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Fraker, Harrison
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:28pm.Name of Person:
Harrison Fraker
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Department:
Architecture, Professor
Research Interests:
affordable manufactured housing, urban design, sustainable development and ecological design
Achievements:
Harrison Fraker is an award winning architect and Founding Partner of the Princeton Energy Group. Recently, he led an initiative to design three transit-oriented neighborhoods for Tianjin, China, a city of 11 million. The idea in this design is not just green buildings but whole systems, encouraging officials to integrate planning for power, water, waste and transportation for better environmental results. Fraker teaches design studio and architectural internship program and current research activity includes affordable manufactured housing, urban design, sustainable development and ecological design.
Moritz, Max
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:52pm.Name of Person:
Max Moritz
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Department:
ESPM, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Maintenance of natural fire regimes in fire-prone ecosystems, while at the same time ensuring sustainable development of wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas; climate change impacts on natural fire regimes; spatial analysis of controls on fire patterns (e.g., relative importance of vegetation characteristics versus climate/weather patterns)
Carr, Claudia
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 1:56pm.Name of Person:
Claudia Carr
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Department:
ESPM, Associate Professor
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Claudia Carr is primarily involved in research concerning alternative types of rural development policies in terrestrial (especially drylands and river basin environments) and coastal and offshore resources in the ‘Third World.’
O'Rourke, Dara
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:39pm.Name of Person:
Dara O'Rourke
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
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Dara O'Rourke's current research analyzes systems for regulating the environmental and social impacts of industrial activities. Through a range of projects, he has been examining trends in industrial development, and state, firm, and community responses to adverse impacts of industrialization.
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Dara O’Rourke interests are in governmental and non-governmental strategies for monitoring and accountability over global production systems, and new models of public participation in environmental and labor policy regulation. In particular, he works on on several projects that analyze participatory strategies for environmental planning and regulation. He has on-going research in Vietnam on processes of "Community-Driven Regulation". He is also interested in new community initiatives around environmental justice concerns in the US. He is author of Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam (MIT Press, 2004)
Horvath, Arpad
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:23pm.Name of Person:
Arpad Horvath
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Department:
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor
Research Interests:
Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, life-cycle assessment, environmentally-conscious construction and infrastructure management
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Horvath’s research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment (LCA) of civil infrastructure systems, as well as industrial ecology and environmental management. His current research projects include assessing the environmental implications of telework, quantifying the environmental and economic benefits accrued by substituting wireless applications for traditional products, and developing new, hybrid models for life-cycle assessment. He has been named an AT&T Faculty Fellow in Industrial Ecology. The fellowship carries a $25,000 prize. Industrial ecology is a multidisciplinary field that studies industrial and economic systems and their linkage with natural systems. His latest (2006) paper is titled “Decision-Support Tool for Assessing the Environmental Effects of Constructing Commercial Buildings.” (with A Guggemos; in the Journal of Architectural Engineering.