Drs. Kent Portney and Bryce Hannibal of ISTPP and Mathew Kurian of United Nations University recently published a paper they coauthored that addresses water reuse goals established by the United Nations. The authors utilize theory from an agency-based modeling approach to examine thoroughly the United Nations’ Water directive on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3. This SDG seeks to minimize pollution, dumping, […]
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ISTPP Researchers Portney and Hannibal Publish Paper on Cooperation of FEW Nexus Stakeholders in San Antonio Region
Drs. Kent Portney and Bryce Hannibal published a paper with Bassel Daher, doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Rabi Mohtar, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut titled “Toward Creating an Environment of Cooperation between Water, Energy, […]
Dr. Hannibal Presents Findings on Intersection of Social and Planning Networks
As part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation, ISTPP’s Dr. Bryce Hannibal and his colleagues, Dr. Sierra Woodruff and Matthew Malecha from the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, are researching the ways in which organizational networks affect the integration of hazard mitigation plans. The underlying expectation is that integrated planning […]
ISTPP Director Portney Presents Water-Energy Nexus Research at TAMU Law School
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. […]
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 […]
