Professor of Environment and Sustainability, School for Environment and Sustainability, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Program in the Environment, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and School for Environment and Sustainability
Email pjagger@umich.edu
Office Information:
Address
Environment and Sustainability
4044 Dana
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1041
Survey Research Center
2258 ISR Thompson
Ann Arbor MI 48106-1248
phone: 734-763-1414 734-763-8649
Program in the Environment
Education/Degree:
2009 Ph.D. Public Policy, Indiana University
1998 M.Sc. Forest Economics, University of Alberta
1994 B.A. Economics, University of Alberta
About
Pam Jagger is a global leader in interdisciplinary population and environment research. She is an applied political economist whose research focuses on the dynamics of poverty and environment interactions in low-income countries. She leads the interdisciplinary Forest Use, Energy, and Livelihoods (FUEL) Lab, and is the Director of the National Science Foundation funded Energy Poverty PIRE in Southern Africa (EPPSA), a 5-year collaborative program to support research and training on the topic of energy access in Southern Africa. FUEL Lab research is currently organized around three themes: environment and livelihoods, environmental governance, and energy poverty. The first theme focuses on quantifying the role of forests and the other environmental resources in household consumption and income generation, and understanding how contributions change in response to land use land cover change, implementation of conservation and development projects, and population dynamics. The second theme examines the livelihood impacts of changes in environmental governance and institutions on access to environmental goods and services. The third theme examines household energy access including understanding the effectiveness of interventions designed to mitigate energy poverty and improve access to electricity and cleaner cooking and novel research questions related to the effects of land cover and land use change on energy access and human health. Dr. Jagger has worked as a policy research scholar with the World Bank, Resources for the Future, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the Center for International Forestry Research.
