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Steven Gorelick is the Cyrus F. Tolman Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford. His ìhydro groupî conducts research in two general areas. One research goal is to improve the fundamental scientific understanding of controls on groundwater flow and solute migration by analyzing laboratory and field data. This effort relies heavily on developing predictive simulation models. The other research goal is to advance the scientific basis for water resources management by constructing planning models to evaluate water-allocation strategies. In recent research projects, Professor Gorelick and his students have combined hydrogeology with aspects of ecology, geophysics, operations research, and economics to study meadow restoration and wetland protection, water supply management in Mexico and India, and contaminated groundwater remediation methods.
Professor
Richard Howitt is currently a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Davis. He has been a faculty member at U.C Davis for three decades. Originally from Britain, he spent several years in Australia before coming to do his Ph.D. at U.C. Davis. His teaching covers both graduate and undergraduate courses in resource economics, economic theory and operations research. Howittís current research interests are disaggregated economic modeling methods, using market mechanisms to allocate water re-sources, and empirical dynamic stochastic methods.
Professor
Eric F. Lambin is a Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He was previously Assistant Professor at Boston University and Expert for the European Commission at the Joint Research Center (Ispra). He has been Chair of the ìLand-Use and Land-Cover Changeî (LUCC) programme of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
His research interests include the monitoring of land-cover changes by remote sensing, and the modeling of land-use changes and their impacts on coupled human-environment systems. Eric Lambin has published extensively in leading scientific journals in remote sensing, geography and environmental sciences.
Professor
Claudia Pahl-Wostl is full professor for the "Management of Resource Flows" at the Institute for Environmental Systems Research in Osnabr¸ck, Germany. Before moving to USF Claudia
Pahl-Wostl worked for more than ten years in the field of mathematical modeling, integrated assessment and human ecology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Science and Technology, Z¸rich and the Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, EAWAG, one of the leading water research institutes in Europe.
She is representative of the IHDP (International Human Dimension Program) in the Global Water System Project (a joint project of the ESSP ñ WCRP, IGBP, IHDP and DIVERSITAS) to develop a global change research program on the water issue from a social science perspective, member of the steering committee of EFIEA, the European Forum for Integrated Environmental Assessment and president of TIAS, The International Society for Integrated Assessment.
Currently she coordinates the Integrated Project NEWATER (New methods for adaptive water management) project which aims at a paradigm shift in water resources management in both research and practice.
Assistant Professor
Isha Ray is Assistant Professor at the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University. Before joining the ERG faculty, she was an analyst on farm economics and institutions at the Turkey office of the International Water Management Institute, and then a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow at UCBís Geography Department.
Senior Research Fellow
Claudia Ringler, is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Her research interests are water resources management--in particular, river basin management--and agricultural and natural resource policies for developing countries. Moreover, she is undertaking work on adaptation to climate change and enhanced rural water quality management. Claudia co-leads IFPRIís water research group and also leads Theme 5 on the Global and National Food and Water System of the Challenge Program on Water and Food. Claudia received a B.A. in business management from Germany and Spain, an M.A. in international and development economics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Bonn University.
Senior Fellow
Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Dr. Rozelle received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley; and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. Before arriving at Stanford, Rozelle was a professor at the University of California, Davis (1998-2000) and an assistant professor in the Food Research Institute and Department of Economics at Stanford University (1990-98). He also serves on the editorial board of Economic Development and Cultural Change, Agricultural Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, China Journal, and the China Economic Review.
Dr. Rozelle's research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with three general themes: a) agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural projects; b) the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; and c) the economics of poverty and inequality.
In the past several years, Dr. Rozelle's papers have been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, American Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature. He is the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; a co-director of the Agricultural Issues Center (University of California); and a member of Stanford's new Food, Security, and the Environment Program. Professor Rozelle has received numerous honors and awards in recognition of his outstanding achievements.
Director
A leading expert in environmental and natural resources law and policy, Barton H. ìBuzzî Thompson JD/MBA í76 (BA í72) has contributed a large body of scholarship on environmental issues ranging from the future of endangered species and fisheries to the use of economic techniques for regulating the environment. He is the founding director of the law schoolís Environmental and Natural Resources Program, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Professor Thompson is chairman of the board of the Resources Legacy Fund and the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, a California trustee for The Nature Conservancy, and a board member of both the American Farmland Trust and the Natural Heritage Institute. He was a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Associate Professor
Jinxia Wang is associate professor in the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP) at Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
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