Center On Financial Risk in Environmental Systems (CoFiRES)

Projects

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  • Gregory Characklis, PhD, Director, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems
  • Philip C. Singer Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
  • 139 Rosenau Hall
  • CB #7431
  • Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431
  • (919) 843-5545

These are the locations of current projects currently being pursued by the UNC Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems. Please contact us if you would like to discuss any of these in more detail.

Biofuels

Managing Financial Risks in Algae Production for Biofuel and Co-products
Biofules graphic

Catawba Basin

Evaluating the Physical and Financial Vulnerabilities of Power Systems to Drought in the Southeastern U.S.

California

The Sustainability-Productivity Tradeoff: Water supply vulnerabilities and adaptation opportunities in California’s coupled agricultural and energy sectors

Columbia Basin

Leveraging Natural Resource Concentration and Conveyance in the Energy Water Food Nexus to Increase Security and Resilience
Columbia River Basin

Galveston Bay

Texas A&M Superfund Research Center: Comprehensive tools and models for addressing exposure to mixtures during environmental emergency-related contamination events
Galveston Bay

Great Lakes

Managing the financial risks of low water levels in the Great Lakes

Mississippi River

Characterizing and managing the financial risks of drought along the Mississippi River

Rio Grande Valley

Managing portfolios of water market transfers
Rio Grande Valey

Roanoke Basin

Mitigating hydrologic financial risk in hydropower generation
Roanoke River Basin

Research Triangle (North Carolina)

Designing Robust and Adaptive Water Management Strategies for Regions Transitioning from Abundance to Scarcity
Jordon Lake

U.S. Water Utilities

Risk pooling to mitigate drought-related financial losses for water utilities