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Sarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The research is focused on local politics in the United States and will support a project about decision-making in local government. This project explores: 1) what local officials vote on in in US local government, 2) the role of partisanship in voting, and 3) how municipality size conditions the...
Social SciencesSarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the role of businesses and business associations in local politics and local government in the United States. The project has two parts. One is a qualitative data collection focused on the local policy priorities and goals of chambers of commerce in cities and counties across the country...
Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Avoided deforestation (also called REDD+) is generating the greatest number of credits on the offset market. The goal of this project is to study the quality of these avoided deforestation offset credits. This is an interdisciplinary study involving ten...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Many offset credits sold on the offset market represent significantly less climate benefit than they claim. We are conducting a series of studies of major offset project types to better understand their impact and quality...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesBarbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's Voluntary Registry Offsets Database is an important source of information and transparency in the carbon offset market and has been widely used by researchers, offset credit raters, offset buyers, and others. We welcome help from two or three advanced undergraduate students in automating the database...
Environmental Issues Social SciencesAndrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
1. The Emergent Properties of Frontier Military Technologies Our scholars are deeply invested in understanding how new technologies—from dual-use technologies to those designed for military applications—might impact strategic stability and the prospects for international peace and security. Projects in this portfolio include research on whether the deployment...