Kurt Waldman | TBA
Bio: Kurt Waldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Development in Cornell CALS 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, and econometrics, often integrating social and environmental data. His research focuses on cognition and decision-making related to climate adaptation, sustainable agricultural technology adoption, and food security. He is interested in the role of heuristics and cognitive biases in environmental decision-making and how decision science can be used to enhance the sustainability of policy outcomes. He uses a combination of household-level survey data, behavioral experiments with decision-makers, and environmental data.
This event is presented as part of the 2025 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:
Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2025, 2:55-4:10 p.m.Zoom Link
This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
