Brent M Haddad

About

The Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is home to a passionate and welcoming group of faculty dedicated to excellence in research and teaching. The faculty are often recognized with high-profile grants, top-tier publications, and prominent advisory roles with governments, nonprofits, academic organizations, and more. The department emphasizes a diverse and sustainability-driven research community, with faculty members collaborating on major publications, presenting at conferences, and winning prestigious grants and fellowships from organizations like the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Agriculture. The department's faculty are actively involved in guiding undergraduate and graduate students through various degree pathways, supporting experiential learning and research opportunities across campus.

Research topics

• Social Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Library science
• Engineering
• Epistemology
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Business
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• New institutional economics

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2023 · 66 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.

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• Institutional economics

  Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2023 · 32 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  This comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical.

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• Psychological barriers to urban recycled water acceptance: a review of relevant principles in decision psychology

  International Journal of Water Resources Development · 2020 · 27 citations

  This paper reviews principles from decision psychology relevant to understanding and increasing acceptance of urban recycled water, and supplements existing literature by suggesting an additional factor: adaptation insensitivity. We integrate into our discussion previously unpublished results from a study conducted in 2007, which surveyed 2680 respondents in five American cities, identifying basic psychological features impacting resistance to recycled water. We focus on identifying targets for…

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• Ecological economics as the science of sustainability and transformation: Integrating entropy, sustainable scale, and justice

  PLOS Sustainability and Transformation · 2024-02-22 · 9 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Ecological economics, developed in the late 1980s, came to be known as the multi- and transdisciplinary science of sustainability. Since that time, it has blended basic and applied research with the intention of both informing and bringing change to environmental policy, governance, and society. However, many conventional economists have questioned its originality and contributions. This paper begins by clarifying the foundational perspectives of ecological economics that it engages an economy e…

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• Variations in stakeholders’ ecosystem service priorities for managing a marine protected area

  Marine Policy · 2022 · 7 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Nadine Heck

  15 shared

• Adina Paytan

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  14 shared

• Donald C. Potts

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  14 shared

• Karen Lykkebo Petersen

  6 shared

• Richard B. Howarth

  University of Nottingham

  5 shared

• Marc Mangel

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  4 shared

• Donald Ludwig

  4 shared

• Bruce C. Paton

  3 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group

  University of California, Berkeley

  1996

• MBA, Haas School of Business; Business & Public Policy

  University of California Berkeley

  1991

• MA, International Relations

  Georgetown University

  1985

• AB, International Relations

  Stanford University

  1982

Awards & honors

• Numerous research grants
• Numerous teaching awards

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