Canadian Water Governance through Indigenous Research Methods: Acknowledging the Past with an Eye on the Future. Water  10(1), 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10010049

Rachel Arsenault, Carrie Bourassa, Sibyl Diver, Deborah McGregor, and Aaron Witham. 2019. Including Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Environmental Assessments: Restructuring the Process. Global Environmental Politics. 19(3):120-132. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00519

Community engaged research, Indigenous methodologies, and environmental justice:

Sullivan. C., Diver, S., Weir, J., Smith, C., Piatote, B. 2025. So you care about Indigenous scholars? Claiming the academy as Indigenous place by creating comic art across difference. Journal of Native American and Indigenous Studies. 12(2): 90-115. 10.1353/nai.2025.a971972

Sarah Barger, Julie Maldonado, Karen J. Bunce Rodríguez, José Antonio Nevárez Rivera, Shirell Parfait-Dardar, Rosina Philippe, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Kristina Peterson,Alessandra Jerolleman, Carrie Monohan, Sibyl Diver, Alan V. Di Vittorio, Melissa Awbrey & Kajal Khanna. 2025. Lessons from Place: Indigenous-Led Rematriation for Strengthening Climate Adaptation and Resilience. Journal of Geography.  124(3): 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2025.2512244

Diver, S. Vaughan, M., and Baker-Médard, M. 2024. Collaborative care in environmental governance: restoring reciprocal relations and community self-determination. Ecology and Society 29(1):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14488-290107 (This is an introduction to a special feature, 24 articles, in Ecology and Society on collaborative management, environmental caretaking, and sustainable livelihoods: https://ecologyandsociety.org/feature/151/)

Reed, R. and S. Diver. 2023. Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin. Ecology and Society 28(1):35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13861-280135

Smith, C., Diver, S., Reed, R. 2023. Advancing Indigenous futures with two-eyed seeing: Strategies for restoration and repair through collaborative research. Environment and Planning F. (0):0. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825221142292

Piatote, B, Sullivan, C, Smith, C, Diver, S, Weir, J, Burton, NM, and H Goldring. 2020. ‘Pass the Ball’, So you care about Indigenous scholars? poster series, Ad Astra Comix, Canada. (Also, see posters ‘Extraction Zombies’, ‘Indigenous Land’, and ‘S.S. Academy’)

Polk, E.M., Diver, S. 2020. Situating the Scientist: Creating Inclusive Science Communication Through Equity Framing and Environmental Justice. Frontiers in Communication. 5:6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00006.

Weir, J.K.; Woelfle-Erskine, C.; Fuller; S., Diver, S.; Higgins, M. 2019. Investigating Best Practice: Doctoral Fieldwork Experiences With and Without Indigenous Communities in Settler-colonial Societies. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

Diver, S.W. and Higgins, M.N. 2014. Giving Back Through Collaborative Research: Towards a Practice of Dynamic Reciprocity. Journal of Research Practice. 10(2). Contributing to a special issue on Giving Back in Field Research.

Diver, S. 2017. Visual Timeline Technique, in Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity. Edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson, and Marcia J. McNally. Island Press: Washington, DC.  https://islandpress.org/book/design-as-democracy

Diver, S. 2016. Community Voices: The Making and Meaning of the Xaxli’p Community Forest.  A Report to the Xaxli’p Community Forest. Retrieved from https://www.xaxlipcommunityforest.ca/community-voices

Diver, S.W. 2014. Giving Back Through Time: A Collaborative Timeline Approach to Researching Karuk Indigenous Lands Management History. Journal of Research Practice. 10(2).

Collaborative management of natural resources:

Diver, S. 2017. Negotiating Indigenous Knowledge at the Science-Policy Interface: Insights from the Xáxli’p Community Forest. Environmental Science and Policy 73, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.03.001

Diver, S. 2016. Co-management as a catalyst: Pathways to post-colonial forestry in the Klamath Basin, California. Human Ecology  44(5):  533–546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-016-9851-8

Diver, S. 2012. Columbia River Tribal Fisheries: Life History Stages of a Co-management Institution. In Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon Across the Northern Pacific, edited by Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks. School for Advanced Research Press: Santa Fe, New Mexico. pp. 207-235.

Interdisciplinary environmental science and policy 

Chapman, M. S., Oestreich, W. K., Frawley, T. H., Boettiger, C., Diver, S., Santos, B. S., Scoville, C., Armstrong, K., Blondin, H., Chand, K. Haulsee, D. E., Knight, C. J. & Crowder, L. B. (2021). Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high-seas conservation. One Earth, 4(6), 790-794. elsevier.com/c/1dGBd_wvRVC3L4.

Nora Bartolomé Gutiérrez, Earl Crosby, Sibyl Diver, Susan Fricke, Michelle Hladik, and Grant Johnson. 2020. Karuk Tribe Watershed Research Collaboration: A Pilot Study to Understand the Pesticide Impacts from Cannabis Cultivation within Karuk Aboriginal Territory (Surface Water and Sediments). Technical Report prepared for the Karuk Tribe.

Andrade, K., Corbin, C., Diver, S., Eitzel, M.V., Williamson, Brashares, J. and Fortmann, L. 2014. Finding your way in the interdisciplinary forest: Notes on educating future conservation practitioners. Biodiversity and Conservation, October 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0818-z

Hallett, L. M., Diver, S., Eitzel, M. V., Olson, J. J., Ramage, B. S., Sardiñas, H., Statman-Weil, Z. and Suding, K. N. 2013. Do We Practice What We Preach? Goal Setting for Ecological Restoration. Restoration Ecology 21: 312-319. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12007