Jessica Joan Goddard

PhD Candidate, Energy & Resources Group; University of California, Berkeley

MS, Civil & Environmental Engineering (Water Quality Track)

MS, Energy & Resources Group

BA, English Literature; minor in Energy & Resources

water, environmental justice, human right to water, social epidemiology, ecological economics & governance

I am motivated by fundamental questions about the way we value environments and urgent questions regarding the equitable distribution of clean water. My dissertation focuses on domestic water affordability as part of California’s human right to water. A critical question driving this work is: how it is water affordability conceptualized, measured, and associated with other critical aspects of water access (like water quality)? To address these questions, I use theories and methods from water governance, environmental justice, and social epidemiology and collaborate with scientists at the California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. A second strand of my research investigates conceptualizations of environmental values in biodiversity and ecosystem service research and policy, drawing on theories and methods from science & technology studies (valuation studies) and ecological economics.

1. Norgaard, Richard B., Goddard, Jessica J., Sager, Jalel. 2016. “Economics, Economism, and Ecological Crisis.” Routledge Handbook on Religion and Ecology. Yale University Press. 

2. Goddard, Jessica J., Kurtic, Ekin, Sognnæs, Ida. “Values in Biodiversity Offsetting: Contradiction in Discourse and Calculation.” 2015. Ed. Arild Vatn. Thor Heyerdahl Summer School on Environmental Governance Papers from the Summer School 2014: ‘The Green Economy’. Volume 3.

3. Goddard, Jessica J. Urban Water’s Hydra: Stormwater’s Problematization in L.A. 2014. Master’s Thesis for completion of Master’s of Science in Energy & Resources.

4. Reygadas, Fermín; Goddard, Jessica J.; Ponce de León Barido, Diego; Pujol, John H.H. 2014. Indices GEI para el Uso del Agua en la Vivienda en México. [Greenhouse Gas Emissions Metrics for Residential Water Use in Mexico]. Nota Técnica No829. Division for Climate Change & Sustainability. Inter-American Development Bank.

Fernström Fellowship (Sweden)

Center for German & European Studies Predissertation Fellowship

Thor Heyerdahl Summer School Full Scholarship (Norway)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2012-2015)