Bridging Disciplines to Address Critical Challenges

Center for Environmental Policy & Administration

The Center for Environmental Policy & Administration (CEPA) is an interdisciplinary center that focuses on environmental issues. It supports research by faculty and students from departments across the Maxwell School and works to foster broadly interdisciplinary teaching and research that links researchers in the social sciences with those in the natural sciences, engineering and law.

CEPA has close working relationships with Maxwell’s Center for Policy Research, the University’s Environmental Finance Center and the University’s Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems.

Featured Research

Cybersecurity Risks of Dynamic, Two-way Distributed Electricity Markets

This research project examines the trade-off between the economic benefits provided by highly decentralized electricity markets and the security and privacy risks they could create.

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Ajello Fellows Create Open Data Repository of Electric Grid in Vietnam

"Yu En and I are two people who are completely different with skill sets... She taught me how to work with numbers, and I helped her with context and policy," says Linh Nguyen of her classmate Yu En Hsu and their work creating an open access database for sustainability researchers. ”A very important part of donor sponsored programs is to take away the burden of thinking about money when you are working on a wicked problem."