Dale Rothman
Team Member
Education
- B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Ph.D. Cornell University, Department of Agricultural Economics
Dale Rothman incoming Associate Professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Associate Director for the Pardee Center for International Futures. He is also an Associate with the International Institute for Sustainable Development based in Winnipeg. He has been pursuing research and teaching in the areas of integrated assessment and ecological economics nearly two decades. He has held positions in the US, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. His recent research has focused on the application of scenario analysis and other foresight tools to issues of sustainable development at multiple scales. Most recently, he coordinated the scenario development for the fourth Global Environmental Outlook. He has also been involved in more specific work on the impacts of climate change, the environmental Kuznets' curve hypothesis, and sustainability indicators. He has a strong interest in addressing issues of agency versus structure to better understand the interplay between natural and social systems and exploring in depth the potential for agent-based modeling for this purpose. Dale is also currently a vice-president of The Integrated Assessment Society.