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Mark Milstein
…Dr. Milstein specializes in framing the world’s social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs which can be addressed effectively by the private sector through innovation and entrepreneurship, thereby allowing…
Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner
…improve social and environmental conditions. Her current research and practice include managed retreat and equity, environmental justice, bridging policy with science, climate change education, and building disaster resilience with vulnerable…
Allison M. Chatrchyan
…on the interface between social, environmental, and agricultural systems and multi-level governance of climate change. Dr. Chatrchyan facilitates interdisciplinary research and extension teams that are developing resources and tools for…
Jessica Noll (Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences)
…worldwide. African swine fever (ASF), caused by ASFV, is a hemorrhagic transboundary disease of high social and economic impact with mortality rates reaching up to 100% in domestic pigs. Due…
Jarvis Fisher (Global Development)
…approaches to food security in Senegal. For years, Senegalese government officials have promoted rice self-sufficiency by intensifying irrigated production in targeted riverine regions. Fearful of the social and ecological effects…
Design Research for Carbon Removal
As the urgency of climate change creates ecological, economic and social uncertainty, design research will be an increasingly important tool. A new interdisciplinary team — with expertise in landscape architecture,…
Family Values Outweigh Politics in U.S. Latinos’ Climate Beliefs
…Climatic Change. Rainer Romero-Canyas, lead senior social scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), is a co-author. “There’s a growing body of work that finds that Hispanics and Latinos in…
Opening the Door to Nature-Based Engagement
…communities in urban and rural areas, and will identify curricular best practices and generate data to inform programs and state policy for long-term social and environmental impact. [This project is…
Stay or Go? How Environment Affects Migration in Mexico
Studies have examined how economic, political and social factors affect migration in Mexico, but the role of the environment has not been explored. This project links environmental events to individuals’…
Seeding Solar in New York
…social, and spatial areas of conflict and develop policy recommendations to strengthen the farm sector and increase rural resilience. Investigators: Jennifer Ifft (moved to Kansas State), Richard Stedman, K. Max…