IPWSD 2019: Schedule

Schedule (subject to change)

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Logistical and other information here

All rooms are in the International Affairs Building (IAB)

Floor map here

Friday, April 12th

 

8:30–9:00        Registration and light breakfast (801 IAB)

 

9:10–10:30      Plenary session (404 IAB): Remarks by Profs. John Mutter and Geoffrey Heal

 

10:30–11:00    Coffee (1101 IAB)

 

11:00–11:50    Parallel session 1A (IAB 409): Information

  • Eunki Min (U.Chicago; Economics)
    Local Economy and Political Opinion on Climate Change
  • Xue Dong (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Environmental Biology)
    Enhancing Environmental Education Outcomes: Applying QR Codes to Interpretive Signage and Evaluating Visitors’ Environmental Attitudes and Behavior

 

                            Parallel session 1B (404 IAB): Disasters

  • Ana Varela Varela (Columbia; Sustainable Development)
    Flooding in an unequal space: the case of Hurricane Sandy
  • Mohammed Baaoum (Virginia Tech; Industrial and System Engineering)
    Overcrowding and Reliance in Emergency Department in Disaster Situation

 

12:00–1:00      Lunch (grab your food in 1101 IAB; we’ll eat there if it’s raining)

 

1:00–3:30*      Parallel session 2A (324 IAB): Climate change impacts and mitigation

  • James Doss-Gollin (Columbia; Columbia Water Center)
    Evaluating staged investments in critical infrastructure for climate adaptation
  • Jesus Arellano Gonzalez (UC Davis; Agricultural and Resource Economics)
    Estimating climate change damages in data scarce and non-competitive settings: anapplication to Mexico
  • Sébastien Annan-Phan (UC Berkeley; Agricultural and Resource Economics)
    Police killings and Temperatures
  • Arnold Behrer (Harvard; Public Policy)
    Who Decides? Climate Change, Adaptation & Equity
  • Garrett Albistegui Adler (Stanford; E-IPER)
    Climate, Conflict and Social Capital in Africa
  • Jason Maier (UCSB; Economics and Environmental Science and Management)
    Palatability of behavior for climate change mitigation

 

                            Parallel session 2B (404 IAB): Energy

  • Megan Lang (UC Berkeley; Agricultural and Resource Economics)
    Understanding Demand for Electricity on the Intensive Margin in Rural Rwanda and Kenya
  • Simone Fobi (Columbia; Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab)
    A Guide to Scalable Electricity Planning
  • Stephen Jarvis (UC Berkeley; Energy & Resources Group)
    Choosing between environmental ills: a study of the phase-out of nuclear power in Germany
  • Sherry Wang (Columbia; Sustainable Development)
    Consumer inertia and deregulation in retail electricity market
  • Megan Bailey (Harvard; Public Policy)
    Induced innovation in US electricity: Has RGGI made a difference?
  • Raimundo Atal (Columbia; Sustainable Development)
    Wind Energy and Storage

 

3:40–4:00        Coffee (1101 IAB)

 

4:10–5:30        Parallel session 3A (324 IAB): Behavior 

  • Benedetta Lerva (Stockholm University; Institute for International Economic Studies)
    Strategic Behavior, Learning and Technology Adoption
  • Peiley Lau (UC Berkeley; Agricultural and Resource Economics)
    Who is responsible for damaging the commons? Identifying polluters in continent-scale river networks
  • Kidanemariam Abreha Gebretsadik (Norwegian U. of Life Sciences; Econ. and Business)
    Irrigation Water Scarcity and Antisocial Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Communal Irrigation Water

 

                            Parallel session 3B (404 IAB): Land use and agriculture

  • Charles Taylor (Columbia; Sustainable Development)
    Global Land Use Evolution: A Grid-cell Analysis of Land Use Change and its Economic Drivers
  • Ehsan Najafi (CCNY, NOAA Crest; Civil Engineering)
    Climate drives variability and joint variability of global crop yields
  • Anouch Missirian (Columbia; Sustainable Development)
    A less simplistic approach to landscape complexity: agricultural landscape complexity and pest pressure

 

5:45                 Group photo (the steps of Low Library—meet outside the 6thfloor at 5:40)

 

6:00–8:00        Open bar + dinner-quality snacks (Arts+Crafts Beer Parlor, 1135 Amsterdam Ave.)

 

*Note that these are particularly long sessions; there will be a short break around 2:15 p.m.

 

Saturday, April 13th

 

10:00–10:30        Light breakfast and coffee (1101 IAB)

 

10:40–12:00    Parallel session 4A (418 IAB): Methods

  • Sarah Walker (Colorado State; Human Dimensions of Natural Resources)
    Complexities of Ethical Practice in Community-Based Research: A Case for Conservation and Development
  • Min Gon Chung (Michigan State; Environmental Science and Policy)
    A Social Network Analysis for Global Flows of Ecosystem Services
  • Saman Amal (CCNY; Water Resources and Environmental Engineering)
    Simulating Precipitation in the Northeast United States Using a Climate-Informed k-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm

 

                        Parallel session 4B (409 IAB): Forests 

  • Colette Salemi (University of Minnesota; Applied Economics)
    Do Refugees Cause Deforestation? A Quasi-Experimental Spatial Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa 2000-2012
  • Hannah Druckenmiller (UC Berkeley; Agricultural and Resource Economics)
    The Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from U.S. Forests
  • Angelika Müller (Heidelberg University; Economics)
    Trees and the Grid: Electrification and Timber Consumption in Nigeria

 

12:00–1:00      Lunch (1101 IAB; same deal as yesterday)

 

1:10–2:30        Parallel session 5A (418 IAB): Economic development

  • John Cruzatti Constantine (Heidelberg University; Economics)
    Free Trade Agreements: An Economic Development Analysis with High-Spatial-Resolution Data
  • Yue Yu (Columbia; Economics)
    Land Use Regulation and Economic Development: Evidence from the Farmland Red Line Policy in China
  • Edouard Dosetto (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Economics)
    Transition from dirty to clean capital in a non-linear inventory dynamic with government intervention

 

                        Parallel session 5B (405 IAB): Environmental policy 

  • Khaled Kheiravar (UC Davis; Economics)
    The Effects of Fuel Subsidies on Air Quality: Evidence from the Iranian Subsidy Reform
  • José Luis Cruz Álvarez (Princeton; Economics)
    Trade, networks and optimal CO2tax
  • Kinga Tchorzewska (University of Barcelona, IEB; Economics)
    Sudden re-introduction of environmental investment tax-incentive – how do firms respond?

 

2:40–3:00        Coffee (1101 IAB)

 

3:10–4:30        Parallel session 6A (418 IAB): Health

  • Franziska Landes (Columbia; Earth and Environmental Sciences)
    Engaging communities to reduce toxic exposures to soil lead in Peru and New York
  • Louise Guillouët (Columbia; Economics)
    The unequal gains from increases in quality: an application to the rise of organic food in the US

 

                        Parallel session 6B (405 IAB): Urbanization

  • Armin Golkhandan (Virginia Tech; Civil and Environmental Engineering)
    Characterization and Assessment of Transportation Diversity: Impacts on Mobility and Resilience Planning in Urban Communities
  • Nicholas Goedeking (UC Berkeley; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
    Avoiding Carbon Lock-in with Sustainable Transport Infrastructure

 

Speaker bios: (coming soon)