IPWSD 2013: Program

Friday, April 12th:

9:00-9:30: Registration – International Affairs Building (IAB), Outside Room 417 (4th Floor)
9:30-10:30: Keynote Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of The Earth Institute
10:30-11:00: Tea/coffee break
11:00-12:30: Sessions 1 and 2 (Fayerweather 310, 313)

• Session 1: Water Conservation
• Session 2: Urban Planning

12:30-2:00: Lunch (to be provided by IPWSD3)
2:00-3:30: Sessions 3 and 4 (Fayerweather 310, 313)

• Session 3: Agriculture
• Session 4: Conservation and Biodiversity

3:30-4:00: Tea/coffee break
4:00-5:30: Sessions 5 and 6 (Fayerweather 310, 313)

• Session 5: Disasters
• Session 6: Health

7:00PM-9:00PM Speakers’ reception (drinks and light food will be served), Havana Central, Upper West Side, 2911 Broadway (and West 114th)

Saturday, April 13th:

9:00-9:30: Bagels and tea/coffee – IAB 4th Floor (near 402B, 405A)
9:30-11:00: Sessions 7 and 8 (IAB 402B & 405A):

• Session 7: Climate Change
• Session 8: Frameworks of Sustainable Development

11:00-11:30: Tea/coffee break
11:30-1:00: Sustainable Solutions Workshops (IAB 403)
1:00-2:30: Lunch (provided by IPWSD3)
2:30-4:00: Session 9 and 10 (IAB 402B & 405A):

• Session 9: Forests
• Session 10: Energy

4:00-4:30: Concluding Remarks (IAB 411)

Session Speakers

Session 1. Water Conservation

• Fernando Borraz (University of the Republic Uruguay): Water nationalization and service quality

• Simon Ndiritu (University of Gothenburg): Do we use combination of water tariff and refundable payments or rationing to allocate River water?

• Ana Ramirez (University of Texas, Austin): Verification of Water Conservation Technology for Sustainable Rural to Urban Water Transfers

• Wenchao Xu (Boise State University): Water Rights, Water Supply, and Agricultural Output under the Prior Appropriation Doctrine: A Case in Idaho

Session 2. Urban Planning

• Paul Fenton (Linkoping University): What does literature on urban sustainability reveal about the study and practice of urban sustainability?

• Kirsten Kinzer (University of Pennsylvania): Moving Sustainability Plan Implementation Past Common Barriers: The continued role for public participation

• Oyebanke Oyelaran-Oyeyinka (Columbia University): Industrialization pathways to development: Industrial clusters, institutions and poverty eradication in Nigeria

• Sainan Zhang (Arizona State University): Drivers and Consequences of Urbanization and Land Transformation in the Phoenix Region: Application of a Socio-ecological System Framework in Urban Studies

• Xiaojia Zhong (Columbia University): The effects of driving restriction on traffic congestion and air quality in Beijing

Session 3. Agriculture

• Nirupam Datta (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): Evaluating the Impacts of Micro-Watershed Development Project on Cropping Activities in Bardhhaman, West Bengal

• Allison Kelly (University of Washington): Comparing farmer perceived soil quality and measured soil quality in Tanzania: Is there a mismatch?

• Kurt Waldman (Michigan State University): Combining participatory on-farm agronomic trials and experimental auctions to understand subsistence farmer preferences for improved varieties of common bean in Rwanda

Session 4. Conservation and Biodiversity

• Jonathan Salerno (University of California, Davis): Human Migration, Protected Areas, and Conservation Outreach in Tanzania

• Katie Goodall (University of Vermont): Patterns of biodiversity and farmer decision making in cooperatively managed coffee agroecosystems of Nicaragua

• Hilary Faxon (Yale University): Waking the Watchdog: needs, opportunities, and challenges of environmental advocacy in modern Bhutan

• James Rising (Columbia University): Estimating the global benefits of Marine Protected Areas

Session 5. Disasters

• Laura Bakkensen (Yale University): Can We Detect an Adaptation Signal in Tropical Cyclone Damages and Fatalities?

• Jennifer Helgeson (London School of Economics): Vulnerability to weather disasters: the choice of coping strategies in rural Uganda

• Dilnoor Panjwani (University of British Columbia): Resettlement, Community Recovery and Human Development in Post-Tsunami Aceh, Indonesia (An Exploration of Five Cases)

• Amir Jina (Columbia University): Long-term impacts of flooding in Bangladesh

Session 6. Health

• Manuel Barron (University of California, Berkeley): Electrification, Kerosene Use, and Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Northern El Salvador

• Katie Fiorella (University of California, Berkeley): The Case of Lake Victoria, Kenya: Are Food-Producing Livelihoods the Key to Improved Nutrition?

• Emmanuelle Lavaine (Paris School of Economics): The price of health and pollution: an hedonic approach

• Nicole Ngo (Columbia University): It’s getting hot in here:  The relationship between temperature and fetal health

• Jan von der Goltz & Prabhat Barnwal (Columbia University): Mines – the Local Welfare Effects of Mineral Mining in Developing Countries

Session 7. Climate Change

• Jonathan Colmer (London School of Economics): Climate Variability, Child Labour and Schooling: The Intensive and Extensive Margin of Time Allocation in Rural Ethiopia.

• Meha Jain (Columbia University): Socio-economic, Biophysical, and Perceptional Factors Associated with Agricultural Adaptation of Smallholder Farmers in Gujarat, Northwest India

• Remidius Ruhinduka (University of Gothenburg): Climate variability, gender, and post-harvest food loss abatement technologies: evidence from rural Tanzania

Session 8. Frameworks of Sustainable Development

• Lorenzo Cerda (University Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne): Finding a Green Nudge: An Evolutionary Perspective

• Sarah Kleinman (Oxford University): Understanding Change and Sustainability in International NGOs

• Phillip Hannam (Princeton University): Theory of “club” agreements: The potential for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to unlock global climate cooperation

• Nathalia Escobar-Pemberthy (University of Massachusetts Boston): Closing the Implementation Gap in Global Environmental Governance: Understanding Country Needs and Obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Session 9. Forests

• Marie-Luce BiaZafinikamia (Université Paris 1): Chinese investments in the forests of Gabon :  Assessing impacts on local livelihoods

• Tim Holland (McGill University): Changing land markets on a forest frontier: A challenge for forest conservation in the selva alta of Peru.

• Baruani Mshale (University of Michigan): The Global in the Local, the Past in the Present: Communities and REDD+ Negotiations in Tanzania.

• Ariela Zycherman (Columbia University): Forests, Food and Cash: Complexities of Logging in the Bolivian Amazon

Session 10. Energy

• Omar Asensio (University of California, Los Angeles): Behavioral Field Experiments in Energy Conservation

• Etienne Espagne (Centre D’Analyse Strategique): The leverage effect of a non-conventional monetary policy on the financing of the energy transition: a DSGE approach

• Chantal Toledo (University of California, Berkeley): Do Environmental Messages Work on the Poor? Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Favelas

• Belinda Archibong (Columbia University): On Spatial Correlation of Electricity, Health and Water Access in Nigeria