Center for Environmental Policy

The Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) draws upon interdisciplinary expertise to explore environmental policies, along with related protection efforts, and their impacts on society and nature. Center-sponsored research projects focus on the human decisions behind the formation and implementation of these policies and efforts, and, in turn, their impacts on the environment and related decisions.

Current Projects

The Center facilitates working groups on particular environmental topics: water quality protection and coordinates with the Center for the Study of Injustice on the KU Food Research Group.

The Center is also home to the FEWtures Project, with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The FEWtures project aims to research sustainable agriculture through renewable energy.

Additionally, the Center is home to the Biofuels and Climate Change: Farmers' Land Use Decisions (BACC: FLUD) project, with funding from the Kansas NSF EPSCoR program. The BACC:FLUD project aims to research farmers’ decisions to grow crops as feedstocks for renewable energy production ("biofuel crops"), and farmers' adaptation to climate change. You can find the Water Rights Grouping Tool User Manual here.

Staff

Dr. Dietrich Earnhart, Director, Professor of Economics

Internal Affiliates

The Center serves internal affiliates from across the KU campus.

	Glenn E. Adams, Associate professor of Psychology, Faculty Associate Director of the Kansas African Studies Center
	J. Christopher Brown, Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Director of the Environmental Studies Program
	Chris S. Crandall, Professor of Psychology
	Dorothy M. Daley, Professor in the School of Public Affairs & Administration and Environmental Studies Program
	Chris Depcik, Associate Professor in the School of Engineering
	David A. Fowle, Dean's Professor of Geology, Director of the Environmental Studies Program
	Amy Hansen, Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
	Susan Harvey, Assistant Professor, School of Education and Human Services
	Mary C. Hill, Professor of Geology, Project Lead of the FEWtures Project
	Virginia H. Ho , Associate Dean for International & Comparative Law, Professor of Law, and Director of the Polsinelli Transactional Law Center
	Admin Husic, Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
	Justin M. Hutchison, Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
	Rachel M. Krause, Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs & Administration
	Ward Lyles, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Director of the Center for Compassionate & Sustainable Communities (CCSC)
	Uma Outka, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty in the School of Law
	Edward Peltier, Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
	Tim Pleskac, Assistant Professor of Psychology
	Joshua K. Roundy, Assistant Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
	Susan Stagg-Williams, Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Engineering
	Belinda S. M. Sturm, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
	Andrew W. Torrance, Paul E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law
	Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Associate Professor of Economics

External Affiliates

The Center also serves external affiliates from across the globe.

	Robert Glicksman, J.B. and Maurice C Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, George Washington University
	Zach Raff, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Stout
	Dan Phaneuf, Professor and Chair of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
	Nathan Hendricks, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University
	Lana Friesen, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Queensland
	Sandra Rousseau, Professor of Economics and Business, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven
	Manuel Pulido-Velásquez, Visiting Faculty, Grand Valley State University
	Sarah A. Jacobson, Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College
	Paul Ferraro, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Human Behavior and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University

Center Goals

The Center has established a number of goals, which are organized by priority, time, and spatial scope,

• CEP Goal Details
• CEP Goal List
• CEP Goal Timeline
• CEP Goal Scope

Recent Events

Conversation on Community-Driven Food Research
November 16, 2018

Environmental Agency Partner Network

The Center has established a network of environmental agency partners with which the Center coordinates.

Agency	Contact	Logo
KS Department of Health and Environment	Tom Stiles
KS Water Office	Cara Hendricks
Douglas County Food Policy Council	Kim Criner Ritchie
Sustainability Department, Douglas County and City of Lawrence	Jasmin Moore
Johnson County Public Works	Brian Pietig
Lawrence Public Works	Chad Voigt
City of Lawrence Municipal Services and Operations	Trevor Flynn

NGO Partner Network

The Center has established a network of NGO partners with which the Center coordinates.

Organization	Contact	Logo
Friends of the Kaw	Dawn Buehler, Kim Mahanna-Bellemere
Sierra Club Kansas Chapter	Zack Pistora
Sierra Club – Wakarusa Group (Lawrence)	Karin Pagel-Meiners
Sierra Club – Wakarusa Group (Lawrence)	Kathleen Harned
Topeka Group Chair Sierra Club	Duncan Whittier
Jayhawk Audubon Society	Jennifer Delisle
Nature Conservancy	Laura Rose Clawson
Lawrence Ecology Teams United in Sustainability (Water Advocacy Team)	Thad Holcombe, Teresa Wilke
Climate and Energy Project	Dorothy Barnett, Rachel Myslivy
Metropolitan Energy Center	Tami Alexander, Emily Wolfe
Citizens’ Climate Lobby	Sandy Sanders, Tony Schmidt
Sustainability Action Network	Teresa Wilke