Developing & Testing Human Decision-Making for Environmental Policy in Coastal Bangladesh - John Nay
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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2013 · Education
In this video, John Nay describes his current research. John is a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (www.cee.vanderbilt.edu) where he is studying Environmental Engineering, with a focus on Environmental Management and Policy. He is also a Fellow at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/viee/). He empirically studies —and models—public good and common-pool resource "social dilemmas" in order to understand combinations of behaviors and institutional designs that facilitate cooperation and welfare-improving investment decisions. He is also applying agent-based modeling to issues of climate change adaptation in South Asia and U.S. coastal real estate markets. John's research advisor is Mark Abkowitz, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University. John graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Distinction from the University of Virginia. He has interned for the Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, worked at an environmental policy firm, and conducted research on climate adaptation policy in the U.S. and in Bangladesh. He has also been awarded various honors, including a Fulbright Scholarship and the Senator John Warner Public Leadership Research Award. Dr. Mark Abkowitz specializes in enterprise risk management, hazardous materials transportation safety and security, assessing the impacts of energy choices and climate change, and the strategic and operational deployment of intelligent transportation systems. A Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, he also served as the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies. Environmental Engineering graduate students focused in the environmental engineering, management and policy area participate in VCEMS, the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management. The Center is a Vanderbilt University system-wide initiative jointly led by the School of Engineering, the Owen Graduate School of Management, and the Law School. VCEMS activities are interdisciplinary and focus on environmental business, management and technology.Vanderbilt YouTube - Videos from Civil & Environmental Engineering Graduate Students & Researchers April 2012 Ensuring sustainability of water resources requires intense interactions among leaders in the business, government and non-profit sector as they face enormous challenges when making expensive decisions about infrastructure investments that will need to last late into the twenty-first century. An example of the new generation of environmental management and policy problems that will require innovative approaches is water stewardship. We are now living in an era of "post-stationarity," that is, a period when assumptions about stable environmental and ecosystem conditions are no longer valid. Consequently, for the rest of the century, the world is expected to face much higher levels of risk associated with water stressed regions, both in the form of access to clean water as well as exposure to severe floods and droughts. .Environmental issues are arguably the most pressing problem of the 21st century. These problems stem from patterns of human interaction with the earth and its ecosystems, and from unsustainable use of natural resources. For more information on the graduate program in Environmental Engineering, and the interdisciplinary studies in Environmental Management and Policy, visit www.cee.vanderbilt.edu.
