Rosanne Altshuler

Rosanne Altshuler is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Rutgers University. She holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Rosanne’s expertise is in tax policy analysis. She has published numerous articles on the economics of taxation in scholarly journals and books. Rosanne served as Senior Economist to the President’s Advisory Panel of Federal Tax Reform (2005). Prior to joining the Tax Reform Panel, she was acting as a Special Advisor to the Joint Committee on Taxation (2004-2005).
Web site: http://econweb.rutgers.edu/altshule/
Email: altshule@econ.rutgers.edu

Clinton Andrews

Clinton Andrews applies the perspectives of planning and engineering to energy and environmental problems. His current research and teaching examine inclusive ways to design of our common future, and evaluation of how the built environment actually performs.
Web site: http://policy.rutgers.edu/andrews/
Email: cja1@rci.rutgers.edu

Martin Bunzl

The current focus of Martin Bunzl’s work is on the social dimensions of climate change. In addition to directing CSP, he is interested in the way in which equity issues can be addressed in assessing both mitigation and adaption policies.
Web: http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/FACSTAFF/BIOS/bunzl.html
Email: bunzl@rutgers.edu

Gretchen Chapman

Gretchen Chapman is Professor of Psychology. Her areas of research include: judgment and decision making, trade-offs between present and future outcomes, time and risk preferences, the anchoring bias, preference reversals, decoy effects, the conjunction fallacy, and the sunk cost fallacy.
Email: gbc@rci.rutgers.edu

Caron Chess
Caron Chess,an associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology, conducts research on risk communication and public participation.
Email: chess_c@aesop.rutgers.edu

Frank Felder

Frank Felder is the Director of the Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Felder’s primary research area is energy policy and the reliability and efficiency of restructured electric power systems.
Web site: http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/felder.html
Email: ffelder@rci.rutgers.edu

Leela Fernandes
Leela Fernandes is an Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research interests are in the fields of politics and culture, political economy, gender and politics and South Asian studies. Her most recent book is “India ’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform” (2007).
Web site: http://www.polisci.rutgers.edu/FACULTY/BIOS/Fernandes.html
Email: fernandes@polisci.rutgers.edu

Frank Fischer

Frank Fischer is Professor of Political Science and member of the faculties of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Center for Global Change and Governance on the Newark Campus. He focuses on the environmental policymaking and the politics of the environmental movement, in particular the role of environmental expertise in the regulatory process.
Website: http://politicalscience.newark.rutgers.edu/fischer.htm
Email: ffischer@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Branden Johnson
Braden Johnson is interested in the factors that enable or constrain how people think and behave with regard to “risk” broadly conceived, particularly but not exclusively on environmental risks, and how the content and form of communications can affect risk “perceptions” and behavior. His interests include individual (e.g., “how best to convince people to reduce their use of fossil fuels?”), organizational (e.g., “under what circumstances does information on climate change impacts or social norms, etc. move organizations to consider adaptation?”), and policy aspects of these topics.
Email: Branden.Johnson@dep.state.nj.us

Benjamin Justice

Benjamin Justice coordinates the Social Studies Education Program at the Graduate School of Education. In addition to teaching and writing on issues of social justice and democracy, he is currently writing a book on American imperial education, from the colonial era to the present. He is interested in raising awareness of climate change issues among pre-service teachers and public school children.
Email: bjust@rci.rutgers.edu

Dan Kelemen

Dan Kelemen’s research interests include the politics of the European Union, law and politics, comparative political economy, federalism and environmental policy.
Web site: http://www.polisci.rutgers.edu/FACULTY/BIOS/Kelemen.html
Email: dkelemen@polisci.rutgers.edu

Gabriela Kütting
Gabriela Kütting joined the Political Science faculty and the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers Newark in the summer of 2004. She was previously a tenured faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She holds a D.Phil degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex where she also gained her M.Sc. and B.A. degrees. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in International Relations and Global Environmental Politics. Gabriela’s research interests lie in the field of global environmental politics and international/global political economy. She critically examines the concept and processes of a globalizing political economy in relation to environmental and social concerns. Her work brings together several sub-disciplines from global political economy to political ecology and analyzes the consequences of social and economic policies in global institutions and industrialized countries on particular locales outside the center. It takes as a starting point the pillars on which the global hegemonic political economy of the environment is built: the tension between production and consumption, nature-society relations and equity.
Web site: http://politicalscience.newark.rutgers.edu/Kutting.htm
Email: kutting@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Robin Leichenko

Robin M. Leichenko is Associate Professor and Graduate Director in Geography at Rutgers. Leichenko received a Ph.D. in Geography (1997) and an M.A. in Economics (1995) from Penn State University. Leichenko’s research explores the social and economic effects of global change processes on cities and regions in advanced and developing countries. She has conducted studies on the impacts of climate change and globalization in India, Mozambique, Pakistan, and the United States. In 2004, Leichenko was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo where she worked on the development of conceptual and empirical models of regional vulnerability to global change. Leichenko has published scholarly articles on climate change in journals such as Global Environmental Change, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, and Water Resources Development. She recently completed a book manuscript (with Dr. Karen O’Brien of the University of Oslo) entitled Double Exposure: Global Environmental Change in an Era of Globalization, forthcoming in 2008 from Oxford University Press.
Web site: http://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/leichenko/
Email: rleichen@rci.rutgers.edu

Bruce Mizrach

Bruce Mizrach utilizes nonlinear models to understand economic and financial markets. His current focus is on the market microstructure of electronic limit order markets. These markets may at some point play an important role in greenhouse gas allocation.
Web site: http://snde.rutgers.edu
Email: mizrach@econ.rutgers.edu

Karen O’Neill
Karen M. O’Neill studies how policies on natural resources change the standing of experts and program beneficiaries and transform government’s overall claims to authority. She has studied why local elites pressed for a U.S. program of flood control, why governments preserve national parklands, and how national disaster policies have slowed global cooperation on climate change. New projects investigate why local anti-sprawl movements succeed in rural-urban fringe communities and how policies on race, transportation, and land use led to the devastation of New Orleans.
Email: koneill@aesop.rutgers.edu

Andrew Pleasant

Andrew Pleasant conducts interdisciplinary research and teaches at the intersections of science, environment, and health by focusing on science, health, and environmental communication; health literacy; public participation processes; and social marketing. Pleasant has led and participated in numerous health literacy, science, and environmental communication trainings in the United States and internationally, worked for the World Health Organization focusing on program evaluation of health research communication programs, and publishes in a range of peer-reviewed academic journals. He has active research projects in the United States, South Africa, and Kenya. Pleasant was a 2005 Pfizer Visiting Professor in Clear Health Communication and is currently an assistant professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Human Ecology and the
Extension Department of Family and Community Health Sciences.
Web site: http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~envcomm/instructor.htm
Email: pleasant@aesop.rutgers.edu

Hilary Sigman
Hillary Sigman conducts empirical research on the economics of environmental policies. In recent research, she has studied transboundary pollutants and the conditions under which countries cooperate to restrict these pollutants.
Web site: http://econweb.rutgers.edu/sigman
Email: sigman@econ.rutgers.edu

John Weingart

John Weingart, Associate Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, is a former Assistant Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the author of Waste Is A Terrible Thing To Mind; Risk, Radiation and Distrust of Government. His interests include land use and environmental protection, public participation in government processes, and risk assessment and communication.
Web site: http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/Faculty-Staff/weingartbio.html -or-
http://www.wasteisaterriblethingtomind.com
Email: john.weingart@rutgers.edu

Ming Xu

Ming Xu’s research interests focus on: 1. Ecosystem and climate interaction, especially energy, water, carbon and nitrogen exchange among soil, vegetation, and atmosphere; 2. Biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial ecosystems and their responses/feedbacks to global climate change, particularly the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration; 3. Historical climate change and its impacts on environment and ecosystems; 4. Virtual carbon, international trade and climate change policy.
Web site: http://crssa.rutgers.edu/people/mingxu
Email: mingxu@crssa.rutgers.edu