Expert Profile
David Feldman
Professor of Urban Planning & Public Policy and Political Science, Director of Water UCI
David Feldman specializes in water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions.
Areas of Expertise
- Drought
- Sustainable Development
- Ethics and Environmental Decisions
- Water Resources Management
- Global climate change policy
- Adaptive Management
- Water
Biography
David Feldman specializes in water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management, and sustainable development. His current research is focused on the sources of value conflicts over allocation and distribution of water, and the difficulties in achieving institutional reform to promote equity in water management in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Media
Media Appearances
EPA has options for cleaning up contaminated water in north OC, public meetings this month to take input
The Orange County Register, 1/18/2026
There’s A “Cyberpunk Dystopian” City Housing 32 Million People That No One Has Heard Of
Bored Panda, 12/20/2024
Some experts worry a drying climate means U.S. Drought Monitor tool isn’t effective out West
The Orange County Register, 6/28/2024
Wanted in South Korea: Imperialism-Free Cherry Blossoms
The New York Times, 3/29/2024
California: After violent weather, a ghost lake reappears and causes flooding
France Info, 4/26/2023
Event Appearances
Governance and Governmentalities – what makes freshwater alternatives politically acceptable Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges
School of Social and Policy Studies (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), 4/26/2018
Depletion, Degradation, Diversion – the death and life of inland seas as a global policy challenge
Dead Sea Research Institute’s 2nd global scientific summit (Ein Bokek, Israel), 3/11/2019
People, Place, and Environment as seen through California’s water – must the past be our future?
Investigating People, Place, and the Environment (San Diego County Office of Education conference), 2/11/2020
Toward a New Water Politics: Embracing ethics and cultural diversity in a water-sensitive future
Mexican Institute of Water Technology (Instituto Mexicano de Technologia del Agua) (Online), 8/25/2020
Public Acceptance as Key to Water Innovations
Cassandra (EURECAT and European Union), 11/17/2021
Articles
Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers
People and Nature
Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge: Do They Matter for Support and Investment in Local Stormwater Infrastructure?
Society & Natural Resources
University Stormwater Management within Urban Environmental Regulatory Regimes: Barriers to Progressivity or Opportunities to Innovate?
Environmental Management
From yards to cities: a simple and generalizable probabilistic framework for upscaling outdoor water conservation behavior
Environmental Research Letters
Addressing Pluvial Flash Flooding through Community-Based Collaborative Research in Tijuana, Mexico
Water
Education
Kent State University, Ohio
B.A., Political Science, English, 1973
University of Missouri at Columbia
Ph.D., Political Science, 1979
University of Missouri at Columbia
M.A., Political Science, 1975
Accomplishments
- Merit Award for Exceptional Teaching and Research
- Aaron Wildavsky Award
- Policy Studies Organization Interdisciplinary Scholar Award
Affiliations
- Frontiers : Associate Editor in Climate, Ecology, and People
- Water : Editorial Board member
- Social Sciences : Editorial Board member