Beaudry Kock joined Lower Carbon Futures in July 2011 and is focusing primarily on the development of new business models for deploying distributed microgeneration in the UK. He previously worked at Environmental Resources Management Ltd in London, helping develop new approaches for putting a monetary value on social and environmental sustainability for the mining, oil and gas industries, with the aim of better integrating these concerns into their project planning.

Beaudry received a PhD from MIT in Boston, USA, where his research focused on the development of an integrated agent-based and hydrogeological simulation model to help address a serious salinization problem in a western US basin. The model was developed collaboratively with members of the local community, and supported better decision making by the community for more sustainable long term water management in the region. Prior to his PhD, Beaudry received an MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering also from MIT, and a MSci in Environmental Geology from Imperial College London.

Research Interests

• Application of collaborative processes with simulation and visualisation technologies to address serious sustainability challenges
• Development of more realistic behavioural models that improve on more traditional economic notions of human decision making
• Developing and testing novel incentives for behavioural change to reduce society's resource consumption footprint

Publications

Kock, B. E. (2007). Challenges to interdisciplinary graduate education. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 88(37).

Kock, B. E. (2006). Engaging Non-Governmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations: Institutional Approaches to Reforming State-NGO Interactions. Papers on International Environmental Negotiation, Volume 15. Ensuring a Sustainable Future. Moomaw, R. W., Susskind, L. E. (Eds.). Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Conferences

• Kock, B. E. (2008). Going beyond the unitary curve: incorporating richer cognition into agent-based water resources models. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53). Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract H52D-08.
• Kock, B. E. (2007). Agent-based models as tools for water conflict resolution. US Bureau of Reclamation: Institutional Solutions to Water Conflict Conference, Salt Lake City, UT 2007.
• Kock, B. E. (2007). Coupled socio-biophysical modeling of ground water banking alternatives in the Eastern Snake Plain, Idaho. AWRA 2007 Annual Water Resources Conference , Albuquerque, NM.
• Kock, B. E. (2007). Seeking New Ways to Incorporate Science into Environmental Decision Making: The MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative. Numerical Modeling Policy Interface Network I, Stuttgart, Germany.
• Karl, H., Kock, B. E. (2007). Cooperation and Conflict over Water in the Western United States. American Association of Geographers, Annual Meeting 2007
• Kock, B. E. (2006). Collaborative Multi-Agent Based Simulations: Stakeholder-Focused Innovation in Water Resources Management. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006.