ISTPP’s Dr. Kent Portney presented research on governance of the food-energy-water nexus, with a focus on the Metropolitan San Antonio Area and the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer System, at the Texas A&M Law School’s 10th Annual Energy Law Symposium. Additionally, Portney discussed how nexus-related challenges increase inefficiencies in allocating and protecting water, food, and other pertinent common pool resources. […]
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ISTPP’s Hannibal and Portney Publish on Public Awareness of the FEW Nexus
Drs. Bryce Hannibal and Kent Portney recently published an article titled “Correlates of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Awareness Among the American Public” in Social Science Quarterly. Hannibal and Portney examine public awareness of the food-energy-water nexus and identify predictors explaining awareness and public interest. The data used for the analysis comes from a nationally representative survey administered in […]
ISTPP Director Portney Publishes Research on Governance of Water Reuse
ISTPP Director Kent Portney published a paper with Bush School alumnus Lindsey Aldaco-Manner and ISTPP Fellow Rabi Mohtar, titled “Analysis of Four Governance Factors on Efforts of Water Governing Agencies to Increase Water Reuse in the San Antonio Region” in Science of the Total Environment. Growing urban areas, particularly those in drier climates, face conflicting demands […]
ISTPP Researchers Partner on $2 Million NSF Grant
Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, Dr. Bryce Hannibal, and Ms. Carol Goldsmith of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) are partnering with other Texas A&M researchers to identify and examine how the dynamics of planning, policies, flood control infrastructures, and the social networks in which these efforts operate affect the capacity of urban communities […]
Bush School Researcher a Member of Award-Winning TEES Team
Dr. Arnold Vedlitz is part of a multidisciplinary engineering research team that recently received the Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research. The award was presented during a meeting of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) External Advisory Board. Vedlitz holds the Bob Bullock Chair in Government and Public Policy at the Bush School and is […]
Drs. Hannibal & Vedlitz Publish Research on Food Waste and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Dr. Bryce Hannibal, ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist, and Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, Director Emeritus and Distinguished ISTPP Research Scholar, published their study on organization food waste in Environmental Science and Policy. Using ISTPP’s nationally representative survey on the water-energy-food nexus, the authors analyze how people’s understanding of nexus connections influences their concern about organizational food waste, and how this […]
Drs. Liu, Portney, Mumpower, and Vedlitz Published in Risk Analysis
ISTPP researchers, Drs. Xinsheng Liu, Kent Portney, Jeryl Mumpower, and Arnold Vedlitz have published their research, “Terrorism Risk Assessment, Recollection Bias, and Public Support for Counterterrorism Policy and Spending,” in Risk Analysis. The authors designed and employed a national representative survey to examine the existence, persistence, socio-economic-political base, and policy underpinnings of recollection bias among the […]
ISTPP Researchers Partner on $2 Million NSF Grant to Study How Coupled Human-Infrastructure Systems Affect Resilience to Urban Flooding
Dr. Arnold Vedlitz, Dr. Bryce Hannibal, and Ms. Carol Goldsmith of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) are partnering with other Texas A&M researchers to identify and examine how the dynamics of planning, policies, flood control infrastructures, and the social networks in which these efforts operate affect the capacity of urban communities […]
Drs. Portney, Mumpower’s Research on Soft Target Terrorism Risk Perceptions Presented at PSAM
ISTPP Director Kent Portney and Reseach Fellow Jeryl Mumpower coauthored a paper titled “The Dynamics of Risk Perception for Soft Target Terrorism” that was presented at the 14th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference held in September in Los Angeles, CA. ISTPP Director Kent Portney, Reseach Fellow Jeryl Mumpower, and their coauthors examine aspects of […]
Dr. Liu Publishes Article in Research and Politics
Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Research Scientist, with co-author Dr. Haifeng Huang (University of California, Merced), have published their article, “Historical Knowledge and National Identity: Evidence from China,” in Research and Politics. This research examines the connections between historical knowledge and national identify. With original data from a nationally representative survey in China, the authors find that […]