Researchers from Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service and Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (ISTPP) have joined an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team led by Texas OneGulf of Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The Texas OneGulf team has received a $470,000 grant from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to 1) examine […]
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Dr. Hannibal Presents ISTPP Research on Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Governance
In the past decade, research on interconnected resource challenges has primarily focused on quantifying physical resource interconnections. More recently, research has expanded into the social, economic, and policy dimensions of resource interconnections. Given the challenges presented by these interconnections, many researchers have emphasized the need for inter- and trans-disciplinary research. While this has resulted in […]
ISTPP Director Portney Presents Research on Nexus Resources and Communication
Dr. Kent Portney presented a paper he coauthored with ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Bryce Hannibal and ISTPP Fellow Dr. Robert Greer at the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association. The purpose of this research was to see whether governance of food/agriculture, water, and energy are fragmented and what management or public policy theories could be applied to […]
Dr. Kent Portney of ISTPP explains the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
According to Dr. Kent Portney, Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government & Public Service, in order to achieve greater sustainability, more efficient means of using these resources must be found, yet the Institute’s research determined that there is very little contact or interaction among […]
ISTPP’S Hannibal Presents Research on Texans’ Views of Fracking
ISTPP’s Dr. Bryce Hannibal presented a paper coauthored with ISTPP Director, Dr. Kent Portney, on Texans’ opinions on unconventional oil and gas development at the Western Political Science Association’s 2019 conference. Hannibal and Portney combine several data sources to examine the influence of contextual factors on Texans’ perceptions of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). They used data […]
ISTPP Director Portney Presents Study on Fragmentation of Nexus Resource Decision-Making Processes
ISTPP Director, Dr. Kent Portney, presented a paper he coauthored with Dr. Bryce Hannibal and Dr. Robert Greer on whether governance decision-making processes regarding food, energy, and water resources are fragmented. Additionally, the authors wanted to know if theories related to public policy and management suggest breaking down these supposed fragmented processes would make any difference. The data used for […]
Portney, Hannibal, and Kurian Publish on Water Reuse and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
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, […]
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. […]