Arpad Horvath
215B McLaughlin Hall
Fall 2023 (starting on August 30):
- Wednesdays 10:10-10:55 am in 215 McLaughlin
- Thursdays 5:30-6:30 pm on zoom (see bCourses for link)
- Fridays 8:45-9:00 am in 215 McLaughlin
Arpad Horvath is the L. E. Peirano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (http://faculty.ce.berkeley.edu/horvath/), Head of the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Graduate Program, Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, and Director of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability Certificate Program.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability.
Arpad Horvath is a member of the National Academy of Construction.
He was a Co-Chair of the Environmental Research 2021 Conference, the largest environmental research conference by attendance to date, and he is Co-Chair of the Environmental Research 2023 Conference.
In 2021, he was the Chair of the 2nd Food-Energy-Water Nexus Conference.
His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly answering important questions posed about civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. He has conducted studies on the environmental implications of various products, processes and services, in particular, transportation systems, water and wastewater systems, buildings, concrete and other construction materials, pavements, and biofuels.
Arpad Horvath is an author of 130 peer-reviewed articles in the top international journals.
Professor Horvath was a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board (Environmental Engineering Committee) between 2010 and 2015, and a member of the Science Advisory Board's Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee between 2011 and 2016.
He is an Editorial Board member of Environmental Research Letters, Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, past Associate Editor of the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, and past Editorial Advisory Board member of Environmental Science & Technology. He was a Council Member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology between 2014 and 2016.
He is a frequent consultant to industry and government agencies around the world.
In addition to several recent conference organization roles, he was Conference Chair of the 6th International Conference on Industrial Ecology in 2011, the world’s largest conference in sustainability research to that date.
Arpad Horvath is a recipient of the International Society for Industrial Ecology’s Laudise Prize, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Sustainability Award, and the Excellence in Review Award from Environmental Science & Technology. Three of his papers have been voted into the top three papers in Environmental Science & Technology in 2008, 2011, and 2012.
Horvath's full list of Publications, Awards, Teaching, and Student information can be found here.
Ph.D. - Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
M.S. - Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
Dipl. Eng. (M.S.) - Civil Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, 1993
Arpad Horvath's research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly answering important questions posed about civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. He has conducted studies on the environmental implications of various products, processes and services, in particular, buildings, concrete and other construction materials, transportation systems, food chain, water and wastewater systems, pavements, and biofuels.
Arpad Horvath is an author of 130 peer-reviewed articles in the top international journals.
Arpad Horvath is a member of the National Academy of Construction, recipient of the International Society for Industrial Ecology’s Laudise Prize, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Sustainability Award, and the Excellence in Review Award from Environmental Science & Technology. Three of his papers have been voted into the top three papers in Environmental Science & Technology in 2008, 2011, and 2012.
Projects:
Mitigating Exposure and Climate Change Impacts from Transportation Projects: Environmental Justice-Centered Decision-Support Framework and Tool - Press release
In the media:
INFEWS Publications:
Dorr, E., Goldstein, B. P., Aubry, C., Gabrielle, B. and Horvath, A. (2023), “Life Cycle Assessment of Eight Urban Farms and Community Gardens in France and California.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 192, 106921, May, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2023.106921
Orner, K., Scown, C., Nordahl, S., Nelson, K. and Horvath A. (2023), “Environmental and Economic Impacts of Managing Nutrients in Digestate Derived from Sewage Sludge and High-Strength Organic Waste.” Environmental Science & Technology, 51(21), 12061-12071, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c04020
Bell, E. M., Qin. Y. and Horvath, A. (2023), “Optimal Allocation of Tomato Supply to Minimize Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Major U.S. Metropolitan Markets.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 188, 106660,January, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106660
Qin, Y. and Horvath, A. (2022), “What Contributes More to Life-cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Farm Produce: Production, Transportation, Packaging, or Food Loss?” Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 176, 105945, January, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105945
Dorr, E., Goldstein, B. P., Horvath, A., Aubry, C. and Gabrielle, B. (2021), “Environmental Impacts and Resource Use of Urban Agriculture: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), 093002, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a39
Qin, Y. and Horvath, A. (2021), “Contribution of Food Loss to Greenhouse Gas Assessment of High-Value Agricultural Produce: California Production, U.S. Consumption.” Environmental Research Letters, 16(1), 014024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcfdf
Memarzadeh, M., Moura, S. and Horvath, A. (2020), “Multi-Agent Management of Integrated Food-Energy-Water Systems Using Stochastic Games: From Nash Equilibrium to the Social Optimum.” Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 0940a4, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abadca
Qin, Y. and Horvath, A. (2020), “Use of alternative water sources in irrigation: potential scales, costs, and environmental impacts in California.” Environmental Research Communications, 2(5), 055003, https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab915e
Bell, E. and Horvath, A. (2020), “Modeling the Carbon Footprint of Fresh Produce: Effects of Transportation, Localness, and Seasonality on U.S. Orange Markets.” Environmental Research Letters, 15(3), 034040, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c2f
Memarzadeh, M., Moura, S. and Horvath, A. (2019), “Optimizing Dynamics of Integrated Food-Energy-Water Systems under the Risk of Climate Change.” Environmental Research Letters, 14(7), 074010, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2104
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