Susan H. Lees is an anthropologist and human ecologist, and the former editor-in-chief of Human Ecology and American Anthropologist. She is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at City University of New York. Research Lees' work focuses on political ecology and anthropology. Her early work was largely focused on irrigation and its impact on agriculture, society, and conflict and relationships between groups. Her research has also explored the impact of climate change, gentrification, and other social developments on rural fishing communities in Maine, particularly crab fishing in Deer Isle, Maine. Works The Political Ecology of the Water Crisis In Israel. University Press of America. 1999. Case Studies in Human Ecology. Plenum Press. 1998. Sociopolitical Aspects of Canal Irrigation in the Valley of Oaxaca. University of Michigan Press. 1973. References Human ecologists City University of New York faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Michigan alumni American women anthropologists 21st-century American anthropologists Economic anthropologists Cultural anthropologists Social anthropologists