Research Associate Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation

Regulatory design, decision support, performance evaluation, risk and uncertainty analysis, economic and policy analyses for water resources and environmental management

B.S. (Wildlife Biology) 1985, The University of Montana
M.P.Aff. (Public Affairs) 1994, The University of Texas at Austin
M.S., Ph.D. (Engineering and Public Policy) 2002, Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon, 2002 -.

Dr. Schultz investigates issues in the design and evaluation of regulations and the development of regulatory decision support tools focusing on water quality regulation. In his work, he integrates theoretical principals and methods from economics, statistics, decision sciences and environmental science and engineering. His recent efforts have been directed at developing approaches to the valuation of public environmental goods for decision support and at ways to improve how information is used in the regulatory decision making process. Other projects include developing reduced-form environmental models for surface water pollution control to improve regulators ability to make decisions under uncertainty and evaluate regulatory alternatives. Dr. Schultz has also developed decision support tools to optimize and evaluate water pollution trading designs involving non-point sources and has worked closely with public utilities and government agencies on evaluation of agricultural and urban water conservation programs and on valuation of irrigation water rights.

Publications

Schultz, M.T., Small, M.J., Farrow, R.S. and Fischbeck, P.S., State water policy insights from a reduced-form model, forthcoming in Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

Schultz, M. T. and Small, M. J., 2001, Integrating performance in the design of a water pollution trading program, Chapter 17 in P. S. Fischbeck and R. S. Farrow(editors), Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety, Resources for the Future, Washington D.C. 461p.

Schultz, M. T., 2001, A critique of EPA’s index of watershed indicators, Journal of Environmental Management 62 (4): 429-442

Uncertainty Analysis of a Large Scale Water Quality Model for Regulatory Decision Support (with Paul Fischbeck, Mitchell Small, and Scott Farrow). Sponsored Presentation at Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Annual Conference, San Jose, California, November 18, 2002.

Incorporating Uncertainty into an Evaluation of Economic Benefits under Clean Water Act Regulations, (with Mitchell Small and Scott Farrow). Presented at National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) Seminar Series, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C., November 9, 2000.

Point/Non-point Source Water Pollution Trading under a Total Maximum Daily Load Program, (with Mitchell Small and Scott Farrow). Presented at Mid-Atlantic Conference of the American Water Resources Association, Matamoras, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1999.

Projects

Linking Environmental and Social Performance Measurement for Management at National and Watershed Levels: Modeling and Statistical Approaches, Funding by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/ National Science Foundation Water and Watersheds Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Grant.

Design and Decision Support for Water Infrastructure and Environmental Decision Making, Funding by Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA).

Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA): Proposed Assessment in the Mid-and Upper-Atlantic Region, (with Pennsylvania State University and University of Rhode Island) Funding by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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