多年来,戈尔茨坦的研究已经发展到研究印尼及其他国家的多重政治生态危机。例如,在康奈尔·阿特金森可持续发展中心她目前正在研究为什么和小型金矿器如何使用汞。虽然原始研究问题是寻找阻止使用汞的方法,但由于其对环境和人类健康的负面影响,Goldstein的研究重点迅速扩大。One of her favorite parts of social science research is how an academic can enter into fieldwork with one research question and all of a sudden see a bigger picture: “It’s like lifting up a rock and seeing a bug ecosystem full of layers of issues to be analyzed,” Goldstein says.