Ross Professor: There’s Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate ChangeFor over two decades, Joe Árvai has studied how we actually make choices — compared to how we think we make them. It will come as no surprise to even the most casual...
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Ross Professor: There’s Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate Change
For over two decades, Joe Árvai has studied how we actually make choices — compared to how we think we make them. It will come as no surprise to even the most casual observers that the gulf between them can be large. In a recent study, Árvai and Douglas Bessette of...
Do people cheat when no one’s looking? Implications for environmental management
Many environmental management programs offer people incentives to engage in conservation activities. But these activities, carried out on a local level, often are difficult to monitor. Are people inclined to cheat to get the incentives? Research led by Rohit Jindal of...
Elements of Sustainability Series – Decision-Making for the Triple-Bottom-Line
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The Trump administration, slanted science and the environment: 4 essential reads – Joe Arvai quoted in The Conversation
March for Science in Portland, Oregon, April 22, 2017. Another Believer, CC BY-SA , Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation Scientists and environmental advocates will be speaking out this month about the Trump administration and what they view as its abuses of science. This...
What is (and, is not) an Energy Strategy? – Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai
WHAT IS (AND, IS NOT) AN ENERGY STRATEGY? When most people talk about energy strategies, they’re actually not talking about strategy at all. Oftentimes, narratives are about what companies and policy makers could or should be doing when it comes to energy transitions...
Big Data will not Save Us – Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai
The rise of what is broadly called “big data” has given new impetus to those who believe that more and better information will solve our decision-making troubles. The term big data is generally taken to refer to the digital exhaust from our time spent online: our...
Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai part of scientific group suggesting reframing of Climate Assessments – IOPscience
Erb faculty director, Joe Arvai among experts suggesting that a reframing is necessary to provide actionable information for improved business sustainability outcomes. Climate change is increasingly being framed as a risk management problem to both businesses and...
B-Schools React to Paris Agreement – Erb Institute Professors Hoffman and Arvai featured in Poets & Quants
‘THE MARKETS ARE FAR MORE THAN DONALD TRUMP’S STATEMENTS ON A TREATY WITH THE U.N.’ Market experts have some good news for environmentalists: Markets transcend Trump. “The markets are far more than Donald Trump’s statements on a treaty with the U.N.,” Andrew Hoffman...
“E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board” – (The New York Times)
"Several members of the Scientific Advisory Board contacted by The New York Times said that they had not received dismissal notices, but that they were aware their board was a political target. I see the dismissal of the scientists from the Board of Scientific...