Daniel P. Loucks teaches and directs research in the application of economic theory, environmental engineering and systems analysis methods to the solution of environmental and regional water resources problems. He has served in various administrative positions at Cornell and has authored articles and book chapters in his research areas.
He has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University, an Economist at the Development Research Center of the World Bank, a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, and as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado in Boulder, the University of Adelaide in South Australia, Aachen University of Technology in Germany, the Technical University of Delft and the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering in Delft in The Netherlands, and the University of Texas in Austin.
He has served as a consultant to private and government agencies and various organizations of the United Nations, the World Bank, and NATO involved in regional water resources development planning in Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. In the past three years he has had appointments at Delft Hydraulics in The Netherlands, the Institute for Water Resources of the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the South Florida Water Management District, all involving water resources and ecosystem planning and management projects.
