People
Personal website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/ileslab
Alastair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. He has completed postdoctoral training at the Energy and Resources Group at U.C. Berkeley. Alastair’s research focuses on environmental policy, consumption and production issues, chemicals, and environmental health, and human-centered computing. He has worked at Australia’s largest law firm and the US Environmental Protection Agency, and has led usability studies in human-centered computing projects at U.C. Berkeley, leading to SIGCHI, Ubicomp, CSCL, and CSCW publications.
Personal website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/orourke/
Dara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he served as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dara’s research focuses on the environmental, social, and health impacts of global production systems and new strategies of democratic governance. He is currently developing new systems for monitoring and measuring the environmental and social impacts of supply chains, and working to develop new information systems to inform consumers of the impacts of products.
Personal website: http://avery.cohn.googlepages.com/
Avery is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Avery’s work generates new tools for governments and businesses to measure the performance of polices and production systems for clean energy. Avery serves as a Vice President of the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative. Prior to graduate school, Avery worked in Brazil as an environmental consultant and he co-edited a book on agriculture, development, and the environment in the Americas.
Chad White
(BSE University of Michigan)
Chad is a doctoral candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California in Berkeley. His area of scholarship and teaching is environmental governance (policy and institutions). His work is multidisciplinary, and he is a broadly-trained cross-disciplinarian whose research, study, and teaching have spanned physical science and engineering, social sciences, and the humanities. His current work is engaged most closely with theory conventionally collected under the disciplinary titles of political science, sociology, public policy, business, law, and environmental science. His current research orientation is consonant with constructivist, interpretive study in qualitative social science.
Personal website: http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/persPage/dispPP.php?I=1491
Elizabeth is a PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Her work focuses on how the politics and economics of production, trade and consumption impact natural resources and economic development. Her dissertation research applies this focus to the tuna industry in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. She has worked as a consultant to the Forum Fisheries Agency in the Solomon Islands and as an intern to the Economics and Trade Branch of the United Nations Environmental Programme in Geneva.
Eric is a PhD candidate in UC-Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. Eric’s research explores how environmental, social and health-related information influences consumers’ product choices. Prior to graduate school, Eric Hallstein was a consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group. Eric has lived and worked in both Japan and Central America. He has also worked on wildlife and habitat conservation projects in Madagascar, Paraguay and Costa Rica with the Zoological Society of San Diego.
Freyja is a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She is an environmental planner and has specialized in the application of geographic information systems and science to environmental issues. Her research interests concern environmental health and justice disparities related to the growing market in e-waste recycling and discards. She prefers a balance between theory and practice, which is reflected in her previous projects: ranging from a how-to-map guide for citizens opposing destructive riverine development to visualization tools for environmental justice researchers.
Graham is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Graham’s research focuses on market-based, voluntary solutions to environmental problems, the effects of information on consumers, stakeholder participation, collaborative governance, and the social and environmental effects of production. Graham has extensive international and domestic experience working on environmental and social issues, having worked previously at Resources for the Future, The Nature Conservancy, and Edison Electric Institute.
Personal website: http://nature.berkeley.edu/shufei
Shufei is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, researching the nexus of information technology and environmental issues in China. By training, Shufei is a software engineer skilled at designing software system architecture and developing software applications in various programming languages and development environments. His work experience includes managing and maintaining system networks for UC Berkeley and developing several web-based and mobile-phone based applications.
