Environmental Cognition and Smallholder Farming
Perspectives in Global Development: Spring 2024 Seminar Series
About the Speaker
Kurt Waldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. He studies judgment and decision making related to environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and food security. He uses interdisciplinary quantitative methods, drawing on behavioral experiments, econometrics, and often integrating social and environmental data. Prior to Cornell, Kurt was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Indiana University and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ostrom Workshop. He holds a MS in Applied Economics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Michigan State University.
Perspectives in Global Development
The Perspectives in Global Development seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:20-1:20 p.m. eastern time during the semester. The series is presented in a hybrid format. All seminars are shown in 175 Warren Hall. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend. The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the School of Integrative Plant Science as part of courses GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.