Taylor Lab

Harvard Kennedy SchoolThe Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University

Working at the intersection of economics and natural science to understand how humans affect the environment and how the environment affects humans.

Research areas

  • Land use, agriculture, wetlands, and water
  • Environmental regulation and its impacts on real estate and energy development
  • Climate impacts and adaptation
  • Climate, ecology, and human migration, from prehistory to today
  • Satellite remote sensing for environmental measurement

Members

  • Anika Ferguson
  • Simon Greenhill
  • Nicolas Siller
  • Sherry Tang
  • Guglielmo Zappalà (alum)

In collaboration with Wolfram Schlenker.

Fifteenth-century world map based on Ptolemy's Geography
World map from Ptolemy’s Geography, Florence, c. 1450–1475. British Library, Harley MS 7182.