Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Public Policy, Economics, and Society

FACULTY
Frederick H. Abernathy	Environment and manufacturing channel, especially textile industry.
William Alford	Chinese Law and Legal History, including environmental concerns; international trade and technology transfer.
Graham Allison	U.S. national security and defense policy; security aspects of energy and environmental issues.
George Baker	Managerial performance measurement and its role in the design of incentive systems and on the structure and performance of organizations.
Ofer Bar-Yosef	The origin of modern humans and early farming societies; Near East.
Max H. Bazerman	Judgment in managerial decision making; bounded awareness; bounded ethicality; societal decision.
David G. Blackbourn	German social, cultural, and political history; environmental history.
David Bloom	Labor economics, health, demography, and the environment; linkages between health status, population change, and economic growth.
Peter Bol	Chinese cultural and intellectual history; historical geography; geographical analysis.
Janet Browne	History of the life sciences; natural history.
Lawrence Buell	Rethinking U. S. literature in a globalizing world; discourses of literature and environment.
Matthew Bunn	The future of nuclear energy and its fuel cycle.
Marcia Castro	Changes in demographic patterns, disease burdens, and health policies.
Steven Caton	Linguistics; cultural studies; gender; Yemeni poetics and politics, including regional environmental issues; US men's movement.
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, with special emphasis on the role of science and technology.
Peter Coles	Market design and the incentives for participants in markets; game theory; economic institutions; experimental economics.
Richard N. Cooper	Management of international economic system; global energy use, policies, and environmental issues; U.S.-European, U.S.- Japanese economics; China and the world economy
Cornelia Dean	Media coverage of environmental and health issues.
Rafael Di Tella	Corruption; crime; happiness; political economy; Welfare State; oil and energy.
Diana L. Eck	Religious pluralism in India and American civil society.
James Engell	British literature; comparative Romanticism; criticism and critical theory; environment and literature; environmental education.
Richard T.T. Forman	Landscape ecology; road ecology; urban-region ecology and planning; conservation; patch-corridor matrix model; changing land mosaics; land-use planning.
Robert France	Ecology and conservation biology; landscape architecture, land-use planning and environmental theory.
Alison Frank	Social history, economic development, and environmental change; environmental history of the Adriatic and of the Alps; the history of the oil industry.
Jeffrey Frankel	International finance; monetary policy; regional blocs; international environmental issues.
Jody Freeman	Administrative law; environmental law; governance theory; natural resource law; privatization; regulation.
Kelly Sims Gallagher	Energy technology innovation; international energy cooperation; energy policy; climate change policy; international environmental policy; transportation; energy policy in China.
Edward Glaeser	Urban and social economics; microeconomic theory; green cities.
Jerry R. Green	Behavior under uncertainty; incentives and game theory; public finance, including health care, technology, and environment.
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.
Sarah Jansen	The history of biopolitics, the history of the life sciences, environmental history, the history of formalization, and the history of scientific objects.
Sheila Jasanoff	The role of science and technology in the law, politics, and public policy of modern democracies, with a particular focus on the challenges of globalization.
Dale W. Jorgenson	Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics.
Calestous Juma	Biodiversity and sustainable development; science and technology policy.
Jerold S. Kayden	Law and the built environment; public-private urban development.
Michael Kremer	Education and health in developing countries; immigration; globalization.
Jennifer Leaning	Problems of international human rights and humanitarian law, humanitarian crises, and medical ethics in practical settings of disasters and emergencies.
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.
Ian J. Miller	Modern Japanese history, with primary focus on imperialism and the cultural dimensions of scientific, medical, and environmental change; international history of natural history; global history of tsunami.
Erich Muehlegger	Industrial organization, economic regulation, and environmental policy.
Sendhil Mullainathan	Psychology and economics, poverty, and finance.
Joseph Nye	International relations and nuclear security.
Ariel Pakes	Industrial organization; the economics of technological change, econometric theory; equilibrium responses to policy and environmental changes; hedonic cost functions for automobiles.
David Pilbeam	Analysis of faunal change and its relationship to environmental change; evolutionary developmental biology; behavioral reconstruction and phylogenetic relationships of Miocene apes.
Forest L. Reinhardt	Behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; economics of externalities and public goods; environmental management; energy strategy.
Peter P. Rogers	Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict resolution in international river basins; the impacts of global change on water resources.
Emma Rothschild	Intellectual, economic, and social history of 18th Century Western and Central Europe; Atlantic history; science, technology, and society.
Joel Schwartz	Health effects of lead and air pollutants and ozone exposure; cost-benefit analysis in environmental decision making.
Robert N. Stavins	Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and related public policy; innovation and diffusion of technology; market-based strategies for future climate policy; international climate agreements.
Matthew Stephenson	Administrative and environmental laws; public regulation, agencies and courts.
Ajantha Subramanian	Postcolonial anthropology; cultural politics of development; political ecology; the dynamics of race, class, and culture in the U.S.; religious consciousness and practice.
Lawrence H. Summers	Economics of climate change; macroeconomics; international policy; finance; public economics; labor.
Kimberly Thompson	Developing and applying quantitative methods for risk assessment and risk management, especially relating to children's risks and the environment.
Karen Thornber	World literature and the literatures of East Asia; transculturation; cultural engagement with environmental crises and concerns; ecocriticism; trauma.
Michael W. Toffel	Corporate environmental, safety, and quality programs; socially responsible investment ratings as predictors of corporate social responsibility and 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; regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes; strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications; financial services.
Martin L. Weitzman	Environmental and natural resource economics; green accounting; economics of biodiversity.
Matt Welsh	Wireless sensor networks; investigation of wireless sensor networks for monitoring eruptions of active and hazardous volcanoes.
Richard Zeckhauser	Democratic, decentralized resource allocation; financial markets and health risks; perceptions of climate change.

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)
Center for Technology and Environment (GSD)
China Project
Energy Tehnology Innovation Policy (HKS)
Environment and Natural Resources Program (HKS)
Environmental Law Program (HLS)
Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HKS)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements (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)
Science, Technology, and Society (HKS)
Sustainability Science Project (HKS)
Taubman Center for State and Local Government (HKS)
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs