ROBERT
N. STAVINS
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government
Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Chairman, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Room 306, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-1820 Fax:
(617) 496-3783
E-Mail:
robert_stavins@harvard.edu
Internet: www.stavins.com
EDUCATION:
B.A.
Northwestern University, Philosophy
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FOCUS:
Environmental & Natural Resource Economics and Policy
PUBLICATIONS:
Academic Journals
"What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions." Land Economics, forthcoming. With R.N. Lubowski and A.J. Plantinga.
"Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54(2007): 181-198. With S.M. Olmstead and W. M. Hanemann.
"Book Review: Jancis Robinson, Tasting Pleasures -- Confessions of a Wine Lover." Journal of Wine Economics, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 106-108.
"On the Value of Formal Assessment of Uncertainty in Regulatory Analysis." Regulation and Governance 1(2007):154-171. With J. Jaffe.
"Second-Best Theory and the Use of Multiple Policy Instruments." Environmental and Resource Economics 37(2007):111-129. With L.S. Bennear.
"The Effects of Economic and Policy Incentives on Carbon Mitigation Technologies." Energy Economics 28(2006):563-578. With R.G. Newell and A.B. Jaffe.
"An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Volume 96, Number 2, May 2006, pp. 35-38. With S.M. Olmstead.
"Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51(2006): 135-152, With R.N. Lubowski and A.J. Plantinga.
"Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation." Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Volume 25, Number 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 29-63.
"Editorial Welcome." Journal of Wine Economics 1(May 2006): 1. With K. Anderson, O. Ashenfelter, V. Ginsburgh, and K. Storchmann.
"Film Review: Alexander Payne, Sideways." Journal of Wine Economics 1(May 2006): 91-93.
"Using Revealed Preferences to Infer Environmental Benefits: Evidence from Recreational Fishing Licenses." Journal of Regulatory Economics 28(2005):157-179. With L.S. Bennear and A.F. Wagner.
"A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy." Ecological Economics 54(2005):164-174. With A.B. Jaffe and R.G. Newell.
"Forging a More Effective Global Climate Treaty." Environment 46(2004), December, number 10, pp. 23-30.
"Increasing Participation and Compliance in International Climate Change Agreements." International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 3(2003): 349-376. With S. Barrett.
"Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures." Climate Policy, volume 3, number 4, 2003, pages 373-397. With J.E. Aldy and S. Barrett.
"Environmental Regulation During the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis." Harvard Environmental Law Review, volume 27, number 2, 2003, pp. 377-415. With R.W. Hahn and S.M. Olmstead.
"The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing." American Economic Review 93(2003):431-435. With N. Miller and L. Snyder.
"Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity." Economic Letters 79(2003):339-343. With A.F. Wagner and G. Wagner.
"Cost Heterogeneity and the Potential Savings from Market-Based Policies." Journal of Regulatory Economics 23(1):43-59, January 2003. With R.N. Newell.
"The Effects of Potential Land Development on Agricultural Land Prices." Journal of Urban Economics 52(2002):561-581.With A.J. Plantinga and R.N. Lubowski.
"An Eye on
the Future: How Economists' Controversial Practice of Discounting Really
Affects the Evaluation of Environmental Policies." Nature,
Volume 419,
"Environmental Policy and Technological Change." Environment and Resource Economics 22(2002):41-69. With A.B. Jaffe and R.N. Newell.
"Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 40(2000):211-235. With R. Newell.
"The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach." American Economic Review, volume 89, number 4, September 1999, pp. 994-1009. (Copyright Permission)
"The
Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change."
Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 114, issue 3, August 1999, pp.
941-975. With R.G. Newell and A.B. Jaffe. Reprinted in Technological Change
and the Environment, eds. A. Grubler,
"How
Economists See the Environment." Nature, volume 395, pp.
433-434,
"What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Positive and Normative Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 12, Number 3, pages 69-88, Summer 1998.
"The Choice of Regulatory
Instruments in Environmental Policy." Harvard Environmental Law
Review, volume 22, number 2, pp. 313-367, 1998. With
"Significant Issues for Environmental Policy and Air Regulation for the Next Decade." Environmental Science and Policy 1(1998):143-147.
"A Methodological Investigation of the Costs of Carbon Sequestration." Journal of Applied Economics 1(1998):231-277.
"Policy Instruments for Climate Change: How Can National Governments Address a Global Problem?" The University of Chicago Legal Forum, volume 1997, pp. 293-329.
"Crafting the Next Generation of Market-Based Environmental Tools."Environment 39, number 4 (1997), pp. 12-20, 30-33.. With J. Hockenstein and B. Whitehead.
"Review of Valuing Climate Change by Samuel Fankhuser." Journal of Economic Literature 34(1996):1999-2000.
"Is
There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety
Regulation?" With K. Arrow, M. Cropper, G. Eads, R. Hahn, L. Lave, R.
Noll, P. Portney, M. Russell, R. Schmalensee, and K. Smith. Science,
"Correlated Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 30(1996):218-232.
"Dynamic Incentives of Environmental Regulation: The Effects of Alternative Policy Instruments on Technology Diffusion."Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 29(1995):S43-S63. With A.B. Jaffe.
"Transaction Costs and Tradeable Permits." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 29(1995):133-148.
"Environmental Regulation and the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?" Journal of Economic Literature 33(1995):132-163. With A.B. Jaffe, S.R. Peterson, and P.R. Portney.
"The Energy Efficiency Gap: What Does It Mean?" Energy Policy 22(1994):804-810. With A.B. Jaffe.
"The Energy Paradox and the Diffusion of Conservation Technology." Resource and Energy Economics 16(1994): 91-122. With A.B. Jaffe.
"Energy-Efficiency Investments and Public Policy." The Energy Journal, volume 15, number 2, 1994, pages 43-65. With A.B. Jaffe.
"Regulatory Review of Environmental Policy: The Potential Role of Health-Health Analysis." Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 8(1994):111-122. With P.R. Portney.
"Comments on 'Lethal Model 2: The Limits to Growth Revisited' by William Nordhaus." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, No. 2, pp. 44-50, 1992.
"Pollution Charges for Environmental Protection: A Policy Link Between Energy and Environment." Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 17(1992):187-210. With B.W. Whitehead.
"Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection: Integrating Theory and Practice." American Economic Review 82(1992):464-468. With R.W. Hahn. (Copyright Permission)
"Dealing with
Pollution."Environment 34, number 7(1992), September, pp.
7-11, 29-42. With B.W. Whitehead. Reproduced in An Environmental Law
Anthology, eds. Robert Fischman, Maxine Lipeles, and Mark Squillace.
"Incentive-Based Environmental Regulation: A New Era From An Old Idea?" Ecology Law Quarterly 18(1991):1-42. With R.W. Hahn.
"Alternative Renewable Resource Strategies: A Simulation of Optimal Use." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 19(1990):143-159.
"Unintended Impacts of Public Investments on Private Decisions: The Depletion of Forested Wetlands." American Economic Review 80(1990):337-352. With A.B. Jaffe. (Copyright Permission)
"Clean Profits: Using Economic Incentives to Protect the Environment."Policy Review. Spring 1989, Number 48, pp. 58-63.
"Harnessing Market Forces to Protect the Environment." Environment 31(1989), January/February, number 1, pp. 4-7, 28-35.
"A Model of English Demographic Change: 1573-1873." Explorations in Economic History, volume 25, pp. 98-116, January 1988.
Books, Authored and Edited
Economics
of the Environment: Selected Readings. Fifth Edition.
Environmental
Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law,
Economics, and Business.
The
Political Economy of Environmental Regulation.
Environmental Economics and Public Policy:
Selected Papers of Robert N. Stavins, 1988-1999.
Public
Policies for Environmental Protection.
The
Welfare Economics of Alternative Renewable Resource Strategies: Forested
Wetlands and Agricultural Production.
Chapters in Books
"Environmental
Economics." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd
Edition, eds.
"A
Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol." The
Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take on Today's Problems, eds. Joseph E.
Stiglitz, Aaron S. Edlin, and J. Bradford DeLong, pp. 28-36.
"An
International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era." Global
Warming: Looking Beyond
"Market-Based
Environmental Policies: What Can We Learn From U.S. Experience (and Related
Research)?" Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation: Lessons
from Twenty Years of Experience, eds. Jody Freeman and Charles Kolstad,
pp. 19-47.
"Environmental
Law." Handbook of Law and Economics, Volume I, eds. A.
Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, pp. 499-589.
"Implications of
the U.S. Experience with Market-Based Environment Strategies for Future Climate
Policy." Emissions Trading for Climate Policy:
"Environmental
Protection and Economic Well-Being: How Does (and How Should) Government
Balance These Two Important Values?" Tackling the Critical
Conundrum: How Do Business, Government and Media Balance Economic Growth and a
Healthy Environment?, ed. John A. Riggs, pp. 43-56.
"Introduction."
The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation.
"Technology
Policy for Energy and the Environment." Innovation Policy and the
Economy, Volume 4, eds. Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern,
Chapter 2, pp. 35-68.
"Technological
Change and the Environment." Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume
I, eds. Karl-Göran Mäler and Jeffrey Vincent, Chapter 11, pp. 461-516.
"Experience with
Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments." Handbook of
Environmental Economics, Volume I, eds. Karl-Göran Mäler and Jeffrey
Vincent, Chapter 9, pp. 355-435.
"Lessons
from the American Experiment with Market-Based Environmental Policies."
Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside, and Downside, eds.
John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., pp. 173-200.
"National Environmental Policy During the
"Economic
Analysis of Global Climate Change Policy: A Primer." Climate
Change: Science, Strategies, and Solutions, eds. E. Claussen, V.A.
Cochran, and D.P. Davis.
"Market-Based
Environmental Policies." Public Policies for Environmental
Protection, eds. Paul R. Portney and Robert N. Stavins.
"Introduction."Public
Policies for Environmental Protection, eds. Paul R. Portney and Robert N.
Stavins.
"The Positive Political
Economy of Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy." Environmental
and Public Economics: Essays in Honor of Wallace Oates, eds. Arvind
Panagariya, Paul Portney, and Robert Schwab, pp. 89-125.
"Economic
Incentives for Environmental Regulation." The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics and the Law, ed. P. Newman.
"Market-Based
Environmental Policies." Thinking Ecologically: The Next
Generation of Environmental Policy, eds. M. Chertow and D. Esty, pp.
105-117.
"Policy
Instruments to Combat Climate Change." Climate Change 1995:
Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, Working Group III.
"Environmental
Policy in a Transition Economy: Designing Tradeable Permits for Poland."
ENRP Discussion Paper E-95-01,
"Decision-Making
Tools for Environmental Policy." Proceedings of VI Repsol-Harvard
Seminar on Energy Policy, pp. 77-84, S'Agaro,
"Trading
in Greenhouse Permits: A Critical Examination of Design and Implementation
Issues." Shaping National Responses to Climate Change: A Post-Rio
Policy Guide, ed. Henry Lee, pp. 177-217.
"Harnessing
Market Forces to Protect the Environment." Overcoming Indifference:
Ten Key Challenges in Today's Changing World, ed. Klaus Schwab.
"Developments
at the Interface of U.S. Energy and Environmental Policy." Energy
and the Environment: Evolving Challenges and Opportunities, pp. 1-33.
"Economic
Incentives for Environmental Protection." McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia
of Economics, pp. 321-324.
"The
Greening of the Market." Mandate for Change, eds. Will
Marshall and Martin Schram, pp. 197-216.
"Toward
a New Era of Environmental Policy." Regulating for the Future: The
Creative Balance, ed. Carol Tucker Foreman, pp. 133-173.
Selected Articles in Public Policy and Other Periodicals
“Enviro Justice and Cap-and-Trade.” The Environmental Forum, Volume 25, Number 3, May/June, 2008, p. 20.
"Linking Tradable Permit Systems." The Environmental Forum, Volume 25, Number 2, March/April, 2008, p. 16.
"Cap-and-Trade or a Carbon Tax?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 25, Number 1, January/February, 2008, p. 16.
"A Sensible Way to Cut CO2 Emissions." The Environmental Forum, Volume 24, Number 6, November/December, 2007, p. 18.
"Misconceptions About H2O Pricing." The Environmental Forum, Volume 24, Number 5, September/October, 2007, p. 18.
"What is the Future of U.S. Coal?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 24, Number 4, July/August, 2007, p. 18.
"Free GHG Cuts: Too Good to be True?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 24, Number 3, May/June, 2007, p. 16.
"A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol." The Economist's Voice, May, 2007, pp. 1-6. With S.M. Olmstead.
"Tradable Permits: Fly in the Ointment?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 24, Number 2, March/April, 2007, p. 16.
"Policies Can Work in Strange Ways." The Environmental Forum, Volume 24, Number 1, January/February, 2007, p. 16.
"As Reservoirs Fall, Prices Should Rise." The Environmental Forum, Volume 23, Number 5, November/December, 2006, p. 14.
"What Role for U.S. CO2 Sequestration?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 23, Number 4, September/October, 2006, p. 14.
"Is Benefit-Cost Analysis Helpful?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 23, Number 3, May/June, 2006, p. 14.
"Review of The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility, by David Vogel." Environment, April, 2006, p. 43.
"A Utility Safety Valve for Cutting CO2." The Environmental Forum, Volume 23, Number 2, March/April, 2006, p. 14.
"Some Straight Talk Needed About CSR." The Environmental Forum, Volume 23, Number 1, January/February, 2006, p. 14.
"Global Warming." The American Interest, Volume I, No. 2, Winter 2005, Letters & Notes.
"Don't
Blame Romney: Support the Safety-Valve for the Regional Greenhouse Gas
Initiative." Op-Ed, The
"Does Econ Analysis Shortchange Future?" The Environmental Forum, Volume 22, Number 6, November/December 2005, p. 14.
"What Baseball Can Teach Policymakers." The Environmental Forum, Volume 22, Number 5, September/October 2005, p. 14.
"The Making of a Conventional Wisdom." The Environmental Forum, Volume 22, Number 4, July/August 2005, p. 10.
"Regulating by Vintage: Put a Cork in It." The Environmental Forum, Volume 22, Number 3, May/June 2005, p. 12.
"Lessons Learned from SO2 Allowance Trading." Choices, volume 20, number 1, 1st Quarter, 2005, pp. 53-57.
The Effects of
Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation. Related Publication 05-03.
"Markets Can Make Fisheries Sustainable." The Environmental Forum, Volume 22, Number 2, March/April 2005, p. 12.
"Beyond Kyoto: Getting Serious About Climate Change." The Milken Institute Review, volume 7, number 1, 2005, pp. 28-37.
"A Better Climate Change Agreement." The Environmental Forum, Volume 22, Number 1, January/February 2005, p. 12.
"A Tale of Two Taxes, A Challenge to Hill." The Environmental Forum, Volume 21, Number 6, November/December, 2004, p. 12.
The Value of
Formal Quantitative Assessment of Uncertainty in Regulatory Analysis.
Related Publication 04-22.
"The Myths of Market Prices and Efficiency." The Environmental Forum, Volume 21, Number 5, September/October 2004, p. 12.
"The Myth of Simple Market Solutions." The Environmental Forum, Volume 21, Number 4, July/August 2004, p. 12.
"The Myth of the Universal Market." The Environmental Forum, Volume 21, Number 3, May/June 2004, p. 12.
"Taking
Fish to Market." Op-Ed, Forbes,
"A
Better Way to Regulate Fishing." Op-Ed, The
"New Source Review Under the Clean Air Act: Ripe for Reform." Resources, Issue 147, Spring 2002, pp. 19-23. With H. Gruenspecht.
"Brayton
Point Power Plant: Weigh Costs to Benefit." Op-Ed, The
"A
Level Field on Pollution at Power Plants." Op-Ed, The
"Give
Bush Time on Climate Issues." Op-Ed, The
"Review of Pollution for Sale: Emissions Trading and Joint Implementation, edited by Steve Sorrell and Jim Skea." Environment, Volume 42, Number 3, April 2000, p. 45.
"Energy-Efficient
Technologies and Climate Change Policies: Issues and Evidence." Climate
Issue Brief No. 19.
"How to Stop
Squandering Water? Raise Its Price."
"Review of Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change, edited by William Nordhaus." Environment, Volume 41, Number 5, June 1999, p. 27.
"Economic Thinking in Environmental Coverage: It's Not Accounting." The Quill, volume 84, number 1, January/February, 1996, pp. 31-34.
"Environmental Policy: Better Media Coverage of Risks." Nieman Reports, vol. 49, no. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 12-14.
"Transaction Costs and Markets for Pollution Control." Resources, No. 119, Spring 1995.
"The Challenge of Going Green: A Perspective on Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness." Harvard Business Review, July/August 1994, pp. 38-39.
"Market Forces Can Help Lower Waste Volumes" Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Spring 1993, volume 8, number 1, pp. 6-15.
"New Approaches to Environmental Cleanup." The Quill, volume 81, number 8, October 1993, pp. 35-38.
"New, Cost-Conscious
Environmentalism: Challenge is to 'Harness Power of Markets'." Roll
Call, volume 38, number 81,
"Green Taxes Would Reduce Pollution and Support Economic Growth." Governing, April 1993, pp. 69-70.
"Making Use of the Market: Taxes, Tradeable Permits, and Global Climate Change." Issues in Science and Technology 9(1992-93), number 2, pp. 22-23
"Economic
Instruments for Environmental Policy: Theory and Applications in the United
States." Innovazieone e
Materie Prime, No. 3,
pp. 66-79, 1992. With R.W. Hahn.
"The Greening of Adam Smith." The New Democrat, October 1992, pp. 15-17. With B.W. Whitehead.
"Harnessing the Marketplace." EPA Journal, Volume 18, Number 2, May/June, 1992, pp. 21-25.
"Innovative Policies for Sustainable Development: The Role of Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection." Harvard Public Policy Review, volume 7, number 1, pp. 13-25, Spring 1990.
"Environmental Accounting: Greening the Profit Motive." The World Paper, September 1990, p. 1.
Conversion of Forested Wetlands to Agricultural Uses.
The
Tuolumne River: Preservation or Development?
Trading Conservation Investments for Water.
Selected Government Reports:
"Comments
on the Recommendations of the Market Advisory Committee to the California Air
Resources Board, 'Recommendations for Designing a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade
System for California.'"
Affordability
Criteria for Small Drinking Water Systems. EPA-SAB-EEAC-03-004.
Importance
of Maintaining the Annual Pollution Abatement Cost and Expenditures (PACE) Survey.
EPA-SAB-EEAC-COM-02-001.
Market
Incentives. EPA-SAB-EEAC-CON-02-002.
An
Approach to Developing a Research Agenda for Environmental Economics.
EPA-SAB-EEAC-CON-02-003.
Trade and the
Environment. EPA-SAB-EEAC-CON-01-003.
An SAB
Report on EPA's White Paper Valuing the Benefits of Fatal Cancer Risk
Reductions. EPA-SAB-EEAC-00-013.
Consultation
on the Topic: Induced Travel: Does Additional Highway Capacity Influence Travel
Demand? EPA-SAB-EEAC-CON-00-002.
An SAB
Report on the EPA Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analysis. EPA-SAB-EEAC-99-020.
Importance of
Reinstating the Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditures (PACE) Survey.
EPA-SAB-EEAC-COM-99-001.
An
SAB Advisory on Economic Research Topics and Priorities. EPA-SAB-EEAC-ADV-98-005.
CURRENT WORKING PAPERS:
"A Meaningful
"Corporate
Social Responsibility Through An Economic Lens." Paper prepared for
the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy,
"Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive U.S. Cap-and-Trade System." Paper prepared for The Oxford Review of Economic Policy, October 28, 2007.
"Proposal for a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change: A Sensible and Practical Approach to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Prepared for the Hamilton Project, the Brookings Institution, September 12, 2007.
"Designing an Effective U.S. Climate Policy: Key Issues, Implications, and Tradeoffs." Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2007. With J. Jaffe and T. Schatzki.
SELECTED MONOGRAPHS AND REPORTS:
Linking a U.S. Cap-and-Trade System for Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Opportunities, Implications, and Challenges. Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, January 2008. With J. Jaffe.
Linking Tradable Permit Systems for Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Opportunities, Implications, and Challenges. Prepared for the International Emissions Trading Association, Geneva, Switzerland. November, 2007. With J. Jaffe.
A U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Global Climate Change. The Hamilton Project, Discussion Paper 2007-13. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, October 2007.
Managing Water Demand -- Price vs. Non-Price Conservation Programs. Pioneer Institute White Paper No. 39. Boston, Massachusetts: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, July 2007.
"Too Good to be True? An Examination of Three Economic Assessments of California Climate Change Policy." Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Related Publication 07-01, January 2007. With J. Jaffe and T. Schatzki.
The Cost of U.S. Forest-Based Carbon Sequestration. Arlington, Virginia: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, January 2005. With K.R. Richards.
Amici Curiae Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Arguing that Natural Science Alone Cannot Provide a Basis for Risk Management Decisions, No. 99-1257, September 11, 2000. Coordinated by C. Coglianese and G. Marchant.
Amici Curiae Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Recommending that EPA be Allowed to Consider Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulations, No. 99-1246, July 21, 2000. Coordinated by R. Litan and R. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Washington, D.C.
What Has Kyoto Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradeable Permit Markets. Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1999. With R.W. Hahn.
Readings in the Field of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Faculty Research Working Paper Series, R99-02, June 1999. With A. Pfaff.
"Environmental Protection: The Changing Nature of National Governance." Prepared for discussion at workshop on "Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century," Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 20-23, 1997.
"Nordic Joint Implementation Negotiations: Evaluation of an Experiment." November 5, 1996. With S. Barrett and J. Hourcade.
"Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation." Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, The Annapolis Center, and Resources for the Future, 1996. With K. Arrow, M. Cropper, G. Eads, R. Hahn, L. Lave, R. Noll, P. Portney, M. Russell, R. Schmalensee, and K. Smith.
"Harnessing Market Forces for a Diversified Forest Economy, Summary of Project 88/Round II Workshop Proceedings, September 24, 1992." CSIA, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
"Market-Based Mechanisms for Addressing Global Climate Change, Summary of Project 88/Round II Workshop Proceedings, March 12, 1992." CSIA, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
"Market-Based Policy Mechanisms for Toxic and Hazardous Substance Management, Project 88/Round II Workshop Proceedings, January 16, 1992." CSIA, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, #P-92-01, March 1992.
"Market-Based Strategies for Environmental Protection: A Tribute to Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, Forum Proceedings, May 16, 1991." CSIA, Project 88 -- Round II, Discussion Paper #91-6, September 1991.
"Incentive-Based Policies for Municipal Solid Waste Management, Summary of Workshop Proceedings, May 16, 1991." CSIA, Project 88 -- Round II, Discussion Paper #91-7, September 1991.
Project 88 -- Round II, Incentives for Action: Designing Market-Based Environmental Strategies. A Public Policy Study sponsored by Senator Timothy E. Wirth, Colorado, and Senator John Heinz, Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.: May 1991. (editor)
"Project 88 Conference, Harnessing Market Forces to Protect the Environment." EEPC Staff Paper M-89-02, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1989.
Project 88 - Harnessing Market Forces to Protect Our Environment: Initiatives for the New President. A Public Policy Study sponsored by Senator Timothy E. Wirth, Colorado, and Senator John Heinz, Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.: December 1988. (editor)
"The Welfare Economics of Alternative Renewable Resource Strategies: Forested Wetlands and Agricultural Production." Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 1988. Published in 1990 by Garland Publishing, Inc.
"Forecasting the Size Distribution of Farms: A Methodological Analysis of
the Dairy Industry in New York State." M.S. thesis, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York, May 1979.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Presentations at universities, research institutes, Federal and state
government agencies, Congressional committees, foreign governments,
international organizations, foundations, non-profit groups, corporations, and
trade associations, including the following (partial list): American Council on
Capital Formation, American Economic Association, American Enterprise
Institute, American Paper Institute, American Petroleum Institute, Analysis
Group, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Brookings
Institution, Canadian Cabinet, Carnegie-Mellon University, CF Industries,
Chevron Corporation, Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership, Cornell
University, Democratic Leadership Council, Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships,
Environmental Law Institute, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental and
Energy Study Institute, Executive Office of the President, Ford Foundation, Foundation
for American Communications, Georgia Conservancy, Harvard School of Public
Health, Harvard College, Harvard Committee on University Resources, Harvard
Institute for International Development, Harvard Law School, Harvard-Japan
Energy and Environment Workshop, Harvard-Repsol Conference, Heinz Family
Endowments, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Public
Economics Congress, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Jones, Day, Reavis
& Pogue, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Global Institute, Mexican Cabinet,
Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Morgan Stanley & Company,
National Bureau of Economic Research, National Recycling Congress, Northwestern
University, Pew Charitable Trusts, Polish Ministry of Environment, Political
Economy Research Center, President's Council of Economic Advisers, Princeton
University, Progressive Policy Institute, Rand Corporation, Reason Foundation,
Resources for the Future, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal Institute for
International Affairs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Smithsonian
Institution, St. Lawrence University, Stanford University, U.S. House of
Representatives, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy,
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Office of
Management and Budget, U.S. Senate, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of
California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara), University of Maryland,
University of Michigan, University of Texas, University of Toronto, Vermont
Agency of Natural Resources, Vermont Law School, W. Alton Jones Foundation, the
White House, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum (Davos), and Yale
University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998-present (Professor of Public Policy, 1997-98; Associate Professor, 1992-1997; Assistant Professor, 1988 - 1992).
Chairman, Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group, 1998 - present.
Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program, 2000 - present.
Director of Graduate Studies for Doctoral Program in Public Policy and Doctoral Program in Political Economy and Government, Chairman of the Kennedy School Ph.D. Committee, and Chairman of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Policy, 2006 - present.
Co-Chair, Harvard Business School-Kennedy School Joint Degree Programs, 2007 - present.
University Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., 1989 - present.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007 - present.
Editor, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (Oxford University Press), 2006 - present.
Chair, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-2002 (Member, 1992 - 2003).
Member, Board of Directors, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., 2003 - present.
Member, Executive Board, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997-2002; 2004-2007.
Chairman, Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Scientific Advisory Board, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2005 - 2007.
Editor, Journal of Wine Economics, and Vice President, American Association of Wine Economists, 2006 - present.
Faculty Chair, Environment and Natural Resources Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-2002.
Member, Board of Directors, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, January 1996 - December 1998.
Member, Executive Committee, Harvard University Center for the Environment (formerly Harvard University Committee on the Environment), 1999-2004; Member, University Working Group on Environment, Harvard University, 1990 - 1992.
Member, Board of Directors, Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-present.
Member, the Board of Academic Advisors, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, August 1998-present.
Member, Editorial Board, B.E. Journals of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2001-present.
Member, Editorial Board, Land Economics, 2001 - 2006.
Member, Board of Editors, Resource and Energy Economics, 1998 - 2005.
Member, Editorial Council, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1996 - 2004.
Contributing Editor, Environment, 1997 - 2007.
Member, Advisory Board, Environmental Economics Abstracts, 1996 - present.
Member, Editorial Board, Economic Issues, 1996 - present.
Member, Advisory Board, Environmental Law and Policy Abstracts, 1996 - present.
Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Clean Air, and Climate Change, Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997 - present.
Lead Author, Working Group III, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), United Nations Environment Program and World Meteorological Organization, 1993 - present.
Member, Reducing Risk Project Steering Committee, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1996 - present.
Member, External Review Panel, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, October 1995.
Member, Workshop Committee, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) 1996-1999 (chair in third year of appointment).
Member, Eco-Efficiency Task Force, President's Council on Sustainable Development, 1994 - 1995.
Member, Energy Modeling Forum Working Group on Energy Conservation (EMF 13),
Member, Advisory Panel on Emissions Trading, Sierra Club,
Affiliated Faculty Member,
Academic Advisor for Environmental Journalism Program, Foundation for American Communications, 1992 - 1998 (Lecturer, 1989 - present).
Director, Project 88 and Project 88/Round II, co-sponsored by
Principal, Harvard-Japan Project on Energy and the Environment, 1992 - 1995.
Member, Governor's Task Force on Energy and Environmental Policy,
Consultant to foundations, private industry, non-governmental organizations, state & local governments, Federal government departments and agencies, and international bodies on environmental economics.
Referee, The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, The RAND Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, The Energy Journal,Energy and Resource Economics, Energy Policy, The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economic Inquiry, Science, Policy Studies Journal, The Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, and Harvard University Press.
Member, Risk Reduction Committee, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1989 - 1990.
Member, Working Group on Human Interactions with Global Change, National
Research Council,
Staff Economist, Environmental Defense Fund,
Consultant, Public Interest Economics Foundation, Inc.,
Economist, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of
Research Specialist, Department of Agricultural Economics,
Agricultural Representative, Peace Corps Recruitment,
Peace Corps Volunteer, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
AWARDS, HONORS, AND GRANTS:
Principal Investigator, grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, "The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements," July 2007 - June 2009 ($750,000)
Principal Investigator, grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Regulating Pollution Through Information Disclosure: Facility Response to the Toxics Release Inventory," July 2002 - June 2005 ($395,459)
Principal Investigator, grant from the National Science Foundation, "Climate Change Response Strategies for Water Resources: Price and Non-Price Demand Management," March 2001 - February 2003 ($238,000)
Principal Investigator, grant from AVINA Foundation, "Land Use and Climate Change," September 2000 - January 2003 ($125,000)
Principal Investigator, grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, "The
Effects of Government Policies on the Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion of
Energy-Efficient Technologies,"
Principal Investigator, grant from the U.S. Department of Energy,
"Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon
Sequestration Supply Function,"
Principal Investigator, grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, "Energy-Efficiency Innovation and the Economic and Regulatory Environment," September 1995 - November 1998 ($461,000)
Principal Investigator, grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Estimating a CO2 Sequestration Supply Function," June 1993 - August 1994 ($130,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the W. Alton Jones Foundation, "Environmental Policy Reform in the First 100 Days of the New Administration," February 1993 - May 1993 ($40,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Evaluating the Relative Effectiveness of Economic Incentives and Direct Regulation for Environmental Protection: Impacts on the Diffusion of Technology," September 1991 - August 1993 ($186,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the W. Alton Jones Foundation, "Project 88 -- Round II, Incentives for Action: Implementing Market-Based Environmental Policies," November 1990 - August 1992 ($75,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, "Project 88 -- Round II, Incentives for Action: Implementing Market-Based Environmental Policies," January 1991 - August 1992 ($75,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the Surdna Foundation, "Project 88 -- Round II, Incentives for Action: Implementing Market-Based Environmental Policies," March 1991 - August 1992 ($50,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Project 88 -- Round II, Incentives for Action: Implementing Market-Based Environmental Policies," March 1991 -August 1992 ($50,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from Carnegie Corporation of
Principal Investigator, grant from Resources for the Future, "Wetland Losses and Willingness-to-Pay for Fishing Opportunities," 1990-1991 ($20,905).
Project Director, grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation,
Project Director, grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Family and Associates, and the Keystone Center/Madison Associates, "Project 88 - Harnessing Market Forces to Protect the Environment: Initiatives for the New President," 1988-89 ($50,000).
Principal Investigator, grant from the Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., "Welfare Analysis of Alternative Uses of Forested Wetlands," 1987-88 ($10,000).
Research Grant from the
Mentorship Grant in Humanities and Social Sciences,
Dissertation Research Grant from the
Principal Investigator, grant from U.S. Department of the Interior,
Outstanding Master's Thesis - 1979. National competition of the American
Agricultural Economics Association,
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