Campus Directory

Division Visiting Faculty/Staff

Department/College/Unit Environmental Studies Department

Title Dr.

Affiliation Member

Additional Location(s) 485 ISB

Office Hours 6-7 pm Tuesday & Thursday (and by appointment)

Mail Stop Environmental Studies

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley (August 2015)

BA Chemistry & BA Economics, University of California, Berkeley (August 2001)

August 2008 – May 2010: Public Utilities Rate Analyst Intern, California Public Utilities Commission - Division of Ratepayer Advocates

March 2004 – June 2006: Health and Sanitation Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps, Morocco

January 2003 - March 2004: Environmental Compliance Inspector, City of Burlingame

Research Interests

Access to drinking water and sanitation in resource constrained settings, non-market valuation, user preferences, cost-benefit analysis, demand modeling, willingness to pay, demand management, economic development policy

Teaching Interests

• Ecological Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Community Driven Development
• Water & Sanitation in the Developing World
• Non-market valuation
• Social Science Research Methods

Awards, Honors and Grants

• 2015 African Studies Center Grant
• 2013 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
• 2013 John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship
• 2013 Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Scholarship
• 2009 Qayum Family Foundation Grant for exploratory research in South Asia
• 2001 American Institute of Chemists Foundation (AICF) Award for UC Berkeley

Selected Publications

Amrose, S., Burt, Z., Ray, I. (co-authors) (forthcoming) Safe Drinking Water for Low-Income Regions, Annual Review of Energy and Resources

Jayaram, KP., Burt, Z. and Kumar, BM. (forthcoming) A Study of the Consumption Pattern in a Continuous Water Service Demonstration Zone and Bulk Water Demand Forecasting for Hubli-Dharwad, India, Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development.

Burt, Z. and Ray, I. (2014). Storage and non-payment: Persistent informalities within the formal water supply of Hubli-Dharwad, India. Water Alternatives 7(1): 106-120

Clasen, T., Fabini, D., Boisson, S., Taneja, J., Song, J., Aichinger, E., Bui, A., Dadashi, S., Schmidt, W., Burt, Z. & Nelson, K. L. (2012). Making sanitation count: developing and testing a device for assessing latrine use in low-income settings. Environmental science & technology, 46(6), 3295-3303.

Ercumen, A., Kumpel, E., Silverman, A., & Burt, Z. (2009). A Volunteer-Led Effort Linking Research to Development Practice to Promote Safe Water and Hygiene in Slums in India. Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation,2009(1), 523-539.