Contact Info:
Christopher L. Weber
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Office: A1 Porter Hall
Phone: 412-268-5550
Fax: 412-268-7813
Email: clweber@andrew.cmu.edu

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Christopher L. Weber, Research Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Areas of Interest:

Environmental implications of globalization and international trade; Life-cycle  assessment of household consumption patterns; uncertainty in life-cycle assessment and input-output analysis; environmental impacts of food production and consumption patterns; carbon footprinting and carbon labeling in environmental policy

Education

Ph.D. 2008, Carnegie Mellon University

Select Publications: 

• Weber, C.L. and Matthews, H.S. “Food-Miles and the Climate Impacts of Freight Transportation in American Food Consumption” Environmental Science & Technology, In Press.

• Matthews, H.S., Hendrickson, C.T., Weber, C.L. “The Importance of Carbon Footprint Estimation Boundaries” Environmental Science & Technology, In Press.

• Weber, C.L. and Matthews, H.S. (2007) “Quantifying the Global and Distributional Aspects of American Household Environmental Impact” Ecological Economics, In Press.

• Peters, G.P., Weber, C.L., Guan, D., Hubacek, K. (2007) “ China’s Growing CO2 Emissions—A Race Between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains” Environmental Science & Technology 41(17) pp 5939-5944.

• Weber, C.L. and Matthews, H.S. (2007) “Embodied Environmental Emissions in U.S. International Trade, 1997-2004” Environmental Science & Technology 41(14) pp. 4875-4881.