Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Public Policy, Economics, and Society

FACULTY
Graham Allison	U.S. national security and defense policy; security aspects of energy and environmental issues.
Ofer Bar Yosef	Prehistoric archeology; the rise of agriculture in the Neolithic age.
Max H. Bazerman	Decision making in negotiation, and improving decision making in organizations, nations and society.
Peter Bol	Chinese cultural and intellectual history; historical geography.
Joyce Chaplin	Early American history, the history of science, intellectual history, and evironmental history.
William C. Clark	Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology.
Peter Coles	Market design and the incentives for participants in markets.
Cornelia Dean (email)	Media coverage of environmental and health issues.
James Engell	British literature, comparative Romanticism, criticism and critical theory; environment and literature.
Jody Freeman	The design of governance institutions, regulatory tools and decision making procedures; climate related institutional design.
Richard Forman	Landscape and regional ecology, road ecology, land-use planning, and linking science with spatial pattern to mesh nature and people.
Robert France	Ecology and conservation biology; landscape architecture, land-use planning and environmental theory.
Alison Frank	Intellectual and cultural history, social movements, economic development, and environmental change; environmental history of the Alps.
Jeffrey Frankel	International finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, and international environmental issues.
Edward Glaeser	Urban and social economics; microeconomic theory; green cities
Jerry R. Green	Economics of incentives, principles of equity for use in collective decision making and the use of data on choice to evaluate economic well-being.
James K. Hammitt	The development and application of quantitative methods--including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis--to health and environmental policy.
Bruce L. Hay	Economic analysis of law; legal procedure; environmental law.
William Hogan	Designing the market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services, and financial transmission rights.
John Holdren	Energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control.
James Hoyte	Environmental policy and management; environmental and nature resource conservation policy.
Daniel J. Jacob	Air pollution, atmospheric transport, regional and global atmospheric chemistry, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, climate change.
Sheila Jasanoff	Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; and science and technology policy.
Dale W. Jorgenson	Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics.
Henry Lee	Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy.
Marc Lipsitch	Transmission dynamics and within-host population biology of infectious disease.
Michael B. McElroy	Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere, evolution of planetary atmospheres.
Ian J. Miller	Cultural, social and environmental history of modern Japan.
Erich Muehlegger	Industrial organization; economic regulation; and environmental policy.
Megan Murray	Within-species comparative genomics of M. Tuberculosis strains; modeling the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious disease.
Ariel Pakes	Industrial organization, the economics of technological change, econometric theory; equilibrium responses to policy and environmental changes.
Forest L. Reinhardt	Relationships between market and non-market strategy; the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; the economics of externalities and public goods.
Peter P. Rogers	Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict resolution in international river basins; the impacts of global change on water resources.
Daniel P. Schrag	Geochemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, stable isotope geochemistry; climate change.
Joel Schwartz	Epidemiology and the health consequences of exposure to lead and air pollutants; methodological questions regarding the modeling of continuous covariates in epidemiologic studies.
Robert N. Stavins	Environmental economics and public policy; market based strategies for future climate policy.
Matthew Stephenson	Administrative and environmental laws; public regulation, agencies and courts.
Karen Thornber	East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese) cultural engagement with environmental crises and concerns.
Michael W. Toffel	Companies' environmental, safety, and quality programs; whether socially responsible investment ratings of corporate social responsibility predict companies' social performance.
Noreen Tuross	Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions; human impacts on the land, paleodiet, migration and seasonality.
Richard Vietor	International energy issues, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes, and strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services.
Martin L. Weitzman	Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Green Accounting, Economics of Biodiversity, Economics of Environmental Regulation, Economics of Climate Change.
Richard Zeckhauser	Performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality.

Public Policy, Economics, and Society-Related Programs at Harvard

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (HKS)
Center for Business and Government (HKS)
Center for International Development (HKS)
China Project
Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University (HKS)
Environment and Natural Resources Program (HKS)
Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HKS)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Program on Technology and Economic Policy (HKS)
Project for Reclamation Excellence (GSD)
Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston (HKS)
Regulatory Policy Program (HKS)
Science, Environment and Development Group (HKS)
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (HKS)
Sustainability Science Project (HKS)
Taubman Center for State and Local Government (HKS)
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs