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The Authors
Larry E.  Erickson is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State
University. His research interests include environmental engineering, air
quality, and sustainable development. His teaching includes an air quality
seminar and a sustainability seminar. He helps to provide leadership for
the Consortium for Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability and the
annual Dialog on Sustainability. His degrees are in chemical engineering
from K- State.
Gary Brase is a professor and the Graduate Program Director in the
Department of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University. Dr. Brase
studies complex human decision making using cognitive and evolutionary
theories, including topics such as medical decisions, decisions about sustainability issues, relationship decision making, and reasoning about social rules.
He has over 75 journal articles and other publications, and over 100 research
presentations. Dr. Brase received his PhD from the University of California,
Santa Barbara in 1997 and has been at K- State since 2007.