Andrew Bell
Core Faculty Member, Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative
- Education
- PhD in Resource Ecology and Management, University of Michigan
Masters of Applied Science in Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
Bachelors of Applied Science in Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada - bellar@bu.edu
Andrew Bell is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Human Capital Initiative and a Core Faculty Member for the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University. Prior to his appointment at BU, Andrew was a Research Fellow at IFPRI (2012-2014) and an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU NY and Abu Dhabi (2015-2020). Andrew’s work is focused on rural livelihoods decision-making, using surveys and experiments to elicit behaviors at the individual scale, and agent-based models to examine consequences at the system scale. He has applied parts of this toolkit to examine irrigation systems in Pakistan and Bangladesh; agricultural adoption in Malawi; insect-based ecosystem services in Cambodia and Vietnam; and human-wildlife conflict in Kenya, Madagascar, Gabon and Scotland.
- Fields
- Core and Affiliated Faculty, Core Faculty, HCI, LULI, and LULI Core Faculty