Publications

• With Y. Ogushi. “What Determines End-of-Life Outcomes for Consumer Products: Insights from Japan.” Progress in Industrial Ecology. In press 2006. Refereed.

• With J. Gerrard. “Is European End-of-Life Vehicle Legislation Living Up to Expectations? Assessing the impact of the ELV Directive on ‘green’ innovation and vehicle recovery.” Journal of Clean Production (December, 2005). Refereed.

• With G. Ramachandran. “Coping with uncertainties in health risk assessments for nanoparticles using expert judgment.” Journal of Nanoparticle Research (2006). Refereed.

• With J. Risbey. “Expressions of Likelihood and Confidence in the IPCC Uncertainty Assessment Process.” Climatic Change (2006). Refereed.

• With Y. Risbey. “A Study of the Effects of Take-back Legislation in the Japanese Automobile Market.” Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing. IEEE Computer Press (2005). Refereed.

• With A. Kotwal. “Outsourcing.” Encyclopedia of India’s Economy. Oxford University Press. In press 2006. Refereed.

• With Y. Ogushi and H. Dowlatabadi. “Assessing product life cycle strategies in the Japanese market, in Innovation.” Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development. Eds. Daniel Brissaud, Serge Tichkiewitch and Peggy Zwolinski. Springer Books, 2006. 49-65. Refereed.

• With S. Dessai, et al. “Uncertainty in Climate Sensitivity.” EOS. Revise and resubmit (2004).

• With J. Gerrard. “Economy wide releases of lead from the manufacture, use and disposal of Automobiles.” Environmental Science and Technology (2006). Submitted.

• With T. Satterfield. “Scientific and Social Basis for Controversies Over Genetically Modified Cotton in India.” UBC.

• With M. Badami McGill. “The Impact on Compressed Natural Gas on Air Pollution in Delhi.” In progress.

• “Air Pollution over Delhi: Trends, Oscillations and Non-linear Cycles in Daily Data for Criteria Pollutants.” In progress.

• With Y. Ogushi. “End-of-Life Outcomes under Japanese Product Take Back Legislation, Environmental Science and Technology.” UBC. In progress.
.

Presentations

January 2005-Present International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Contributing Author on the Fourth Assessment Report.

July 2005 “Reconciling Climate Change and Development, Gujarat Institute of Development Research.” Ahmedabad, India.

October 2005 “Public Perception of Risks from Emerging Technologies.” School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.

October 2005 Two talks at the Nanotechnology and Human Health Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

January 2006 “Crouching Tiger, Flying Dragon: Comparing the Rise of India and China.” Langara College, Vancouver.

 

Teaching

• IAR 500 - Perspectives and Methodology Module

• IAR 500 - Infrastructure Policy Module

• IAR 515M/ RMES 500L - Science, Technology and Sustainable Human Development

• BRDG 501/601 - Bridge Program Research Grant Development (Faculty Mentor)

• Mech II: Invited Lecture on Transport Policy, February 3 2006. Prof. Steve Rogak instructor.

 

Grants

• “Biotechnology in India”, with Satterfield, SSHRC, $110,000

• “Alternative Fuels in Transport”, with Badami (McGill), SSHRC, $145,000

• “Biodiesel Assessment”, BC Hydro, $7,000

• “Clinical Drug Trials in India”, with Kamat, UBC Hampton, $35,000

• “Life Cycle Assessment”, with McLean (U. Toronto), Auto 21 NCE, $100,000

• “Nanotechnology Benefits and Risks”, UBC HSS Large Grant, $7,000

• “Health impacts of climate change and climate policy”, with Dowlatabadi, Exxon Mobile Education Fund, $250,000

• “Health Risks of Nanotechnology”, with Ramachandran (UMN), National Institute of Health, USA, $450,000

• “Emerging Technologies and Risk”, with Satterfield and McDaniels, Health Canada, $350,000

• “India-Canada Synergies in outcomes of WTO Agriculture Negotiations”, with Kotwal, Asia Pacific Foundation, $20,000

 

Awards and Distinctions

• Winner, Best Poster Presentation, Auto-21 Scientific Conference with J. Gerrard, Y. Ogushi, H. Maclean, H. Dowlatabadi, E. Tam, Toronto, 2005, $4,500

• A new method of communicating uncertainty that was proposed by M. Kandlikar and James Risbey in a paper written in 2004 has become a central aspect of the guidance document on “Assessing and Communicating Uncertainty” provided to the scientist authors of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). IPCC is the primary UN body providing scientific advice on Climate Change to national governments.

 

 

Memberships

• Faculty Mentor, Bridge Program

• Executive Committee, Centre for India and South Asia Research, IAR

• Member, Search Committee, Human Security Chair, Liu Institute

• Member, Admissions Committee, Bridge Program

• Teaching Committee, IAR

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrated Assessment

• Reviewer: UBC Press, Global Environmental Change, Comptes Rendus (Proceedings of the French Academy of Science), Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Integrated Assessment, IJES

 

August 2006