Staff

Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown

Position(s):

Director, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR)

Contact information:

Tel.: +44 (0)1223 (7)60550
Email: djc77

Research interests:

Risk assessment; climate change; environmental policy; epistemic analysis of science in environmental policy. These interests are integrated primarily into work on climate change and sustainability for the built and natural environments, as well as air and water policy.

Other Posts :

• Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Director Emeritus, Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications:

D. Crawford-Brown, L. Pakianathan and N. Osborne, "Climate Change Adaptation and Underground Rail Transit Systems", Journeys, 2011.

A. Skelton, D. Guan, G. Peters and D. Crawford-Brown, "Mapping Flows of Embodied Emissions in the Global Production System", Environmental Science and Technology, 45, 10516-10523, 2011.

D. Crawford-Brown, T. Barker, A. Anger and O. Dessins, "Ozone and PM Related Health Co-benefits of Climate Change Policies in Mexico", Environmental Science and Policy, 17, 33-40, 2012.

D. Crawford-Brown, "The Concept of Sound Science in Risk Management Decisions", Risk Management: An International Journal, 7, 7-20, 2005.

R. Raucher, D. Crawford-Brown and M. Harrod, "New Perspectives on the Costs and Benefits of Mitigating Radon in Drinking Water", Public Works Management and Policy, 10, 10-22, 2005.

D. Crawford-Brown and S. LaRocca, "Teaching Systems Principles and Policy Applications Using a Reduced-Scale Global Warming Model", Journal of Geoscience Education, 54, 101-120, 2006.

D. Crawford-Brown, R. Raucher and M. Harrold, "Intersubject Variability of Risk from Perchlorate in Community Water Supplies", Environmental Health Perspectives, 114, 975-979, 2006.

H. Chu and D. Crawford-Brown, "Inorganic Arsenic in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer: A Meta-Analysis for Dose-Response Assessment", International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 3, 2006

H. Schollnberger, R. Mitchell, D. Crawford-Brown and W. Hofmann, "A Model for the Induction of Chromosome Aberrations Through Direct and Bystander Mechanisms", Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 10, 1093, 2006.

Wedding, G.C., and Crawford-Brown, D., "Measuring Site-level Success in Brownfield Redevelopments: A Focus on Sustainability and Green Building." Journal of Environmental Management, 85(2), 483-495, 2007.

G. Ulirsch, L. Ball., W. Kaye, C. Shy, C. Lee, D. Crawford-Brown, M. Symons, T. Holloway, "Effect of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Hospital Admissions and Medical Visits for Lung and Heart Disease in Two Southeast Idaho Cities", Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 478-487, 2007.

D. Crawford-Brown, "The Behavior of Corporate "Species" in Ecosystems and their Role in Environmental Change", in The Debate Over Corporate Social Responsibility, May, S.K., Cheney, G., and Roper, J. (Eds.), New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.

H. Schollnberger, R. Mitchel, J. Redpath, D. Crawford-Brown and W. Hofmann, "Detrimental and Protective Bystander Effects: A Model Approach", Radiation Research, 168, 614, 2007.

C. Wedding and D. Crawford-Brown, "An Analysis of Variation in the Energy-Related Environmental Impacts of LEED Certified Buildings", Journal of Green Building, 2, 151-170, 2007.

H. Schöllnberger, R. E. J. Mitchel, D.J. Crawford-Brown, W. Hofmann , "A Model for the Induction of Chromosome Aberrations through Direct and Bystander Mechanisms", Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 122, 1-4, 2006

C. Wedding and D. Crawford-Brown, "Improving the Link between the LEED Green Building Label and a Building's Energy-Related Environmental Metrics", Journal of Green Building, 3, 2, 2008.

D. Crawford-Brown, "Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change in North Carolina", Popular Government, 2-11, Spring/Summer, 2008.

L. Fleischman, D. Crawford-Brown and W. Hofmann, "A Computational Model for Radiation-Induced Cellular Transformation to in vitro Irradiation of Cells by Acute Doses of X-rays". Mathematical Biosciences, 215, 186-192, 2008.

D. Crawford-Brown, "Sustainable Development", Handbook of Environmental Management Systems, ed by C. Madu, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2009.

A. DeNazelle, D. Crawford-Brown and D. Rodriguez, "The Built Environment and Health: Impacts of Pedestrian-Friendly Designs on Air Pollution Exposure", Science of the Total Environment, 407, 2525-2535, 2009.

D. Crawford-Brown, "A Samaliah Island, UAE: A Case Study in Sustainability", Proceedings of the ICE, 162, 2009.

A. deNazelle, B. Morton, M. Jerrett and D, Crawford-Brown, "Short Trips: An Opportunity for Reducing Mobile-Source Emissions?", Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2010.

R. Raucher, S. Rubin, D. Crawford-Brown and M. Lawson, "Benefit-Cost Analysis for Drinking Water Standards: Efficiency, Equity, and Affordability Considerations in Small Communities", Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 1, 1-22, 2011.

Y. Li and D. Crawford-Brown, "Assessing the Co-Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Health Benefits of Particulate Matter Related Inspection and Maintenance Programs in Bangkok, Thailand", Science of the Total Environment, 2011.

D. Crawford-Brown, "Sources, Risks and Mitigation of Radioactivity in Water", in Treatise on Water Science, Oxford Academic Press, 59-67, 2011.

D. Crawford-Brown, "The Precautionary Principle in Environmental Regulations for Drinking Water", Environmental Science and Policy, 2011.