Sisi Meng

Sisi Meng is an assistant teaching professor of economics and technology for development at the Keough School of Global Affair at the University of Notre Dame. She is also an affiliated faculty at the Environmental Change Initiative, Environmental Humanities Initiative, Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, and Minor Program in Sustainability Studies. Meng’s research focuses on topics in environmental and natural resource economics, with an emphasis on the economic aspects of climate change adaptation and natural hazard risk mitigation. She is also interested in interdisciplinary studies between energy, agriculture, development, socioeconomics, and geography to integrate multiple disciplines and techniques. Meng is particularly interested in applying geographic information system techniques to spatial cost-benefit analysis of complex environmental issues. She is currently working on several projects including households’ preferences for sea level rise adaptation policies, resilience of critical infrastructures in the presence of hurricanes, and the socioeconomic impacts and perceptions of coastal vulnerability.