Climis A. Davos, Ph.D.
davos@ucla.edu

Dr. Davos is a Professor of Environmental Evaluation and Decision Theory in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at UCLA. He holds a B.A. degree (1962) in Economics and Statistics from the Athens Graduate School of Economics and Business Sciences; an M.A. degree (1967) in Econometrics and Decision Theory from the University of Manchester, England; and a Ph.D. degree (1974) in Environmental Planning and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Davos is a Fellow of the International Institute for Social Economics and member of Honorary Societies in Economics, Scientific Research, and Public Health. Prior to joining UCLA, Dr. Davos had served as Senior Economist with the consultant firms of (a) the world renown regional planner Dr. C.A. Doxiadis in such projects as the Emergence and Growth of an Urban Region: Case Study of the Detroit Metropolitan Area and the Great Lakes Megalopolis Project (in collaboration with the University of Michigan) and (b) the world renown physicist and environmentalist Dr. T.B. Taylor in such projects as the development of a methodology for assessing the economic impacts of water pollution control costs upon the chemical processing industries as well as the SEAS and SOS large scale models of U.S. EPA.

Dr. Davos' theoretical, methodological, teaching and research interests focus on the evaluation of environmental policy impacts with direct stakeholder participation. An integral part of these interests is the Game theoretic analysis of conflicts and compensation strategies for achieving sustainable stakeholder cooperation and environmental justice. Recent field applications of Dr. Davos' contribution to the state of the art include cases of coastal management in four European union member states, the Galapagos Archipelagos, and the San Andres Archipelagos in the Caribbean.

Recent Publications:
Lejano, R.P., and Davos, C.A. (1995). "Cost Allocation of Multi-Agency Water Resource Projects: Game Theoretic Approaches and Case Study." Water Resources Research, Vol. 31(5), pp. 1387-1393

Davos, C.A. (1998). "Sustaining cooperation for coastal sustainability." Journal of Environmental Management, 52, pp. 379-387.

Davos, C.A. (1999). "On determining the social relevance of oceanography." Progress in Oceanography (forthcomin in special issue).

Davos, C.A. (1999). "Sustainable cooperation as the challenge for a new coastal management paradigm." Ocean and Coastal Management (forthcomin in special issue).

Lejano, R.P. and Davos, C.A. (1999). "Cooperative solutions for sustainable Resource management." Environmental Management (forthcoming).