James Wescoat
James L. Wescoat, Jr. is Aga Khan Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining MIT, he taught at the University of Chicago, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He offers courses on water, hazards, and landscape design. He helped organize the “Rethinking Water” workshop at MIT in 2010.
Wescoat’s research concentrates on water systems in South Asia and the United States, from the site scale to the river basin scale. He has conducted water policy research in the Indus, Colorado, Ganges, and Great Lakes basins. His publications include studies of water law, policy, and the historical geography of water development in South Asia.
He led a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-funded study of potential climate impacts in the Indus River Basin in Pakistan with the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) in the 1990s and is again involved with WAPDA in a World Bank study on Climate, Water, and Food Security in the Indus Basin of Pakistan.
Related Resources from James Wescoat
Gilbert Fowler White (1911-2006), Wisdom in Environmental Geography
Geographical Review, October 2006
