Humans have changed the physical, ecological, and biological components of the Earth’s planetary systems to an astonishing degree. Those environmental changes impact human populations in return, and continue to shift, often in unanticipated ways. Our research seeks to inform the transitions that society will need to make to sustain and improve human well-being in the face of environmental change, and to provide insights that will help limit environmental degradation.
We have focal areas in world oil markets, integrated assessment of climate change, valuation of ecosystem services, energy transitions, environmental governance, and energy policy and governance.
Faculty with Related Research
Resource Dynamics, Policy, and Governance and Climate
- James Baldwin – energy and the environment, regional science, economic and environmental geography
- Cutler J. Cleveland – energy transitions, energy life cycle analysis, ecological economics
- Anne Short Gianotti – socio-political dimensions of natural resource management, landowner decision-making, institutional change, coupled natural human systems
- Robert Kaufmann – global climate change, world oil markets, land-use changes
- Christoph Nolte – global land conservation, policy analysis, quantitative causal inference, data science for conservation decisions
- Richard Reibstein – improvement of environmental governance, pollution reduction, efficient regulation
- Ian Sue Wing – energy and environmental economics; climate change mitigation, impacts and adaptation; economics of natural hazards; integrated assessment modeling
- Benjamin Sovacool – climate justice, sustainability, environmental policy, renewable energy, electricity
Climate Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
- Robinson W. Fulweiler – marine biogeochemistry, ecology, climate and coastal ecosystems
- Sucharita Gopal – GIS, spatial statistics, spatial analysis & modeling, GIS applications
- Nathan Phillips – ecosystem change in urban and natural environments
- Caterina Scaramelli – ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivities
- Dan Li – urban microclimate, boundary layer meteorology, environmental fluid mechanics