Jurgen Schmandt
Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs
Education
- Ph.D. in Political Philosophy, University of Bonn
Jurgen Schmandt specializes in environmental policy and regulation. His current research deals with sustainable development, climate change and water policy. He has a doctorate from the University of Bonn (political philosophy) and has worked at the OECD (Paris) and the Environmental Protection Agency. Before coming to the LBJ School, he was associate director of the Program on Technology and Society at Harvard University. Schmandt developed the sustainable development program at the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). He continues to work with HARC as a Distinguished Fellow.
Media Expertise
- Sustainable Development
- Water Policy
- Environmental Policy
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Core to the LBJ School's mission is "getting it done" — developing solutions to policy problems through scholarship and public discourse. Every year, faculty and students take on research that melds the theoretical and the practical, exploring the world through hands-on field work and data analysis to address issues critical to the health of American democracy and global society. Innovation Bound celebrates the impact, quality and range of the published works of our distinguished scholars.
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