Faculty/Staff Listing
Dr. David M. Hassenzahl
Chair and Associate Professor
Telephone: 702-895-4457
Office: CDC 720
E-mail: david.hassenzahl@unlv.edu
Education
- BA University of California at Berkeley
- MA, Ph.D. Princeton University
Dr. David M. Hassenzahl Chairs the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses on information, expertise, and uncertainty in risk decision-making. He serves on the Council of the Society for Risk Analysis, and represents UNLV on the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors. He has received the UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award, and both the Outstanding Researcher and Outstanding Teacher Awards from the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs. His advisory work has included the New Jersey Comparative Risk Project and the Clark County (Nevada) Vulnerability Assessment. He received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and his undergraduate degree in Paleontology and Environmental Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Between his undergraduate and graduate degrees, he worked as an environmental manager for a pulp and paper mill and as an agent for the (San Francisco) Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
- Raven, P., Berg, L. and Hassenzahl, D. M. (2008). Environment, 6/e. J. Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ.
- Kammen, D. M. and Hassenzahl, D.
M. (1999). Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health, and
Technological Problem Solving. Princeton University Press. This book
has been a featured offering of the Library of Science Book Club. Revised
Paperback edition 2001; Japanese Language edition 2001 (Springer-Verlag
Tokyo).
Select Articles and Chapters
- Hassenzahl, D.M. and Finkel A.F. (forthcoming). "Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health." Encyclopedia of Public Health, Elsevier Press.
- Neill, H.N., Hassenzahl, D. M. and Assane, D. (2007). "Estimating the Effect of Air Quality: Spatial versus Traditional Hedonic Price Models" accepted for publication in Southern Economics Journal.
- Hassenzahl, D. M. (2006). "Implications of Excessive Precision for Risk Comparisons: Lessons from the Past Four Decades." Risk Analysis 26(1): 265 - 276
- Hassenzahl, D. M. (2005). "The effect of uncertainty on 'risk rationalizing' decisions." Journal of Risk Research 8(2), 119 – 138.
- Andrews, C. J., Hassenzahl, D. M. and Johnson, B. B. (2004). "Accommodating Uncertainty in Comparative Risk." Risk Analysis 24(5): 1323 - 1335. Hassenzahl, D. M. (2004). "Uncertainty as a resource in risk comparisons." In Linkov, I. and Ramadan, A. eds. Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making Kluwer.
Recent Conference Presentations
- Hassenzahl, D.M. (2007) Experts, Opponents and Myths in High Level Nuclear Waste Disposal Siting. Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, December 11 13, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
- Ruhoy, I. and Hassenzahl, D.M. (2007). The disposal of unused and unwanted pharmaceuticals: A risk perspective. Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, December 11 13, 2007, San Antonio, TX.
- Tandon, S. Neill, H., Assane, D. and Hassenzahl, D.M. (2007). Estimating the Impact of Air Quality with a Spatial Hedonic: Geostatistical versus Weight-Matrix Approaches. 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Nov 7 -11, Savannah, GA.
- Goble, R., Hassenzahl, D. M., Winkler, D. and LŽtourneau, C. (2007). Asking Questions and Gathering Information: A Risk and Uncertainty Perspective on Radioactive Waste Management in the US and Canada. International Symposium on Technology and Society, Las Vegas, NV June 1 2, 2007.
- Neill, H., Assane, D. and Hassenzahl, D. M. (2007). Stigma Effect: Comparison of Two Neighborhoods. Presented at the American Real Estate Society national conference, San Francisco, CA April 12 14, 2007.
- Hassenzahl, D.M. (2006). A classification of high uncertainty challenges to risk management. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, December 4 - 6, 2006, Baltimore MD.
- Neill, H. Assane, D. and Hassenzahl, D. M. (2006). Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, December 4 - 6, 2006, Baltimore MD.
- Smith, B., Youngdoo, D. and Hassenzahl, D. M. (2006). Designing the best new source of water during drought. Poster at the Geology Society of America Conference Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Vulnerable Environments: Creating a Roadmap for Change in the United States. September 28 30, 2006.
David M. Hassenzahl