Douglas Crawford-Brown

Director, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), UK

 

Douglas Crawford-Brown is Director of 4CMR, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Cambridge Field Site in International Energy Policy and Climate Change Risk. His research, teaching and engagement is primarily in environmental risk assessment, sustainable design, environmental policy analysis and philosophy of science in policy.

 

Research themes

 

Bioenergy: Research focuses on the role of bioenergy in low carbon trajectories in the UK and globally, with particular interest in the trade-offs between bioenergy and other issues such as water availability, water quality, crop production, land use, etc.

 

Buildings and Cities: Research focuses on the design and delivery of low carbon buildings, infrastructure and behaviours, with a particular interest in human-technology interfaces as a means of stimulating low carbon behaviours.

 

Resource Dynamics: Research focuses on sustainability of resource use, including closing of material and energy resource cycles, and the natural services of ecosystems.

 

Policy, Economics and Risk: Research focuses on secondary health benefits of low carbon energy trajetcories; climate change risk mitigation policy assessment; risk-based decision making; decisions under uncertainty.

 

 

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