Position:
Core Staff
Associate Professor of Environmental Practice
College or Department name:
School for Environment and Sustainability
Email:
jfalfaro@umich.edu
Office Location:
G568 Dana
Degrees:
Ph.D. Resource Policy & Behavior, 2014
M.S. Environmental Engineering, Clemson University, 2011
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2003
Research Interests:
- Renewable Energy micro-grids and their impact on sustainable development of least industrialized
- countries
- Applications of Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy to increase community sustainability
- System Dynamics of International Development
- Applied Complex Systems Tools for policy planning and stakeholder involvement
- Interdisciplinary, international, and engaged education for sustainable development
Projects:
- CAREER: Creation of a Predictive and Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment Tool
- Circular Economy: Symbiotic Recycling of Consumer Products
- M-Cubed 3.0: Training and research under a sustainable roof: A net-zero biological field station at the Taboga Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
- M-Cubed Diamond: Using Industrial Symbiosis Concepts to Reduce Flexible Packaging Flow to Landfill in Developing Countries
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Assessing the Prospects for Renewable Energy (RE)-enabling Technologies
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Integrating Renewables in a Micro-Grid in Congo
- MASTER'S PROJECT: More than Me! Sustainable School Yard Design, Liberia
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Strategic Options to Expand Local Market Access to MakaPads
- Reimagining Puerto Rico’s Energy and Food Systems Through Community Engagement and Industrial Symbiosis
- Solar Microgrids in a Newly Electrified India
- Use of Concentrating Solar Power for Water Desalination
Publications:
- A Stochastic Approach to Model Dynamic Systems in Life Cycle Assessment
- Applying Industrial Symbiosis to Smallholder Farms: Modeling a Case Study in Liberia, West Africa
- Assessing The Non-Carbon Impacts Of An Emerging Bioenergy Industry
- Co-Curricular Programs in Liberia for Student Pipeline Into Engineering and Agriculture
- Evaluating the capacity of small farmers to adopt aquaponics systems: empirical evidence from Brazil
- Evaluating The Development And Demographics Of Electrical Grids In Third World Countries Through Agent Based Models
- Exploring household willingness to participate in solid waste collection services in Liberia
- Exploring the Emergence of Renewable Energy Grids in Developing Countries with Agent Based Models
- Feasibility of superabsorbent polymer recycling and reuse in disposable absorbent hygiene product
- Improving Rural Electricity System Planning: An agent-based model for stakeholder engagement and decision making
- Informing the Development of the Renewable Energy Sector in Liberia through Industrial Ecology and Complexity
- Municipal Environmental Management Indicators: A Bottom-Up Approach Applied to the Colombian Context
- Perceptions towards solar mini-grid systems in India: A multi-stakeholder analysis
- Planning the Development of Electricity Grids in Developing Countries: An Initial Approach Using Agent Based Models
- Preliminary Social Life Cycle Assessment of Coral Reef Regeneration in Sámara, Costa Rica via Proyecto Corales
- Rural Renewable Electrification in Liberia: Outcomes and Opportunities from a Stakeholder Workshop
- Satisfying the Rural Residential Demand in Liberia with Decentralized Renewable Energy Schemes
- Social and environmental impacts of charcoal production in Liberia: Evidence from the field
- Solar microgrids in rural India: Consumers' willingness to pay for attributes of electricity
- Solid waste management index for Brazilian Higher Education Institutions
Press:
- Closing the Loop: ‘Biowaste’ to Clean Energy and Growing Small Farms
- U-M group gets $2 million NSF grant for turning diapers into devices to capture microplastics
- One key to adapting to climate change: Having your own energy grid
- Energy Independence in Puerto Rico
- COVID-19 pandemic disrupts U-M research projects far and wide
- Solving water access issues with solar energy