Dr. Michael Brody – Lecturer
Dr. Michael Brody, who is currently teaching a course on sustainable development at the International Agriculture University, is an environmental scientist, worked for more than 20 years at the US Environmental Protection Agency. At the EPA he worked in the fields of environmental risk assessment and policy, environmental strategic planning, and futures. At the EPA he carried out technical assistance projects in 17 countries; with emphasis on risk assessment as a policy tool in Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia; and climate change in East Africa. In 2012 Dr. Brody began teaching in the Department of Environmental Science at the American University in Washington DC. He has continued his international projects and teaching in Russia and in Central Asia. He was a Fulbright Teaching Scholar at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent during the Fall semester of 2017. Beginning in 2011 he has been a visiting professor at the Kazakh National Medical University and the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, both in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He was also a part-time Associate Professor at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic where he taught an online course in global climate change. He was also at AUCA for the summer of 2018, on a grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. During that period, he served on the Science Committee for the International Conference “Conservation Asia 2018” held at AUCA. He was a Fulbright Short-term specialist at the University of Tyumen in Western Siberia, Russia for the summer of 2019. He was recently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development Studies at the Russian Presidential Academy of the National Economy and Public Administration. In 2021 he had a small grant from the American Councils for International Education for a partnership with Fergana State University in Uzbekistan. He has periodically been a consultant to the World Bank. Dr. Brody received his PhD from the University of Texas in 1980.
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Potashnikov, V.; Golub, A.; Brody, M.; Lugovoy, O. 2022. Decarbonizing Russia: Leapfrogging from Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen. Energies 2022, 15, 683. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15030683 |
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Brody M., Golub, A., Potashnikov V. 2021. The Effects of Increasing Population Granularity in PM2.5 Population-
Weighted Exposure and Mortality Risk Assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives 129:12 CID:127703. |
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Brody M. & B Eshchanov. 2021. Water Resource Risks to Cotton Agriculture in Uzbekistan: Climate, Policy and Irrigation. In: Kulenbekov, Z., Asanov, B., eds. Water Resource Management in Central Asia and Afghanistan. Current and Future Environmental and Water Issues. Springer Water. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68337-5 |
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Ljovkina, A., Brody. M, et al. 2021. Renewable Energy in Russia: System Analysis of Barriers. BRICS Law Journal; Vol. VIII (2021) Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2021-8-2- 89-119 |
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Brody, M., Eshchanov, B. & A. Golub. 2020. Approaches to Optimize Investment in Irrigation Technologies in Uzbekistan. Экономическая политика. 2020. Т. 15. № 2. С. 136–147 DOI: 10.18288/1994-5124-2020-2-136-147 Michael Brody & Alexander Golub (2020) Letter to the editor, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 70:2, 121-124, https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2019.1704145 |
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Golub A. & Brody M. 2017. Uncertainty, climate change, and irreversible environmental effects: application of
real options to environmental benefit-cost analysis. J Environ Stud Sci |
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Caldwell J., Serdyuk A., Turos O., Petrosian A., Kartavtsev O., Avaliani S., Golub A., Strukova E., Brody M. 2013. Risk Assessment Capacity Building Program in Zaporizhzhia Ukraine: Emissions Inventory Construction, Ambient modeling, and Hazard Results. J. Env. Prot. 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jep.2013.412169 |
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Kenessariyev U., Golub A., Brody M., Dosmukhametov A., Amrin M., Erzhanova A., Kenessary D., 2013. Human Health Cost of Air Pollution in Kazakhstan. J. Env. Prot. 4, 869-876 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jep.2013.48101 |
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Gallagher, K., Benson, W.H., Brody, M., Fairbrother, A., Hasan, J., Klaper, R., Lattier, D., Lundquist, S., McCarroll, N., Miller, G., Preston, J., Sayre, P., Seed, J., Smith, B., Street, A., Troast, R., Vu, V., Reiter, L., Farland, W., Dearfield, K. 2006. Genomics: Applications, Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S. EPA. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 12(3):572-590. https://doi.org/10.1080/10807030600561717 |
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Hlohowskyj, I., Brody, M. S., & Lackey, R. T. (1996). Methods for assessing the vulnerability of African fisheries resources to climate change. Climate Research, 6(2), 97–106. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24865075
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Bingham, G., Bishop R., Brody, M. et al. 1995. Issues in ecosystem valuation: improving information for
decision making. Ecological Economics 14:73-90, https://doi.org/10.1016/0921-8009(95)00021-Z |
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Soniat, T., L.E. Smith, and M. Brody. 1989. Mortality and condition of the American oyster in Galveston Bay.
Contributions in Marine Science 31:77-94. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/23528 |
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Conner, W.H. and M.S. Brody. 1989. Rising water levels and the future of southeastern Louisiana’s swamp forests.
Estuaries 12:318-323. https://doi.org/10.2307/1351909 |
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Soniat, T. and M. Brody. 1988. Field validation of a habitat suitability index model for the American oyster.
Estuaries 11:87-95. https://doi.org/10.2307/1351995 |