Center for Environmental Policy
The Center for Environmental Policy (CEP) draws upon interdisciplinary expertise to explore environmental policies, along with related protection efforts, and their impacts on society and nature. Center-sponsored research projects focus on the human decisions behind the formation and implementation of these policies and efforts, and, in turn, their impacts on the environment and related decisions.
University of Kansas awarded $26 million for new Engineering Research Center from National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of Kansas $26 million to establish a new Gen-4 Engineering Research Center (ERC) — Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) — that will create a sustainable and circular refrigerant economy. Mark Shiflett, KU Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and director of the Wonderful Institute for Sustainable Engineering, leads the project. The Center for Environmental Policy will lead the social scientific analysis.
Improving Water Quality and Equity Through Sensor Data and Machine Learning Models
With funding from U.S. National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator ($650,000), the Center for Environmental Policy in concert with the Kansas Data Science Consortium and the EPSCoR-funded ARISE project is developing a water management data ecosystem that collects water quality and quantity data, modeling it with machine learning algorithms, and generating insights available on a dashboard for local government officials and state government agencies.CEP Projects
CEP facilitates working groups on important environmental topics.
Food Waste Prevention
This project explores strategies to decrease food waste in various settings. All members of the KU and Haskell communities with scholarly and activist interests in food studies, food justice, and agriculture are welcome.
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FEWtures: Resilient Farms, Thriving Communities.
This project envisions sustainable agriculture through renewable energy. The research team aims to increase usable water resources and produce ammonia that can store energy and be used as fertilizer.
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BACC:FLUD
The Biofuels and Climate Change: Farmers' Land Use Decisions (BACC:FLUD project) examined farmers' decisions to grow crops as feedstocks for renewable energy production. The project also aimed to analyze farmers' adaptation to climate change.
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