Dr. Joanna Endter-Wada

Publications | Abstracts

• Downard, R., Endter-Wada, J.L, Kettenring, K., (2009). Keeping wetlands wet: Wetland policies and politics in the Bear River Basin. Ecological Society of America Millennium Conference on water-ecosystem services, drought, and environmental justice *
• Downward, R., Endter-Wada, J.L, Kettenring, K., (2009). Keeping wetlands wet: Wetland policies and politics in the Bear River Basin. Ecological Society of America Millennium Conference on water-ecosystem services, drought, and environmental justice

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Books

• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, Welsh, L., (2026). Utah Growing Water Smart: The Water-Land Use Integration Guidebook for Northern Utah (5th Ed. of Utah Guidebook). Prepared by Utah State University’s Center for Water Efficient Landscaping, Western Resource Advocates, and the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, a Center of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, for the Utah Growing Water Smart Program.
• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2024). Utah Growing Water Smart: The Water-Land Use Integration Guidebook for Northern Utah (4th Ed. of Utah Guidebook). Prepared by Utah State University’s Center for Water Efficient Landscaping, Western Resource Advocates, and the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, a Center of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, for the Utah Growing Water Smart Program.
• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2024). Utah Growing Water Smart: The Water-Land Use Integration Guidebook for Southwestern Utah (3rd Ed. of Utah Guidebook). Prepared by Utah State University’s Center for Water Efficient Landscaping, Western Resource Advocates, and the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, a Center of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, for the Utah Growing Water Smart Program.

Publications | Book Chapters

• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2014). Clean Water Scarcity (1950s-present): CQ Press Guide to U.S. Environmental Policy.
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Ingram, H., (2012). Global Climate Change as Environmental Megacrisis: Mega-crises: Understanding the Prospects, Nature, Characteristics and the Effects of Cataclysmic Events. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Ltd.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Fact Sheets

• Frank, M., Marty, J., Rohal, C., Downard, R., Endter-Wada, J.L, Kettenring, K., Larese-Casanova, M., (2016). Water Rights for Wetlands in the Bear River Delta. USU Extension

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Wilfong, M., Litvak, E., Grijseels, N., Hamilton, K., Kucera, D., Welsh, L.W, Endter-Wada, J.L, Jenerette, G., Pataki, D., (2024). Irrigation Rates and Turfgrass Evapotranspiration in Cities with Contrasting Water Availability. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, online 31 October 2024, doi: DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13236
• Blanchette, A., Trammel, T.L, Pataki, D.E, Endter-Wada, J.L, Avolio, M.L, (2021). Plant biodiversity in residential yards is influenced by people's preferences for variety but limited by their income. Landscape and Urban Planning, 214, 104149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104149
• Carney, C.P, Endter-Wada, J.L, Welsh, L.W, (2021). Accumulating Interest in Water Banks: Assessing Their Role in Mitigating Water Insecurities in a Prior Appropriation State. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 57:4, 552-571. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12940
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Kettenring, K., Sutton-Grier, A., (2020). Protecting wetlands for people: Strategic policy action can help wetlands mitigate risks and enhance resilience. Environmental Science and Policy, 108, 37-44. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.01.016
• Barnett, M.J, Jackson-Smith, D., Endter-Wada, J.L, Haeffner, M., (2020). A Multilevel Analysis of the Drivers of Household Water Consumption in a Semi-Arid Region. Science of the Total Environment, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136489
• Li, E., Endter-Wada, J.L, Li, S., (2019). Dynamics of Utah’s agricultural landscapes in response to urbanization: A comparison between irrigated and non-irrigated agricultural lands. Applied Geography, 105, 58-72. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.02.006
• Barnett, M.J, Jackson-Smith, D., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2019). Implications of Nontraditional Housing Arrangements for Urban Water Management in the United States Intermountain West. Society & Natural Resources, 32:5, 508-529. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1539200
• Hale, R., Flint, C., Jackson-Smith, D., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2018). Social Dimensions of Urban Flood Experience, Exposure, and Concern. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 54:5, 1137-1150. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12676
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Kettenring, K., Sutton-Grier, A.E, (2018). Sustaining wetlands to mitigate disasters and protect people. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 16:8, 431.
• Avolio, M.L, Pataki, D.E, Trammel, T.L, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2018). Biodiverse Cities: the Nursery Industry, Homeowners, and Neighborhood Differences Drive Urban Tree Composition. Ecological Monographs, 88:2, 259-276. doi: 10.1002/ecm.1290
• Welsh, L.W, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2017). Piping Water from Rural Counties to Fuel Metropolitan Growth in Las Vegas: Analysis of Controversies over Water Allocation and Transfers in the Arid U.S. West. Water Alternatives, 10:2, 420-436.
• Welsh, L.W, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2017). Policy Debates over the Southern Nevada Water Authority Groundwater Development Project: Beneficial Uses of Water in a Desert. Journal of the Southwest, 59:1-2, 302-337. doi: 10.1353/jsw.2017.0014
• Flint, C., Dai, X., Jackson-Smith, D., Endter-Wada, J.L, Yeo, S.K, Hale, R., Dolan, M.K, (2017). Social and geographic contexts of water concerns in Utah. Society and Natural Resources, 30:8, 885-902. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2016.1264653
• Jackson-Smith, D., Stoker, P.A, Buchert, M., Endter-Wada, J.L, Licon, C., Bell, L., Bjerregaard, Z., Cannon, M., Li, S., (2016). Differentiating urban forms: a neighborhood typology for understanding urban water systems. Cities and the Environment, 9:1, Article 5.
• Burnham, M., Zhao, M., Endter-Wada, J.L, Bardsley, T., (2016). Water Management Decision Making in the Face of Multiple Forms of Uncertainty and Risk. JAWRA - Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 52:6, 1366-1384. doi: 10.1111/1752-1688.12459
• Li, E., Li, S., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2016). Water-Smart Growth Planning: Linking Water and Land in the Arid Urbanizing American West. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management , 60:6, 1056-1072. doi: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1197106
• Li, E., Endter-Wada, J.L, Li, S., (2015). Characterizing and Contextualizing the Water Challenges of Megacities. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 51:3, 589-613. doi: DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12310
• Hale, R.L, Armstrong, A., Baker, M.A, Bedingfield, S., Betts, D., Buahin, C., Buchert, M., Crowl, T.A, Dupont, R.R, Ehleringer, J., Endter-Wada, J.L, Flint, C., Grant, J., Hinners, S., Horsburgh, J.S, Jackson-Smith, D., Jones, A.S, Licon, C., Null, S., Odame, A., Pataki, D.E, Rosenberg, D.E, Runburg, M., Stoker, P., Strong, C., (2015). iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to Study Socio-Hydro-Ecological Systems. Earth's Future/AGU , doi: 10.1002/2014EF000295
• Glenn, D.T, Endter-Wada, J.L, Kjelgren, R.K, Neale, C.M, (2015). Tools for Evaluating and Monitoring Effectiveness of Urban Landscape Water Conservation Interventions and Programs. Landscape and Urban Planning, 139, 82-93. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.03.002
• Downard, R., Endter-Wada, J.L, Kettenring, K., (2014). Adaptive wetland management in an uncertain and changing arid environment. Ecology and Society, 19, 23.
• Madsen, J., Radel, C.A, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2014). Justice and immigrant Latino recreation geography in Cache Valley, Utah. Journal of Leisure Research, 46:3, 291-312.
• Downard, R., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2013). Keeping Wetlands Wet in the Western United States: Adaptations to Drought in Agriculture-Dominated Human-Natural Systems. Journal of Environmental Management, 131, 394-406.
• Welsh, L., Endter-Wada, J.L, Downard, R., Kettenring, K., (2013). Developing adaptive capacity to droughts: the rationality of locality. Ecology and Society, 18:2, 7.
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Blahna, D.J, (2011). Linkages to Public Land Framework: toward embedding humans in ecosystem analyses by using “inside-out social assessment”. Ecological Applications, 21:8, 3254-3271. doi: doi: 10.1890/10-2392.1
• Farag, F., Neale, C.M, Kjelgren, R.K, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2011). Quantifying Urban Landscape Water Conservation Potential Using High Resolution Remote Sensing and GISconservation at the rural-urban interface using remote sensing and GIS. Photogrammeteric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 77, 1113-1122.
• Kilgren, D., Endter-Wada, J.L, Kjelgren, R., Johnson, P.G, (2010). Implementing Landscape Water Conservation in Public School Institutional Settings: A Case for Situational Problem Solving.. Journal of American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 46:6, 1205-1220.
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Selfa, T., Welsh, L., (2009). Hydrologic Interdependencies and Human Cooperation: The Process of Adapting to Droughts.. Weather, Climate and Society, 1:1, 55-71.
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Kurtzman, J., Keenan, S.P, Kjelgren, R.K, Neale, C.M, (2008). Situational Waste in Landscape Watering: Residential and Business Water Use in an Urban Utah Community. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 44:4, 902-920.
• Hooper, V.H, Endter-Wada, J.L, Johnson, C.W, (2008). Theory and Practice Related to Native Plants: A Case Study of Utah Landscape Professionals.. Landscape Journal, 27:1, 127-141. doi: doi: 10.3368/lj.27.1.127
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Keenan, S.P, (2005). Adaptations by Long-Term Commercial Fishing Families in the California Bight: Coping with Changing Coastal Ecological and Social Systems. Human Organizatsion, 64:3, 225-239.

Professional Journal

• Li, E., Endter-Wada, J.L, Li, S., (2015). Linkages between water challenges and land use planning in megacities. Water Resources Impact , 17:1, 9-12. *
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Ingram, H., (2009). Climate Change as Environmental Mega-Crisis: Domesticated Problems, Patchwork Solutions, Inadequate Incentives. Mega-crises in the 21st Century, Special Issue of National Safety and Security and Crisis Management

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | MultiMedia

Video

• Endter-Wada, J.L, Welsh, L.W, Downard, R., Kettenring, K., (2009). Paradoxes in adapting to droughts – The rationality of locality. Ecological Society of America Millennium Conference on water-ecosystem services, drought, and environmental justice

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Research Reports

• Kurtzeborn, K.A, McEntire, A., Endter-Wada, J.L, Kopp, K., Welsh, L., (2025). 2025 Report to the Governor on Utah’s Land, Water, and Air.
• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, (2022). 2022 Report to the Governor on Utah’s Land, Water, and Air. USU's Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land Water and Air
• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2022). Draft Research Project Report: Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities Phase II WaterMAPS™ Analysis for Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Properties-Phase II . *
• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2022). Research Project Report: Eagle Mountain City WaterMAPS™ Analysis. *
• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, Baker, M.A, Brahney, J., Chikamoto, Y., Kettenring, K., Neilson, B.T, Null, S., Rivers, E., Rosenberg, D.E, Schmidt, J.C, Shilton, R., Tarboton, D.G, Torres-Rua, A., Wang, S., Wheaton, J.M, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, Yost, M., Zhang, W., (2021). Utah State University 2021 Report to the Governor on Utah’s Land, Water, and Air.
• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2020). Research Project Report: Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities WaterMAPS™ Analysis-Phase I . *
• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2020). Research Project Report: Landscape Water Use Analytics for Institutional and Corporate Properties. *
• Rupp, L.A, Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, Sun, Y., Johnson, P.G, Schaible, C., (2019). Annual Report of the Center for Water Efficient Landscaping (2019). *
• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2019). Utah State Capitol Grounds Landscape Water Use Assessment. *
• Rupp, L.A, Endter-Wada, J.L, Johnson, P.G, Kopp, K., Sun, Y., Wheaton, A., (2018). Annual Report of the Center for Water Efficient Landscaping (2018). *

Other Reports

• Welsh, L.W, Endter-Wada, J.L, (2016). Cache Water District: Risks and Opportunities. Research and Policy Analysis Report on Formation of a Water Conservancy District in Cache County, Utah. . *
• Endter-Wada, J.L, Hall, A., Jackson-Smith, D., (2015). Utah's Water Future: Perspectives on Water Issues in Utah's Wasatch Range Metropolitan Area. *

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

Bulletins

• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2015). The Untapped Potential of Water Conservation. Utah Science *

Newsletter

Newspaper

• Endter-Wada, J.L, (2008). Letter to the Editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. Salt Lake Tribune

Miscellaneous Extension

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.