ISTPP News

Drs. Bullock and Bowman recently published an article in Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy titled, “FEW: Exploring Citizens’ Support for Policy Tools at the Food, Energy, Water Nexus,” where they seek to understand public preferences on food, energy, water nexus policy actions, and the factors that go into such preferences. They emphasize that limited research has been […]

ISTPP Research Scientist and Assistant Director Xinsheng Liu, along with Dr. Alicia Yan Hong (School of Public Health, TAMU) and Dr. Huiyan Sang (Department of Statistics, TAMU), received PESCA funding in the amount of $25,000 to support their research project, “The Trend of Digital Divide and Health Disparities in US: A Longitudinal Study of eHealth […]

Dr. Kent Portney, ISTPP Director, presented research on the relationships between measures of multilevel governance and the pursuit of sustainability by large US cities at the recently concluded SPSA conference. The research team investigates this relationship using data from a survey of city administrators in 50 of the largest cities in the US to measure […]

Dr. Arnold Vedlitz and his co-authors, Dr. Scott Robinson and Dr. James Stoutenborough, published their comparison of experimental and attitudinal approaches for measuring public policy support in a book devoted to experiments in public administration research. To compare the two approaches, the authors utilize a survey that measured public support for various water policies. Through […]

Led by ISTPP Director Dr. Portney, co-authors Dr. Vedlitz, Dr. Sansom, Dr. Berke, and doctoral candidate Mr. Daher delineate their article, “Governance of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: the Conceptual and Methodological Foundations for the San Antonio Region Case Study,” a strategy for conducting both applied and proof-of-concept research related to resource governance and policy systems and their influence on the water-food-energy nexus. […]

Dr. Mary Hilderbrand, a senior lecturer in the Bush School of Government and Public Service, has been appointed a Research Fellow of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy. Her research focuses on institutional and governance reform, political analysis of public policy processes, and the role of politics and governance in development. Dr. Hilderbrand […]

Dr. Berke is a professor of land use and environmental planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and Director of the Institute of Sustainable Coastal Communities at Texas A&M University. His work lies at the intersection of land use planning, urban ecology, and community resilience to environmental hazards. Engaging the public in […]

How do natural elements such as environmental hazards and disasters effect individuals’ attitudes and behaviors about water management? Dr. Hannibal examines this question using quantitative data from ISTPP’s representative national public opinion survey on the water-energy-food nexus combined with data from three different sources that provide information about local drought, crop damage, earthquakes, and floods. By incorporating […]

Arnold Vedlitz, Director Emeritus and Distinguished Research Scholar for ISTPP, and ISTPP Research Fellows Scott E. Robinson and James W. Stoutenborough, in their book Understanding Public Trust: Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics, provide a framework for a more complex and nuanced understanding of government trust than was available previously. Their research focuses […]