Greg Pierce is the Co-Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI) and serves as a Senior Researcher, leading LCI's Water, Environmental Equity and Transportation programs. He is also an an IoES Affiliate Faculty and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning. Greg received a PhD in Urban Planning in 2015 and an MA in Urban Planning in 2011, both from UCLA.
Dr. Pierce's research on basic resource/service provision and access for disadvantaged or marginalized populations takes place at three connected scales, with sectoral foci on water and transport. At the sub-national or state scale, Dr. Pierce employs formal policy design techniques to evaluate and inform service provision strategies formulated by national sub-national agencies. At the metropolitan scale, political economy analysis is employed to assess programs and plans which allocate services to specific neighborhoods and households. Finally, in response to sub-national and metropolitan scale failures, Dr. Pierce's research utilizes rational choice and behavior models to analyze low-income urban and households strategies to secure access to and utilize these basic services and programs.
