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
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
How the recent storm system will impact California's drought
KCBS Radio, 3/10/2023
An Interview with David Feldman, the Director of Water UCI
Orange Coast, 2/22/2023
How government will allocate water levels from Colorado River
KCBS Radio, 2/1/2023
California has been hammered with rain. It may not be enough to reverse its drought.
NBC News, 1/12/2023
Can California’s massive rain solve its historic drought?
The Washington Post, 1/9/2023
Urban dwelling
UCI News, 10/12/2022
To solve the water crisis, companies are increasingly turning to AI
Fortune, 7/11/2022
Event Appearances
Public Acceptance as Key to Water Innovations
Cassandra (EURECAT and European Union), 11/17/2021
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
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
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
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
Articles
Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers
People and Nature, 1/1/1970
Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge: Do They Matter for Support and Investment in Local Stormwater Infrastructure?
Society & Natural Resources, 1/1/1970
University Stormwater Management within Urban Environmental Regulatory Regimes: Barriers to Progressivity or Opportunities to Innovate?
Environmental Management, 1/1/1970
From yards to cities: a simple and generalizable probabilistic framework for upscaling outdoor water conservation behavior
Environmental Research Letters, 1/1/1970
Addressing Pluvial Flash Flooding through Community-Based Collaborative Research in Tijuana, Mexico
Water, 1/1/1970
Education
University of Missouri at Columbia
M.A., Political Science, 1975
University of Missouri at Columbia
Ph.D., Political Science, 1979
Kent State University, Ohio
B.A., Political Science, English, 1973
Accomplishments
- Policy Studies Organization Interdisciplinary Scholar Award
- Aaron Wildavsky Award
- Merit Award for Exceptional Teaching and Research
Affiliations
- Frontiers : Associate Editor in Climate, Ecology, and People
- Water : Editorial Board member
- Social Sciences : Editorial Board member