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Watts, Michael
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:37am.Name of Person:
Michael Watts
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Department:
Geography, Professor
Research Interests:
Political economy, political ecology, Africa, South Asia, development, peasant societies, social and cultural theory, U.S. agriculture, Islam and social movements
Welter, Stephen
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:41am.Name of Person:
Stephen Welter
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Plant-insect interactions or understanding and managing insect populations in agricultural settings. One recent emphasis of the plant-insect work has been to understand the consequences of changes in either system traits or plant characteristics on the interactions of plant, herbivores, and their natural enemies.
Zilberman, David
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:51am.Name of Person:
David Zilberman
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Department:
Agricultural and Resource Economics, Professor
Research Interests:
David Zilberman's research interests are in agricultural and nutritional policy, economics of technological change, economics of natural resources and microeconomic theory.
Sayre, Nathan
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:12am.Name of Person:
Nathan Sayre
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Department:
Geography, Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Ranching and pastoralism, rangeland ecology and management, history of range science, endangered species, scale in ecology and geography, the state, Western environmental history, and urbanization/land use change.
Pollan, Michael
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 3:38pm.Name of Person:
Michael Pollan
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Department:
Journalism, Professor
Research Interests:
Obesity, Journalism, Science, Environment
Narasimhan, T. N.
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 3:02pm.Name of Person:
T. N. Narasimhan
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Professor Narasimhan is a hydrogeologist. Hydrogeology is concerned with geological processes that are influenced by water. Over the past three decades, Narasimhan and his students have addressed research issues and published papers on a wide variety of hydrogeological topics including, aquifer hydraulics, groundwater contamination, nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, irrigated agriculture, marine hydrogeology, petroleum reservoir engineering, triggered earthquakes, numerical modeling, and so on.
Mills, Nicholas
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:47pm.Name of Person:
Nicholas Mills
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
The focus of Nicholas Mills' research group is the biological control of insect pests and the ecology of insect parasitism and predation.
Kubo, Isao
Submitted by cmjones on March 5, 2007 - 2:28pm.Name of Person:
Isao Kubo
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
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Isao Kubo's group has been searching for ecologically sound pest control agents based on natural products (including biopolymers such as enzymes) that fundamentally regulate nature.
De Janvry, Alain
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 1:29pm.Name of Person:
Alain de Janvry
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Department:
Goldman School of Public Policy, Adjunct Professor
Research Interests:
Poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and management of common property resources.
Achievements:
Alain de Janvry is an economist working on international economic development, with expertise principally in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East, and the Indian subcontinent. Fields of work include poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and the management of common property resources. He has worked with many international development agencies, including FAO, IFAD, the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, the CGIAR, and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller and Kellogg. His main objective in teaching, research, and work with development agencies is the promotion of human welfare, including understanding the determinants of poverty and analyzing successful approach to improve well-being and promote sustainability in resource use.
De Janvry, Alain
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:37pm.Name of Person:
Alain de Janvry
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Department:
Agricultural and Resource Economics, Professor
Research Interests:
Poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and management of common property resources.
Achievements:
Alain de Janvry is an economist working on international economic development, with expertise principally in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East, and the Indian subcontinent. Fields of work include poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and the management of common property resources. He has worked with many international development agencies, including FAO, IFAD, the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, the CGIAR, and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller and Kellogg. His main objective in teaching, research, and work with development agencies is the promotion of human welfare, including understanding the determinants of poverty and analyzing successful approach to improve well-being and promote sustainability in resource use.