- Phone:
- (812) 855-4556
- Email:
- rhodes@iu.edu
- Areas of Interest:
- Public policy analysis
- Assessment of the efficiency of organization performance
- Environmental and natural resource policy implementation
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Education
- Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1978
- A.B., (magna cum laude), Princeton University, 1968
Biography
Dr. Edwardo L. Rhodes’ research focus is applications of operations research and management science to public policy. This focus includes the areas of environmental justice and common property resource decision-making. He is the editor of the book Applications of Management Science to Public Policy Analysis and the author of Environmental Justice: A New Paradigm. He is working on two books, Mother (a creative nonfiction work) and International Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development.
Selected Works
- Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (2003)
- "A different way of looking at the same old numbers: Using data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate community level environmental quality and justice," ,” International Journal of Public Administration, 25(2): 253-280 (2001)
- Applications of Management Science, Volume 7: Public Policy Applications of Management Science, (with R. L. Schultz, Ed.). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1993)
- "Evaluating program and managerial efficiency: An application of data envelopment analysis to program follow-through,"Management Science, 27(6): 668-697 (1981)
- "Measuring the efficiency of decision-making units," (with A. Charles and W. W. I. Cooper) European Journal of Operational Research, 2 (6) (1978)