Senior Investigators:

JoAnn Carmin (Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is the lead investigator for the US team. She is responsible for assessing nongovernmental participation in crisis response and recovery and for analyzing variations in municipal learning and capacity development as a consequence of the floods.

Douglas Crawford-Brown (Director, Carolina Environmental Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is the US Co-PI responsible for assessing how the floods altered the role of scientists and the use of scientific knowledge in policy and planning. He also is estimating the cost-risk-benefit values associated with flooding.

Team members Betsy Albright, Stacy VanDeveer, Tina Rosan, and Dana Victorova visiting flood sites in South Bohemia. Photo: Katerina Hladikova

Jirina Jilkova (Director, Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy, University of Economics, Prague) is the lead investigator for the Czech team. She is responsible for addressing the economic and environmental policy implications of the results of this study and for disseminating them to Czech officials and policymakers.

Stacy D. VanDeveer (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Hampshire) is the US Co-PI responsible for evaluating institutional change, including the role of expertise and assessment procedures for policy learning, and for examining changes in transnational relations that can be attributed to the floods.

Team members Michaela Mastna, Matthew Amengual, Pankaj Kumar, and Dana Viktorova working on data analysis exercises. Photo: Katerina Hladikova
 
 

Team members Tina Rosan, Katerina Hladikova, and Lenka Camrova working on data analysis exercises. Photo: Dana Viktorova

Graduate Research Associates:

Betsy Albright (Duke University) is a PhD candidate in the Division of Environmental Science and Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Her research interests include environmental policy formation and environmental decision analysis as applied to the management of water resources. Betsy was awarded a Fulbright to conduct field research during the 2005-06 academic year on transboundary water management in Hungary

Matthew Amengual (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) participated in this project while he was a Masters student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. When working on this research he analyzed how the floods affected public participation in two case study communities and the perceptions that public officials had of participatory processes. Matt is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at MIT.

Lenka Camrova (University of Economics, Prague) is a PhD student in the Department of Economic Policy and is an environmental project coordinator at IEEP. Her research interests are in the areas of waste and water management in the Czech Republic.