pse VISITING SCHOLARS

REiko Sodeno

• Professor Reiko Sodeno is a visiting scholar at the PSE, conducting research on how the US administration and global society respond to important environmental issues, including climate change and sustainable development through the process of green recovery from COVID-19 pandemic.   She is a professor in the Department of Architecture and Environment Systems, College of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology of Japan. She has worked on various environmental problems, such as waste management, climate change, ozone layer depletion, air pollution control, water pollution control and international cooperation at the Ministry of the Environment of Japan for more than twenty years. Based on this experience, she is currently studying environmental policies and social systems focusing on the context of sustainable development goals (SDGs).  Professor Sodeno also actively contributes for society as a member of committee or council of Japanese government and municipalities, such as Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and Saitama prefecture.

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LORIEN JASNY

Professor Lorien Jasny's research centers on two related themes – the structure and dynamics of inter-organizational networks, and the structure and dynamics of belief networks.  Substantively, she is interested in how people try to bring about societal change in response to environmental concerns. Methodologically, the need to grapple with these often complex phenomena requires the use and development of techniques for handling dynamic and relational data.  Her training in network analysis, simulation and statistical modeling techniques, is a key tool for responding to the challenge of studying complex social systems. She is a lecturer in the department of politics at the University of Exeter.

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