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Recent Student Publications

Barnes, J., 2009 Managing the Waters of Ba'th Country: The Power and Politics of Syria's Water Scarcity. Geopolitics, 14(3): 510-530.

Barnes, J., 2001 Barchan Dunes on the Kuiseb River Delta, Namibia. South African Geographical Journal, 83 (3), 283-292.

Chandra Kiran B Krishnamurthy, Upmanu Lall, Hyun-Han Kwon, 2009, Changing Frequency and Intensity of Rainfall Extremes over India from 1951–2003, forthcoming in Journal of Climate

Chandra Kiran B krishnamurthy and Jyoti Parikh, 2007, Economic Impact of Carbon Emission Restrictions: The Case of India, in Energy Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Mathur et al (editors), Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, 2007

McCarney, G.R., G.W. Armstrong and W.L. Adamowicz. 2008. Joint Production of Timber, Carbon and Wildlife Habitat in the Canadian Boreal Plains. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 1478-1492.

McCord, Gordon C. "Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment," (with Awash Teklehaimanot and Jeffrey D. Sachs), American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 77(Suppl 6), December 2007.

McCord, Gordon C. “Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap,” (with Jeffrey D. Sachs, John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, and Michael Faye), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:2004.

McCord, Gordon C. "Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology," with Dalton Conley and Jeffrey D. Sachs. National Bureau of Economics Research Working Paper No. 12892. February 2007.

McCord, Gordon C. "Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment," (with Awash Teklehaimanot and Jeffrey D. Sachs), American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 77(Suppl 6), December 2007.

Meng, K. (2007) “Creating a Cleaner CDM,” Carbon Finance, September 16, 2007.

Meng, K., Williams, R., Celia, M. (2006) “Opportunities for Low-Cost CO2 Storage Demonstration Projects in China,” Energy Policy, 35, p. 2368-2378.

Ngo, N.S. and D.E. Pataki (2008) "The energy and mass balance of Los Angeles County," Urban Ecosystems, 11, 2, 121-139.

Orrs, M. "The relationship between expressed HIV/AIDS-related stigma and beliefs and knowledge about care and support of people living with AIDS in families caring for HIV-infected children in Kenya," (with M. Hamra, M.W. Ross, K. Karuri, & A. D'Agostino), AIDS Care 17(7): 911-922, October 2005.

Orrs, M. "Relationship between expressed HIV/AIDS-related stigma and HIV-beliefs/knowledge and behaviour in families of HIV infected children in Kenya," (with M. Hamra, M.W. Ross, & A. D'Agostino), Tropical Medicine and International Health 11(4): 513-527, April 2006.

Parshall, L., D. Pillai, S. Mohan, A. Sanoh, and V. Modi (2009) "National electricity planning in settings with low pre-existing grid coverage: development of a spatial model and case study of Kenya." Energy Policy 37:2395-2410.

Parshall, L., K. Gurney, S. Hammer, D. Mendoza, Y. Zhou, and S. Geethakumar. "Modeling energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the urban scale: methodological challenges and insights from the United States. Energy Policy, in press.

Vicarelli, Marta. “Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change.” with Rosenzweig, C., D. Karoly, P. Neofotis, Q. Wu, G. Casassa, A. Menzel, T.L. Root, N. Estrella, B. Seguin, P. Tryjanowski, C. Liu, S. Rawlins, and A. Imeson. Nature, 453, 353-357. 2008.

Vicarelli, Marta (contributing author). Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, and P.J. van der Linden, Eds.] Cambridge University Press, pp. 79-131.

Vicarelli, Marta (contributing author) Epstein, P. and E. Mills (eds.). 2005. "Climate Change Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions." Published by Harvard Medical School, sponsored by Swiss Re and the U.N. Development Programme.

Vicarelli, Marta. "Politiques d'environnement et management environnemental: Une enquête auprès de 270 établissements industriels français", (with Glachant Matthieu and Frédérique Vincent). Report to the OECD and the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, 2004.

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Recent Awards

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Best Publication Award 2008
Contributing author to the International Panel for Climate Change(IPCC), Nobel Peace Prize 2007
"President and Provost Award" for organizing the 18th Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy
Peccei Award for outstanding research - conferred by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Alliance Doctoral Mobility Program Fellow, Columbia University – Ecole Polytechnique, France
Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowships in Sustainability Science, Harvard University

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Some Recent Presentations

  • "Extraction of an exhaustible resource with hyperbolic discounting - committed, naive and sophisticated policies" (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 17th annual conference, Amsterdam)
  • "The tropical cyclone climatology of the Caribbean" (North East Tropical Meteorology Workshop)
  • "Tropical cyclones, climate and economic impacts in the Caribbean" (American Geophysical Union Fall meeting-poster)
  • "Urban climate modeling, heat island mitigation and local knowledge: co-producing science for urban policy" (89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2009)
  • "Some simple theory on institutions supporting self-regulation in problems of global pollution" (16th International Climate Policy Workshop)
  • "Valuing the future - social and institutional challenges" (4th international conference on Gross National Happiness, Bhutan)
  • "Groundwater scarcity and the groundwater energy nexus in India" (UNESCO IHE, institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands)
  • "The effects of convective clouds on vertical scalar transport using a numerically simulated flow field" (Poster- Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes Team Meeting, Ft. Collins, CO)
  • "U.S. Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions at the Urban/Local Scale: From Patterns to Policy" (17th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2008)
  • "Climate change and New York City's energy sector: vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptation strategies" (89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2009)
  • "Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions in Urban Counties in the United States with a Case Study of the New York Metropolitan Area" (Fifth Urban Research Symposium organized by the World Bank, Marseille, France, June 2009)
  • "Changes in the Perceived Risk of Climate Change: Evidence from Sudden Climatic Events" (18th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy, Columbia University, April 2009)

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MA Titles

  • “Integrating Inter-Annual Climate Variability Forecasts into Weather-Indexed Crop Insurance.”
  • "Measuring the capacity of irrigation in India to buffer against inter-annual rainfall fluctuations"
  • "Surface temperature and economic growth in the Caribbean"
  • "Political Dimensions of Health Equity in Mozambique"
  • "Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment"
  • "Effects of a Sanitary Towel Distribution Campaign on Girls' Attendance in Coast Province, Kenya"
  • "Agricultural Development in the United Arab Emirates: A Case Study in the Context of Sustainable Development"
  • "The Impact of Agricultural Shocks on Education Expenditure: Gender-Differentiated Response in Ghana"

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Dissertation Titles

  • Barnes, J.: "The Planning, Politics and Practice of Irrigating Egypt"
  • MacLeod, M.: "Essays on Human Capital Formation in Sustainable Development"
  • Narita, D.: "Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and climate change mitigation: An analysis of economic optimality and policy making"
  • Orihuela, J. C.: "Policy Entrepreneurs and the Crafting of the Green State in Latin America"
  • Parshall, L.: "Improving Energy Policy with Spatial Decision Support Systems: 3 Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States"

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Student Fellowships

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
National Science Foundation Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
Environmental Protection Agency - Science to Achieve Results (STAR)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
The Wenner Gren Foundation
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
U.S. Department of Education - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program

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Institutions with Previous Research Collaborations

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