Problem-driven research underway at Harvard at the intersection of environment and development to address the WEHAB-plus sustainability challenges
At Harvard, there is exciting work underway on problem-driven research at the intersection of environment and development to address the WEHAB-plus sustainability challenges. WEHAB refers to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's "WEHAB agenda" of sustainability challenges as presented at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: Water and sanitation; Energy; Health; Agriculture productivity and food security; Biodiversity and ecosystem management; and habitation. Links to some of many of the initiatives and projects underway and the name(s) of lead faculty responsible for them are provided below.
Water
Water and Development Initiative, Sustainability Science Program
Michael Kremer, Economics; Sendhil Mullainathan, Economics; Nava Ashraf, HBS; Mathew Jukes, GSE
Harvard Water Security Initiative
John Briscoe, SEAS and HSPH
Creating a conservation ethic: The effect of education, incentives and enforcement on the formation of social norms
Nava Ashraf, HBS
The influence of wellwater arsenic on marriage and child health outcomes in Bangladesh
Erica Field, Economics
Measuring Willingness to Pay for Improved Water Quality at the Source
Michael Kremer, Economics
Encouraging Take-Up of Point of Use Water Treatment Products
Sendhil Mullainathan, Economics
Evaluating the Impact of Rural Water Interventions
Michael Kremer, Economics
Energy
Biofuels and Globalization Initiative, Sustainability Science Program
Henry Lee, Robert Lawrence, and Ricardo Hausmann, HKS
Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project
Henry Lee, HKS and Venkatesh Narayanamurti, HKS and SEAS
The Future of Energy
HUCE
Consortium for Energy Policy Research
Bill Hogan, HKS
Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Bill Hogan, HKS
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
Forest Reinhardt, HBS
Health
Institutions for Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap in Global Health
William Clark, HKS; Barry Bloom, HSPH; Gerald Keusch, BU SPH
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Lisa Berkman, HSPH
Center for Health and the Global Environment
Eric Chivian and Paul Epstein, HMS
Harvard Malaria Initiative
Dyann Wirth, HSPH
Partners in Health
Paul Farmer, HMS
Population-based environmental health surveillance: a pilot study in The Gambia
Majid Ezzati, Marcia Castro, Dr. Stephen Howie, HSPH
The influence of wellwater arsenic on marriage and child health outcomes in Bangladesh
Erica Field, Economics
Agriculture
Integrated Utilization of Land-Water Systems
N. Michele Holbrook, OEB
Debating a Sustainable Food System
Robert Paarlberg, N. Michele Holbrook, John Briscoe, WCFIA
Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Calestous Juma, HKS
The Kenya Small Scale Cash Crop Longitudinal Study: Understanding the Impact of Environmental Stress on Agricultural Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Michael Kremer, Sendhil Mullainathan, Economics
Biodiversity
Plant Biology Initiative
Researcher list
Biodiversity Studies at the Harvard Forest
Researcher profiles
Habitation
Working Group for Sustainable Cities
Martha Schwartz, GSD
Sustainability at Harvard
Heather Henriksen, Harvard Office for Sustainability