I have a new paper Nature Climate Change,
“Future-making beyond (Im)mobility through tethered reilience,”
led by Bishawjit Mallick,
that introduces a concept of tethered resilience, related to people’s
attachment to their native communities and place, and argues that this
concept provides new and useful ways to think about connections among
climate change, migration, and adaptation.
I am co-author on a
letter to Science
discussing the need to protect
transgender and gender-nonconforming (GnC) scientists in the face of
politicized attacks by the Trump administration.
I have a new paper,
with Kelsea Best and
Bishawjit Mallick,
in which we used pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to study
environmentally-driven migration in rural Bangladesh and found that
economic inequality in rural villages plays a crucial role.
Mariah Caballero,
Mike Vandenbergh,
Elodie Currier, and I have a paper
analyzing the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)
and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). These laws include incentives
for households to take voluntary actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
such as buying electric cars and performing energy-efficiency home renovations.
We found that these incentives account for only
around 11% of spending, but the household actions they stimulate are
expected to produce around 40% of total emissions reductions.
These results confirm previous studies which found that incentives for
individuals and households to voluntarily adopt energy efficiency
actions can make powerful contributions to climate and energy policy, and
should be emphasized in future policy proposals.
I have a new paper, led by Jess Raff,
that analyzes sediment transport and sediment budgets
in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, and assesses the implications of
sediment flow for sustainability in the face of sea-level rise and the
diversion and damming of major rivers.
I have a new paper in the journal
Energy Efficiency, co-authored with Alex Maki, Emmett McKinney,
Mike Vandenbergh, and Mark Cohen,
about employers who offer employee benefits to promote energy efficiency.
Cities face challenges on many fronts as they work to assure their residents of safe and reliable access to water.
Changes in both supply and demand are driven by complex interactions among many human and natural factors, such as
drought, infrastructure, population growth, and land-use. Climate change adds new complexities and uncertainties as
cities plan for the future. In the past, challenges to water security were addressed by
Promethean energy- and technology-intensive infrastructure projects,
such as long-distance transfers, desalination, and artificial aquifer recharge;
but in recent years, attention to soft approaches has grown.
Soft approaches
to water security focus on improving efficiency in obtaining and consuming water, and as John Fleck
documented in his book,
Water Is for Fighting Over,
a number of cities have made impressive progress toward resilience and sustaniability.