Edwardo Lao Rhodes (born 1946) is an

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management science Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

scholar and author. An Emeritus Professor at the

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School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Rhodes is best known for his seminal work in

data envelopment analysis Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers.Charnes et al (1978) DEA has been applied in a large range of fields including international banking, econom ...

,http://library.iugaza.edu.ps/thesis/110010.pdf as well as his applications of management science to policy analysis and environmental policy.

Academic career

Rhodes received a Bachelor of Arts at

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in 1968 and a Ph.D. from

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in 1978 under the supervision of

William W. Cooper William Wager Cooper (July 23, 1914 – June 20, 2012) was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr. Linear Programming".. He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, founding ...

. While he started his professional career at the

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at Buffalo, Rhodes developed most of his career as a professor of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at

where he reached the status of Professor Emeritus.

Research

Rhodes is known for the invention of

in 1978, as part of his doctoral dissertation, in the paper "Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units" with

and

Abraham Charnes Abraham Charnes (September 4, 1917 – December 19, 1992) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of operations research. Charnes published more than 200 research articles and seven books, including ''An Introduction to Linear Progra ...

.http://www.utdallas.edu/~ryoung/phdseminar/CCR1978.pdf After devoting several years to developing applications of

to public policy and particularly to environmental policy, Rhodes wrote "

Environmental Justice Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...

in America: A New Paradigm" in 2005. In the book, Rhodes discusses new methodological approaches to environmental justice and argues that race and class are relevant categories previously ignored in analyzing environmental justice issues.

References

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