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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

Elgie, S., G. McCarney & W. Adamowicz. 2011. Assessing the implications of a carbon market for boreal forest management. The Forestry Chronicle 87(3):367-381

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.

Mulligan, J., Tompsett, A. and Guthrie, P. Reconciling participation with external expertise: An ‘engineer-client’ framework for participation in community-scale infrastructure development projects Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability 164 (1) pp 35-47 (2011)

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.

Concavity and Monotonicity Properties in a Groundwater Management Model; Wonghee Tim Huh, Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy, Richard Weber; accepted for publication at Naval Research Logistics

One Million Community Health Workers: Technical Task Force Report. New York: Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2011. (Gordon McCord was part of the technical task force)

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Recent Awards

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Some Recent Presentations

  • Xiaojia Bao: “Distributive Impacts of Dams and Governmental Responses in County Level in China.” Presented at the 18th Annual EAERE Conference (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) in Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy—June 2011
  • Johannes Castner:  “The Evolution, or Diffusion, of Social Norms on a Network: The cases of Foot Binding and Female Genital Mutilation.” Presented at  the 17th Annual Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science, Modeling & Complexity in Santa Fe, NM—June 2011
  • Ram Mukul Fishman: “An Entitlement Approach to Address the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Rural India." Presented at the American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA—December 2008
  • Ram Mukul Fishman: “Extraction of an Exhaustible Resource with Hyperbolic Discounting - Committed, Naive and Sophisticated Policies.” Presented at the 17th annual European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in Amsterdam, the Netherlands—June 2009
  • Solomon Hsiang: “The Tropical Cyclone Climatology of the Caribbean.” Presented at the Northeast Tropical Conference in Rensselaerville, NY—June 2009
  •  Mo Ji: “Lessons of China’s Transitions to Economists.” Presented at the American Economic Association conference in San Francisco, CA—January 2009
  • Amir Jina: “Perceptions of Climate Risk: Autonomous Adaptation of Farmers in Gujarat, India.” Presented at ICARUS II- Climate Vulnerability & Adaptation at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor—May 2011
  • Booyuel Kim: "Project-Malawi: HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Chimutu and Chitukula." Presented at the3rd Malawi International Medical Conference in Lilongwe, Malawi—August 2011
  • Gordon McCord: "Spatial Modeling of Indian Agriculture, Economic Activity and Population under Climate Change." Presented at the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, CA—December 2010
  • Gordon McCord: “Improving Empirical Estimation of Demographic Drivers: Malaria Ecology and Child Mortality.” Presented at the American Economic Association in Denver, CO—January 2011
  • Kyle Meng: “Adapting to Predictable Weather Changes: Chinese Farmers and the Monsoon Onset.” Presented at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting in Denver, CO—January 2011
  • Jose Carlos Orihuela: “An Environmental Resource Curse? Governing Air Pollution from Smelters in Chuquicamata and La Oroya.” Presented at the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) 11th Biennial Conference: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany—August 2010
  • Jose Carlos Orihuela: “Economic Progress, Environmental Failures: Mining in La Oroya, 1890s-2010.” Presented at Environments: The 79th Anglo American Conference of Historians in London, UK—July 2010
  • Lily Parshall: “Climate Change and New York City's Energy Sector: Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Adaptation Strategies.” Presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Phoenix, Arizona—January 2009  
  • Lily Parshall: “Urban Climate Modeling, Heat Island Mitigation and Local Knowledge: Co-Producing Science for Urban Policy.” Presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Phoenix, Arizona—January 2009
  • Anna Tompsett: “Multisector Complementarities in Development and Aid” Actors, Markets and Institutions in Developing Countries Summer School, Namur, Belgium-June 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

  • Saifedean Ammous: Alternative Energy Science and Policy: Biofuels as a Case Study

  • Jessica Barnes: Governing Flow: The Politics of Water Distribution and Use in Egypt

  • Ram Mukul Fishman: Theoretical and Applied Dimensions of Natural Resource Management

  • Solomon Hsiang: Essays on the Social Impacts of Climate

  • Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy: Essays on Resource Management, Agriculture and Hydrologic extremes

  • Margaret MacLeod: Essays on Human Capital in Sustainable Development

  • Gordon McCord: Essays in Malaria Ecology and Economic Development

  • Daiju Narita: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage and Climate Change Mitigation: An Economic and Policy Analysis

  • Anisa Khadem Nwachuku: Critiquing Economic Frameworks in Sustainable Development:  Health Equity, Resource Management & Development Objectives

  • Jose Carlos Orihuela: Journeys toward Sustainable Development: Policy Entrepreneurs and the Rise of the Green State in Chile and Peru

  • Lily Parshall: Improving Energy Policy with Spatial Decision Support Systems: Three Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States

  • Marta Vicarelli: Essays on Climate Risks and Vulnerability-Reduction Strategies

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Student Fellowships

  • Environmental Protection Agency - Science to Achieve Results (STAR)

  • Government of Japan

  • MSST

  • National Science Foundation Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)

  • Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

  • Rockefeller Foundation

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship

  • U.S. Department of Education - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program

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