Casey Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 6567997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Casey Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Casey |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8248-041X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Urban water affordability crisis exacerbated by climate change
Climate change intensifies water stress globally, necessitating expensive infrastructure interventions to maintain reliable supply. To fund infrastructure, utilities often raise rates, increasing water bills for low-income households. The resulting affordability impacts depend on utility costs and interactions between rate design, financing, climate and household demands. Here we develop a city-scale modelling framework to estimate climate change…
Economic evaluation of water resources projects under uncertainty: From theory to practice
Economic evaluation using cost benefit analysis (CBA) focuses on the allocation of scarce resources to competing needs and often requires a multi-objective approach for accurate analysis. However, known and unforeseen project uncertainties hinder the monetary quantification of all project objectives. Future cost and benefit projections of civil infrastructure such as water resources projects are influenced by uncertainties in societal preferences…
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience
A global framework for potential private sector investment targets. • Two-thirds of the world’s population could benefit from private sector interventions. • Middle-income countries realize greatest benefits from private sector investments. Water security remains a critical global development challenge, compounded by persistent public funding shortfalls. Society urgently needs to identify opportunities for innovative private sector engagement in …
Urbanizing the floodplain: Global changes of imperviousness in flood-prone areas
Cities have historically developed close to rivers and coasts, increasing human exposure to flooding. That exposure is exacerbated by changes in climate and population, and by urban encroachment on floodplains. Although the mechanisms of how urbanization affects flooding are relatively well understood, there have been limited efforts to assess the magnitude of floodplain encroachment globally and how it has changed in both space and time. Highly …
Impact of green water anomalies on global rainfed crop yields
The importance of green water (moisture from rain stored in soils) for global food and water security is widely recognized, with process-based simulation models and field-level studies demonstrating its role in supporting rainfed agriculture. Despite this evidence, the relationship between green water anomalies and rainfed agriculture has not yet been investigated using statistical models that identify a causal relationship between the variables.…
Relating perceptions of flood risk and coping ability to mitigation behavior in West Africa: Case study of Burkina Faso
Multidimensional stress test for hydropower investments facing climate, geophysical and financial uncertainty
The future nexus of the Brahmaputra River Basin: Climate, water, energy and food trajectories
Room for improvement: Hydroclimatic challenges to poverty-reducing development of the Brahmaputra River basin
Agreeing on Robust Decisions: New Processes for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
Investment decision making is already difficult for any diverse group of actors with different priorities and views. But the presence of deep uncertainties linked to climate change and other future conditions further challenges decision making by questioning the robustness of all purportedly optimal solutions. While decision makers can continue to use the decision metrics they have used in the past (such as net present value), alternative methodo…
The Indus Basin of Pakistan: The Impacts of Climate Risks on Water and Agriculture
This study, Indus basin of Pakistan: the impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture was undertaken at a pivotal time in the region. The weak summer monsoon in 2009 created drought conditions throughout the country. This followed an already tenuous situation for many rural households faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs and the impacts of rising global food prices. Then catastrophic monsoon flooding in 2010 affected over 20 million peo…
Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision making: The value and demands of robust decision frameworks
In this paper, we review the need for, use of, and demands on climate modeling to support so‐called ‘robust’ decision frameworks, in the context of improving the contribution of climate information to effective decision making. Such frameworks seek to identify policy vulnerabilities under deep uncertainty about the future and propose strategies for minimizing regret in the event of broken assumptions. We argue that currently there is a severe und…
Emergent Sustainability: The Concept of Sustainable Development in a Complex World
Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision making: The value and demands of robust decision frameworks
In this paper, we review the need for, use of, and demands on climate modeling to support so‐called ‘robust’ decision frameworks, in the context of improving the contribution of climate information to effective decision making. Such frameworks seek to identify policy vulnerabilities under deep uncertainty about the future and propose strategies for minimizing regret in the event of broken assumptions. We argue that currently there is a severe und…
The future nexus of the Brahmaputra River Basin: Climate, water, energy and food trajectories
Multidimensional stress test for hydropower investments facing climate, geophysical and financial uncertainty
Room for improvement: Hydroclimatic challenges to poverty-reducing development of the Brahmaputra River basin
Emergent Sustainability: The Concept of Sustainable Development in a Complex World
Improving the contribution of climate model information to decision making: The value and demands of robust decision frameworks
In this paper, we review the need for, use of, and demands on climate modeling to support so‐called ‘robust’ decision frameworks, in the context of improving the contribution of climate information to effective decision making. Such frameworks seek to identify policy vulnerabilities under deep uncertainty about the future and propose strategies for minimizing regret in the event of broken assumptions. We argue that currently there is a severe und…
The Indus Basin of Pakistan: The Impacts of Climate Risks on Water and Agriculture
This study, Indus basin of Pakistan: the impacts of climate risks on water and agriculture was undertaken at a pivotal time in the region. The weak summer monsoon in 2009 created drought conditions throughout the country. This followed an already tenuous situation for many rural households faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs and the impacts of rising global food prices. Then catastrophic monsoon flooding in 2010 affected over 20 million peo…
Agreeing on Robust Decisions: New Processes for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
Investment decision making is already difficult for any diverse group of actors with different priorities and views. But the presence of deep uncertainties linked to climate change and other future conditions further challenges decision making by questioning the robustness of all purportedly optimal solutions. While decision makers can continue to use the decision metrics they have used in the past (such as net present value), alternative methodo…
Room for improvement: Hydroclimatic challenges to poverty-reducing development of the Brahmaputra River basin
The future nexus of the Brahmaputra River Basin: Climate, water, energy and food trajectories
Multidimensional stress test for hydropower investments facing climate, geophysical and financial uncertainty
Relating perceptions of flood risk and coping ability to mitigation behavior in West Africa: Case study of Burkina Faso
Impact of green water anomalies on global rainfed crop yields
The importance of green water (moisture from rain stored in soils) for global food and water security is widely recognized, with process-based simulation models and field-level studies demonstrating its role in supporting rainfed agriculture. Despite this evidence, the relationship between green water anomalies and rainfed agriculture has not yet been investigated using statistical models that identify a causal relationship between the variables.…
Urbanizing the floodplain: Global changes of imperviousness in flood-prone areas
Cities have historically developed close to rivers and coasts, increasing human exposure to flooding. That exposure is exacerbated by changes in climate and population, and by urban encroachment on floodplains. Although the mechanisms of how urbanization affects flooding are relatively well understood, there have been limited efforts to assess the magnitude of floodplain encroachment globally and how it has changed in both space and time. Highly …
Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience
A global framework for potential private sector investment targets. • Two-thirds of the world’s population could benefit from private sector interventions. • Middle-income countries realize greatest benefits from private sector investments. Water security remains a critical global development challenge, compounded by persistent public funding shortfalls. Society urgently needs to identify opportunities for innovative private sector engagement in …
Economic evaluation of water resources projects under uncertainty: From theory to practice
Economic evaluation using cost benefit analysis (CBA) focuses on the allocation of scarce resources to competing needs and often requires a multi-objective approach for accurate analysis. However, known and unforeseen project uncertainties hinder the monetary quantification of all project objectives. Future cost and benefit projections of civil infrastructure such as water resources projects are influenced by uncertainties in societal preferences…
Urban water affordability crisis exacerbated by climate change
Climate change intensifies water stress globally, necessitating expensive infrastructure interventions to maintain reliable supply. To fund infrastructure, utilities often raise rates, increasing water bills for low-income households. The resulting affordability impacts depend on utility costs and interactions between rate design, financing, climate and household demands. Here we develop a city-scale modelling framework to estimate climate change…
Geography (8 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 works) · Water resources (5 works) · Water resources management and optimization (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)