Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Carolyn Kousky
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
504 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-495-1417
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: carolyn_kousky "at" ksgphd.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Doctoral Research Fellow

Carolyn Kousky is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and the Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University. She is a doctoral candidate in the Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Kousky is involved in two areas of research. The first is exploring public policies to provide ecosystem services. She has looked at local governments in the United States that are investing in natural capital to provide flood mitigation and water purification and is now studying the design of contracts between the government and landowners to provide ecosystem services. She is also interested in natural disaster policy and private decision-making regarding locating in risky areas. She is the recipient of a Teresa Heinz Scholar for Environmental Research grant (2006) and was a previous recipient of the Crump Fellowship (2005). Kousky received a BS, with honors and distinction, in Earth Systems from Stanford University.