Sentences with phrase «environmental economist with»

Ms. Smith, 42, of Greenport who has a Ph.D. in environmental and resource economics, is an environmental economist with the Nature Conservancy.

Two environmental economists with the International Institute for Environment and Development and Pagiola (an environmental economist with the World Bank) are the editors and among the authors of this collection of 15 essays in this book.

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As part of our continuing series of commentaries celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mel Watkins» classic article, «A Staple Theory of Economic Growth,» we present the following commentary by Marc Lee, economist with the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc considers the implications — both economic and environmental — of the current -LSB-...]

A dairy safety net alternative formulated by two dairy economists with Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences is being discussed by lawmakers as a potential compromise to end a roadblock to a new farm bill.

Luis C. Rodriguez is an ecological economist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems working on the design of efficient and equitable economic instruments to achieve both environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives.

Many climate experts believe that economists with environmental expertise are urgently needed.

Pourhashem worked with environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater use of biochar.

Now, environmental economist Chris Hope and Arctic Ocean specialist Peter Wadhams, both at the University of Cambridge, together with climate policy analyst Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have analysed the likely consequences of such a release occurring between 2015 and 2025.

This study shows that although miscanthus yield was slightly lower on marginal, low - quality land, a farmer would have an economic incentive to grow miscanthus on the lower quality land first rather than diverting their most productive cropland from growing corn,» said University of Illinois agricultural economist Madhu Khanna who co-authored the study along with a team of economists and environmental and crop scientists from the Energy Biosciences Institute at U of I.

With an underlying scientific climate equation created by environmental economist Dr. Yoram Bauman, players are sure to experience hours of entertainment in a provocative and satirical, yet realistically - modeled simulation genre.

And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee, like many economists who came of age at the peak of the traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies away from cheap fossil fuels.

I must rue that too many environmental activities just don't know how to deal with this — just as Hillary Clinton herself laughed back at economists who (like myself on the record) tried to point out that lowering taxes increases demand and to some extent increases the pre-tax price.

Environmental psychologists, behavioral economists and other social scientists have all investigated this question, and come up with a variety of answers.

It is accompanied by a short film, which looks at the possible effects of REDD on forest communities and contains interviews with different stakeholders including environmental journalists on reporting the subject, and by a video news release on REDD, which includes interviews with forest communities, campaigners, economists and politicians.

It also aligns with the assessment of clean energy and environmental groups, natural gas trade groups and utilities that have invested in more natural gas generation, and the majority of energy regulators and economists, who have fought FirstEnergy's and the Trump administration's attempts to bail out coal and nuclear interests, largely in the PJM region.

Edwin Clark, former senior economist with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, observes that tradable permits «require establishing complex regulatory frameworks, defining the permits, establishing the rules for trades, and preventing people from acting without permits.»

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

Two separate lists of scientists and economists were sent to EPA by the Heartland Institute, according to documents obtained by the environmental advocacy group Climate Investigations Center and shared today with E&E News.

Combining climate models created by CAGW consensus scientists, with econometric models created by «environmental economists.»

In his introductory address, IEA Chief Economist Laszlo Varro highlighted that combining oil recovery with CO2 storage can provide energy and economic security to oil - producing countries as well as environmental benefits by reducing CO2 emissions through permanent CO2 storage.

Now, the two of us have very substantial disagreements with these environmental economists and most neoclassical economists, many of which we laid out in our on - line debate hosted by Cato, which included participation from Joe Romm.

Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg feels that with no unified agreement, it would be more appropriate for some of the attention and money that is currently being directed to climate change to be directed towards some of the environmental threats that are killing people right now.

It is no surprise that environmental economists and other social scientists with an interest in renewable energy also believe that their research can change the world (and bring in a few research grants and raise their academic profiles at the same time).

Partnering with TCT made sense, said Billy Gascoigne, Economist / Environmental Markets Specialist at Ducks Unlimited, because the organization was waddling into unfamiliar territory.

Analysis of insurance data convinces environmental economists that climate change is pushing up the cost of dealing with the disastrous effects of extreme weather events.

Economist Robert Murphy (who recently testified to Congress as to the problems with the administration's SCC methodology) posted this gem from the Environmental Protection Agency discussions of a proposed new rule regulating discharges from steam electric power plants (and how the rule may impact carbon dioxide emissions from the plants):

In a 2012 study, Elizabeth A. Stanton, an environmental economist at Synapse Energy Economics, noted that projections by the International Energy Agency, on which leading climate models are based, assume that the least developed countries will fail to close the prosperity gap with the rich of the world.

«Given this uncertainty [over the environmental and economic effects of CO2 emissions], and the historic failure of central planning to do anything other than undermine economic welfare, the editor, Colin Robinson, one of the country's leading energy economists, argues that it is prudent to proceed with caution.

Yoram is a PhD environmental economist — and «stand - up economist «-- who co-authored (with Alan Durning of Sightline Institute) the 1998 book Tax Shift that helped inspire the revenue - neutral carbon tax in British Columbia.

In fact, once you filter out the noise generated by special - interest groups, you discover that there is widespread agreement among environmental economists that a market - based program to deal with the threat of climate change — one that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them — can achieve large results at modest, though not trivial, cost.

«Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection,» says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer.

People have responded successfully to other major environmental challenges such as acid rain and the ozone hole with benefits greater than costs, and scientists working with economists believe there are ways to manage the risks of climate change while balancing current and future economic prosperity.

Wired News chats with environmental economist Paul Hawken about his latest book, how PBS is turning another into a 17 - part TV series, and how he is organizing the environmental movement through a collection of wikis.

They'll account for about 1 / 10th of one percent of all layoffs throughout the U.S. Meanwhile, economists with the Political Economy Research Institute predicted in 2009 that clean energy investments and increased environmental regulations would lead to a net increase of 1.7 million jobs.

Finally, we're planning to partner with environmental economists to determine the damage costs of emissions from all the sectors due to both climate and air quality impacts, results that we can use to develop alternative mitigation scenarios.