Across seven projects, IBES faculty researchers are taking environmental research beyond campus and into the field, working alongside communities while opening new doors for undergraduates to participate.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Dev Patel
Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Science
Research Interests
Environmental issues in low- and middle-income countries, Adaptation to climate change, Nature-based solutions, Remote sensing, Weather insurance, Floods
Biography
Before joining Brown, Dev Patel was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard's Center for History and Economics and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). He earned his PhD from Harvard in 2024.
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New scholars bring fresh perspectives to IBES this fall
Meet the newest members of the IBES community, whose work spans climate science, economics, agriculture, sociology, public health, and global policy.
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Assistant Professor Patel is the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society’s first faculty member to be jointly appointed in the Department of Economics.
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Dev Patel, a Prize Fellow at Harvard and incoming IBES professor, spoke on this podcast about his research measuring floods, their impacts, and the adaptation decisions of households.
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