Assistant
Professor, Civil
and Environmental Engineering, and Engineering
and Public Policy; Research Director, Green Design
Institute
B.S. (Computer
Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy) 1992, Carnegie
Mellon
M.S. (Economics) 1996, Carnegie Mellon.
Ph.D. (Economics) 1999, Carnegie Mellon.
Carnegie
Mellon, 1999 -.
Prof. Matthews
is the Research Director of the Green Design Institute
and a faculty member in the Departments
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering
& Public Policy at Carnegie
Mellon University. The Green Design Institute is an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon focused on identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of environmental systems and helping businesses manage their use of resources and toxic materials. His research and consulting interests are in the areas of using the Internet to facilitate environmental life cycle assessment of products and processes, carbon footprinting, green supply chain management, and the energy and environmental impacts of energy, transport, and information infrastructure. At Carnegie Mellon, he has taught
graduate and undergraduate courses in the Departments
of Economics, Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Engineering
and Public Policy, and Computer
Science.
Representative
Publications
Paulina Jaramillo, W. Michael Griffin, H. Scott Matthews, “Comparative Analysis of the Production Costs and Life-Cycle GHG Emissions of FT-Liquid Fuels from Coal and Natural Gas”, Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 42 No. 20, pp. 7559-7565, 2008.
Weber, C.L. and Matthews, H.S. “Food-Miles and the Climate Impacts of Freight Transportation in American Food Consumption”, Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 42, pp. 3508–3513, 2008.
Matthews, H.S., Hendrickson, C.T., Weber, C.L. “The Importance of Carbon Footprint Estimation Boundaries” Environmental Science & Technology, Vol, 42 No. 16, pp. 5839-5842.
Chris T. Hendrickson, Lester B. Lave, and H. Scott Matthews, “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach”, RFF Press, April 2006.
H. Scott Matthews and Lester B. Lave, "Applications of Environmental Valuation for Determining Externality Costs," Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 34, No.8, pp. 1390-1395, 2000.
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