SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy - Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Seth has been part of the WPI community since 2001, as teacher, advisor, co-director of the Global Lab, and co-director of project centers. He is the co-Director of the Boston Project Center and was the co-Director of the Bangkok Project Center from 2011-2018. He enjoys exposing students to contemporary problems in environmental and public health policy making and challenging them to apply insights emerging from research to practical applications. He loves share his curiosity with students about the ways that people are impacted by different technological and natural systems.
Seth’s research interests focus on risk governance, public participation in risk assessment and decision making, and developing tools to characterize human impacts and vulnerabilities to risk events. He has extensive experience with interdisciplinary research in multiple policy arenas, including climate adaptation planning, oil spill response planning, nuclear waste management, and regional land-use planning. A thread throughout his work has been to empower communities to participate more effectively in the management of risk. For more information about Seth's research visit www.seri-us.org
Seth was a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Energy-Related Epidemiologic Research and chaired its Subcommittee for Community Affairs for 2 years. He served on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Radioactive Waste and was asked to co-author two technical reports for President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future on social distrust, with Roger Kasperson, and public engagement, with Eugene Rosa and Thomas Webler. He also served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization; and National Research Council Committee on Review of Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate, a hazardous byproduct of chemical weapons demilitarization, at two facilities in Pueblo, Colorado and Blue Grass, Kentucky.
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Seth has been part of the WPI community since 2001, as teacher, advisor, co-director of the Global Lab, and co-director of project centers. He is the co-Director of the Boston Project Center and was the co-Director of the Bangkok Project Center from 2011-2018. He enjoys exposing students to contemporary problems in environmental and public health policy making and challenging them to apply insights emerging from research to practical applications. He loves share his curiosity with students about the ways that people are impacted by different technological and natural systems.
Seth’s research interests focus on risk governance, public participation in risk assessment and decision making, and developing tools to characterize human impacts and vulnerabilities to risk events. He has extensive experience with interdisciplinary research in multiple policy arenas, including climate adaptation planning, oil spill response planning, nuclear waste management, and regional land-use planning. A thread throughout his work has been to empower communities to participate more effectively in the management of risk. For more information about Seth's research visit www.seri-us.org
Seth was a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Energy-Related Epidemiologic Research and chaired its Subcommittee for Community Affairs for 2 years. He served on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Radioactive Waste and was asked to co-author two technical reports for President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future on social distrust, with Roger Kasperson, and public engagement, with Eugene Rosa and Thomas Webler. He also served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization; and National Research Council Committee on Review of Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate, a hazardous byproduct of chemical weapons demilitarization, at two facilities in Pueblo, Colorado and Blue Grass, Kentucky.
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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities - Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
SDG 13: Climate Action
SDG 13: Climate Action - Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG 15: Life on Land
SDG 15: Life on Land - Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals - Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Scholarly Work
Featured scholarly work:
Tuler, S. P. and Webler, T. (2023). Controversy and consensus in the design of a consent-based siting process for radioactive waste. Energy Research & Social Science, 95, 102906.
Tuler, S. P., Webler, T., Hansen, R., Vörösmarty, C. J., Melillo, J. M., & Wuebbles, D. J. (2023). Prospects and challenges of regional modeling frameworks to inform planning for food, energy, and water systems: Views of modelers and stakeholders. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11, 308
Dow, K. and Tuler, S. 2021. Climate adaptation in coastal cities: Managing social amplification and attenuation of risk response, Risk Analysis 42(7):1440-1454.
Webler, T. and Tuler, S. 2021. Four decades of public participation in risk decision making, Risk Analysis 41(3): 503-518.
Tuler, S. Dow, K., and Webler, T. 2020. Assessment of adaptation, policy, and capacity building outcomes from 14 processes, Environmental Science and Policy114:275-282.
Webler, T. and Tuler, S. 2020. Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent, Journal of Risk Research 24(1):94-109.
Notable student works:
Year | Title | Institution | Award | Outcome |
2013 | Promoting a Lead Free Community: An Educational Program for Schools in Thailand | WPI | President's IQP Award | Winner |
2018 | Developing Drowsy Driving Mitigation Strategies for Himachal Pradesh | WPI | Presidents IQP Award | First Runner-up |