Resources For the Future Directory of Experts

Resources for the Future

DIRECTORY OF EXPERTSF O R P O L I C Y M A K E R S A N D T H E M E D I A

DIRECtORy OF ExPERtSF O R P O L I C Y M A K E R S A N D T H E M E D I A

CONTENTS

Using the Directory

Index of Expertise

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About RFF

Board of Directors

Senior Management

RFF Centers

Online Resources

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Office of Communications

RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE

USING THE DIRECTORY

is guide highlights the work and expertise of the research staff at Resources for the Future. Itencompasses the scope of RFF’s research agenda for external audiences—particularly print,broadcast, and online media—as well as for governmental and nongovernmental policymakers.

e Index of Expertise section details the research topics that RFF frequently receives in-quiries about and lists individual researchers who can address each of these issues. Researcherprofiles are listed in alphabetical order in the RFF Experts section, and contact information isprovided for each expert.

e RFF website contains an Internet-based version of these researcher profiles at www.rff.org/researchers. e online materials contain additional details on our scholars and their cur-rent work, including links to their websites, curriculum vitae, video interviews, lists of publi-cations, and expanded biographical data.

e titles Senior Fellow and Fellow refer to full-time staff research positions at RFF. Someexperts are designated as Visiting Scholars, who are in residence for a limited time to collabo-rate on RFF research or pursue discrete projects. Others are Nonresident Fellows, who are es-tablished academicians affiliated with other institutions or are noted practitioners with relevantexperience in particular disciplines. Center Fellows are scholars who are closely affiliated witha particular RFF program and work exclusively on its research. University Fellows are out-standing scholars at universities around the world who are appointed to establish closer work-ing relationships between RFF and the wider academic community.

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GENERAL PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

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AFRICA

See also International Development

ECONOMICS OF MALARIA, HIV/AIDS, AND

TUBERCULOSIS Ramanan Laxminarayan

FOREST CARBON Nigel Purvis, Roger Sedjo,

Juha V. Siikamäki

TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES Carolyn

Fischer

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Carolyn Fischer,

Juha V. Siikamäki

AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE—GENERAL Sandra A.

Hoffmann, Leonard A. Shabman, Juha V.

Siikamäki

AGRICULTURE AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

James W. Boyd, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell,

Leonard A. Shabman, Juha V. Siikamäki

BIOTECHNOLOGY/GENETICALLY MODIFIED

CROPS Ramanan Laxminarayan, Roger Sedjo

MALARIA AND AGRICULTURE Ramanan

Laxminarayan

SHADE-GROWN COFFEE Allen Blackman

AIR QUALITY

See also Climate Change

ACID RAIN Dallas Burtraw, Alan J. Krupnick,

Karen L. Palmer, Phil Sharp, Juha V. Siikamäki

AIR QUALITY MODELING Maureen Cropper,

Alan J. Krupnick, Jhih-Shyang Shih

AIR QUALITY POLICY AND EFFECTS Allen

Blackman, Dallas Burtraw, Maureen Cropper,

Arthur G. Fraas, Winston Harrington, Sandra

A. Hoffmann, Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J.

Krupnick, Joshua Linn, Randall Lutter, Virginia

McConnell, Richard D. Morgenstern, Karen L.

Palmer, Ian W.H. Parry, Nathan Richardson, Phil

Sharp, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Juha V. Siikamäki

CAFE STANDARDS Carolyn Fischer, Winston

Harrington, Joshua Linn, Ian W.H. Parry,

Phil Sharp, Kenneth A. Small, Roberton C.

Williams III

CLEAN AIR ACT Dallas Burtraw, Maureen

Cropper, Arthur G. Fraas, Raymond J. Kopp,

Alan J. Krupnick, Joshua Linn, Virginia


Palmer, Nathan Richardson, Michael T. Rock,

Heather Ross, Phil Sharp

EMISSIONS PERMIT TRADING AND OTHER

INCENTIVE APPROACHES Allen Blackman,

Dallas Burtraw, Harrison Fell, Carolyn Fischer,

Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick, Joshua Linn,

Richard D. Morgenstern, Karen L. Palmer,

Ian W.H. Parry, Anthony Paul, Stephen W.

Salant, Roberton C. Williams III

FINE PARTICULATES Dallas Burtraw, Roger M.

Cooke, Maureen Cropper, Alan J. Krupnick,

Jhih-Shyang Shih

GREENHOUSE GASES Dallas Burtraw, Joel

Darmstadter, Carolyn Fischer, Arthur G. Fraas,

Mun Ho, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D.

Morgenstern, Karen L. Palmer, Ian W.H. Parry,


Williams III

MULTIPOLLUTANT POLICIES (Carbon Dioxide,

Nitrous Oxides, Sulfur Dioxide, and Mercury)

Dallas Burtraw, Karen L. Palmer, Anthony Paul

INDEX OF EXPERTISE

OZONE Maureen Cropper, Alan J. Krupnick,

Joshua Linn, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Juha V. Siikamäki

ASIA

See also International Development

ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN CHINA Stephen

P.A. Brown, Alan J. Krupnick

ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY POLICY IN

INDIA Maureen Cropper

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN CHINA Allen

Blackman, Maureen Cropper, Mun Ho, Alan J.

Krupnick, Shanjun Li, Richard D. Morgenstern,

Michael T. Rock

FOREST CARBON Nigel Purvis, Roger A. Sedjo,

Juha V. Siikamäki

MALARIA AND AGRICULTURE Ramanan

Laxminarayan

POLLUTION AND HEALTH IN CHINA Maureen

Cropper, Mun Ho, Sandra A. Hoffmann, Alan J.

Krupnick, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Richard D.

Morgenstern

VALUATION OF HEALTH OUTCOMES IN CHINA

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick

AUTOMOBILES

See Transportation

BIODIVERSITY AND

CONSERVATION

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION—

GENERAL James W. Boyd, Rebecca Epanchin-

Niell, James N. Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett,

Roger A. Sedjo, Leonard A. Shabman, Jhih-

Shyang Shih, Juha V. Siikamäki

DEFORESTATION AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS

Roger A. Sedjo, Juha V. Siikamäki

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT James W. Boyd,

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, James N. Sanchirico,

P. Lynn Scarlett, Leonard A. Shabman, Juha V.

Siikamäki

GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES Roger A. Sedjo

INVASIVE SPECIES James N. Sanchirico, Rebecca

Epanchin-Niell, P. Lynn Scarlett, Roger A. Sedjo

TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES Carolyn

Fischer, P. Lynn Scarlett

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION James W. Boyd,

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Carolyn Fischer, James

N. Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett, Juha V. Siikamäki

BIOMASS AND OTHER

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES

See Renewable Energy

CARIBBEAN

See Latin America and the Caribbean

CLIMATE CHANGE

See also Air Quality and Electricity

ADAPTATION Raymond J. Kopp, Carolyn

Kousky, Molly K. Macauley, Richard D. Morgen-

stern, Daniel F. Morris, Nigel Purvis, James N.

Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett, Roger A. Sedjo,

Leonard A. Shabman

CAP AND TRADE Stephen P.A. Brown, Dallas

Burtraw, Harrison Fell, Carolyn Fischer,

Winston Harrington, Alan J. Krupnick, Mun Ho,

Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern,

Daniel F. Morris, Karen L. Palmer, Anthony

Paul, Ian W.H. Parry, Stephen W. Salant, Phil

Sharp, Margaret A. Walls, Roberton C.

Williams III

CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND STORAGE

Raymond J. Kopp, Molly K. Macauley, Daniel F.

Morris, Nigel Purvis, P. Lynn Scarlett, Roger A.

Sedjo, Juha V. Siikamäki

CARBON TAX Dallas Burtraw, Harrison Fell,

Mun Ho, Alan J. Krupnick, Richard D. Morgen-

stern, Ian W.H. Parry, Phil Sharp, Roberton C.

Williams III

CLIMATE CHANGE—GENERAL Timothy J.

Brennan, Mark A. Cohen, Molly K. Macauley

DISCLOSURE AND PRODUCT LABELING

Mark A. Cohen

EUROPEAN AND U.S. REGULATORY POLICIES


Winston Harrington, Raymond J. Kopp, John A.

List, Richard D. Morgenstern, Daniel F. Morris,

Sheila M. Olmstead, Ian W.H. Parry, Phil Sharp

FOREST CARBON Allen Blackman, Daniel F.

Morris, Nigel Purvis, Roger A. Sedjo, Juha

Siikamäki

GLOBAL WARMING Joel Darmstadter,

Harrison Fell, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D.

Morgenstern, Daniel F. Morris, Ian W.H. Parry,

Stephen W. Salant, Roger A. Sedjo, Phil Sharp

GREENHOUSE GASES Dallas Burtraw, Joel

Darmstadter, Harrison Fell, Carolyn Fischer,

Arthur G. Fraas, Raymond J. Kopp, Molly K.

Macauley, Richard D. Morgenstern, Daniel F.

Morris, Roger A. Sedjo, Jhih-Shyang Shih

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES Dallas Burtraw,

Carolyn Fischer, Raymond J. Kopp, Molly K.

Macauley, Richard D. Morgenstern, Nigel

Purvis, Stephen W. Salant, Roger A. Sedjo

MITIGATION POLICY Robert Fri

UNCERTAINTY AND RISK Roger M. Cooke,

Carolyn Kousky

COAL

COAL—GENERAL Stephen P.A. Brown, Joel

Darmstadter, Raymond J. Kopp

COAL LIQUEFACTION Joel Darmstadter

CORPORATE SOCIAL

RESPONSIBILITY

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY—

GENERAL Allen Blackman, Mark A. Cohen,

Carolyn Fischer

COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS

COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS—GENERAL James W.

Boyd, Timothy J. Brennan, Dallas Burtraw, Mark

A. Cohen, Maureen Cropper, Harrison Fell,

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J.

Krupnick, John A. List, Randall Lutter, Virginia


Palmer, Ian W.H. Parry, Heather Ross, Leonard

A. Shabman, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Juha V. Siikamäki,

Kenneth A. Small, Roberton C. Williams III

DISTRIBUTION OF COSTS AND BENEFITS

Roberton C. Williams III

INCORPORATING UNCERTAINTY IN

COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS Dallas Burtraw,

Roger M. Cooke, Arthur G. Fraas, Sandra A.

Hoffmann, Carolyn Kousky, Alan J. Krupnick,

Richard D. Morgenstern, Leonard A. Shabman,

Jhih-Shyang Shih

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES—GENERAL Allen

Blackman, James W. Boyd, Rebecca Epanchin-

Niell, Carolyn Kousky, Alan J. Krupnick, Daniel

F. Morris, James N. Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett,

Juha Siikamaki, Jhih-Shyang Shih

ELECTRICITY


ELECTRICITY—GENERAL Timothy J. Brennan,

Dallas Burtraw, Joel Darmstadter, Harrison Fell,

Joshua Linn, Daniel F. Morris, Karen L. Palmer,

Anthony Paul, Phil Sharp

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Dallas Burtraw,

Maureen Cropper, Harrison Fell, Karen L.

Palmer

MARKETS AND REGULATION Timothy J.

Brennan, Dallas Burtraw, Karen L. Palmer,

Anthony Paul

RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS Timothy

J. Brennan, Dallas Burtraw, Joshua Linn, Karen

L. Palmer, Anthony Paul

STATE AND FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Dallas Burtraw, J. Clarence (Terry) Davies,

Joshua Linn, Karen L. Palmer

ENDANGERED SPECIES

ENDANGERED SPECIES—GENERAL Rebecca

Epanchin-Niell, Carolyn Fischer, P. Lynn

Scarlett, Leonard A. Shabman, Juha V. Siikamäki

ENERGY POLICY

CONSERVATION AND EFFICIENCY Timothy J.

Brennan, Carolyn Fischer, Karen L. Palmer, Ian

W.H. Parry, Phil Sharp, Juha V. Siikamäki

ENERGY POLICY—GENERAL Timothy J.

Brennan, Stephen P.A. Brown, Joel Darmstadter,

Robert Fri, Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick,

Lucija Anna Muehlenbachs, Ian W.H. Parry,

Heather Ross, P. Lynn Scarlett , Phil Sharp,

Kenneth A. Small, Margaret A. Walls, Roberton

C. Williams III

ENERGY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Joel Darmstadter

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS

Dallas Burtraw, Stephen P.A. Brown, Maureen

Cropper, Carolyn Fischer, Winston Harrington,

Alan J. Krupnick , Shanjun Li, Richard D. Mor-

genstern, Lucija Anna Muehlenbachs, Sheila M.

Olmstead, Karen L. Palmer, Ian W.H. Parry,

P. Lynn Scarlett , Phil Sharp, Margaret A. Walls,

Roberton C. Williams III

ENERGY AND PUBLIC LANDS P. Lynn Scarlett,

Jhih-Shyang Shih

ENERGY SECURITY AND INDEPENDENCE

Stephen P.A. Brown, Joel Darmstadter, Ian

W.H. Parry, Nigel Purvis, Heather Ross, Phil

Sharp

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Stephen P.A. Brown,

Joel Darmstadter, Robert Fri, Alan J. Krupnick,

Molly K. Macauley, Nigel Purvis

HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, P. Lynn Scarlett

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING—GENERAL

James W. Boyd, Joel Darmstadter, Alan J.

Krupnick

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE—GENERAL Mark A.

Cohen, Sandra A. Hoffmann, P. Lynn Scarlett

ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY—GENERAL James

W. Boyd, Timothy J. Brennan, Mark A. Cohen,

Roger M. Cooke, Sandra A. Hoffmann, Carolyn

Kousky, Leonard A. Shabman

EUROPE


EUROPEAN AND U.S. REGULATORY POLICIES


Winston Harrington, Sandra A. Hoffmann,

Raymond J. Kopp, Joshua Linn, Richard D. Mor-

genstern, Ian W.H. Parry

FISHERIES

See Oceans and Fisheries

FOOD SAFETY

COST OF ILLNESS Sandra A. Hoffmann

RISK ANALYSIS / FOODBORNE PATHOGENS

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick, Randall

Lutter

FORESTRY

FORESTRY—GENERAL Sandra A. Hoffmann,

Molly K. Macauley, Daniel F. Morris, Nigel

Purvis, Roger A. Sedjo, Juha V. Siikamäki

BIOTECHNOLOGY Carolyn Fischer, Roger A.

Sedjo

CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEFORESTATION

Molly K. Macauley, Daniel F. Morris, Nigel

Purvis, Roger A. Sedjo, Juha V. Siikamäki

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES James W. Boyd, Daniel

F. Morris, Roger A. Sedjo, Juha V. Siikamäki

FOREST CARBON Allen Blackman, Daniel F.

Morris, Roger A. Sedjo

FOREST CERTIFICATION Carolyn Fischer,

Roger A. Sedjo

FOREST DISTURBANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Allen Blackman, Roger A. Sedjo

FOREST MODELING Allen Blackman, Roger A.

Sedjo

GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES Roger A. Sedjo

REMOTE SENSING AND MAPPING GLOBAL

FORESTS Molly K. Macauley, Daniel F. Morris,

Nigel Purvis, Roger A. Sedjo

TIMBER MARKETS Roger A. Sedjo

WILDLAND FIRE POLICY AND MANAGEMENT

Carolyn Kousky, P. Lynn Scarlett

FOSSIL FUELS

See Coal, Natural Gas, and Oil

HEALTH

See Public Health

HYDROPOWER


INCENTIVE-BASED REGULATORY

POLICIES

INCENTIVE-BASED REGULATORY POLICIES—

GENERAL Allen Blackman, James W. Boyd,

Timothy J. Brennan, Stephen P.A. Brown, Dallas

Burtraw, Maureen Cropper, Harrison Fell,

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick, Joshua

Linn, Virginia McConnell, Richard D. Morgen-

stern, Karen L. Palmer, Ian W.H. Parry, James

N. Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett, Leonard A.

Shabman, Juha V. Siikamäki, Kenneth A. Small,

Margaret A. Walls, Roberton C. Williams III

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

See also Africa, Asia, Latin America and the

Caribbean, and Public Health

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT—GENERAL

Allen Blackman, Sandra A. Hoffmann

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE

ENVIRONMENT Shanjun Li, Michael T. Rock

POVERTY AND NATURAL RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT Ramanan Laxminarayan, Nigel

Purvis

TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Carolyn

Fischer, Richard D. Morgenstern

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRON-

MENTAL ISSUES BY REGION

See separate entries for Africa, Asia, Europe, and

Latin America and the Caribbean

INVASIVE SPECIES

INVASIVE SPECIES—GENERAL Rebecca

Epanchin-Niell, James N. Sanchirico, P. Lynn

Scarlett

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS

See also Transportation

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS—GENERAL

James W. Boyd, Timothy J. Brennan, Rebecca

Epanchin-Niell, Virginia McConnell, Daniel F.

Morris, P. Lynn Scarlett, Roger A. Sedjo, Juha V.

Siikamäki, Margaret A. Walls

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION James W. Boyd,

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Leonard A. Shabman,

Roger A. Sedjo

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES James W. Boyd,

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, P. Lynn Scarlett, Juha

Siikamäki

FARMLAND PRESERVATION Virginia McConnell,

Juha V. Siikamäki, Margaret A. Walls

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

Molly K. Macauley

GRAZING RIGHTS P. Lynn Scarlett

OPEN SPACES Virginia McConnell, James N.

Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett, Juha V. Siikamäki,

Margaret A. Walls

OUTDOOR RECREATION Virginia McConnell,

Daniel F. Morris, P. Lynn Scarlett, Juha V.


PARKS, REFUGES, AND WILDERNESS James W.

Boyd, Roger A. Sedjo, P. Lynn Scarlett, Juha V.


TRANSFERABLE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS Virginia

McConnell, Margaret A. Walls

URBAN SPRAWL Maureen Cropper, Winston

Harrington, Virginia McConnell, Margaret A.

Walls

U.S. FOREST SERVICE P. Lynn Scarlett, Roger A.

Sedjo

LATIN AMERICA AND THE

CARIBBEAN

HYDROPOWER IN SOUTH AMERICA

Allen Blackman

MANAGING CORAL REEF SYSTEMS IN THE

CARIBBEAN James N. Sanchirico

REGULATORY POLICY—COLOMBIA Allen

Blackman, Sandra A. Hoffmann, Richard D.

Morgenstern

REGULATORY POLICY—MEXICO

Richard D. Morgenstern

SHADE-GROWN COFFEE Allen Blackman

SMALL ENTERPRISES AND POLLUTION

Allen Blackman

TROPICAL FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Allen Blackman, Nigel Purvis, P. Lynn Scarlett

U.S.–MEXICO BORDER POLLUTION

Allen Blackman

VOLUNTARY REGULATION IN LATIN AMERICA

Allen Blackman, Richard D. Morgenstern

WATER ISSUES IN LATIN AMERICA

Allen Blackman

MARKETS AND COMPETITION

MARKETS AND COMPETITION—GENERAL

Timothy J. Brennan, Stephen P.A. Brown, Dallas

Burtraw, Harrison Fell, Carolyn Fischer,

Raymond J. Kopp, Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn, John

A. List, Molly K. Macauley, Richard D. Morgen-

stern, Daniel F. Morris, Karen L. Palmer, Ian

W.H. Parry, Roberton C. Williams III

NANOTECHNOLOGY

REGULATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, Randall Lutter

NATURAL DISASTERS

RISK OF NATURAL DISASTERS Roger M. Cooke,

Carolyn Kousky, Leonard A. Shabman

DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE

Carolyn Kousky, P. Lynn Scarlett

NATURAL GAS

NATURAL GAS—GENERAL Stephen P.A. Brown,

Joel Darmstadter, Alan J. Krupnick, Raymond J.

Kopp, Lucija Anna Muehlenbachs, Phil Sharp,

Margaret A. Walls

LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS Stephen P.A. Brown

PIPELINES Stephen P.A. Brown

SHALE GAS Stephen P.A. Brown, Margaret A.

Walls

NONMARKET VALUATION

NONMARKET VALUATION—GENERAL James

W. Boyd, Alan J. Krupnick, John A. List, Juha

Siikamäki

NUCLEAR ENERGY

NUCLEAR ENERGY—GENERAL Robert Fri,

Phil Sharp

NUCLEAR WASTE Phil Sharp

OCEANS AND FISHERIES

See also Water

OCEANS AND FISHERIES—GENERAL

James W. Boyd, Harrison Fell, James N.

Sanchirico, Leonard A. Shabman

ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT James W.

Boyd, James N. Sanchirico, P. Lynn Scarlett,

Leonard A. Shabman

FISHING QUOTAS Harrison Fell, James N.

Sanchirico, Leonard A. Shabman

MARINE PROTECTED AREAS

James N. Sanchirico

ZONING THE OCEANS Harrison Fell,

James N. Sanchirico

OIL

See also Transportation

DEEPWATER AND OFFSHORE DRILLING

Stephen P.A. Brown, Mark A. Cohen, P. Lynn

Scarlett

OIL—GENERAL James W. Boyd, Stephen P.A.

Brown, Mark A. Cohen, Joel Darmstadter,

Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick, Lucija Anna

Muehlenbachs, Ian W.H. Parry, Nathan Richard-

son, Heather Ross, Phil Sharp

WORLD OIL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

Stephen P.A. Brown, Phil Sharp

OIL PRICE SHOCKS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

Stephen P.A. Brown

OIL SANDS Joel Darmstadter

PESTICIDES

See also Agriculture and Public Health

PESTICIDE REGULATION Maureen Cropper,

Sandra A. Hoffmann

PESTICIDE RESISTANCE Carolyn Fischer,

Ramanan Laxminarayan

SOCIAL COST OF PESTICIDES Sandra A.

Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick, Juha V. Siikamäki

PUBLIC HEALTH

See also Africa and Asia

ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAXATION POLICY

Ian W.H. Parry

ANTIBIOTICS AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

Carolyn Fischer, Ramanan Laxminarayan,

Stephen W. Salant

CHILDREN’S HEALTH Sandra A. Hoffmann,

Alan J. Krupnick

DISEASE CONTROL PRIORITIES FOR DEVELOP-

ING COUNTRIES Ramanan Laxminarayan,

Stephen W. Salant

FOOD AND DRUG SAFETY Randall Lutter,

Sandra A. Hoffmann

HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Maureen

Cropper, Sandra Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick,

Ramanan Laxminarayan

MALARIA Maureen Cropper, Ramanan Laxmi-

narayan

PANDEMIC FLU Maureen Cropper

PESTICIDES Sandra A. Hoffmann, Alan J.

Krupnick, Juha V. Siikamäki

REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVI-

RONMENTAL QUALITY Stephen P.A. Brown

SCALING-UP INTERVENTION FOR HIV/AIDS, TB,

AND MALARIA Ramanan Laxminarayan

VALUATION OF DRINKING WATER QUALITY

Alan J. Krupnick, Sheila M. Olmstead

REGULATORY PROGRAMS AND

INSTITUTIONS

FEDERAL James W. Boyd, Allen Blackman,

Timothy J. Brennan, Mark A. Cohen, Maureen

Cropper, J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, Winston

Harrington, Sandra A. Hoffmann, Carolyn

Kousky, Alan J. Krupnick, Randall Lutter, Molly

K. Macauley, Richard D. Morgenstern, Heather

Ross, P. Lynn Scarlett, Leonard A. Shabman, Phil

Sharp, Jhih-Shyang Shih

INTERNATIONAL Allen Blackman, Roger M.

Cooke, Maureen Cropper, Carolyn Fischer,

Winston Harrington, Sandra A. Hoffmann,

Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick, Molly K.

Macauley, Richard D. Morgenstern

REGIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL Timothy J.

Brennan, Winston Harrington, Sandra A.

Hoffmann, Carolyn Kousky, Alan J. Krupnick,

P. Lynn Scarlett, Phil Sharp

RENEWABLE ENERGY

RENEWABLE ENERGY—GENERAL Stephen P.A.

Brown, Dallas Burtraw, Carolyn Fischer, Alan J.

Krupnick, Karen L. Palmer, Anthony Paul, Roger

A. Sedjo, Phil Sharp, Jhih-Shyang Shih

BIOENERGY Roger A. Sedjo, Jhih-Shyang Shih

RENEWABLE ENERGY—PUBLIC LANDS

Joshua Linn, Jhih-Shyang Shih, P. Lynn Scarlett

WIND POWER Joshua Linn

RISK ASSESSMENT AND

MANAGEMENT

RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT—

GENERAL J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, Sandra A.

Hoffmann, Carolyn Kousky, Molly K. Macauley,

Leonard A. Shabman, Jhih-Shyang Shih

EXPERT JUDGMENT Roger M. Cooke, Sandra

A. Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick

INSURANCE Carolyn Kousky

RELIABILITY Roger M. Cooke

RISK ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY Roger M.

Cooke, Sandra A. Hoffmann, Carolyn Kousky

RISK COMMUNICATION Roger M. Cooke,

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Carolyn Kousky, Leonard

A. Shabman

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS Roger M. Cooke,

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Leonard A. Shabman

SOLAR POWER


SOLAR POWER—GENERAL Joshua Linn

SPACE POLICY

SPACE POLICY—GENERAL Timothy J. Brennan,

Molly K. Macauley, Ian W.H. Parry

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT—GENERAL

Allen Blackman, James W. Boyd, Mark A.

Cohen, Virginia McConnell

TAXATION AND PUBLIC

FINANCE

TAXATION AND PUBLIC FINANCE—GENERAL

Stephen P.A. Brown, Molly K. Macauley, Ian

W.H. Parry, Margaret A. Walls, Roberton C.

Williams III

TECHNOLOGY AND THE

ENVIRONMENT

TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT—

GENERAL Allen Blackman, J. Clarence (Terry)

Davies, Carolyn Fischer, Raymond J. Kopp,

Molly K. Macauley, Ian W.H. Parry, Roger A.

Sedjo, Jhih-Shyang Shih

TRANSPORTATION

TRANSPORTATION—GENERAL Winston

Harrington, Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn, Virginia

McConnell, Ian W.H. Parry, Kenneth A. Small

ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND VEHICLES Stephen

P.A. Brown, Carolyn Fischer, Alan J. Krupnick,

Virginia McConnell, Margaret A. Walls

AUTO INSURANCE REFORM Ian W.H. Parry

CAFE STANDARDS Carolyn Fischer, Winston

Harrington, Joshua Linn, Ian W.H. Parry,


Williams III

FUEL TAXES Ian W.H. Parry, Kenneth A. Small,

Margaret A. Walls, Roberton C. Williams III

HOT / HOV LANES AND ROAD PRICING

Winston Harrington, Ian W.H. Parry

LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION Maureen

Cropper, Winston Harrington, Virginia

McConnell, Kenneth A. Small, Margaret A. Walls

TELECOMMUTING Margaret A. Walls

TRAFFIC CONGESTION Winston Harrington,

Ian W.H. Parry, Kenneth A. Small

TRANSIT SUBSIDIES Ian W.H. Parry, Kenneth A.

Small

TRANSPORTATION FINANCE Ian W.H. Parry,

Kenneth A. Small, Roberton C. Williams III

VEHICLE EMISSIONS Maureen Cropper,

Winston Harrington, Virginia McConnell,

Kenneth A. Small, Margaret A. Walls

VALUATION OF

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

VALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS—

GENERAL Allen Blackman, Dallas Burtraw,

Mark A. Cohen, Maureen Cropper, Sandra A.

Hoffmann, Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick,

John A. List, Virginia McConnell, Leonard A.

Shabman, Kenneth A. Small, Juha V. Siikamäki

ECOSYSTEM BENEFIT INDICATORS James W.

Boyd, P. Lynn Scarlett, Leonard A. Shabman

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Alan J. Krupnick

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING—GREEN GDP

James W. Boyd, Joel Darmstadter

VALUATION OF HEALTH

BENEFITS

VALUATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS—GENERAL

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Ramanan Laxminarayan,

Alan J. Krupnick

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Juha V. Siikamäki

VALUING CHILDREN’S HEALTH

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Alan J. Krupnick

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND

CLEANUP

See also Environmental Justice

BENEFITS OF CLEANUP James W. Boyd

BROWNFIELDS Allen Blackman

NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGES James W.

Boyd, Raymond J. Kopp, P. Lynn Scarlett

SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING Molly K.

Macauley, Karen L. Palmer, Jhih-Shyang Shih,

Margaret A. Walls

VOLUNTARY CLEANUP Allen Blackman

WATER

See also Public Health and Oceans and Fisheries

WATER—GENERAL Allen Blackman, Daniel F.

Morris, Sheila M. Olmstead, Leonard A.

Shabman

CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED James W.

Boyd, Alan J. Krupnick, Virginia McConnell,

Leonard A. Shabman

CLEAN WATER ACT AND OTHER REGULA-

TIONS James W. Boyd, Winston Harrington,

Sheila M. Olmstead, Leonard A. Shabman

EFFECTS OF DEVELOPMENT ON WATER

QUALITY Virginia McConnell

EVERGLADES RESTORATION P. Lynn Scarlett

FLOODING Roger M. Cooke, Carolyn Kousky,

Leonard A. Shabman,

OIL SPILLS / MARINE RESOURCE DAMAGE James

W. Boyd, Mark A. Cohen, Raymond J. Kopp,

Nathan Richardson, P. Lynn Scarlett, Leonard A.

Shabman

SAFE DRINKING WATER Winston Harrington,

Sandra A. Hoffmann, Sheila M. Olmstead,

Leonard A. Shabman

WATER DEMAND AND USE James W. Boyd,

Daniel F. Morris, Sheila M. Olmstead, Leonard

A. Shabman

WATER PRICING Sheila M. Olmstead

WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT James W.

Boyd, Molly K. Macauley, Daniel F. Morris,

Sheila M. Olmstead, P. Lynn Scarlett, Leonard

A. Shabman, Jhih-Shyang Shih

WATER RIGHTS James W. Boyd, Daniel F.

Morris, Leonard A. Shabman

WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS Winston Harrington,

Daniel F. Morris, Sheila M. Olmstead, Leonard

A. Shabman, Jhih-Shyang Shih

WIND POWER


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RFF EXPERTS

ALLEN BLACKMAN Senior Fellow

JAMES W. BOYD Senior Fellow and Director,

Center for the Management of Ecological

Wealth

TIMOTHY J. BRENNAN Senior Fellow

STEPHEN P.A. BROWN Nonresident Fellow

DALLAS BURTRAW Senior Fellow

MARK A. COHEN Senior Fellow and Vice Presi-

dent for Research

ROGER M. COOKE Chauncey Starr Senior

Fellow

MAUREEN CROPPER Senior Fellow

JOEL DARMSTADTER Senior Fellow

J. CLARENCE (TERRY) DAVIES Senior Fellow

REBECCA EPANCHIN-NIELL Fellow

HARRISON FELL Fellow

CAROLYN FISCHER Senior Fellow and Associ-

ate Director, Center for Climate and Electricity

Policy

ARTHUR G. FRAAS Visiting Scholar

ROBERT FRI Visiting Scholar

WINSTON HARRINGTON Senior Fellow and

Associate Research Director

MUN HO Visiting Scholar

SANDRA A. HOFFMANN Fellow

RAYMOND J. KOPP Senior Fellow and Director,

Center for Climate and Electricity Policy

CAROLYN KOUSKY Fellow

ALAN J. KRUPNICK Senior Fellow, Research

Director, and Director, Center for Energy Eco-

nomics and Policy

RAMANAN LAXMINARAYAN Senior Fellow

SHANJUN LI Fellow

JOSHUA LINN Fellow

JOHN A. LIST Nonresident Fellow

RANDALL LUTTER Visiting Scholar

MOLLY K. MACAULEY Senior Fellow and

Research Director

VIRGINIA MCCONNELL Senior Fellow

RICHARD D. MORGENSTERN Senior Fellow

DANIEL F. MORRIS Center Fellow

LUCIJA ANNA MUEHLENBACHS Fellow

SHEILA M. OLMSTEAD Fellow

KAREN L. PALMER Darius Gaskins Senior

Fellow and Associate Director, Center for

Climate and Electricity Policy

IAN W.H. PARRY Allen V. Kneese Senior Fellow

ANTHONY PAUL Center Fellow

NIGEL PURVIS Visiting Scholar

NATHAN RICHARDSON Resident Scholar

MICHAEL T. ROCK Gilbert F. White Fellow

HEATHER ROSS Visiting Scholar

STEPHEN W. SALANT Nonresident Fellow

JAMES N. SANCHIRICO Nonresident Fellow

P. LYNN SCARLETT Visiting Scholar

ROGER A. SEDJO Senior Fellow and Director,

Center for Forest Economics and Policy

LEONARD A. SHABMAN Resident Scholar

PHIL SHARP President

JHIH-SHYANG SHIH Fellow

JUHA V. SIIKAMÄKI Fellow

KENNETH A. SMALL Nonresident Fellow

MARGARET A. WALLS Thomas J. Klutznick

Senior Fellow

ROBERTON C. WILLIAMS III Senior Fellow and

Director, Academic Programs

ALLEN BLACKMAN

Senior Fellow

202.328.5073 · [email protected]

PROFILE

An expert on environmental and natural resource policy in developing countries,Allen Blackman focuses principally on industrial pollution control and tropical de-forestation in Latin America and Asia. Much of his research evaluates environmentalmanagement strategies that aim to overcome barriers to conventional regulation indeveloping countries, including weak institutions and missing infrastructure. He co-ordinates RFF’s participation in the Environment for Development (EfD) initiativeand is a research fellow at the EfD Center for Central America.

Blackman’s work on industrial pollution control analyzes public disclosure pro-grams, economic incentive instruments, and voluntary regulation. He has also studied

EXPERTISE

AGRICULTURE Shade-Grown Coffee

AIR QUALITY Air Quality Policy and Effects,

Emissions Permit Trading and Other Incentive

Approaches

ASIA Environmental Policies in China

CLIMATE CHANGE Forest Carbon

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY General

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES General

FORESTRY Forest Carbon, Forest Disturbance

and Management, Forest Modeling

INCENTIVE-BASED REGULATORY POLICIES

General

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT General, Inter-

national Development and the Environment

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Hydropower in South America, Regulatory

Policy–Columbia, Shade-Grown Coffee, Small

Enterprises and Pollution, Tropical Forests and

Climate Change, U.S.-Mexico Border Pollution,

Voluntary Regulation in Latin America, Water

Issues in Latin America

REGULATORY PROGRAMS AND INSTITUTIONS

Federal, International

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT General

TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

General

VALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

General

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANUP Brown-

fields, Voluntary Cleanup

WATER General

the adoption and diffusion of clean and climate-friendly technologies. His researchon tropical deforestation assesses agroforestry systems and conservation policies suchas protected areas and payments for environmental services programs. He also hasworked extensively on U.S. environmental regulatory reform, including voluntaryprograms and mortgage innovations designed to affect land use.

Past work has examined conservation policies in Mexico and Costa Rica, air pol-lution issues along the U.S.–Mexico border, voluntary regulation in Mexico andColombia, public disclosure in India and Indonesia, and voluntary efforts to clean upbrownfield properties in the United States.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of texas–Austin, 1993.B.A. in political science and international relations, University of Pennsylvania, 1983.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Voluntary Regulation in Developing Countries: Mexico’s Clean Industry Program,with B. Lahiri, B. Pizer, M. Rivera Planter, and C. Muñoz Piña. Journal of Envi-ronmental Economics and Management. In Press.

Alternative Pollution Control Policies in Developing Countries. Review of Environ-mental Economics and Policy. In Press.

User-Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: CostaRican Hydropower, with R. Woodward. Ecological Economics 69(8): 1626–1638,2010.

Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee, with Heidi J. Al-bers, Beatriz Ávalos Sartorio, and Lisa Murphy. American Journal of AgriculturalEconomics 90(1): 216–231, 2008.

Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collec-tive Action. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2006.

PROFILE

Jim Boyd’s research lies at the intersection of economics, ecology, and law, with a par-ticular focus on the measurement and management of ecosystem goods and services.Boyd emphasizes the need to better coordinate economic and ecological research toimprove the practical performance of green incentives, markets, and investments. Headvocates and works on the practical design of a green GDP—national environmen-tal accounts to capture and track the status of environmental public goods and ser-vices and measure the environmental consequences of economic growth.

Boyd directs the RFF Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth, which wascreated to work with practitioners, scholars, and policymakers to incorporate eco-logical science into public policies to protect, enhance, and manage the social wealtharising from natural systems.

EXPERTISE

AGRICULTURE Agriculture and Ecosystem

Services

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION General,

Ecosystem Management, Wildlife Conservation

COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS General


ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING General

ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY General

FORESTRY Ecosystem Services


General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS General;

Ecosystem Restoration; Ecosystem Services;

Parks, Refuges, and Wilderness

NONMARKET VALUATION General

OCEANS AND FISHERIES General, Ecosystem-

Based Management

OIL General


Federal

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT


Ecosystem Benefits Indicators, Environmental

Accounting, Green GDP

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANUP Benefits

of Cleanup, Natural Resource Damages

WATER Cheaspeake Bay Watershed, Clean

Water Act and Other Regulations, Oil Spills/

Marine Resource Damage, Water Demand and

Use, Water Resource Management, Water

Rights

JAMES W. BOYD

Senior Fellow and Director,

Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth


He has served on National Academy of Science and other advisory panels, in-cluding most recently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Committee onValuing Ecological Systems and Services. He has been a visiting professor at StanfordUniversity (2007–2008) and Washington University in St. Louis (1996) and was di-rector of the Energy and Natural Resources Division at Resources for the Future(2002–2007).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in applied microeconomics, e Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,1993.

B.A. in history, University of Michigan, 1986.


Location, Location, Location: e Geography of Ecosystem Services. Resources 170.Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

Don’t Measure, Don’t Manage: GDP and the Missing Economy of Nature. Issue brief.Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

What Are Ecosystem Services? with Spencer Banzhaf. Ecological Economics 63(2–3):616–626, 2007.

e Nonmarket Benefits of Nature: What Should Be Counted in Green GDP? Eco-logical Economics 61, 2007.

Water Pollution taxes: A Good Idea Doomed to Failure? Public Finance and Man-agement 3(1): 34–66, 2003.

e New Face of the Clean Water Act: A Critical Review of the EPA’s New tMDLRules. Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Fall 2000.

e Law and Economics of Habitat Conservation: Lessons from an Analysis of Ease-ment Acquisitions, with Kathryn Caballero and R. David Simpson. Stanford En-vironmental Law Journal 19, 2000.

PROFILE

tim Brennan focuses on public policies involving monopolies and market power, andon assessing methods for policy evaluation. He looks particularly at issues associatedwith restructuring the electricity sector and opening electricity utilities and marketsto competition. Specific topics in recent publications include real-time pricing, cli-mate change, network effects, decoupling electricity revenues from use, energy con-servation policy, and space launch risk.

His current research examines rationales for energy efficiency policies, the limitsof cost–benefit analysis in climate policy, and the role of behavioral economics in en-ergy and environmental policy. He has been coauthor of two books on the deregula-tion of electricity markets and has analyzed constitutional requirements for com-pensation for public use of private land. He has studied privacy and environmentallaw enforcement related to remote-sensing satellites and is working on the roles ofprizes in technological innovation and on assessing liability rules for space launches.Brennan also addresses issues in antitrust law, telecommunications policy, copyright,and the philosophy of economics. He has presented his research to numerous gov-ernment, professional, and academic institutions in the United States and interna-tionally, including Australia, Austria, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico,New Zealand, Sweden, and Uzbekistan.

Brennan is also a professor of public policy and economics at the University ofMaryland–Baltimore County and also has taught at George Washington University.

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE General


ELECTRICITY General, Markets and Regulation,

Renewable Portfolio Standards

ENERGY POLICY General, Conservation and

Efficiency



General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS General

MARKETS AND COMPETITION General


Federal; Regional, State, and Local

SPACE POLICY General

TIMOTHY J. BRENNAN

Senior Fellow


He was an economist for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from1978 to 1986 and was senior economist for industrial organization and regulation onthe staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 1996–1997. From 2003to 2005, he served as a staff consultant to the director of the Bureau of Economics ofthe Federal trade Commission. He spent 2006 in Ottawa as the t.D. MacDonaldChair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau. He is a co-edi-tor of Economic Inquiry and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regulatory Eco-nomics, Information Economics and Policy, Communications Law and Policy, and theInternational Journal of the Economics of Business.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1978.M.A. in economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1976.M.A. in mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1975.B.A. in mathematics, University of Maryland, 1973.


e Challenges of Climate Policy. Australian Economic Review. In Press.Decoupling in Electric Utilities. Journal of Regulatory Economics 38(1): 49–70, 2010.Optimal Energy Efficiency Policies and Regulatory Demand-Side Management tests:

How Well Do ey Match? Energy Policy 38: 3874–3885, 2010.Public-Private Co-production of Risk: Government Indemnification of the Com-

mercial Space Launch Industry, with Carolyn Kousky and Molly Macauley. Risk,Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 1(1): 117–146, 2010.

Network Effects in Infrastructure Regulation: Principles and Paradoxes. Review ofNetwork Economics 8(4): 279–301, 2009.

Generating the Benefits of Competition: Challenges and Opportunities in Opening Elec-tricity Markets. Commentary 260. April. toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, 2008.

Should Innovation Rationalize Supra-competitive Prices? A Skeptical Speculation. InThe Pros and Cons of High Prices, edited by Arvid Fredenberg. Stockholm:Konkurrensverket/Swedish Competition Authority, 2007.

Saving Section 2: Reframing U.S. Monopolization Law. In The Political Economy ofAntitrust, edited by Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek. Amsterdam: North-Holland,2007.

Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and Public Policy, with Karen Palmer andSalvador Martinez. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2002.

PROFILE

Steve Brown, who joined RFF in 2009 as its first nonresident fellow, has conductedinquiries into domestic and international energy markets, energy security policies,climate policy, public finance, government performance, and regional economicgrowth. Prior to joining RFF, Brown had a 27-year career at the Federal Reserve Bankof Dallas, where he retired as director of energy economics and microeconomic pol-icy analysis.

Brown’s recent work covers a wide range of areas, including developments in U.S.natural gas markets, energy policy and energy market dynamics, energy security, theeffects of energy price shocks on U.S. economic activity, deepwater and offshoredrilling, and petroleum product pricing. Before he joined the Federal Reserve, heworked on energy policy at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New york. Brownhas also taught economics at Arizona State University, the University of Col-orado–Denver, Southern Methodist University, and tulane University. Currently,Brown also serves as a professor of economics and director of the Center for Busi-ness and Economic Research at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas.

EXPERTISE

ASIA Energy Consumption in China

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade

COAL General

ENERGY POLICY General, Energy and Environ-

mental Regulations, Energy Security and Inde-

pendence, Energy Technologies


General


NATURAL GAS General, Liquefied Natural Gas,

Pipelines, Shale Gas, U.S. And International

Natural Gas Markets

OIL General, World Oil Markets, Deepwater

and Offshore Drilling, Oil Price Shocks and

Economic Activity, Developments

PUBLIC HEALTH Regional Economic Growth

and Environmental Quality

RENEWABLE ENERGY General

TAXATION AND PUBLIC FINANCE General

TRANSPORTATION Alternative Fuels and

Vehicles

STEPHEN P.A. BROWN

Nonresident Fellow


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland, 1979.M.A. in economics, University of Maryland, 1977.B.S. in economics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1972.


Perspectives on Energy Policy and Economic Research: Results of a Survey, with KristinHayes, Alan J. Krupnick, and Jan Mares. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2010.

Reassessing the Oil Security Premium, with Hillard G. Huntington. Discussion pa-per 10-05. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Oil Price Shocks and U.S. Economic Activity: An International Perspective, withNathan S. Balke and Mine K. yücel. Discussion paper 10-37. Washington, DC:Resources for the Future, 2010.

Abundant Shale Gas Resources: Some Implications for Energy Policy, with Steven A.Gabriel and Ruud Egging. Backgrounder. Washington, DC: Resources for the Fu-ture, 2010.

Some Implications of tightening Regulation of U.S. Deepwater Drilling. Back-grounder. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Eliminating Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Production: Implications for U.S. Oil and Nat-ural Gas Markets, with Maura Allaire. Issue brief 09-10. Washington, DC: Re-sources for the Future, 2009.

Natural Gas: A Bridge to a Low-Carbon Future? with Alan J. Krupnick and MargaretA. Walls. Issue brief 09-11. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

Market Arbitrage: European and North American Natural Gas Prices, with Mine K.yücel. Special Issue, Energy Journal 30: 167–186, 2009.

What Drives Natural Gas Prices? with Mine K. yücel. Energy Journal 29(2): 45–60,2008.

Energy Security and Climate Change Protection: Complementarity or tradeoff? withHillard G. Huntington. Energy Policy 36(9): 3510–3513, 2008.

Deliverability and Regional Pricing in U.S. Natural Gas Markets, with Mine K. yücel.Energy Economics 30(5): 2441–2453, 2008.

e Private Sector Impact of State and Local Government: Has More Become Bad?with Lori L. taylor. Contemporary Economic Policy 24(4): 548–562, 2006.

PROFILE

Dallas Burtraw is one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulationin the electricity sector. For two decades, he has worked on creating a more efficientand politically rational method for controlling air pollution. He also studies electric-ity restructuring, competition, and economic deregulation. He is particularly inter-ested in incentive-based approaches for environmental regulation, the most notableof which is a tradable permit system, and recently has studied ways to introducegreater cost-effectiveness into regulation under the Clean Air Act.

Burtraw’s current areas of research include analysis of the distributional and re-gional consequences of various approaches to national climate policy. He also con-ducted analysis and provided technical support in the design of carbon dioxide emis-sions trading programs in the Northeast states, California, and the European Union.Burtraw and his colleagues recently completed a major project on estimating benefitsof the value of natural resources in the Adirondack Park through surveying area res-idents on their willingness to pay for improvements. Also with colleagues, he stud-

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Acid Rain, Air Quality Policy and

Effects, Clean Air Act, Emissions Permit Trading

and Other Incentive Approaches, Fine Particu-

lates, Greenhouse Gases, Multipollutant Policies

(Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxides, Sulfur

Dioxide, and Mercury)

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade, Carbon

Tax, European and U.S. Regulatory Policies,

International Treaties

COST–BENFIT ANALYSIS General, Incorporat-

ing Uncertainty in Cost–Benefit Analysis

ELECTRICITY General, Environmental Impacts,

Markets and Regulation, Renewable Portfolio

Standards, State and Federal Environmental

Policy

ENERGY POLICY Energy and Environmental

Regulations

EUROPE European and U.S. Regulatory Policies


General




General

DALLAS BURTRAW

Senior Fellow


ied the cost-effectiveness of various policies for promoting renewable energy.Burtraw serves on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Environmental

Studies and toxicology and on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s AdvisoryCouncil on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. He also served on California’s Economicand Allocation Advisory Committee, advising the governor’s office and the Air Re-sources Board on implementation of the state’s climate law.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Michigan, 1989.M.P.P. in public policy, University of Michigan, 1986.B.S. in community economic development, University of California–Davis, 1980.


A Symmetric Safety Valve, with Karen Palmer and Danny Kahn. Energy Policy 38(9):4921–4932, 2010.

Opportunity Cost for Free Allocations of Emissions Permits: An Experimental Analy-sis, with Markus Wråke, Erica Myers, Svante Mandell, and Charles Holt. Envi-ronmental and Resource Economics 46(3): 331–336, 2010.

e Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-trade Auction, with Richard Sweeney and Margaret Walls. National Tax Journal62(3): 497–518, 2009.

Collusion in Auctions for Emissions Permits: An Experimental Analysis, with JacobGoeree, Charles A Holt, Erica Myers, Karen Palmer, and William Shobe. Journalof Public Policy Analysis and Management 28(4): 672–691, 2009.

Compensation Rules for Climate Policy in the Electricity Sector, with Karen Palmer.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 27(4): 819–847, 2008.

Regulating CO2 in Electricity Markets: Sources or Consumers? Climate Policy 8:588–606, 2008.

Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation andPolicy Options, with Jhih-Shyang Shih, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, and JuhaSiikamäki. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 58: 1117–1129,2008.

A ten-year Rule to Guide the Allocation of EU Emission Allowances, with MarkusÅhman, Joseph Kruger, and Lars Zetterberg. Energy Policy 35(3): 1718–1730,2007.

Valuation of Natural Resource Improvements in the Adirondacks, with H. SpencerBanzhaf, David Evans, and Alan J. Krupnick. Land Economics 82(3): 445–464,2006.

Efficient Emission Fees in the U.S. Electricity Sector, with H. Spencer Banzhaf andKaren Palmer. Resource and Energy Economics 26(3): 317–341, 2004.

PROFILE

Mark Cohen is an expert on government enforcement, environmental disclosure poli-cies, and corporate environmental management and behavior. He has published onsuch diverse topics as the effect of community right-to-know laws on firm behavior,why companies reduce toxic chemical emissions, cost–benefit analysis of oil spill reg-ulation and enforcement, whether it "pays" to be green, and judicial sentencing of in-dividuals and firms convicted of corporate crimes.

He has served on various government advisory panels, including tennessee’s En-vironmental Justice Steering Committee and the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency’s (EPA’s) Science Advisory Board Panel on Illegal Competitive Advantageand Economic Benefits. He also is a member of the Stakeholder Council of theGlobal Reporting Initiative and is on several academic editorial boards, includingthe Journal of Benefit–Cost Analysis, Environmental Economics, and Managerial andDecision Economics.

Cohen also is a professor of management at the Owen Graduate School of Man-agement at Vanderbilt University and holds a secondary appointment at Vanderbiltas a professor of law. Previously, he served as a staff economist at EPA, the U.S. Fed-eral trade Commission, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE General, Disclosure and

Product Labeling



ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE General


OIL Deepwater and Offshore Drilling, General


Federal



General

WATER Oil Spills/Marine Resource Damage

MARK A. COHEN

Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-MellonUniversity, 1985.

M.A. in economics, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-MellonUniversity, 1983.

B.S.F.S. in international economics, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Ser-vice, 1978.


Deterring Oil Spills: Who Should Pay and How Much? Backgrounder. Washington,DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

A taxonomy of Oil Spill Costs: What Are the Likely Costs of the Deepwater HorizonSpill? Backgrounder. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage, with Michael P. Vandenbergh.Discussion paper 09-51. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

Consumption, Happiness, and Climate Change, with Michael P. Vandenbergh. Envi-ronmental Law Reporter 38: 10834–10837, 2008.

Information Disclosure as Environmental Regulation: A eoretical Analysis, withV. Santhakumar. Environmental and Resource Economics 37(3): 599–620, 2007.

Individual and Household Environmental Behavior: What Does Economics Con-tribute to the Discussion? Environmental Law Reporter 35(11): 10754–10762, 2005.

Determinants of Environmental Innovation in U.S. Manufacturing Industries, withSmita Brunnermeier. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45(2):278–293, 2003.

Does the Market Value Environmental Performance? with Shameek Konar. Reviewof Economics and Statistics 83(2): 281–289, 2001.

Monitoring and Enforcement of Environmental Policy. In International Yearbook ofEnvironmental and Resource Economics 1999/2000, edited by tom tietenberg andHenk Folmer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999.

Information as Regulation: e Effect of Community Right to Know Laws on toxicEmissions, with Shameek Konar. Journal of Environmental Economics and Man-agement 32(1): 109–124, 1997.

Environmental Crime and Punishment: Legal/Economic eory and Empirical Ev-idence on Enforcement of Federal Environmental Statutes. Journal of CriminalLaw and Criminology 82(3): 1054–1108, 1992.

Optimal Enforcement Strategy to Prevent Oil Spills: An Application of a Principal-Agent Model with “Moral Hazard.” Journal of Law and Economics 30(1): 23–51,1987.

e Costs and Benefits of Oil Spill Prevention and Enforcement. Journal of Environ-mental Economics and Management 13(2): 167–188, 1986.

PROFILE

Roger Cooke joined RFF in 2005 as the first appointee to the Chauncey Starr Chairin Risk Analysis. His research has widely influenced risk assessment methodology,particularly in the areas of expert judgment and uncertainty analysis. He is recog-nized as one of the world’s leading authorities on mathematical modeling of risk anduncertainty. His recent research has encompassed health risks from oil fires in Kuwaitfollowing the first Gulf War, chemical weapons disposal, nuclear risk, nitrogen oxideemissions, and microbiological risk. His current research interests include structuredexpert judgment methodologies and uncertainty analysis, and his work focuses onthe implementation of uncertainty analysis in policy-related decisionmaking.

Prior to joining RFF, Cooke was professor of applied decision theory at the De-partment of Mathematics at Del University of technology in the Netherlands. Hewas on the faculty at Del for more than 25 years and while there launched a Riskand Environmental Modeling master’s program.

Cooke has served as a consultant to the Japanese government on disposal of aban-doned World War II chemical weapons in China and to the Swedish Nuclear In-spectorate on reliability of piping in nuclear power plants. He also has consulted withthe Dutch National Aeronautics Laboratory, the Dutch Gasunie, the Dutch Institutefor Public Health and Milieu, Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the German VGB Powertech Central Data-bank. He recently led a project to quantify the risk impact of new merging and spac-ing protocols for civil aviation, and he has been named a lead author on the chapter

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Fine Particulates

CLIMATE CHANGE Uncertainty and Risk

COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS Incorporating Uncer-

tainty in Cost–Benefit Analysis


NATURAL DISASTERS Risk of Natural Disasters


International

RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT Expert

Judgment, Reliability, Risk Analysis Methodology,

Risk Communication, Uncertainty Analysis

WATER Flooding

ROGER M. COOKE

Chauncey Starr Senior Fellow


addressing risk and uncertainty in the Fih Assessment Report of the Intergovern-mental Panel on Climate Change.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in philosophy and mathematics, yale University, 1974.B.A. in philosophy and mathematics, yale University, 1968.


Future Declines of the Binational Laurentian Great Lakes Fisheries: e Importanceof Environmental and Cultural Change, with J.D. Rothlisberger, D.M. Lodge, andD.C. Finnoff. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8(5): 239–244, 2010.

Mining and Visualising Ordinal Data with Non-parametric Continuous BBNs, withA.M. Hanea, D. Kurowicka, and D.A. Ababei. Computational Statistics and DataAnalysis 54(3): 668–687, 2010.

Conundrums with Uncertainty Factors. Risk Analysis 30(3): 330–338, 2010.Attribution of Foodborne Pathogens Using Structured Expert Elicitation, with Arie

H. Havelaar, Ángela Vargas Galindo, and Dorota Kurowicka. Foodborne Pathogensand Disease 5(5): 649–659, 2008.

Regulating under Uncertainty: Newsboy for Exposure Limits, with M. MacDonell.Risk Analysis 28(1): 577–587, 2008.

Completion Problem with Partial Correlation Vines, with D. Kurowicka. Linear Al-gebra and Its Applications 418(1): 188–200, 2006.

Uncertainty Analysis and High Dimensional Dependence Modeling, with D. Kurow-icka. New york: Wiley, 2006.

techniques for Generic Probabilistic Inversion, with C. Du and D. Kurowicka. Com-putational Statistics & Data Analysis 50: 1164–1187, 2006.

A Parametrization of Positive Definite Matrices in terms of Partial Correlation Vines,with D. Kurowicka. Linear Algebra and Its Applications 372: 225–251, 2003.

Vines: A New Graphical Model for Dependent Random Variables, with t.J. Bedford.Annals of Statistics 30(4): 1031–1068, 2002.

Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods, with t.J. Bedford. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Experts in Uncertainty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

PROFILE

Maureen Cropper, a professor of economics at the University of Maryland and a for-mer lead economist at the World Bank, returned to RFF in 2008 as a senior fellow, aposition she also held from 1990 to 1993. Cropper has made major contributions toenvironmental policy through her research, teaching, and public service. Her researchhas focused on valuing environmental amenities, estimating consumer preferencesfor health and longevity improvements, and the trade-offs implicit in environmentalregulations. Previously, at the World Bank, her work focused on improving policychoices in developing countries through studies of deforestation, road safety, urbanslums, and health valuation. She is currently studying the externalities associated withpandemic flu control, the impact of reforms in the electric power sector in India, andthe demand for fuel economy in the Indian car market.

From 1995 to 1996, Cropper was president of the Association of Environmentaland Resource Economists. From 1994 through 2006, she served on the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, where she chaired the Ad-visory Council for Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis and the Environmental Eco-nomics Advisory Committee. She is a research associate of the National Bureau ofEconomic Research and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Air Quality Modeling, Air Quality

Policy and Effects, Clean Air Act, Fine Particu-

lates, Ozone

ASIA Environmental Policies in China, Pollution

and Health in China, Environmental and Energy

Policy in India

COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIs General

ELECTRICITY Environmental Impacts


Regulations


General

PUBLIC HEALTH Health in Developing Coun-

tries, Malaria, Pandemic Flu



TRANSPORTATION Land Use and Transporta-

tion, Vehicle Emissions


General

MAUREEN CROPPER

Senior Fellow


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Cornell University, 1973.M.A. in economics, Cornell University, 1972.B.A. in economics, Bryn Mawr College, 1969.


Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use.Washington, DC: National Research Council, National Academies Press, 2010.

Why Have traffic Fatalities Declined in Industrialised Countries? Implications forPedestrians and Vehicle Occupants, with Elizabeth Kopits. Journal of TransportEconomics and Policy 42: 129–154, 2008.

Measuring the Welfare Effects of Slum Improvement Programs: e Case of Mum-bai, with Akie takeuchi and Antonio Bento. Journal of Urban Economics 64:65–84, 2008.

e Value of Mortality Risk Reductions in Delhi, India, with Soma Bhattacharya andAnna Alberini. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 34: 21–47, 2007.

e Impact of Policies to Control Motor Vehicle Emissions in Mumbai, India, withAkie takeuchi and Antonio Bento. Journal of Regional Science 47: 27–46, 2007.

e Demand for Insecticide-treated Mosquito Nets, with C. Poulos, J. Lampietti, D.Whittington, and M. Haile. In Handbook of Contingent Valuation, edited by J.Kahn and A. Alberini. Cheltenham Glos, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006.

Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: Does Latency Matter? with AnnaAlberini, Alan Krupnick, and Nathalie B. Simon. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty32: 231–245, 2006.

PROFILE

In his four decades at RFF, Joel Darmstadter has conducted research centered on en-ergy resources and policy. His recent work addresses issues of energy security, re-newable resources, and climate change.

Darmstadter has served on numerous National Research Council bodies and hascontributed to their studies. He also was part of a team that evaluated the perfor-mance of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Institute for Global Environ-mental Change. His career has included serving as an adjunct faculty member of theSchool of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, an editorialcommittee member of the Annual Review of Energy, and a contributing editor of En-vironment magazine.

Darmstadter has appeared as an expert before congressional committees, pre-sented papers at numerous international conferences, and given a series of lecturesin Argentina under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency.

EDUCATION

M.A. in economics, New School for Social Research, 1952.A.B. in economics, George Washington University, 1950.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Greenhouse Gases

CLIMATE CHANGE Global Warming, Green-

house Gases

COAL General, Coal Liquefaction

ELECTRICITY General

ENERGY POLICY General, Energy and

Economic Growth, Energy Security and Inde-

pendence, Energy Technologies


NATURAL GAS General

OIL General, Oil Sands


Environmental Accounting—Green GDP

JOEL DARMSTADTER

Senior Fellow



Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs, withMichael toman et al. technical report. RAND Corporation, 2008.

Incorporating Resource and Environmental Change in a Nation’s Economic Ac-counts; Roles for Earth Science Applications. Issue brief IB 08-04. Washington,DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

Slaking Our irst for Oil, with Ian Parry. In New Approaches on Energy and the En-vironment: Policy Advice for the President, edited by Richard D. Morgenstern andPaul R. Portney. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2004.

e Energy-CO2 Connection: A Review of trends and Challenges. In Climate ChangeEconomics and Policy: Anthology, edited by Michael toman. Washington, DC: RFFPress, 24–34, 2001.

Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming, edited with Michaeltoman. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 1993.

Energy in America’s Future: The Choices before Us, with Sam H. Schurr et al. Balti-more: Johns Hopkins for Resources for the Future, 1979.

PROFILE

terry Davies is a political scientist who has extensively analyzed environmental pol-icy during the past 40 years, having written several books and numerous articles onthe government’s environmental mandates. He chaired the National Academy of Sci-ences Committee on Decisionmaking for Regulating Chemicals in the Environment,and while serving as a consultant to the President’s Advisory Council on ExecutiveOrganization, he coauthored the reorganization plan that created the U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA).

Davies has been an assistant professor of public policy at Princeton University, ex-ecutive vice president of the Conservation Foundation, assistant administrator forpolicy at EPA, and executive director of the National Commission on the Environ-ment. In 2000, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science for his contributions to environmental policy. He is currently serv-ing as a senior advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,advising the center on managing the adverse effects of nanotechnology.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in American government, Columbia University, 1965.B.A. in American government, Dartmouth College, 1959.


Oversight of Next Generation Nanotechnology. Washington, DC: Project on EmergingNanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009.

EXPERTISE

ELECTRICITY State and Federal Environmental

Policy

ENERGY POLICY History of Environmental

Policy

NANOTECHNOLOGY Regulation of Nano-

technology


Federal

RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT General


General

J. CLARENCE (TERRY) DAVIES

Senior Fellow


Managing the Effects of Nanotechnology. Washington, DC: Project on Emerging Nan-otechnologies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006.

Reforming Permitting, with Robert Hersh, Aracely Alicea, and Ruth Greenspan Bell.RFF Report. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, December 2001.

Pollution Control in the United States: Evaluating the System, with Jan Mazurek. Wash-ington, DC: RFF Press, 1998.

Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting Government Priorities. Washington,DC: RFF Press, 1996.

PROFILE

Becky Epanchin-Niell’s research focuses on ecosystem management, particularlyunderstanding how human behavior affects ecological resources and identifyingstrategies to improve management. Much of her work has dealt primarily with in-vasive species, including strategies to control established invaders, improving mon-itoring strategies, and cooperative management. She also has examined the role ofrestoration for reducing long-term fire threats and management costs in the west-ern United States and the effects of rural residential development on plants and an-imals. Epanchin-Niell’s work oen draws on econometric and bioeconomic model-ing approaches and incorporates spatial aspects of resource movement and use.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, University of California–Davis, 2009.M.S. in applied economics and statistics, University of Nevada–Reno, 2003.M.S. in biology, University of Nevada–Reno, 2001.B.S. in Earth systems, Stanford University, 1997.


Controlling Invasive Species in Complex Social Landscapes, with M. Hufford, C.Aslan, J. Sexton, J. Port, and t. Waring. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment8: 210–216, 2010.

EXPERTISE

AGRICULTURE Agriculture and Ecosystem

Services


Ecosystem Management, Invasive Species,

Wildlife Conservation


ENDANGERED SPECIES General

INVASIVE SPECIES General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDSGeneral,

Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services

REBECCA EPANCHIN-NIELL

Fellow


Controlling Established Invaders: Integrating Economics and Spread Dynamics to De-termine Optimal Management, with A. Hastings. Ecology Letters 13(4): 528–541,2010.

Investing in Rangeland Restoration in the Arid West, USA: Countering the Effects ofan Invasive Weed on the Long-term Fire Cycle, with J. Englin and D. Nalle. Jour-nal of Environmental Management 91(2): 370–379, 2009.

e Practical Challenge to Private Stewardship of Rangeland Ecosystems: yellowStarthistle Control in California’s Sierra Nevada Foothills, with C. Aslan, M. Huf-ford, J. Port, J. Sexton, and t. Waring. Journal of Rangeland Ecology and Manage-ment 62: 28–37, 2009.

Butterfly Community Change in Response to Rural Residential Development, withR.W. Niell, P.F. Brussard, and D.D. Murphy. Landscape and Urban Planning 81(3):235–245, 2007.

Alternative Models of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Site Demand, with J. En-glin, t. Holmes, and R. Niell. Environmental and Resource Economics 35(4):327–338, 2006.

PROFILE

Harrison Fell’s research is focused on the quantitative assessment of the design andimpacts of created markets as they relate to environmental and natural resource man-agement systems. is work has looked at the design of permit systems associatedwith climate change policy. His research has also assessed existing pollution permitsystems’ impacts on affected industries.

Beyond pollution permits, Fell has considered created markets in other areas,more specifically in the use of individual tradable quota (ItQ) systems in fisheries.His research in this area examines how ItQs affect both fishers and fish processorsfrom theoretical and applied perspectives.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Washington, 2007.M.A. in economics, University of Washington, 2004.B.S. in economics and engineering with civil specialty, Colorado School of Mines,2001.


Alternative Approaches to Cost Containment in a Cap-and-trade System, withRichard D. Morgenstern. Environmental and Resource Economics. In Press. (Re-lated discussion paper 09-14.)

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Emissions Permit Trading and

Other Incentive Approaches

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax,

European and U.S. Regulatory Policies, Global

Warming, Greenhouse Gases


ELECTRICITY General, Environmental Impacts

EUROPEAN European and U.S. Regulatory

Policies

INCENTIVE BASED REGULATORY POLICIES

General


OCEANS AND FISHERIES General, Zoning the

Oceans, Tradable Quotas, Fishing

HARRISON FELL

Fellow


Estimating time-Varying Bargaining Power: A Fishery Application, with Alan Haynie.Economic Inquiry. In Press.

EU-EtS and Nordic Electricity Prices: A CVAR Analysis. Energy Journal 31(2), 2010.(Related discussion paper 08-31.)

So and Hard Price Collars in a Cap-and-trade System: A Comparative Analysis,with Dallas Burtraw, Richard D. Morgenstern, and Karen L. Palmer. Discussionpaper 10-27. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Climate Policy Design with Correlated Uncertainties in Offset Supply and AbatementCost, with Dallas Burtraw, Richard D. Morgenstern, and Karen L. Palmer. Dis-cussion paper 10-01. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Ex-Vessel Prices and IFQs: A Strategic Approach. Marine Resource Economics 24(24),2009. (Related discussion paper 08-01.)

Rights-Based Management and Alaska Pollock Processors’ Supply. American Journalof Agricultural Economics 90(3): 579–592, 2008.

Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities, with Ian A. MacKenzie andWilliam A. Pizer. Discussion paper 08-32 REV. Washington, DC: Resources forthe Future, 2008.

PROFILE

Carolyn Fischer works primarily on policy mechanisms and modeling tools that cutacross environmental issues, from allowance allocation in emissions trading schemesto wildlife management in Zimbabwe. In the areas of climate change and energy pol-icy, she has published articles on designing cap-and-trade programs, fuel economystandards, renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency programs, technologypolicies, the Clean Development Mechanism, and the evaluation of international cli-mate policy commitments. Her research currently focuses on the interplay betweeninternational trade and climate policy, options for avoiding carbon leakage, and theimplications for energy-intensive, trade-exposed sectors. With regard to natural re-source management, her research addresses issues of wildlife conservation, invasive

EXPERTISE

AFRICA Trade in Endangered Species, Wildlife

Conservation

AIR QUALITY CAFE Standards, Emissions

Permit Trading and Other Incentive

Approaches, Greenhouse Gases

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION Trade in

Endangered Species, Wildlife Conservation

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade, European

and U.S. Regulatory Policies, Greenhouse Gases,




ENERGY POLICY Conservation and Efficiency,

Energy and Environmental Regulations


FORESTRY Biotechnology, Forest Certification

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Trade and

the Environment


PESTICIDES Pesticide Resistance

PUBLIC HEALTH Antibiotics and Antibiotic

Resistance


International



General


Vehicles, CAFE Standards

CAROLYN FISCHER

Senior Fellow and Associate Director,



species, and biotechnology, with particular emphasis on the opportunities and chal-lenges posed by international trade.

At RFF since 1997, Fischer has also taught at Johns Hopkins University and wasa staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. She serves on the Board ofDirectors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the ed-itorial board of Resource and Energy Economics. She is also a fellow of the CESifo Re-search Network.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Michigan, 1997.B.A. in international relations and economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.


When Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Lower Electricity Prices? Energy Journal31(1): 101–120, 2010.

PROFILE

Art Fraas’s research encompasses a variety of issues related to energy and the envi-ronment, including the trade-offs between using biomass in transportation and inelectricity applications, the treatment of uncertainty in regulatory analysis of majorrules, and the potential regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

Fraas joined RFF aer a distinguished career in senior positions within the fed-eral government. In 2008, he retired aer 21 years as chief of the Natural Resources,Energy, and Agriculture Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairsat the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Much of his work has exam-ined the federal regulatory process, with a particular focus on the impact of envi-ronmental regulations.

Before joining OMB, Fraas was a senior economist at the Council on Wage andPrice Stability, a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust andMonopoly, an assistant professor of economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, and a staffeconomist with the Federal Reserve System.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of California–Berkeley, 1972.B.A. in engineering physics, Cornell University, 1965.


Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Structure, Effects, and Impli-cations of a Knowable Pathway, with Nathan Richardson and Dallas Burtraw. Dis-cussion paper 10-23. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

EXPERTISE


Clean Air Act, Greenhouse Gases

CLIMATE CHANGE Greenhouse Gases



ARTHUR G. FRAAS

Visiting Scholar


e treatment of Uncertainty in EPA’s Analysis of Air Pollution Rules: A Status Re-port. Discussion paper 10-04. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Conflicting Goals: Energy Security versus GHG Reductions under the EISA Cellu-losic Ethanol Mandate, with Robert Johansson. Discussion paper 09-24. Wash-ington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

PROFILE

Bob Fri has been active for more than 35 years as both an administrator and analystof energy and environmental policy. As the first deputy administrator of both the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Ad-ministration, he was instrumental in organizing the federal government’s programsin environmental regulation and energy technology. He served as president of Re-sources for the Future and of the National Museum of Natural History during majortransitions in the roles of these institutions.

Fri has served on numerous National Research Council studies of energy and cli-mate change, most recently as chair of the panel on limiting future climate change.He is a national associate of the National Academies and a fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.

EDUCATION

M.B.A., Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, 1959.B.A., Rice University, 1957.


From Energy Wish Lists to technological Realities. Issues in Science and Technology23(Fall), 2006.

Where Do We Go from Here? Four RFF Experts Share eir Views on Life Post-Kyoto, with John W. Anderson, Raymond J. Kopp, and William A. Pizer. Resources157 (Spring), 2005.

Using Science Soundly: e yucca Mountain Standard. In The RFF Reader in Envi-ronmental and Resource Management, edited by Wallace Oates. Washington, DC:RFF Press, 2005.

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE Mitigation Policy

ENERGY POLICY General, Energy Technology

NUCLEAR ENERGY General

ROBERT FRI

Visiting Scholar


taking the Lead on Climate Change. In New Approaches on Energy and the Environ-ment: Policy Advice for the President, edited by Richard D. Morgenstern and PaulR. Portney. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2004.

PROFILE

Winston Harrington studies urban transportation, motor vehicles and air quality, andproblems of estimating the costs of environmental policy. He has conducted exten-sive research on the economics of enforcing environmental regulations, the healthbenefits derived from improved air quality, and the costs of waterborne disease out-breaks. He also has examined endangered species policy, federal rulemaking proce-dures, and the economics of outdoor recreation.

Harrington is the author or coauthor of six books and numerous book chapters.In 2000, he won the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management’s VernonAward as coauthor of the paper “On the Accuracy of Regulatory Cost Estimates.”

Harrington has served as a consultant to U.S. federal and state governments, theWorld Bank, and the Harvard Institute for International Development and hasworked in Lithuania, Mexico, and Poland. He is on the adjunct faculty at GeorgetownUniversity.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in city and regional planning, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1985.M.A. in mathematics, Cornell University, 1970.A.B. in mathematics, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1968.

EXPERTISE


CAFE Standards

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade, European

and U.S. Regulatory Policies


Regulations

EUROPE European and U.S. and Regulatory

Policies

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS Urban Sprawl


Federal; International; Regional, State, and Local

TRANSPORTATION HOT/HOV Lanes and

Road Pricing, Land Use and Transportation,

Traffic Congestion, Vehicle Emissions

WATER Clean Water Act and Other Regula-

tions, Safe Drinking Water, Water Supply

Systems

WINSTON HARRINGTON

Senior Fellow and Associate Research Director



Reforming Regulatory Impact Analysis, edited with Lisa Heinzerling and Dick Mor-genstern. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2009.

Controlling Automobile Air Pollution, edited with Virginia D. McConnell. Burlington,Vt: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2007.

transit in Washington, DC: Current Benefits and Optimal Level of Provision, withPeter Nelson, Andrew Baglino, Elena Safirova, and Abram Lipman. Journal ofUrban Economics 62(2), 2007.

Do Market Failures Justify tightening Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)Standards? with Ian Parry and Carolyn Fischer. Energy Journal 28(4), 2007.

Automobile Externalities and Policies, with Ian Parry and Margaret Walls. Journal ofEconomic Literature 45: 374–400, 2007.

Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the UnitedStates and Europe, edited with Richard D. Morgenstern. Washington, DC: RFFPress, 2004.

PROFILE

Mun Ho focuses on economic growth, productivity, taxation, and environmental eco-nomics. He coauthored a 2005 book, Information Technology and the AmericanGrowth Resurgence, which traced the adoption of It by U.S. industries and the par-allel growth of highly educated workers.

He is a senior economist at Dale Jorgenson Associates and contributes to theiranalysis of energy and environmental policies for the U.S. Department of Energy andEnvironmental Protection Agency.

He also works with the Harvard University Center for the Environment, focusingon Chinese energy use and environmental policy. at research is reported in a 2007book that he co-edited, Clearing the Air: The Health and Economic Damages of AirPollution in China.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University, 1989.A.B. in mathematics, Northwestern University, 1983.


technology, Development and the Environment, with Karen Fisher-Vanden. Journalof Environmental Economics and Management 59(1): 94–108, 2010.

China's 11th Five-year Plan and the Environment: Reducing SO2 Emissions, with JingCao and Richard Garbaccio. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2):231–250, 2009.

e Local and Global Benefits of Green tax Policies in China, with Jing Cao and DaleJorgenson. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2): 189–208, 2009.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Greenhouse Gases


and Health in China

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax

MUN HO

Visiting Scholar


Cap and trade Climate Policy and U.S. Economic Adjustments, with Dale Jorgenson,Richard Goettle, and Peter Wilcoxen. Journal of Policy Modeling 31(3): 362–381,2009.

Impact of Carbon Price Policies on U.S. Industry, with Richard D. Morgenstern andJhih-Shyang Shih. Discussion paper 08-37. Washington, DC: Resources for theFuture, 2008.

Co-benefits of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies in China: An Integrated top-Down and Bottom-Up Modeling Analysis, with Jing Cao and Dale W. Jorgenson.Discussion paper EfD 08-10. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

Greening China: Market-Based Policies for Air-Pollution Control, with Dale Jorgen-son. Harvard Magazine 111(1), 2008.

Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options, with Raymond J. Kopp, William A. Pizer, DanielHall, Richard D. Morgenstern, Juha V. Siikamäki, Joseph E. Aldy, Ian W.H. Parry,Karen L. Palmer, Dallas Burtraw, Evan M Herrnstadt, and Joseph Maher. RFF Re-port. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2007.

Competitiveness Impacts of Carbon Dioxide Pricing Policies on Manufacturing, withRichard D. Morgenstern, Joseph E. Aldy, Evan M. Herrnstadt, and William A.Pizer. Issue brief CPF-7. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2007.

How Do Market Reforms Affect China's Responsiveness to Environmental Policy?with Karen Fisher-Vanden. Journal of Development Economics 82(1): 200–233,2007.

Clearing the Air: The Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China, editedwith Chris P. Nielsen. Cambridge, MA: MIt Press, 2007.

Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, with Dale Jorgensonand Kevin Stiroh. Cambridge, MA: MIt Press, 2005.

PROFILE

Sandy Hoffmann’s research focuses on the economics of environmental health riskmanagement, in particular, health valuation and the integration of economics andhealth risk assessment. Her research on health valuation includes studies assessingthe social cost of environmental pollution in China, the cost of foodborne illness inthe United States, and parents’ willingness to pay to reduce children’s risk of devel-opmental harm from neurotoxins. She has advised the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development onimproving regulatory economic analysis related to children’s environmental health.

Hoffmann has contributed substantially to the design of risk-based food safety

EXPERTISE

AGRICULTURE General

AIR QUALITY Air Quality Policy and Effects

ASIA Pollution and Health in China, Valuation of

Health Outcomes in China

COST–BENFIT ANALYSIS General, Incorporat-




EUROPE European and U.S. Regulatory Policy

FOOD SAFETY Cost of Illness, Risk Analysis/

Foodborne Pathogens

FORESTRY General


General

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT General

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Regula-

tory Policy–Columbia

PESTICIDES Pesticide Regulation, Social Cost of

Pesticides

PUBLIC HEALTH Children’s Health, Food and

Drug Safety, Health in Developing Countries,

Pesticides and Health



RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT

General, Expert Judgment, Risk Analysis

Methodology, Risk Communication, Uncertainty

Analysis


General

VALUATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS General,

Valuing Children’s Health

WATER Safe Drinking Water

SANDRA A. HOFFMANN

Fellow


policy and has testified extensively before the U.S. Department of Agriculture and theFood and Drug Administration (FDA) on this issue. She is co-editor with Michaeltaylor of Toward Safer Food: Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting (2005), whichsets out a systematic structure for designing a more science- and risk-based approachto food safety regulation in the United States. She has served on the National Acad-emy of Sciences Committee on National BioSurveillance Systems: BioWatch and thePublic Health System (2008–2009) and on an FDA advisory committee on modelingrisk in the U.S. food system.

Before joining RFF, Hoffmann was an assistant professor in the LaFollette Schoolof Public Policy and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin–Madison and an attorney in the DC office of McKenna, Connerand Cuneo, specializing in pesticide and chemical regulation practice.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, University of California–Berkeley, 1998.M.A. in agricultural economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1991.J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1986.B.S. in history, Iowa State University, 1980.


Food Safety Policy and Economics. Oxford Handbook of Consumer Economics. In Press.Food Safety and Risk Governance in Globalized Markets, with Bill Harder. Health

Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine. In Press.Ensuring Food Safety around the Globe: e Many Roles of Risk Analysis from Risk

Ranking to Microbial Risk Assessment. Risk Analysis 5: 711–714, 2010.Using Expert Elicitation to Link Foodborne Illnesses in the U.S. to Food, with Paul

Fischbeck, Alan Krupnick, and Michael McWilliams. Journal of Food Protection70(5): 1220–1229, 2007.

Economic Uncertainties in Valuing Reductions in Children’s Environmental HealthRisks, with Victor Adamowicz and Alan Krupnick. In Economic Valuation of En-vironmental Health Risks to Children. Paris: OECD, 2005.

Toward Safer Food: Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting, edited with Michael R.taylor. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2005.

Poverty and Employment in Forest-Dependent Counties, with Peter Berck, ChrisCostello, and Louise Fortmann. Forest Science 49(5): 1–15, 2003.

PROFILE

An RFF scholar for more than three decades, Ray Kopp is an expert on climate changeand energy issues. His current studies focus on U.S. domestic greenhouse gas miti-gation and adaptation policy, U.S. foreign policy as it pertains to international nego-tiations on climate change, and deforestation and degradation in tropical countries.Kopp’s expertise has influenced the design of state and federal policies as well as thoseof foreign governments.

Kopp also has a long-standing research interest in cost–benefit analysis and tech-niques for assigning value to environmental and natural resources that do not havemarket prices. He has assisted numerous governments, intergovernmental organiza-tions, and private entities conducting damage assessments for environmental claims.He was a consultant to the state of Alaska on the Exxon Valdez oil spill and to theUnited Nations Compensation Commission on the monetary value of environmen-tal damage caused by the 1991 Gulf War.

EXPERTISE


Clean Air Act, Emissions Permit Trading and

Other Incentive Approaches, Greenhouse

Gases

CLIMATE CHANGE Adaptation, Cap and Trade,

Carbon Sequestration and Storage, European

and U.S. Regulatory Policies, Global Warming,

Greenhouse Gases, International Treaties

COAL General


ENERGY POLICY General



NATURAL GAS General

OIL General


International


General


General

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANUP Natural

Resource Damages


RAYMOND J. KOPP




EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, State University of New york–Binghamton, 1978.M.A. in economics, University of Akron, 1973.B.S. in finance, University of Akron, 1970.


e Shape of International Agreements: Political Economy Analysis of the Copen-hagen Accord. Issue brief 10-09. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Role of Offsets in Global and Domestic Climate Policy. Issue brief 10-11. Washing-ton, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Forest Carbon Index: e Geography of Forests in Climate Solutions, with AdrianDeveny, Janet Nackoney, Nigel Purvis, Mykola Gusti, Erin Myers Madeira, An-drew R Stevenson, Georg Kindermann, Molly K. Macauley, and Michael Ober-steiner. RFF Report. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, December 2009.

Policy Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions. U.S. Senate Committee onEnergy and Natural Resources, 2009.

Managing Climate-Related International Forest Programs: A Proposal to Create theInternational Forest Conservation Corporation, with Nigel Purvis and AndrewR. Stevenson. Issue brief 09-07. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

International Forest Carbon in Congress: A Survey of Key Congressional Staff, withLou Leonard and Nigel Purvis. Issue brief 09-03. Washington, DC: Resources forthe Future, 2009.

Green Politics and Policy, with Phil Sharp, James N. Sanchirico, Sandra A. Hoffmann,Arun S. Malik, Carolyn Fischer, Richard G. Newell, Nigel Purvis, and Jon A. Kros-nick. Resources 169. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

e Public Policy Response. U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,2008.

Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options, with William A. Pizer, Daniel Hall, RichardD. Morgenstern, Juha V. Siikamäki, Joseph E. Aldy, Ian W.H. Parry, Karen L.Palmer, Dallas Burtraw, Mun Ho, Evan M Herrnstadt, and Joseph Maher. RFF Re-port. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, November 2007.

PROFILE

Carolyn Kousky’s research focuses on natural resource management, decisionmak-ing under uncertainty, and individual and societal responses to natural disaster risk.She has examined how individuals learn about extreme event risk, the demand fornatural disaster insurance, and policy responses to potential changes in extremeevents with climate change. She also is interested in ecosystem services policy and hasexamined the design of incentive-based mechanisms to supply ecosystem servicesand the use of natural capital to reduce vulnerability to weather-related disasters.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in public policy, Harvard University, 2008.B.S. in earth systems, Stanford University, 2002.


Using Natural Capital to Reduce Disaster Risk. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Re-search. In Press.

Learning from Extreme Events: Risk Perceptions aer the Flood. Land Economics86(3): 395–422, 2010.

Come Rain or Shine: Evidence on Flood Insurance Purchases in Florida, with E.Michel-Kerjan. Journal of Risk and Insurance 77(2): 369–397, 2010.

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE Adaptation, Uncertainty

and Risk




FORESTRY Wildland Fire Policy and

Management

NATURAL DISASTERS Disaster Management

and Response, Risk of Natural Disasters



RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT General,

Insurance, Analysis Methodology, Risk Commu-

nication

WATER Flooding

CAROLYN KOUSKY

Fellow


More an a Wing and a Prayer: Government Indemnification of the CommercialSpace Launch Industry, with t. Brennan and M. Macauley. Risk, Hazards & Cri-sis in Public Policy 1(1), 2010.

e Limits of Securitization: Micro-correlations, Fat tails and tail Dependence,with R.M. Cooke. In Re-Thinking Risk Measurement and Reporting: Uncertainty,Bayesian Analysis and Expert Judgment, edited by K. Boecker. London: RiskBooks, 2010.

Designing Payments for Ecosystem Services: Lessons from Previous Experience withIncentive-Based Mechanisms, with B.K. Jack and K.E. Sims. Proceedings of the Na-tional Academy of Sciences 105(28): 9465–9470, 2008.

Obstacles to Clear inking about Natural Disasters: Five Lessons for Policy, with A.Berger and R. Zeckhauser. In Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, PublicPolicy, edited by J.M. Quigley and L.A. Rosenthal. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley PublicPolicy Press, 2008.

Options Contracts for Contingent takings, with S. Walsh and R. Zeckhauser. In Issuesin Legal Scholarship, Issue 10: Catastrophic Risks: Prevention, Compensation, andRecovery. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Electronic Press (www.bepress.com/ils/ iss10),2007.

Private Investment and Government Protection, with E.F.P. Luttmer and R.J. Zeck-hauser. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 33(1/2): 73–100, 2006.

Global Climate Policy: Will Cities Lead the Way? with S.H. Schneider. Climate Policy3: 359–372, 2003.

PROFILE

During his more than 25 years at RFF, Alan Krupnick has become a leading authorityon estimating the benefits of environmental policies and developing designs for airpollution and other environmental regulations. In addition to bringing his exper-tise to bear on the impact of the Clean Air Act and on eliciting preferences for healthand environmental improvements, he also led a major effort to develop energy pol-icy options for the United States and directs the RFF Center for Energy Economicsand Policy.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Acid Rain, Air Quality Modeling,

Air Quality Policy and Effects, Clean Air Act,

Emissions Permit Trading and Other Incentive

Approaches, Fine Particulates, Ozone

ASIA Energy Consumption in China, Environ-

mental Policies in China, Pollution and Health in

China, Valuation of Health Outcomes in China


COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS General, Incorporat-





mental Regulations, Energy Technologies

FOOD SAFETY Risk Analysis/Foodborne

Pathogens


General

NATURAL GAS General


OIL General

PESTICIDES Social Costs of Pesticides

PUBLIC HEALTH Children’s Health, Health in

Developing Countries, Pesticides and Health,

Valuation of Drinking Water Quality




RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT Expert

Judgment

TRANSPORTATION Alternate Fuels and

Vehicles


General, Ecosystem Services

VALUATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS General,

Ecosystem Services

WATER Chesapeake Bay Watershed

ALAN J. KRUPNICK

Senior Fellow, Research Director, and

Director, Center for Energy Economics and Policy


Krupnick focuses closely on establishing accurate valuation of environmental ben-efits. By creating improved methods for estimating the willingness to pay for healthand environmental improvements, he aims to provide credible monetary values foruse by governments and other practitioners worldwide. Recently, he has studied thevalue that New york residents place on ecological benefits in the Adirondacks and isconducting similar studies in Appalachia. He has also examined the valuation of chil-dren’s health in the context of lead abatement in U.S. homes and the willingness ofCanadians to pay for improvement in the quality of their drinking water. In 2007,Krupnick was among scholars from RFF and elsewhere who shared a Nobel PeacePrize for contributions to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Krupnick also has conducted extensive research in China, including helpingprovincial and local governments responsible for air quality in the city of taiyuan de-velop a sulfur dioxide permit trading program, doing a contingent valuation surveyto determine the value of statistical life across four Chinese cities, and most recently,beginning a project to design a sulfur dioxide trading program for electric utilities inChina.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland, 1980.M.A. in economics, University of Maryland, 1974.B.S. in finance, Pennsylvania State University, 1969.


toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options, with Ian Parry, Mar-garet Walls, tony Knowles, and Kristin Hayes. Washington, DC: Resources for theFuture and the National Energy Policy Institute, 2010.

Introduction to the Frontiers of Enviromental and Resource Economics, with JosephAldy. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57(1): 1–4, 2009.

Valuation of Cancer and Microbial Disease Risk Reductions in Municipal DrinkingWater: An Analysis of Risk Context Using Multiple Valuation Methods, with Vic-tor Adamowicz, Diane Dupont, and Jing Zhang. Journal of Environmental Eco-nomics and Management. In Press.

Climate Economics and Policy, with Ian Parry, Joe Aldy, Richard Newell, and BillyPizer. Journal of Economic Literature. In Press.

Valuing the Risks of Death from terrorist Attacks, with Lisa A. Robinson, James K.Hammitt, Joseph E. Aldy, and Jennifer Baxter. Journal of Homeland Security andEmergency Management. In Press.

PROFILE

Ramanan Laxminarayan’s research deals with the integration of epidemiological mod-els of infectious diseases and drug resistance into the economic analysis of publichealth problems. rough his Extending the Cure project, he has worked to improveunderstanding antibiotic resistance as a problem of managing a shared global re-source. He also directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy.

Laxminarayan has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and theWorld Bank on evaluating malaria treatment policy, vaccination strategies, the eco-nomic burden of tuberculosis, and control of noncommunicable diseases. He hasserved on a number of advisory committees at WHO, the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine.In 2003–2004, he served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Econom-ics of Antimalarial Drugs and subsequently helped create the Affordable MedicinesFacility for malaria, a novel financing mechanism for antimalarials. His work hasbeen covered in major media outlets, including the Associated Press, BBC, CNN,Der Standard, The Economist, Los Angeles Times, NBC, NPR, Reuters, Science, WallStreet Journal, and National Journal. He also is a visiting scholar and lecturer atPrinceton University.

EXPERTISE

AFRICA Economics of Malaria, HIV/AIDS,

and Tuberculosis

AGRICULTURE Biotechnology/Genetically

Modified Crops, Malaria and Agriculture

ASIA Malaria and Agriculture, Pollution and

Health in China

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Poverty and

Natural Resource Management

PESTICIDES Pesticide Resistance


Resistance, Disease Control Priorities for

Developing Countries, Health in Developing

Countries, Malaria, Scaling Up Intervention for

HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria

VALUATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS General

RAMANAN LAXMINARAYAN

Senior Fellow


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Washington, 1999.M.P.H. in epidemiology, University of Washington, 1999.B.E. in engineering, Birla Institute of technology & Science (India), 1992.


Should New Antimalarial Drugs Be Subsidized? with I.W.H Parry, E. Klein, and D.L.Smith. Journal of Health Economics 29: 445–456, 2010.

Managing Partially Protected Resources under Uncertainty, with C. Fischer. Journalof Environmental Economics and Management 59: 129–141, 2010.

Choosing Health: An Entitlement for All Indians, with Prabhat Jha. New Delhi: Uni-versity of toronto and Resources for the Future, 2009.

Economic Benefits of Global Investments in tuberculosis Control, with E. Klein, S.Darley, and O. Adeyi. Health Affairs 28(4): w730–w742, 2009.

Benefits of Using Multiple First-Line erapies against Malaria, with M. Boni andD.L. Smith. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(37): 14216–14221, 2008.

Extending the Cure: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance,with A. Malani. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2007.

Advancing Global Health: Key Messages from the Disease Control Priorities Project,with A. Mills, J.G. Breman, A.R. Measham, G. Alleyne, M. Claeson, P. Jha, P. Mus-grove, J. Chow, S. Shahid-Salles, and D.t. Jamison. Lancet 367(9517): 1193–1208,2006.

Strategic Interactions in Multi-institution Epidemics of Antibiotic Resistance, withD.L. Smith and S.A. Levin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(8):3153–3158, 2005.

Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach. Washington,DC: RFF Press, 2003.

On the Implications of Endogenous Resistance to Medications, with Martin Weitz-man, Journal of Health Economics 21(4): 709–718, 2002.

PROFILE

Shanjun Li’s research interests include empirical analysis of consumer behavior, esti-mation of strategic interactions among economic agents, evaluation of policy inter-ventions, and structural modeling and estimation in microeconomics. He has con-ducted research on a set of diverse microeconomic topics such as the impact ofgasoline price changes on fleet fuel economy, peer effects in group lending in devel-oping countries, and the effect of free antibiotics programs on antibiotic usage. Muchof his recent study has explored how some factors—such as vehicle safety, gasolineprices, tax incentives, and obesity—have affected consumer demand for automobiles.He was an assistant professor of economics at the State University of New york–StonyBrook from 2007 to 2009.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Duke University, 2007.M.S. in agricultural economics, Michigan State University, 2002.B.A. in international economics, Nankai University, tianjin, China, 1998.


Gasoline Prices, Government Support, and the Demand for Hybrid Vehicles, withArie Beresteanu. International Economic Review. In Press.

traffic Safety and Vehicle Choice: Quantifying the Effects of the “Arms Race” onAmerican Roads. Journal of Applied Econometrics. In Press.

How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy? with Christopher timmins andRoger von Haefen. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1(2): 113–137, 2009.

EXPERTISE



Regulations

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT International

Development and the Environment


TRANSPORTATION General

SHANJUN LI

Fellow


PROFILE

Josh Linn’s research addresses the effect of environmental regulation and market in-centives on technology, focusing on the electricity sector and new vehicles market.His work on the electricity sector has compared the effectiveness of cap and trade andalternative policy instruments in promoting new technology, including renewableelectricity technologies.

Several studies on new vehicles markets investigate the effect of CAFE standardson new vehicle characteristics and the effect of gasoline prices on new vehicle fueleconomy. Past research on the manufacturing and pharmaceuticals sectors has ex-plored the effects on new technology of price and consumer demand incentives. Linnhas published in leading general-interest and field journals in environmental, energy,and health economics.

Linn, who joined RFF in March 2010, was an assistant professor in the econom-ics department at the University of Illinois–Chicago and a research scientist at Mass-achusetts Institute of technology (MIt). He also served as executive director of theMIt Study of the Future of Solar Energy.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Massachusetts Institute of technology, 2005.B.A. in astronomy and physics, yale University, 2000.

EXPERTISE


CAFE Standards, Clean Air Act, Emissions

Permit Trading and Other Incentive Approaches,

Ozone


ELECTRICITY General, Renewable Portfolio

Standards, State and Federal Environmental

Policy


General


RENEWABLE ENERGY Wind Power

SOLAR POWER General

TRANSPORTATION General, CAFE Standards

JOSHUA LINN

Fellow



e Price of Gasoline and New Vehicle Fuel Economy: Evidence from Monthly SalesData, with omas Klier. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. In Press.

e Effect of Cap-and-trade Programs on Firms’ Profits: Evidence from the Nitro-gen Oxides Budget trading Program. Journal of Environmental Economics andManagement 59(1): 1–14, 2010.

Energy Prices and the Adoption of Energy-Saving technology. Economic Journal 118:1986–2012, 2008.

technological Modifications in the Nitrogen Oxides tradable Permit Program. EnergyJournal 29(3): 153–176, 2008.

Market Size in Innovation: eory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry,with Daron Acemoglu. Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(3): 1049–1090, 2004.

PROFILE

John List, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, is known for his in-novative use of field experiments in economics. His work has stimulated a new areaof study that explores economic behavior in naturally occurring environments withcontrolled experimental methods. He seeks insights into such areas as social prefer-ences, prospect theory, environmental economics, marketplace effects on corporateand government policy decisions, and multiunit auctions.

He has conducted field experiments in numerous different markets to obtain dataon a wide variety of topics, including charitable fundraising activities; the ChicagoBoard of trade; Costa Rican CEOs; the new vehicles market; markets for sports mem-orabilia, coins, and auto repair; open-air markets in such locales as the United States,Morocco, and India; as well as various venues on the Internet and in shopping malls,labor markets, and schools. His more recent work has included a series of field ex-periments with various publicly traded corporations.

Before joining the University of Chicago, List was a professor at the University ofMaryland, where he directed the Joint Global Change Research Institute. He was alsoa senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and is a researchfellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor and a research associate at the NationalBureau of Economic Research. He edits the Journal of Environmental Economics andManagement and Environmental and Resource Economics.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Wyoming, 1996.B.S. in economics, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, 1992.

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE European and U.S. Regula-

tory Policies

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS General




General

JOHN A. LIST

Nonresident Fellow



So you Want to Run an Experiment, Now What? Some Simple Rules of umb forOptimal Experimental Design, with Sally Sadoff and Mathis Wagner. Experi-mental Economics. In Press.

How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? An Example fromthe Preference Reversal Literature, with Jonathan Alevy and Vic Adamowicz. LandEconomics. In Press.

Is a Donor in Hand Better an two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Ex-periment, with Craig Landry, Andreas Lange, Michael K. Price, and Nicholas G.Rupp. American Economic Review. In Press.

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Professionals Do Not Play Minimax inLaboratory Experiments, with Steven D. Levitt and David Reiley. Econometrica.In Press.

Investment under Uncertainty: testing the Options Model with Professional traders,with Michael Haigh. Review of Economics and Statistics. In Press.

Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers? with Charles F. Mason. Journal of Econo-metrics. In Press.

PROFILE

Randy Lutter investigates the economics of regulatory issues related to risk in the ar-eas of food and drug safety and the environment. He is former chief economist anddeputy commissioner for policy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),where he oversaw policies on a variety of public health concerns ranging from pan-demic flu countermeasures to the risks of imported and counterfeit drugs, and fromnanotechnology to genetically engineered animals.

Before joining FDA in 2003, Lutter was a resident scholar with the American En-terprise Institute (AEI) and a fellow with the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regu-latory Studies, where he wrote extensively on the economics of regulating health,safety, and environmental risks, covering air pollution including greenhouse gases,threats from mercury and lead, and food safety. From 1991 to 1997, he served at theOffice of Management and Budget in the Office of Information and Regulatory Af-fairs, and from 1997 to 1998, he was senior economist for regulation and the envi-ronment on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Lutter co-edited the 2004 RFF Press book Painting the White House Green: Ra-tionalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President, which ex-amined the interface between economics and environmental policymaking at the toplevels of the federal government

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Cornell University, 1986.M.A. in economics, Cornell University, 1983.B.A. in economics, University of California–Berkeley, 1977.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Air Quality Policy and Effects

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS General

FOOD SAFETY Risk Analysis/Foodborne

Pathogens

NANOTECHNOLOGY Regulation of Nanotech-

nology

PUBLIC HEALTH Food and Drug Safety


Federal

RANDALL LUTTER

Visiting Scholar



Healthcare Impact of Personalized Medicine Using Genetic testing: An ExploratoryAnalysis for Warfarin, with Andrew McWilliam and Clark Nardinelli. Personal-ized Medicine 5(3): 279–284, 2008.

Unacknowledged Health Benefits of Genetically Modified Food: Salmon and HeartDisease Deaths, with K. tucker. AgBioForum 5(2): 59–64. 2003.

Mercury in the Environment: A Volatile Problem, with Elisabeth League. Environ-ment 44(9): 24–40, 2002.

tradable Permit tariffs: How Local Air Pollution Affects Carbon Emissions Permittrading, with Jason F. Shogren. Land Economics 78(2): 159–170, 2002.

Lead in Soil: Is your Backyard Safer an a Hazardous Waste Site? with ElizabethMader. Air and Waste Management Association’s EM Magazine (September):16–21, 2001.

Getting the Lead Out Cheaply: Comments on EPA’s Proposed Hazard Standards.Environmental Science & Policy 4: 13–21, 2001.

Developing Countries’ Greenhouse Emissions: Uncertainty and Implications for Par-ticipation in the Kyoto Agreement. Energy Journal 21(4): 93–120, October 2000.

Food Irradiation: e Forgotten Solution to Food-Borne Illness. Science 286 (De-cember 17): 2275–2276, 1999.

PROFILE

Molly Macauley’s research interests include the economics of new technologies, cli-mate policy, space economics and policy, the use of economic incentives in environ-mental regulation, and recycling and solid waste management.

She serves on many national-level committees and panels, including the NationalResearch Council’s Space Studies Board, the Climate Working Group of the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Earth Science Applications AdvisoryGroup of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Boardof trustees at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

She also served as a lead author on a project under the U.S. Climate Change Sci-ence Program. She was selected as one of the National Space Society’s Rising Stars, andin 2001, she was voted into the International Academy of Astronautics. She has re-ceived several awards from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration for her re-search, and she has served on the Board of Directors of Women in Aerospace, theAmerican Astronautical Society, and as president of the Board of Directors of theomas Jefferson Public Policy Program at the College of William and Mary. Macauley

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE General, Adaptation,

Carbon Sequestration and Storage, Green-

house Gases, International Treaties

FORESTRY General, Climate Change and

Deforestation, Remote Sensing and Mapping

Global Forests

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS Geographic

Information Systems (GIS)








General

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANUP Solid

Waste and Recycling

WATER Water Resource Management

MOLLY K. MACAULEY

Senior Fellow and Research Director


has served for many years as a visiting professor in the Department of Economics atJohns Hopkins University.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Johns Hopkins University, 1983.M.A. in economics, Johns Hopkins University, 1981.B.A. in economics, College of William and Mary, 1979.


Economic and Legal Challenges of Regulation-Induced Changes in Waste technol-ogy and Management in the U.S.A. Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Man-agement. In Press.

From Science to Applications: Determinants of Diffusion in the Use of Earth Obser-vations, with Joe Maher and Jhih-Shyang Shih. Journal of Terrestrial Observation2(1): 20–34, 2010.

Public-Private Co-production of Risk: Government Indemnification of the Com-mercial Space Launch Industry, with Carolyn Kousky and tim Brennan. Risk, Haz-ards & Crisis in Public Policy 1(1): 117–146, 2010.

Climate Adaptation Policy: e Role and Value of Information. Issue brief 10-10.Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, May 2010.

Assessing Investment in Future Landsat Instruments: e Example of Forest CarbonOffsets, with J.S. Shih. Discussion paper 10-14. Washington, DC: Resources forthe Future, 2010.

Forest Carbon Index: The Geography of Forests in Climate Solutions, with A. Deveny,J. Nackoney, N. Purvis, M. Gusti, R. Kopp, E. Myers Madeira, A. Stevenson, G.Kindermann, and M. Obersteiner. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, De-cember 2009.

e Supply of Natural Resources Information Infrastructure: Issues in the eory andPractice of Estimating Costs. Space Policy 24: 70–79, 2008.

Flying in the Face of Uncertainty: Human Risk in Space Activities. Chicago Journalof International Law 6(131), 2005.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Prizes in a Portfolio of Financial Incentives forSpace Activities. Space Policy 21(2): 121–128, 2005.

Dealing with Electronic Waste: Modeling the Costs and Environmental Benefits ofComputer Monitor Disposal, with Karen Palmer and Jhih-Shyang Shih. Journalof Environmental Management 68(1): 13–22, 2003.

Spatially and Intertemporally Efficient Waste Management: e Costs of Interstatetrade Restrictions, with Eduardo Ley and Stephen Salant. Journal of Environ-mental Economics and Management 43(2): 188–218, 2002.

VIRGINIA MCCONNELL

Senior Fellow


EXPERTISE


Clean Air Act



General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS General,

Farmland Preservation, Open Spaces, Outdoor

Recreation, Transferable Development Rights,

Urban Sprawl


TRANSPORTATION General, Alternative Fuels

and Vehicles, Land Use and Transportation,

Vehicle Emissions


General

WATER Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Effects of

Development on Water Quality

PROFILE

Virginia McConnell has worked on a range of environmental policy issues related tourban growth, air pollution, and transportation. Her recent research on urban landuse has focused on the role of market-based tools such as transferable developmentrights to improve the allocation of urban land between development and open space.She has also worked over the years on policy options for reducing emissions from thetransportation sector, especially for motor vehicles, focusing on the effects of differ-ent policy instruments both on local urban air pollutants, such as ozone pollution,and more recently on greenhouse gas emissions. With colleagues at RFF, she is cur-rently working on a project to examine a range of policies to reduce U.S. oil depen-dence and greenhouse gas emissions. Her focus in this project is on policies to ad-vance alternative-fuel vehicles.

McConnell is on the faculty of the economics department at the University ofMaryland–Baltimore County. In addition, she has served on several National Acad-emy of Sciences panels related to transportation and the environment. Currently,she is a member of the transportation Research Board’s Committee for the Study ofPotential Energy Savings and Greenhouse Gas Reductions from transportation. iscommittee is looking at the range and costs of possible ways to reduce greenhousegas emissions from transportation sources over the next 30 years in the United

States. She has also served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s)Science Advisory Board and has been a member of several other EPA and state ad-visory committees.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland, 1978.B.A. in economics, Smith College, 1969.


Should Hybrid Vehicles Be Subsidized? with tom turrentine. RFF/NEPI Back-grounder, for RFF and NEPI project Toward a New National Energy Policy: As-sessing the Options. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

An Agent-Based Model with Coupled Housing and Land Markets, with NicholasMagliocca, Elena Safirova, and Margaret Walls. Proceedings of the InternationalCongress on Modelling and Software. Ottawa, Canada, July 2010.

Policy Monitor: U.S. Experience with transferable Development Rights, with Mar-garet Walls. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2): 288–303, 2009.

Big yards or Green Space? with Elizabeth Kopits and Margaret Walls. Regulation31(3): 34–37, 2008.

Controlling Automobile Air Pollution, edited with Winston Harrington. In The Inter-national Library of Environmental Economics and Policy series, edited by omastietenberg. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2007.

Transfer of Development Rights in U.S. Communities, with Margaret Walls. Washing-ton, DC: Resources for the Future, 2007.

Density, tDRs, and the Demand for Development, with Elizabeth Kopits and Mar-garet Walls. Journal of Urban Economics 59: 440–457, 2006.

Farmland Preservation and Residential Density: Can Development Rights MarketsEffect Land Use Change? with Elizabeth Kopits and Margaret A. Walls. Agricul-tural and Resource Economics Review 34(2): 131–144, 2005.

PROFILE

Dick Morgenstern is an expert on the economics of environmental issues and on theuse of economic incentives to address air pollution, global climate change, and otherproblems. He has conducted design and evaluation studies, including cost–benefitanalyses, in the United States and abroad. He has been involved in the design andevaluation of an international climate change regime for more than 20 years. Re-cently, he has been analyzing competitiveness and trade issues at international, na-tional, and state levels, as well as approaches to cost management under a domesticcap-and-trade regime. He also has worked in China on establishing an emissionstrading system and has advised the Colombian and Mexican governments on a rangeof environmental management issues.

Morgenstern’s career includes service at the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA), where he directed the agency’s policy office for more than a decade,and at the U.S. Department of State, where he was senior economic counselor to theundersecretary for global affairs. At EPA, he acted as assistant administrator for pol-

EXPERTISE


Clean Air Act, Emissions Permit Trading and

Other Incentive Approaches, Greenhouse Gases


and Health in China


Carbon Tax, European and U.S. Regulatory

Policies, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases,





Regulations



General

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Trade and

the Environment

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Regula-

tory Policy–Colombia, Regulatory Policy–

Mexico, Voluntary Regulation in Latin America




RICHARD D. MORGENSTERN

Senior Fellow


icy, planning, and evaluation for more than two years and also served briefly asdeputy administrator.

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral studies, Columbia University School of Business, 1974.Ph.D. in economics, University of Michigan, 1970.A.B. in economics (with high honors), Oberlin College, 1966.


Alternative Approaches to Cost Containment in a Cap-and-trade System, with Har-rison Fell. Environmental and Resource Economics. In Press.

Feasibility Assessment of a Carbon Cap-and-Trade System for Mexico, with Dallas Bur-traw, Raymond J. Kopp, Daniel Morris, and Elizabeth topping. Washington, DC:Resources for the Future, July 2010.

Impact of Carbon Price Policies on U.S. Industry, with Mun Ho and Jhih-Shyang Shih.Discussion paper 08-37. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

U.S. Industry and Cap-and-trade: Designing Provisions to Maintain Domestic Com-petitiveness and Mitigate Emissions Leakage, with Carolyn Fischer. Discussionpaper. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, October 2009.

Reforming Regulatory Impact Analyses, edited with Winston Harrington and LisaHeinzerling. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2009.

Understanding Errors in EIA Projections of Energy Demand, with Carolyn Fischerand Evan Herrnstadt. Resource and Energy Economics 31(3): 198–209, 2009.

Competitiveness and Climate Policy: Avoiding Leakage of Jobs and Emissions, testi-mony before U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce(Subcommittee on Energy and Environment), March 18, 2009.

Reality Check: The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs inthe U.S., Europe, and Japan, edited with William Pizer. Washington, DC: RFFPress, 2007.

Carbon Abatement Costs: Why the Wide Range of Estimates? with Carolyn Fischer.Energy Journal 27(2): 73–86, 2006.

Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the UnitedStates and Europe, edited with Winston Harrington and omas Sterner. Wash-ington, DC: RFF Press, 2004.

e Near-term Impacts of Carbon Mitigation Policies on Manufacturing Industries,with Mun Ho, Jhih-Shyang Shih, and xuehua Zhang. Energy Policy 32(16):1825–1841, 2004.

e Ancillary Carbon Benefits of SO2 Reductions from a Small Boiler Policy intaiyuan, PRC, with Alan Krupnick and xuehua Zhang. Journal of Environmentand Development Economics 13: 140–155, 2004.

PROFILE

As part of RFF’s Center for Climate and Electricity Policy, Danny Morris focuses onthe policy and economic implications of a wide suite of climate change issues, manyrelated to land use, human development, and natural systems. He is currently work-ing on domestic climate adaptation policy, water supply, forest resources, ecosystemservices, and tracking of current climate legislation.

Much of his research agenda involves management of the RFF Domestic Adapta-tion Project, a multi-year effort to synthesize current scientific understanding of an-ticipated climate change impacts and develop a set of feasible policy recommenda-tions to guide the federal government in its responses. Related to this work, Morrisinvestigates the nexus between climate change and freshwater resources. He also man-ages the RFF Forest Carbon Index, which amalgamates economic, biological, and riskdata to estimate a country’s potential capacity for carbon storage in forest sinks, pri-marily in world’s tropical regions. Similarly, Morris focuses on the relatively new fieldof “blue carbon,” which relates to the carbon storage potential of coastal and marineecosystems.

EXPERTISE


Carbon Sequestration and Storage, European

and U.S. Regulatory Policies, Forest Carbon,

Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases



Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Forest

Carbon, Remote Sensing and Mapping Global

Forests

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS Outdoor

Recreation

MARKETS AND REGULATION General

WATER General, Water Demand and Use,

Water Resource Management, Water Rights,

Water Supply Systems

DANIEL F. MORRIS

Center Fellow


EDUCATION

M.S. in environmental science and management, University of California–Santa Bar-bara, 2008.

B.S. in environmental science, Northern Arizona University, 2005.


Feasibility Assessment of a Carbon Cap-and-Trade System for Mexico, with Dallas Bur-traw, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern, and Elizabeth topping. Wash-ington, DC: Resources for the Future, July 2010.

Why We Need Accurate Maps of the World’s Forests, with Molly K. Macauley andRoger A. Sedjo. Resources, Winter 2010 (174).

Forest Measurement and Monitoring: Technical Capacity and “How Good Is GoodEnough? With Molly K. Macauley, Roger A. Sedjo, Kate Farley, and Brent L. Sohn-gen. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, December 2009.

Climate Change and Outdoor Recreation Resources, with Margaret A. Walls. Back-grounder. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, April 2009.

PROFILE

Lucija Muehlenbachs pursues research on energy-related topics as part of RFF’s Cen-ter for Energy Economics and Policy.

Her work involves computational methods to study issues in the oil and gas in-dustry. Muehlenbachs has experience in the structural estimation of dynamic pro-gramming models and has estimated conventional oil and gas extraction costs as wellas the probability of change in recoverable reserves, production, and prices. Her cur-rent research interests lie in financial assurance mechanisms for environmental clean-up, public disclosure of environmental violations, and oil and gas activity on First Na-tion reserve lands.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, University of Maryland, 2009.M.S. in agricultural and resource economics, University of Maryland, 2008.B.S. in physical sciences and Japanese, University of Alberta, 2002.


Internalizing Production Externalities: A Structural Estimation of Real Options inthe Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Dissertation, University of Maryland.

EXPERTISE


mental Regulations

NATURAL GAS General

OIL General

LUCIJA ANNA MUEHLENBACHS

Fellow


PROFILE

Sheila Olmstead’s research focuses on natural resource management and pollutioncontrol, with a particular emphasis on water resource economics, including urbanwater demand management, market-based approaches to water conservation, drink-ing water quality regulation, access to drinking water among low-income popula-tions, and the efficient allocation of water across sectors. Her recent work investigatesthe impacts of information disclosure on drinking water quality violations, regula-tory avoidance under the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act, the influence of federal firesuppression policy on land development in the American West, and key componentsof a post-2012 international climate policy architecture.

Olmstead’s research has been published in leading journals, such as the Journal ofBusiness and Economic Statistics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Manage-ment, Land Economics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmen-tal Science and Technology, and Water Resources Research. With Nathaniel Keohane,she is coauthor of the 2007 book Markets and the Environment. Before coming to RFFin 2010, Olmstead was an associate professor (2007–2010) and assistant professor(2002–2007) of environmental economics at the yale School of Forestry and Envi-ronmental Studies, where she taught courses in natural resource economics, waterresource economics, and principles of microeconomics.

EXPERTISE

CLIMATE CHANGE European and U.S. Regula-

tory Policies


Regulations

PUBLIC HEALTH Valuation of Drinking Water

Quality

WATER General, Clean Water Act and Other

Regulations, Safe Drinking Water, Water

Demand and Use, Water Resource Manage-

ment, Water Supply Systems, Water Pricing

SHEILA M. OLMSTEAD

Fellow


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in public policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,2002.

M.A. in public affairs, University of texas–Austin, 1996.B.A. in political and social thought, University of Virginia, 1992.


e Economics of Managing Scarce Water Resources. Review of Environmental Eco-nomics and Policy 4(2): 1–20, 2010.

e Economics of Water Quality. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 4(1):44–62, 2010.

e Economic Valuation of Environmental Amenities and Disamenities: Methodsand Applications, with Robert Mendelsohn. Annual Review of Environment andResources 34(November): 325–347, 2009.

Sampling Out: Regulatory Avoidance and the total Coliform Rule, with Lori Bennearand Katrina Jessoe. Environmental Science and Technology 43(14): 5176–5182, 2009.

Comparing Price and Non-price Approaches to Water Conservation, with RobertStavins. Water Resources Research 45(April), W04301, 2009.

Reduced-Form vs. Structural Models of Water Demand under Non-linear Prices.Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 27(1): 84–94, 2009.

e Impact of the “Right to Know”: Information Disclosure and the Violation ofDrinking Water Standards, with Lori Bennear. Journal of Environmental Eco-nomics and Management 56(2): 117–130, 2008.

A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol, with RobertStavins. Economists’ Voice 4(3), 2007.

Water Demand under Alternative Price Structures, with W. Michael Hanemann andRobert Stavins. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54(2):181–198, 2007.

Markets and the Environment: An Introduction to Environmental and Resource Eco-nomics, with Nathaniel Keohane. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007.

An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era, with Robert Stavins.American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 95(2): 35–38, 2006.

irsty Colonias: Rate Regulation and the Provision of Water Service. Land Eco-nomics 80(1): 136–150, 2004.

Environmental Regulation in the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis, with Robert Hahnand Robert Stavins. Harvard Environmental Law Review 27(2): 377–415, 2003.

Water Supply and Poor Communities: What’s Price Got to Do with It? Environment45(10): 22–35, 2003.

PROFILE

Karen Palmer has been a researcher at RFF for more than 20 years and is the first re-cipient of the Darius Gaskins Chair. She specializes in the economics of environ-mental and public utility regulation, particularly on issues at the intersection of airquality regulation and the electricity sector. Her work seeks to improve the design ofincentive-based environmental regulations that influence the electric utility sector,including controls of multipollutants and carbon emissions from electrical generat-ing plants. to this end, she identifies cost-effective approaches to allocating emissionsallowances and explores policies targeting carbon emissions and other air pollutants,as well as efficient ways to promote end-use energy efficiency and the use of renew-able sources of electricity.

Palmer’s work has direct links to debates on the design of federal and regionalpolicies to control greenhouse gases, including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initia-tive in the Northeast and the implementation of AB32 legislation in California. Sheis a coauthor of the 2002 book, Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and PublicPolicy.

Before joining RFF in 1989, Palmer was a teaching fellow at Boston College anda staff economist at Data Resources, Inc. In 1996–1997, she was a visiting economistin the Office of Economic Policy at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

EXPERTISE


Effects, Clean Air Act, Emissions Permit Trading

and Other Incentive Approaches, Greenhouse

Gases, Multipollutant Policies



ELECTRICITY General, Environmental Impacts,

Markets and Regulation, Renewable Portfolio

Standards, State and Federal Environmental Policy

ENERGY POLICY Conservation and Efficiency,

Energy and Environmental Regulations


General




Waste and Recycling

KAREN L. PALMER

Darius Gaskins S

Center for Clim and Electricity Policy

202.328.5106 · palm

enior Fellow and Associate Director,

ate

[email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Boston College, 1990.B.A. in economics, Brandeis University, 1981.


Compensation Rules for Climate Policy in the Electricity Sector, with Dallas Burtraw.Journal of Public Policy Analysis and Management 27(4): 819–847, 2009.

Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy, with Kenneth Gillingham and RichardNewell. Annual Review of Resource Economics 1: 597–619, 2009.

Modeling the Effects of Changes in New Source Review on National SO2 and NOx

Emissions from Electricity-Generating Units, with David A. Evans, Benjamin F.Hobbs, and Craig Oren. Environmental Science and Technology 42(2): 347–353,2008.

Simple Rules for targeting CO2 Allowance Allocation to Compensate Firms, withDallas Burtraw and Danny Kahn. Climate Policy 6: 477–493, 2006.

Retrospective Review of Energy Efficiency Policies, with Kenny Gillingham andRichard Newell. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 161–192, 2006.

Cost Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Policies, with Dallas Burtraw. Energy Eco-nomics 27(6): 873–894, 2005.

Efficient Emission Fees in the U.S. Electric Sector, with Spencer Banzhaf and DallasBurtraw. Resource and Energy Economics 26(3): 317–341, 2004.

trading Cases: Is trading Credits in Created Markets a Better Way to Reduce Pollu-tion and Protect Natural Resources? with James Boyd, Dallas Burtraw, Alan Krup-nick, Virginia McConnell, Richard G. Newell, James N. Sanchirico, and MargaretWalls. Environmental Science & Technology 37(11): 216A–223A, 2003.

Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and Public Policy, with timothy Brennan andSalvador Martinez. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2002.

PROFILE

Ian W.H. Parry is the first recipient of the Allen V. Kneese Chair at Resources for theFuture. His research focuses on the cost-effectiveness and net benefits of policies toreduce externalities related to the environment and transportation systems.

His recent work has analyzed gasoline taxes, transit subsidies, fuel economy stan-dards, environmental tax shis, emissions taxes versus cap and trade, policies to re-duce traffic congestion and accidents, the role of technology policy in environmen-tal protection, the incidence of pollution control policies, and alcohol taxes. Parry isalso the series editor of RFF’s web-based Weekly Policy Commentary series.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Chicago, 1993.M.A. in economics, University of Warwick, 1987.B.A. in economics, University of Sheffield, 1986.

EXPERTISE


CAFE Standards, Emissions Permit Trading and

Other Incentive Approaches, Greenhouse

Gases



Global Warming


ENERGY POLICY General, Conservation and

Efficiency, Energy and Environmental Regula-

tions, Energy Security and Independence



General


OIL General

PUBLIC HEALTH Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation

Policy




General

TRANSPORTATION General, Auto Insurance

Reform, CAFE Standards, Fuel Taxes,

HOT/HOV Lanes and Road Pricing, Traffic

Congestion, Transit Subsidies, Transportation

Finance

IAN W.H. PARRY

Allen V. Kneese Senior Fellow



Designing Climate Mitigation Policy, with Joseph Aldy, Alan J. Krupnick, Richard G.Newell, and William A. Pizer. Journal of Economic Literature. In Press.

Should Urban transit Subsidies Be Reduced? with Kenneth Small. American Eco-nomic Review 99: 700–724, 2009.

A tax-Based Approach to Slowing Global Climate Change, with Joseph Aldy and Ed-uardo Ley. National Tax Journal 61: 493–518, 2008.

Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy, with Lawrence H. Goulder. Review ofEnvironmental Economics and Policy 2: 152–174, 2008.

Should Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards Be tightened? with Car-olyn Fischer and Winston Harrington. Energy Journal 28: 1–29, 2007.

Automobile Externalities and Policies, with Winston Harrington and Margaret Walls.Journal of Economic Literature 45: 374–400, 2007.

Fiscal Interactions and the Costs of Pollution Control from Electricity. RAND Jour-nal of Economics 36: 849–869, 2005.

Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline tax? with Kenneth A.Small. American Economic Review 95: 1276–1289, 2005.

Comparing Alternative Policies to Reduce traffic Accidents. Journal of Urban Eco-nomics 56: 346–368, 2004.

Are Emissions Permits Regressive? Journal of Environmental Economics and Man-agement 47: 364–387, 2004.

e Economics of Fuel Economy Standards, with Paul R. Portney, Howard K. Gru-enspecht, and Winston Harrington. Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(Fall):203–217, 2003.

How Large Are the Welfare Gains from technological Innovation Induced by Envi-ronmental Policies? with William A. Pizer and Carolyn Fischer. Journal of Regu-latory Economics 23: 237–255, 2003.

Instrument Choice for Environmental Protection when technological Innovation IsEndogenous, with Carolyn Fischer and William A. Pizer. Journal of Environmen-tal Economics and Management 45: 523–545, 2003.

On the Implications of technological Innovation for Environmental Policy. Envi-ronment and Development Economics 8: 57–76, 2003.

PROFILE

Anthony Paul’s research interests include allowance allocation under cap-and-tradeprograms for air pollution reductions, energy efficiency on the demand side of elec-tricity markets, electricity market regulatory structures, and interactions among pol-icy mechanisms designed for renewable electricity generation sources.

Paul’s recent work focused on the development of U.S. policy to regulate green-house gas emissions, with a focus on the electricity sector. is includes research intocost-effective means for protecting consumers under climate policy, the potential forenergy efficiency improvements in electricity consumption to contribute to climatepolicy compliance, and the relationship between renewable electricity generation andelectricity transmission infrastructure. In addition to his electricity expertise, Paul isalso fluent in the spoken and written ai language.

EDUCATION

M.S. in economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2006.B.S. in civil and environmental engineering, and engineering and public policy,

Carnegie Mellon University, 1997.


From Regions to Stacks: Spatial and temporal Downscaling of Power Pollution Sce-narios, with B.F. Hobbs, M.C. Hu, y. Chen, J.H. Ellis, D. Burtraw, and K.L. Palmer.IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 25(2): 1179–1189, 2010.

Allowance Allocation in a CO2 Emissions Cap-and-trade Program for the Electric-ity Sector in California, with Karen L. Palmer and Dallas Burtraw. Discussion pa-per 09-41. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

EXPERTISE


Other Incentive Approaches, Multipollutant

Policies


ELECTRICITY General, Markets and Regulation,

Renewable Portfolio Standards


ANTHONY PAUL

Center Fellow


A Partial Adjustment Model of U.S. Electricity Demand by Region, Season, and Sec-tor, with Erica Myers and Karen L. Palmer. Discussion paper 08-50. Washington,DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

Haiku Documentation: RFF’s Electricity Market Model Version 2.0, with Dallas Bur-traw and Karen L. Palmer. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, January2009.

Compensation for Electricity Consumers under a U.S. CO2 Emissions Cap, with Dal-las Burtraw and Karen L. Palmer. Discussion paper 08-25, Washington, DC: Re-sources for the Future, 2008.

Economic and Energy Impacts from Participation in the Regional Greenhouse GasInitiative: A Case Study of the State of Maryland, with Matthias Ruth, StevenGabriel, Karen Palmer, Dallas Burtraw, yishu Chen, Benjamin Hobbs, DaraiusIrani, Jeffrey Michael, Kim Ross, Russell Conklin, and Julia Miller. Energy Policy36(6): 2279–2289, 2008.

Green Corridors: Linking Interregional transmission Expansion and Renewable En-ergy Policies, with Shalini Vajjhala, Richard Sweeney, and Karen L. Palmer. Dis-cussion paper 08-06. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

Ancillary Benefits of Reduced Air Pollution in the United States from ModerateGreenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies in the Electricity Sector, with Dallas Burtraw,Alan Krupnick, Karen Palmer, Mike toman, and Cary Bloyd. Journal of Environ-mental Economics and Management 45(3): 650–673, 2003.

PROFILE

Nigel Purvis is a visiting scholar at RFF and president of Climate Advisers, a con-sulting firm. He holds senior policy research appointments at the German MarshallFund of the United States and the Brookings Institution. He is the executive directorof the Commission on Climate and tropical Forests.

Previously, Purvis was directly involved in U.S. environmental diplomacy, mostrecently as deputy assistant secretary of state for oceans, environment, and science. Inthat capacity, he oversaw U.S. foreign policy on climate change, biodiversity conser-vation, forests, international environment and trade, toxic substances, and ozone de-pletion. He was a senior international negotiator on climate change from 1998 to 2002.

Purvis served as vice president for policy and external affairs worldwide at eNature Conservancy. He was a senior scholar in the foreign policy program of theBrookings Institution, where he directed the environment and development project.He also was an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Early in his career, Purvis worked as an international lawyer at the U.S. State De-partment, as a securities attorney at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, and as a lec-turer at Georgetown University.

His essays and interviews on climate change, environmental diplomacy, interna-tional assistance, and foreign affairs have appeared in leading news outlets and aca-demic journals around the world.

EXPERTISE

AFRICA Forest Carbon

ASIA Forest Carbon

CLIMATE CHANGE Adaptation, Carbon

Sequestration and Storage, Forest Carbon,


ENERGY POLICY Energy Security and

Independence, Energy Technologies


Deforestation, Remote Sensing and Mapping

Global Forests

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Poverty and

Natural Resource Management

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Tropical

Forests and Climate Change

NIGEL PURVIS

Visiting Scholar


EDUCATION

J.D. with honors, Harvard Law School, 1990.B.A. with high honors, University of Minnesota, 1987.


taking Measure of Forest Carbon. Resources 174. Washington, DC: Resources for theFuture, 2010.

Forest Carbon Index: The Geography of Forests in Climate Solutions, with Adrian De-veny, Janet Nackoney, Mykola Gusti, Raymond J. Kopp, Erin Myers Madeira, An-drew R Stevenson, Georg Kindermann, Molly K. Macauley, and Michael Ober-steiner. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, December 2009.

Global Climate Negotiations and tropical Deforestation. U.S. Senate Committee onEnergy and Natural Resources, November 2009.

U.S. Leadership in Copenhagen, with Andrew R Stevenson. Backgrounder. Wash-ington, DC: Resources for the Future, November 2009.

Managing Climate-Related International Forest Programs: A Proposal to Create theInternational Forest Conservation Corporation, with Raymond J. Kopp and An-drew R Stevenson. Issue brief 09-07. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future,2009.

International Forest Carbon in Congress: A Survey of Key Congressional Staff, withLou Leonard and Raymond J. Kopp. Issue brief 09-03. Washington, DC: Resourcesfor the Future, 2009.

trading Approaches on Climate: e Case for Climate Protection Authority. Re-sources 169. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

Mind the Gap: e Case for Climate and Competitiveness Protection Authority. Is-sue brief 08-03. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

Conserving the Climate: Scaling-Up Global Markets for Forest Carbon, with Erin C.Myers. Issue brief 08-02. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2008.

PROFILE

Nathan Richardson is an attorney whose research interests include international andregulatory law, particularly environmental law and regulation of risk. His work at RFFencompasses a range of climate change issues, including U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency regulation of greenhouse gases, analysis of proposed or potential climatelegislation, and international climate agreements. He also studies environmental lia-bility and regulatory institutions and practices, including estimates of ecological dam-age as the result of environmental disasters such as oil spills.

EDUCATION

J.D. with honors, University of Chicago Law School, 2009.B.S. in foreign service, Georgetown University, 2001.


Deepwater Horizon and the Patchwork of Oil Spill Liability Law. Backgrounder.Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, May 2010.

Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Structure, Effects, and Impli-cations of a Knowable Pathway, with Arthur G. Fraas and Dallas Burtraw. Dis-cussion paper 10-23. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

International Greenhouse Gas Offsets under the Clean Air Act. Discussion paper 10-24. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2010.

Greenhouse Gas Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Does Chevron v. NRDC Set theEPA Free? Discussion paper 09-50. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future,2009.

Breaking Up Doesn't Have to Be so Hard: Default Rules for Partition and Secession.Chicago Journal of International Law 9 (Winter): 685, 2009.

EXPERTISE


Clean Air Act

OIL General


NATHAN RICHARDSON

Resident Scholar


PROFILE

Michael Rock, the Gilbert F. White Fellow for 2010–2011, examines environmentaland development issues in East Asia; the role of industrial policy in the second-tierindustrializing economies of Southeast Asia; and democracy, governance, and de-velopment in Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Indonesia, Malaysia, and ai-land. At RFF, he plans to assess China’s green growth strategy, especially the rela-tionship between technological learning and carbon dioxide emissions in China’sheavy industries.

Among his most recent books is Industrial Transformation in the DevelopingWorld, published by Oxford University Press, which focuses on policy integration indeveloping East Asia and the amalgamation of industrial technological upgradingpolicies with those for industrial environmental improvement. He is author of Pollu-tion Control in East Asia, jointly published by RFF Press and the Institute for South-east Asian Studies, which examines the degree to which governments in North andSoutheast Asia have built effective command-and-control environmental agenciesand integrated them with the institutions of industrial policy.

Rock’s work has appeared in such journals and magazines as World Development,Development Policy Review, Ecological Economics, Journal of Environment and Devel-opment, Local Environment, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of International De-velopment, Competition and Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, En-vironment, Journal of Development Studies, and Studies in Comparative InternationalDevelopment.

Rock is the Samuel and Etta Wexler Professor of Economic History at Bryn MawrCollege and also has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Bennington College, the Uni-versity of Denver, and Hood College. He serves on the Scientific Steering Commit-

EXPERTISE


INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT International

Development and the Environment

MICHAEL T. ROCK

Gilbert F. White Fellow


tee for the Industrial transformation Project at the International Human DimensionsProgram on Global Environmental Change.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1972.M.A. in economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1970.B.S. in economics, Duquesne University, 1968.


Has Democracy Slowed Growth in Asia? World Development 37(5): 941–952, 2009.Environmental Rationalities and the Development State in East Asia: Prospects for a

Sustainability transition, with David P. Angel. Technological Forecasting and So-cial Change 76: 229–240, 2009.

Does Globalization Promote or Hinder Sustainability transitions? Evidence fromAsia, with James t. Murphy, Rajah Rasiah, Paul van Seters, and Shunsuke Man-agi. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 76: 241–258, 2009.

Corruption and Democracy. Journal of Development Studies 45(1): 55–75, 2009.Grow First, Clean Up Later? Industrial transformation in East Asia, with David P.

Angel. Environment 49(4): 8–20, 2007.Impact of Multinational Corporations’ Firm-Based Environmental Standards on Sub-

sidiaries and eir Suppliers: Evidence from Motorola-Malaysia, with David An-gel and Lim Pao Li. Journal of Industrial Ecology 10(1–2): 257–278, 2006.

Global Standards and the Environmental Performance of Industry, with David P. An-gel. Environment and Planning 37: 1903–1918, 2005.

e Comparative Politics of Corruption: Accounting for the East Asian Paradox inEmpirical Studies of Corruption, Growth and Investment. World Development32(6): 999–1017, 2004.

Public Disclosure of the Sweatshop Practices of American Multinational Gar-ment/Shoe Makers/Retailers: Impacts on eir Stock Prices. Competition andChange 7(1): 23–38, 2003.

PROFILE

Heather Ross brings extensive experience in government, industry, and policy analy-sis to her work on regulatory reform, energy policy, and climate change. She servedas senior economist of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, deputy assistantsecretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and special assistant to the presidentfor economic policy. She also worked in the international oil industry for 10 years,including positions as vice president of BP America and assistant director of BP Eu-rope, as well as at the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Massachusetts Institute of technology, 1970.B.A. in mathematics, Vassar College, 1963.


Getting off Oil. Resources 164. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2007.Producing Oil or Reducing Oil: Which Is Better for U.S. Energy Security? Resources

148. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2002.Clean Air: Is the Sky the Limit? Resources 143. Washington, DC: Resources for the

Future, 2001.e Search for an Intelligible Principle: Setting Air Quality Standards under the Clean

Air Act. Issue brief. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, October 2000.

EXPERTISE

ENERGY POLICY General, Energy Security and

Independence

OIL General


Federal

HEATHER ROSS

Visiting Scholar


EXPERTISE


Other Incentive Approaches

CLIMATE CHANGE Cap and Trade, Global

Warming, Greenhouse Gases, International

Treaties


Resistance, Disease Control Priority for Devel-

oping Countries

STEPHEN W. SALANT

Nonresident Fellow


PROFILE

Steve Salant, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, is an applied mi-crotheorist specializing in the fields of industrial organization and natural resourceeconomics. Among the subjects he has addressed in his research are the appropriateinterpretation of government statistics on the duration of unemployment, the effectsof anticipated and actual government policies on the price of gold, the timing of spec-ulative attacks on price stabilization schemes for commodities or emissions permits,and the economic aermath of decisions by such groups as agricultural marketingboards, cartels, and international commodity organizations.

Before joining the economics faculty at the University of Michigan in 1986, heworked at the Federal Reserve Board and the RAND Corporation, where he servedas the first editor of the RAND Journal of Economics.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1973.B.A. in mathematics, Columbia University, 1967.


Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges, with Emre Ozdenoren andDan Silverman. Journal of the European Economics Association. In Press.

e Welfare Costs of Unreliable Water Service, with Brian Baisa, Lucas Davis, andWilliam Wilcox. Journal of Development Economics 92(1): 1–12, 2010.

Putting Free Riding to Work: A Partnership Solution to the Common Property Prob-lem, with Martin D. Heintzelman and Stephan Schott. Journal of Environmental

Economics and Management 57(3): 309–320, 2009.Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases: Book Re-

view. Economic Development and Cultural Change 55(4), 2007.e Economics of Mutualisms: Optimal Utilization of Mycorrihizal Mutualistic Part-

ners by Plants, with Miroslav Kummel. Ecology 87(4): 892–902, 2006.Spatially and Intertemporally Efficient Waste Management: e Costs of Interstate

trade Restrictions, with Molly K. Macauley and Eduardo Ley. Journal of Envi-ronmental Economics and Management 43(2): 188–218, 2002.

Private Storage of Common Property, with Gérard Gaudet and Michel Moreaux. Jour-nal of Environmental Economics and Management 43(2): 280–302, 2002.

Intertemporal Depletion of Resource Sites by Spatially Distributed Users, with GérardGaudet and Michel Moreaux. American Economic Review 91(4): 1149–1159, 2001.

Exhaustible Resources and Industrial Structure: A Nash-Cournot Approach to theWorld Oil Market. Journal of Political Economy 84(5): 1079–1093, 1976.

PROFILE

Jim Sanchirico analyzes the economic factors involved in managing living biologicalresources, such as fisheries, and ecosystem biodiversity, with an emphasis on pro-tected marine areas. His studies range from investigation of the effects of closing offareas of the ocean to commercial fishing to the design, implementation, and perfor-mance of market-based instruments, such as individual fishing quotas. An over-arching theme of his ocean research is the potential benefits and costs of zoning theoceans, an approach akin to zoning land.

His other research interests include spatial and intertemporal management of bi-ological resources, the interface between land use and biodiversity conservation, andthe economics of invasive species management.

He serves on the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sci-ence Advisory Board, on the advisory committee of the Marine Ecosystem ServicesProgram of Forest trends, and is a member of the editorial council of the Journal ofEnvironmental Economics and Management. He also has provided expert advice tothe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the valuation of coral reefs. Recently,he served on a National Research Council committee to review the U.S. Ocean Re-search Priorities Plan. Sanchirico is a professor in the Department of EnvironmentalScience and Policy at the University of California–Davis. He was an RFF senior fel-low for nine years before joining the Davis faculty in 2007.

EXPERTISE



Wildlife Conservation

CLIMATE CHANGE Adaptation



General


LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS Open Spaces

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Managing Coral Reef Systems in the Caribbean


Based Management, Fishing Quotas, Marine

Protected Areas, Zoning the Oceans

JAMES N. SANCHIRICO

Nonresident Fellow


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, University of California–Davis, 1998.B.A. in economics and mathematics, Boston University, 1991.


Economic Insights into the Costs of Design Restrictions in ITQ Programs, with KailinKroetz. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, January 2010.

Economic Analysis for Ecosystem-Based Management: Applications to Marine andCoastal Environments, with Daniel S. Holland, Robert J. Johnston, and DeepakJoglekar. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2010.

Spatial Management of Invasive Species: Pathways and Policy Options, with Heidi J.Albers, Carolyn Fischer, and Conrad Coleman. Environmental and Resource Eco-nomics 45(4): 517–535, 2010.

Optional Rebuilding of a Metapopulation, with James Wilen and Conrad Coleman.American Journal of Agriculture Economics 94(4): 1087–1102, 2010.

Better Defined Rights and Responsibilities in Marine Adaptation Policy. Issue brief09-12. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2009.

An Adaptation Portfolio for the United States Coastal and Marine Environment, withDavid Kling. RFF Report. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, June 2009.

PROFILE

Lynn Scarlett has extensive experience in both government and academia on issuesrelated to effective stewardship of land, water, and wildlife resources. At RFF, sheconcentrates on climate change, its effects on land, water, and wildlife, and adapta-tion strategies; conservation policies; ecosystem services policy; and public landmanagement. She explores the nexus of science and policy, the challenges of largelandscape conservation, and the opportunities of using natural landscapes to bene-fit communities.

EXPERTISE



Trade in Endangered Species, Wildlife Conser-

vation


Sequestration and Storage




mental Regulations, Energy and Public Lands,

History of Environmental Policy


FORESTRY Wildland Fire Policy and Manage-

ment


General



Ecosystem Services; U.S. Forest Service;

Grazing Rights; Open Spaces; Outdoor Recre-

ation; Parks, Refuges, and Wilderness

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Tropical

Forests and Climate Change

NATURAL DISASTERS Disaster Management

and Response

OIL Deepwater and Offshore Drilling



RENEWABLE ENERGY Public Lands


Ecosystem Benefit Indicators

WASTER MANAGEMENT AND CLEANUP

Natural Resources Damages

WATER Everglades Restoration, Oil

Spills/Marine Resource Damage, Water

Resource Management

P. LYNN SCARLETT

Visiting Scholar


As deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the U.S. Department of the In-terior from 2005 to 2009, she had broad responsibilities for federal land management,resource use, wildlife protection, wetlands, and ecosystem oversight. Prior to her po-sition as deputy secretary, she served as the assistant secretary for policy, manage-ment, and budget at Interior from 2001 to 2005. She also served on the ExecutiveCommittee of the President’s Management Council. In 2006, she served briefly as act-ing secretary of the Department of the Interior. From 1982 through 2001, she held avariety of positions at the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, a nonpartisan pub-lic policy organization.

Aer leaving government, she was named the Zurich Financial Services Distin-guished Visiting Lecturer on Climate Change at the Bren School of EnvironmentalScience and Management at the University of California–Santa Barbara. She is a fel-low of the National Academy of Public Administration. She also has been an inde-pendent environmental analyst working on projects with the U.S. Forest Service, theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Defense Fund, the SSPEED Cen-ter at Rice University, and other organizations.

She is a member of the Commission on Climate and tropical Forests, and from2003 to 2004, she chaired the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council, an intera-gency, intergovernmental forum for implementing the National Fire Plan. She alsochaired the federal Recreation Fee Leadership Council from 2001 to 2005. She serveson the boards of the American Hiking Society, the Continental Divide trail Alliance,and RESOLVE and is a trustee emeritus of the Udall Foundation.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. coursework and exams completed, in political science (no dissertation), Uni-versity of California–Santa Barbara, 1980.

M.A. in political science, University of California–Santa Barbara, 1973.B.A. in political science, University of California–Santa Barbara, 1970.


Large Landscape Conservation: A Strategic Framework for Policy and Action. Cam-bridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010.

Reshaping the Endangered Species Act: A Holistic Approach Needed? Issue brief 10-15. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, June 2010.

Green, Clean and Dollar Smart: Ecosystem Restoration in Cities and Countryside. Newyork: Environmental Defense Fund, 2010.

Business as a Living System: e Value of Industrial Ecology. California ManagementReview 43(3), 2001.

Race to the Top: State Environmental Innovations. Los Angeles: Reason Public PolicyInstitute, 2000.

PROFILE

Roger Sedjo has been the director of RFF’s Center for Forest Economics and Policyfor more than 25 years. He is an expert on forest economics and policy, includingpublic and private forestland management and international forestry. His work in-volves issues of wood as a commodity, biomass energy, and environmental issues sur-rounding forests. He has focused on modeling domestic and international timbersupplies and forest carbon, following the changing position of U.S. industrial com-petition, examining the interrelationship between forest certification and the envi-ronmental impacts of logging, and evaluating the effects of forest plantations on tim-ber supply.

In addition, Sedjo was among several RFF and other scholars who shared a No-bel Peace Prize in 2007 for contributions to a number of major IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change reports addressing climate change and forests. His workalso examines measuring and monitoring deforestation and forest changes; the in-teractions among climate issues, carbon, bioenergy, and forests, including the impactof climate change on forests; the role of forests in carbon sequestration; and ap-proaches to mitigation and forest recovery. Another area of study is tree biotechnol-

EXPERTISE

AFRICA Forest Carbon

AGRICULTURE Biotechnology, Genetically

Modified Crops

ASIA Forest Carbon


Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss, Genetically

Modified Trees, Invasive Species


Sequestration and Storage, Forest Carbon,

Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Interna-

tional Treaties

FORESTRY General, Biotechnology, Climate

Change and Deforestation, Ecosystem Services,

Forest Carbon, Forest Disturbance and Man-

agement, Forest Modeling, Genetically Modified

Trees, Remote Sensing and Mapping Global

Forests, Timber Markets


Ecosystem Restoration; Parks, Refuges, and

Wilderness; U.S. Forest Service

RENEWABLE ENERGY General, Bioenergy


General

ROGER A. SEDJO


Center for Forest Economics and Policy


ogy, including the regulatory processes and potential financial and environmentalcosts and benefits of genetically modified trees.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of Washington, 1969.M.A. in economics, University of Illinois, 1963.B.A. in economics, University of Illinois, 1961.


Biomass Sequestration, Energy and Global Change. In International Yearbook ofEnvironmental and Resource Economics, edited by H. Folmer and t. tietenberg.Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. In Press.

Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2008.Climate Change Impacts on Forestry, with Andrei P. Kirilenko. Proceedings of the Na-

tional Academy of Sciences 104(50): 19697–19702, 2007.Returning Forests Analyzed with the Forest Identity, with P.E. Kauppi, J.H. Assubel,

J. Fang, A. Mather, and P.E. Waggoner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci-ences 103(46): 17574–17579, 2006.

Carbon Sequestration in Global Forests under Different Carbon Price Regimes, withB. Sohngen. Energy Journal 27: 109–126, 2006.

Economics of Forestry. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003.

PROFILE

Aer three decades on the faculty at Virginia tech, Len Shabman joined RFF in 2002as a resident scholar. His research and communications efforts are focused on pro-grams and responsibilities for flood and coastal storm risk management, design ofpayment for ecosystem services programs, and development of evaluation protocolsfor ecosystem restoration and management projects, with special focus on the Ever-glades, coastal Louisiana, and the Chesapeake Bay. Building on these themes, he hasdone applied research on permitting under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, cre-ation of market-based incentives for water quality management and provision ofecosystem services, and design of collaborative water management institutions. Heserved for eight years on the National Research Council’s Water Science and tech-nology Board and has been recognized as an associate of the National Academy ofSciences.

EXPERTISE

AGRICULTURE General, Agriculture and

Ecosystem Services


Ecosystem Management

CLIMATE CHANGE Adaptation






General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS Ecosystem

Restoration

NATURAL DISASTERS Risk of Natural Disasters


Based Management, Fishing Quotas


Federal

RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT

General, Risk Communication, Uncertainty

Analysis


General, Ecosystem Benefit Indicators

WATER General, Chesapeake Bay Watershed,

Clean Water Act and Other Regulations,

Flooding, Oil Spills/Marine Resource Damage,

Safe Drinking Water, Water Demand and Use,

Water Resource Management, Water Rights,

Water Supply Systems

LEONARD A. SHABMAN

Resident Scholar


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in agricultural economics, Cornell University, 1972.M.S. in agricultural economics, Cornell University, 1969.B.S. in food and resource economics, University of Massachusetts, 1967.


Finding Common Ground: Integrating Collaborative Modeling with ParticipatoryProcesses to Make Water Resources Decisions. In Press.

A New Approach to Reforming the National Flood Insurance Program. In Issues ofthe Day, edited by Ian W.H. Parry and Felicia Day. Washington, DC: RFF Press,2010.

Paying for Environmental Services from Working Agricultural Lands, with P. Bohlen,S. Lynch, M. Clark, S. Shukla, and H. Swain. Frontiers in Ecology and the Envi-ronment 7(1): 46–55, 2009.

e Nation’s Water Resources and the Challenge of Sustainability. In America’s Sus-tainable Resources, edited by Roger Sedjo. Washington, DC: RFF Press, 2008.

Decision Making Chronology for the Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity Hurricane Protec-tion Project, with Douglas Woolley. Washington, DC: U.S. Government PrintingOffice, 2008.

Achieving Nutrient Water Quality Goals: Bringing Market-like Principles to WaterQuality Management, with Kurt Stephenson. Journal of American Water ResourcesAssociation 43(4), 2007.

Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, withJ.W. Day, D.F. Boesch, E.J. Clairain, et al. Science 315: 1679–1684, 2007.

Decision-Making and Uncertainty in Ambient Water Quality Management. In Eco-nomics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management,edited by Randall J.F. Bruins and Matthew t. Heberling. Boca Raton, FL: CRCPress, 2004.

Urban Water Supply and the Environment: Extending Reach of Section 404 of theClean Water Act, with W. Cox. Virginia Journal of Environmental Law 23: 71–103,2004.

Environmental Valuation and Its Economic Critics, with K. Stephenson. Journal ofWater Resources Planning and Management 126(6): 382–388, 2001.

PROFILE

Phil Sharp became president of RFF in 2005, following a long career in public servicethat includes 10 terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indi-ana, as well as a lengthy tenure on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Gov-ernment, where he also served as director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics. Duringhis 20 years of congressional service, Sharp took key leadership roles in the develop-ment of landmark energy legislation. He was deeply involved in passage of the 1990Clean Air Act Amendments and was a key leader on the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

Currently, Sharp is a member of the Board of Directors of the Duke Energy Cor-poration, vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Energy Foundation, and con-gressional chair for the National Commission on Energy Policy.

He also serves on the secretary of energy’s Blue Ribbon Commission on the Fu-ture of Nuclear Power, the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on America’sClimate Choices, and as policy vice chair for the National Petroleum Council’s studyon North American gas and oil resources.

Sharp is a member of the Massachusetts Institute of technology’s Energy Initia-tive External Advisory Board as well as the International Advisory Board of the Har-vard Environmental Economics Program.

EXPERTISE


Effects, CAFE Standards, Clean Air Act, Green-

house Gases



Global Warming

ELECTRICITY General

ENERGY POLICY General, Energy Conservation

and Efficiency, Energy and Environmental Regu-

lations, Energy Security and Independence

NATURAL GAS General

NUCLEAR ENERGY General, Nuclear Waste

OIL General, World Oil Market Developments




TRANSPORTATION CAFE Standards

PHIL SHARP

President


He was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Effectivenessand Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (2001) and chaired thesecretary of energy's Electric Systems Reliability task Force (1998).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in government, Georgetown University, 1974.B.S. in foreign service, Georgetown University, 1964.

PROFILE

trained as an environmental systems engineer, Jhih-Shyang Shih focuses his researchon developing tools for environmental management and policy analysis. e combi-nation of a technical background and public policy research enables him to bridgethe science, engineering, and policy communities.

His recent research focuses on SPARROW-Carbon water quality modeling, as-sessing Landsat investment, diffusion in the use of Earth observations data, the im-pact of carbon price policies on U.S. industry, agricultural air quality, regional trans-port of air pollution, space solar power, renewable energy, community water systems,and the development of a Chinese SPARROW model. His other interests include cli-mate change and air quality.

Shih is a member of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute for Op-erations Research and the Management Sciences. He has received fellowships fromCarnegie Mellon University, and he was an AAAS / U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency fellow in 1995. In addition to his work at RFF, Shih taught at Johns HopkinsUniversity in 1997.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY Air Quality Modeling, Air Quality

Policy and Effects, Fine Particulates, Ozone

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION General

CLIMATE CHANGE Greenhouse Gases




ENERGY POLICY Energy and Public Lands


Federal

RENEWABLE ENERGY General, Bioenergy,

Public Lands



General


Waste and Recycling

WATER Water Resource Management, Water

Supply Systems

JHIH-SHYANG SHIH

Fellow


EDUCATION

Ph.D. in system analysis and economics for public decisionmaking, Johns HopkinsUniversity, 1991.

M.S. in environmental engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, 1983.B.S. in environmental engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, 1981.


Assessing Investment in Future Landsat Instruments: e Example of Forest CarbonOffsets, with Molly Macauley. Discussion paper 10-14. Washington, DC: Re-sources for the Future, 2010.

From Science to Applications: Determinants of Diffusion in the Use of Earth Obser-vations, with Molly Macauley and Joe Maher. Journal of Terrestrial Observation2(1), 2010.

Impact of Carbon Price Policies on U.S. Industry, with Mun Ho and Richard D. Mor-genstern. Discussion paper 08-37. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future,2008.

Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation andPolicy Options, with Dallas Burtraw, Karen L. Palmer, and Juha V. Siikamäki. Air& Waste Management Association 58: 1117–1129, 2008.

Regional Air Quality: Local and Interstate Impacts of NOx and SO2 Emissions onOzone and Fine Particulate Matter in the Eastern United States, with Michelle S.Bergin, Alan J. Krupnick, James W. Boylan, James G. Wilkinson, M. talat Odman,and Armistead G. Russell. Environmental Science and Technology 41(13): 4677–4689, 2007.

Satellite Solar Power: Renewed Interest in an Era of Climate Change? with Molly K.Macauley. Space Policy 23(2): 108–120, 2007.

Economies of Scale in Community Water Systems, with Winston Harrington,William Pizer, and Kenneth Gillingham. Journal of the American Water Works As-sociation 98(9): 100–108, 2006.

PROFILE

Juha Siikamäki's work focuses on evaluating the benefits, costs, and cost-effective-ness of different environmental policy options, especially those related to ecosystemsand conservation. His work seeks to help governments and other organizations makeprudent decisions about the use and conservation of nature and effectively invest init. Besides his expertise in ecosystems and conservation, Siikamäki has broad inter-est and experience in empirical evaluations of public policy, especially in the contextof empirical assessments of consumer preferences and choices.

He has studied outdoor recreation in the United States; developed approaches toimprove the cost-effectiveness of the protection of endangered species, particularlyPacific salmon; developed survey and other approaches to valuing ecosystem servicesin the United States and elsewhere; evaluated the benefits and costs of biodiversityconservation policies in Finland; and reviewed biodiversity and its protection in the

EXPERTISE

AFRICA Forest Carbon, Wildlife Conservation

AGRICULTURE General, Agriculture and

Ecosystem Services


Effects, Ozone

ASIA Forest Carbon


Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem

Management, Wildlife Conservation

CLIMATE CHANGE Carbon Sequestration and

Storage, Forest Carbon




ENERGY POLICY Conservation and Efficiency


Deforestation, Ecosystem Services


General


Ecosystem Services; Farmland Preservation;

Open Spaces; Outdoor Recreation; Parks,

Refuges, and Wilderness

PESTICIDES Social Cost of Pesticides

PUBLIC HEALTH Pesticides and Health


General

VALUATION OF HEALTH BENEFITS Ecosystem

Services

JUHA SIIKAMÄKI

Fellow


United States. His has provided guidance to environmental policy assessments in theUnited States, Finland, Jamaica, Mexico, China, and North Africa and the Mediter-ranean region. Siikamäki currently serves as the treasurer of the Association of En-vironmental and Resource Economists.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in environmental policy analysis, University of California–Davis, 2001.M.S. in agricultural and natural resource economics, University of California–Davis,

1998.M.S. in agricultural policy analysis, University of Helsinki, 1995.


Prioritizing Conservation Activities Using Reserve Site Selection Methods and Pop-ulation Viability Analysis, with S. Newbold. Ecological Applications 19(7):1774–1790, 2009.

Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs: Predicting Landowners’ Enrollment andOpportunity Cost Using a Beta-Binomial Model, with D. Layton. Environmentaland Resource Economics 44(3): 415–439, 2009.

e State of the Great Outdoors: America’s Parks, Public Lands, and Recreation Re-sources, with Margaret Walls and Sarah Darley. RFF Report. Washington, DC: Re-sources for the Future, September 2009.

Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: Examining the Connections. Environment: Sci-ence and Policy for Sustainable Development 50(4): 36–49, 2008.

Biodiversity in the United States, with Jeffrey Chow. In Perspectives on Sustainable Re-sources in America, edited by Roger Sedjo. Washington DC: RFF Press, 2008.

Discrete Choice Survey Experiments: A Comparison Using Flexible Methods, withD.F. Layton. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53: 122–139,2007.

Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Incentive Payment Programs for the Protection ofNon-Industrial Private Forests, with D.F. Layton. Land Economics 83(4): 539–560,2007.

PROFILE

Ken Small is one of the nation’s leading experts on urban and transportation issuesand environmental economics. Among his recent research topics are urban highwaycongestion, measurement of value of time and reliability, effects of fuel efficiency stan-dards, road and public transit pricing, and fuel taxes.

For four years, he served as associate editor of Transportation Research Part B:Methodological, and he remains on the editorial boards of that and four other pro-fessional journals. He previously was North American co-editor of the internationaljournal Urban Studies. Small has served on several study committees of the NationalResearch Council, examining, among other things, cost–benefit analysis and the fed-eral program on congestion management and air quality. His book, Urban Trans-portation Economics, was recently updated in a new edition (The Economics of UrbanTransportation) and has become a widely cited standard reference in the field.

Small, a research professor and professor emeritus of economics at the Universityof California–Irvine, was honored in 1999 with the Distinguished Member Award bythe transport and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association andin 2004 with the Distinguished transportation Research Award by the transporta-tion Research Forum. He was the recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award at theUniversity of California–Irvine in 2007 and is a fellow of Regional Science Associa-tion International.

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY General, Air Quality Policy and

Effects, CAFE Standards, Greenhouse Gases


Regulations


General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDS Urban Sprawl

TRANSPORTATION General, Fuel Taxes,

HOT/HOV Lanes and Road Pricing, Land Use

and Transportation, Traffic Congestion, Transit

Subsidies, Transportation Finance, Vehicle

Emissions


General

KENNETH A. SMALL

Nonresident Fellow

[email protected]

Small has advised many public and private groups, including the Canadian RoyalCommission on National Passenger transportation, the European Union, the SouthCoast Air Quality Management District, the World Bank, and the California Air Re-sources Board. At Irvine, he previously served as chair of economics and associatedean of social sciences.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of California–Berkeley, 1976.M.A. in physics, University of California–Berkeley, 1972.B.S., A.B. in physics, mathematics, University of Rochester, 1968.


Should Urban transit Subsidies Be Reduced? with Ian W.H. Parry. American Eco-nomic Review 99(3): 700–724, 2009.

The Economics of Urban Transportation, with Erik t. Verhoef. London: Routledge,2007.

Does Britain or the United States Have the Right Gasoline tax? with Ian W.H. Parry.American Economic Review 95: 1276–1289, 2005.

Uncovering the Distribution of Motorists’ Preferences for travel time and Reliabil-ity, with Clifford Winston and Jia yan. Econometrica 73: 1367–1382, 2005.

Urban transportation, with José A. Gómez-Ibáñez. In Handbook of Regional and Ur-ban Economics, Vol. 3, edited by P. Chesire and E.S. Mills. Amsterdam: North Hol-land, 1937–1999, 1999.

Urban Spatial Structure, with Alex Anas and Richard Arnott. Journal of Economic Lit-erature 36: 1426–1464, 1998.

On the Costs of Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles, with Camilla Kazimi. Journal ofTransport Economics and Policy 29: 7–32, 1995.

e Scheduling of Consumer Activities: Work trips. American Economic Review72(3): 467–479, 1982.

Applied Welfare Economics with Discrete Choice Models, with Harvey S. Rosen.Econometrica 49(1): 105–130, 1981.

PROFILE

Margaret Walls has focused her recent work on finding practical and effective uses ofland, particularly in urban and suburban areas. A key aspect of her research involvesanalyzing the use of transferable development rights programs to protect open space.She also has led a broad-based study of outdoor recreation resources, including analy-sis of supply and demand for such resources in the United States, funding and fi-nancing issues, and emerging areas of concern for policymakers.

In 2010, Walls was named the first appointee to the omas J. Klutznick Chair atRFF. She is developing a stream of work on city parks and urban open space, an out-growth of work she did as part of the Outdoor Resources Review Group project,which examined a range of outdoor recreation and conservation issues. She is widelypublished on these topics in such publications as Journal of Urban Economics, Amer-ican Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, and Review of Economics andStatistics.

Walls also works on transportation and energy policy issues, including modelingvehicle choice and studying telecommuting as an option to reduce traffic congestionand emissions. She is coauthor of Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the

EXPERTISE



mental Regulations, Energy Security and Inde-

pendence


General

LAND USE AND PUBLIC LANDSGeneral;

Farmland Preservation; Open Spaces; Outdoor

Recreation; Parks, Refuges, and Wilderness;

Transferable Development Rights; Urban

Sprawl

NATURAL GAS General, Shale Gas



Vehicles, Fuel Taxes, Land Use and Transporta-

tion, Telecommuting, Vehicle Emissions


Waste and Recycling

MARGARET A. WALLS

Thomas J. Klutznick Senior Fellow


Options, a report published in 2010 in conjunction with the National Energy PolicyInstitute.

Walls previously was a fellow at RFF from 1987 to 1996. She then worked fornearly five years as an associate professor of economics at Victoria University inWellington, New Zealand. She rejoined RFF in November 2000.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, University of California–Santa Barbara, 1988.B.S. in agricultural economics, University of Kentucky, 1981.


e State of the Great Outdoors: America’s Parks, Public Lands, and Recreation Re-sources, with Sarah Darley and Juha Siikamäki. RFF Report. Washington, DC: Re-sources for the Future, September 2009.

e Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-trade Auction, with Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney. National Tax Journal62(3): 497–518, 2009.

Policy Monitor: U.S. Experience with transferable Development Rights, with Vir-ginia McConnell. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2): 288–303,2009.

e tradeoff between Private Lots and Public Open Space in Subdivisions at the Ur-ban-Rural Fringe, with Elizabeth Kopits and Virginia McConnell. American Jour-nal of Agricultural Economics 89(5): 1191–1197, 2007.

Automobile Externalities and Policies, with Ian W.H. Parry and Winston Harring-ton. Journal of Economic Literature 45(June): 373–399, 2007.

What Drives telecommuting? e Relative Impacts of Worker Demographics, Em-ployer Characteristics, and Job types, with Elena Safirova and yi Jiang. Trans-portation Research Record 2010: 111–120, 2007.

Zoning, tDRs, and the Density of Development, with Virginia McConnell and Eliz-abeth Kopits. Journal of Urban Economics 59(3): 440–457, 2006.

The Value of Open Space: Evidence from Studies of Nonmarket Benefits, with VirginiaMcConnell. RFF Report. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2005.

PROFILE

Rob Williams studies both environmental policy and tax policy, with a particular fo-cus on interactions between the two. In addition to his role at RFF, he is an associateprofessor at the University of Maryland–College Park and a research associate of theNational Bureau of Economic Research. He also serves as a co-editor of the Journalof Public Economics, editorial council member (and former co-editor) of the Journalof Environmental Economics and Management, and member of the editorial board ofthe B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.

He was previously an associate professor at the University of texas–Austin, a vis-iting research scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and anAndrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University, 1999.A.B. in economics, Harvard University, 1994.


Efficiency and Distributional trade-offs in Recycling Carbon Cap-and-trade Rev-enues, with Ian W.H. Parry. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. In Press.

Optimal taxation and Cross-Price Effects on Labor Supply: Estimates of the Optimal

EXPERTISE

AIR QUALITY CAFE Standards, Emissions

Permit Trading and Other Incentive

Approaches, Greenhouse Gases


COST–BENEFIT ANALYSIS General, Distribution

of Costs and Benefits

ENERGY POLICY General , Energy and Environ-

mental Regulations


General



TRANSPORTATION CAFE Standards, Fuel

Taxes, Transportation Finance

ROBERTON C. WILLIAMS III

Senior Fellow and Director, Academic Programs


Gas tax, with Sarah West. Journal of Public Economics 91: 593–617, 2007.e Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption, with Sarah West. American Economic

Review 95(May): 294–299, 2005.e Substantial Bias from Ignoring General Equilibrium Effects in Estimating Excess

Burden, and a Practical Solution, with Lawrence Goulder. Journal of Political Econ-omy 111: 898–927, 2003.

When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? e Fundamental Role ofDistorted Factor Markets, with Ian W.H. Parry and Lawrence Goulder. Journal ofEnvironmental Economics and Management 37: 52–84, 1999.

e Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection ina Second-Best Setting, with Lawrence Goulder, Ian Parry, and Dallas Burtraw.Journal of Public Economics 72: 329–360, 1999.

e RFF University Fellows Program affords outstanding scholars at universities around theworld the opportunity to establish closer working relationships with RFF researchers. Ap-pointments are made and renewed by the RFF president with the advice of senior managementand with the proviso that substantial benefits to the research of both RFF and the UniversityFellow can be expected.

John F. Ahearne


John Ahearne, a former RFF vice president and senior fellow, is executive director emeritus ofSigma xi, an international honor society of research scientists and engineers, and an adjunctprofessor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University. His primary areas of re-search are nuclear reactors, nuclear waste, and nuclear weapons. From 1978 to 1983, he was acommissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and he served as chairman from1979 to 1981. Previously, Ahearne was deputy and principal deputy assistant secretary of de-fense and served in the White House Energy Office and as deputy assistant secretary of energy.He has served on or chaired more than 20 study committees of the National Research Counciland is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on International Securityand Arms Control. He is vice chair of the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy AdvisoryCommittee and chair of the Advisory Group for the National Academy of Engineering Centerfor Engineering, Ethics, and Society. He holds memberships in the National Academy of Engi-neering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a fellow of the American Phys-ical Society, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the American Association for the Advancementof Science. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University.

John M. Antle, Professor

Oregon State University


John Antle is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Ore-gon State University and a former Gilbert White Fellow at RFF. He received his Ph.D. in eco-nomics at the University of Chicago, served as a senior staff economist on the President’s Coun-cil of Economic Advisers, and is a past president and fellow of the American AgriculturalEconomics Association. His research interests are production economics, environmental eco-nomics, econometrics, and international development. His current work addresses the sustain-ability of agricultural production systems in both industrialized and developing countries, in-cluding impacts of alternative technologies and policies on food security and poverty, economicfeasibility of agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation, payments for environmental services, andimpacts of climate change on agriculture.

RFF UNIVERSITY FELLOWS

Jesse H. Ausubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment

Rockefeller University


Jesse Ausubel’s research interests include environmental science and technology, industrial evo-lution, industrial ecology and the conservation of land and sea, and the nature of the scientificenterprise. He directs the Rockefeller University’s Program for the Human Environment andalso serves as vice president of programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previously, he servedas director of studies for the Carnegie Commission on Science, technology, and Government;as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences; as a staff officer with the National ResearchCouncil’s Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; and as director of programs for the Na-tional Academy of Engineering. Educated at Harvard and Columbia, Ausubel was one of themain organizers of the first UN World Climate Conference in Geneva, in 1979. He is deeply in-volved in three initiatives on biodiversity—the Census of Marine Life, the Barcode of Life ini-tiative to develop DNA identifiers for animals and plants, and the Encyclopedia of Life to de-velop a web page for every species—while continuing studies of waste minimization in energyand other industries.

Gardner M. Brown, Jr.


Gardner Brown is professor emeritus in the department of economics at the University of Wash-ington in Seattle, where he was chair from 1985 to 1990. He specializes in natural resource eco-nomics and applied microeconomic theory, and has reviewed damage estimates for many haz-ardous waste or oil spill events, including Exxon Valdez. Brown also has held visitingappointments at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Cambridge. His recent workhas focused on the economics of antibiotics, predator-prey population dynamics, waterfowl andwetland preservation, and the economics of ocean resources. Brown received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of California–Berkeley in 1964, and his A.B. from Antioch College in 1959.

Partha Dasgupta, Professor of Economics

University of Cambridge

44.122.333.5200 · [email protected]

Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics and past chairman of the facultyof economics, University of Cambridge, as well as a fellow of St. John’s College. He also serves asa foreign associate at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society.His research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of tech-nological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; game theory; and the eco-nomics of malnutrition. Dasgupta was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 for

“services to economics” and was co-winner of the 2002 Volvo Environmental Prize and the 2004Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics.

Robert T. Deacon, Professor of Economics

University of California, Santa Barbara


Robert Deacon, a former RFF Gilbert White Fellow, is a professor of economics at the Univer-sity of California–Santa Barbara, where he formerly chaired the Economics Department. Healso serves on the Advisory Committee of RFF’s Forest Economics and Policy Program and re-cently completed a Julian Simon Fellowship at the Property and Environment Research Cen-ter. Much of his current research is focused on fisheries management and the use of novel prop-erty rights arrangements to increase efficiency and to gain acceptance by users. His work onthe effect of governance institutions on environmental protection and natural resource use con-tinues. Deacon received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

Hadi Dowlatabadi, Professor

University of British Columbia


Hadi Dowlatabadi, a former RFF fellow, is the Canada Research Chair Professor in AppliedMathematics, Inegrated Assessment, and Global Change at the University of British Columbia.His research interests range from interactions among energy, environment, and public healthto quantitative treatment of uncertainty and new approaches to decisionmaking under deep un-certainty. Previously, he taught in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at CarnegieMellon University, directed the National Science Foundation’s Center for Integrated Study ofthe Human Dimensions of Climate Change, and designed the environment program at Rock-efeller Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

Lawrence H. Goulder, Professor

Stanford University


Lawrence Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Econom-ics at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analy-sis Center. His research covers a range of environmental issues, including green tax reform, thedesign of cap-and-trade systems, climate change policy, and comprehensive wealth measure-ment (“green” accounting). He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Eco-nomics and Management and on several advisory committees to the U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and the California Air Resources Board. Gouldergraduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy in 1973 and earned a Ph.D. in eco-nomics from Stanford in 1982.

W. Michael Hanemann, Professor

University of California, Berkeley


Michael Hanemann is the Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Agriculture and Resource Eco-nomics, University of California–Berkeley, where he directs the California Climate Change Cen-ter. His research interests include non-market valuation, environmental economics and policy,water pricing and management, demand modeling for market research and policy design, theeconomics of irreversibility and adaptive management, and welfare economics. Hanemann is amember of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Economics AdvisoryCommittee and the California Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee on Drinking Water. Hereceived a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1978.

Charles D. Kolstad, Professor

University of California, Santa Barbara


Charles Kolstad is a professor of environmental economics at the University of California– SantaBarbara, appointed in both the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management andthe Department of Economics. A former president of the Association of Environmental and Re-source Economists, Kolstad is an environmental economist specializing in uncertainty andlearning in environmental regulation, particularly as applied to climate change. He is a lead au-thor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a member of the National Academyof Sciences’ Committee Evaluating the U.S. Climate Change Research Program, a co-editor ofthe journal Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and the author of numerous schol-arly articles and books. His most recent book, edited with Jody Freeman of Harvard Law School,is Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation (Oxford, 2007). His textbook, Environmen-tal Economics, has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. He is also a research as-sociate in the Environment and Energy Economics Program at the National Bureau of Eco-nomic Research. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Stanford University,MIt, and the New Economic School (Moscow), as well as a staff member at the Los Alamos Na-tional Laboratory and a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana.

Jon A. Krosnick, Professor

Stanford University


At Stanford University, Jon Krosnick is the Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and So-cial Sciences and a professor of communication, political science, and psychology, as well as theprincipal investigator of the American National Election Studies. He conducts research in threeprimary areas: attitude formation, change, and effects; the psychology of political behavior; andthe optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys. Krosnick hastaught courses on survey methodology around the world at universities, corporations, and gov-

ernment agencies. His survey research has explored the American public’s views of environ-mental issues, with a special focus on climate change, since 1995. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D.in social psychology from the University of Michigan.

Simon A. Levin, Professor

Princeton University


Simon Levin is the Moffett Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolution-ary Biology at Princeton University. His principal interests are in understanding how macro-scopic patterns and processes are maintained at the level of ecosystems and the biosphere, interms of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that operate primarily at the level of organ-isms. Much of his research is concerned with the evolution of diversification, the mechanismssustaining biological diversity in natural systems, and the implications for ecosystem structureand functioning. e work integrates empirical studies and mathematical modeling, with em-phasis on how to extrapolate across scales of space, time, and organizational complexity. Cur-rent systems of study include plant communities, as well as marine open-ocean and intertidalsystems. In related work, he has explored the self-organization and evolution of strain structurein influenza A and the dynamics of collective motion. He is deeply involved in the interface withmanagement, sustainability, the resilience and robustness of coupled ecological and socioeco-nomic systems, and more generally, the linkages between the ecological and economic dimen-sions of and perspectives on management.

Anup Malani, Professor

University of Chicago School of Law and

University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine


Anup Malani is a professor of law and the Aaron Director Research Scholar at the University ofChicago Law School and a professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine. He is also an editor ofthe Journal of Law and Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Eco-nomic Research. Malani teaches health, food and drug, insurance, bankruptcy, and corporatelaw. His research interests include law and economics (welfare evaluation of legal rules and theeconomics of product liability), health economics and policy (control of infectious disease, theconduct of clinical trials, medical malpractice and drug product liability, conflicts of interest inmedical research, placebo effects, and heterogeneity in treatment effects of drugs and devices),and corporate law and finance (executive compensation, the role of nonprofit firms, and corpo-rate philanthropy). He has had research articles published in major law, economics and medicaljournals, including the Harvard Law Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Archives of Inter-nal Medicine. His writing can also be found in popular media, such as Forbes and the ChicagoTribune. Malani has a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. In 2001, he

served as a law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wallace E. Oates, Professor

University of Maryland


Wallace Oates is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland. Previously, he taughtat Princeton University from 1965 to 1979. He has served on numerous advisory groups forpublic policy and as president of the Eastern Economic Association and the Southern EconomicAssociation. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1965. His major research inter-ests have been in two fields: public finance with a special interest in fiscal federalism and envi-ronmental economics. Currently, his research efforts address the international dimensions ofenvironmental policy and issues concerning fiscal decentralization in both industrialized anddeveloping countries. He is the editor of two editions of e RFF Reader in Environmental andResource Policy.

Stephen Polasky, Professor

University of Minnesota


Stephen Polasky is the Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics at theUniversity of Minnesota. His research interests include integrating ecological and economicanalysis, ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, game theory, common property re-sources, and environmental policy. He was the senior staff economist for environment and re-sources for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1998–1999. He has served on theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, and committees for the U.S.Department of Interior and National Research Council and is currently co-lead for mappingand valuing ecosystem services for the Natural Capital Project. He also is a member of the Boardof Directors for the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, and a member of the Science Coun-cil and Board of Directors of e Nature Conservancy. He was elected as a fellow of the Amer-ican Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007 and the American Academy of Artsand Sciences in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in1986.

Paul R. Portney, Dean, Eller College of Management

University of Arizona


Paul Portney, a longtime RFF senior fellow who served as president from 1995 to 2005, is deanof the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. He has long been interested inthe role of economic analysis in energy and environmental regulation, especially the regulationof automobiles, power plants, and other industrial facilities. In 2001, he chaired a National Acad-

emy of Sciences panel on the future of the CAFE standards. From 1979 to 1980, he was chiefeconomist at the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President.Portney is the author or coauthor of more than 10 books on energy and environmental policy.He received a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1973.

V. Kerry Smith, Professor

Arizona State University


Kerry Smith, a former RFF senior fellow, is the W.P. Carey Professor of Eeconomics at ArizonaState University. Previously, he taught at North Carolina State University, Duke University, andVanderbilt University, among others. His research interests include nonmarket valuation of en-vironmental resources, the role of public information in promoting private risk mitigation, en-vironmental policy and induced technical change, water resource management and conserva-tion, general equilibrium characterization of the effects of environmental policies, andadaptation and climate change. In 1989, he was awarded the Association of Environmental andResource Economists’ Distinguished Service Award. He is a fellow of both the American Agri-cultural Economics Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Econo-mists and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has a Ph.D. from Rutgers Uni-versity, awarded in 1970.

Brent L. Sohngen, Professor

Ohio State University


Brent Sohngen is a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Develop-ment Economics at Ohio State University. His research interests include modeling land-use andland-cover change, examining impacts of climate change in the forestry sector, studying the eco-nomics of nonpoint source pollution, and valuing environmental change. Prior to his appoint-ment at Ohio State in 1996, he was a Gilbert White Postdoctoral Fellow at RFF.

Sohngen also leads an extension and outreach program in environmental and natural re-source economics. e program focuses on linking research on natural resource and environ-mental economics to natural resource policy and management issues in Ohio. He obtained abachelor’s degree from the Department of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University in 1991and a Ph.D. from yale University in 1996.

Robert N. Stavins, Professor

Harvard University


Robert Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Harvard KennedySchool, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, director of Ph.D. programsin Public Policy and Political Economy and Government, co-chair of the Harvard Business

School–Harvard Kennedy School Joint Degree Program, and director of the Harvard Project onInternational Climate Agreements. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of EconomicResearch, a member of the RFF Board of Directors, and former chair of the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency’s Environmental Economics Advisory Board. His research has examined di-verse areas of environmental economics and policy, particularly climate change, and he is the au-thor of numerous books on energy and climate. Stavins directed Project 88, a bipartisan effortco-chaired by former Senator timothy Wirth and the late Senator John Heinz, to develop inno-vative approaches to environmental problems. He has been a consultant to government agencies,international organizations, corporations, and advocacy groups. He holds a Ph.D. in economicsfrom Harvard University.

Thomas N.S. Sterner, Professor

University of Gothenburg

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omas Sterner, a former RFF Gilbert White Fellow, is a professor of environmental econom-ics at the University of Gothenburg–Sweden, and a founder of the Environment for Develop-ment initiative, where he is a research fellow. He is currently past president of the European As-sociation of Environmental and Resource Economists. He has written widely on the design ofpolicy instruments, discounting, energy and climate, natural resource management, fisheries,and issues relating to industrial and transport pollution. Previously, he worked in the Environ-ment Department of the World Bank, and much of his current work focuses on developingcountries. Sterner serves on the scientific committee of the Centre for Environmental Economicsand Policy in Africa Network and on several other regional networks in developing countries.He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Gothenburg in 1986.

John E. Tilton, Professor

Colorado School of Mines

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John tilton divides his time between Chile, where he holds a chair in mineral economics in theEngineering School of Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, and the United States, where heis a research professor in the Division of Economics and Business at the Colorado School ofMines. His recent research examines the role of mining in economic development, the envi-ronment and mining, the long-run availability of mineral commodities, and the recycling ofmetals. He is a past RFF visiting scholar and has served on various boards and committees ofthe National Research Council, including the Panel on Integrated Environmental and EconomicAccounting. tilton received his Ph.D. in economics from yale University.

Jonathan B. Wiener, Professor

Duke University


Jonathan Wiener is the William R. and omas L. Perkins Professor of Law, a professor of en-vironmental policy at the Nicholas School, and a professor of public policy at the Sanford Schoolat Duke University. In addition to numerous books and articles on risk regulation, climatechange policy, instrument choice in environmental policy, comparative regulatory studies, andrelated topics, he is co-editor of the 2010 RFF Press / Earthscan book e Reality of Precaution:Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. In 2008, he served as president ofthe Society for Risk Analysis, and in 2003, he received the Chauncey Starr young Risk AnalystAward from that society for the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by ascholar aged 40 or under. He also has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the Uni-versity of Chicago Law School, Université Paris-Dauphine, Sciences Po, and l’École des HautesÉtudes en Sciences Sociales and le Centre International de Recherche sur l’Énvironnement et leDéveloppement.

Before moving to Duke in 1994, he served in both the first Bush and Clinton administra-tions from 1989 to 1993, including as senior staff economist for environmental and regulatorymatters on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped dra Executive Or-der 12866 on regulatory oversight, and as special assistant at the U.S. Department of Justice,where he helped negotiate the climate change treaties. He also has been policy counsel at theWhite House Office of Science and technology Policy and the Americorps National Serviceprogram. In 1987–1989, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Courtof Appeals in Boston and to Judge Jack B. Weinstein on the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn,New york. He began his association with RFF in 1987–1988 as the staff reporter for a projecton hazardous air pollutant policy. He received his A.B. in 1984 in economics and his J.D. in 1987from Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

JunJie Wu, Professor

Oregon State University


JunJie Wu is the Emery N. Castle Professor of Resource and Rural Economics at Oregon StateUniversity. His research areas include the optimal design of agri-environmental policy, the spa-tial modeling of land use change and its socioeconomic and environmental impacts, and theanalysis of rural-urban interdependencies and causes of spatial variations in economic devel-opment. Recent projects include optimal allocation of conservation funds in the presence ofthreshold effects and ecosystem linkages; targeting payments for ecosystem services underasymmetric information; the slippage effect of conservation programs; environmental and dis-tributional impacts of alternative conservation targeting strategies; mandatory versus voluntaryenvironmental regulations; dynamic interactions between urban development and land use reg-

ulations; the impacts of bioenergy production on land use and environmental quality; causesand evolution of spatial variations in economic development; firms’ motivations for environ-mental violation and overcompliance; and globalization and the spatial distribution of pollut-ing industries.

Wu has received several awards for quality research, including the Quality of Research Dis-covery Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association and the OutstandingPublished Research Award from the Western Agricultural Economics Association. He servedas an associate editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics and is a member of the ed-itorial council for several leading professional journals, including Journal of Environmental Eco-nomics and Management, Land Economics, and Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Kristin Hayes

Center for Climate and Electricity Policy and

Center for Energy Economics and Policy


Kristin Hayes joined RFF aer working for nine years in both domestic and international bio-diversity conservation at the National Wildlife Federation, Conservation International, andFauna & Flora International. She currently supports a large-scale, multiyear project assessingthe effectiveness and costs of a range of U.S. national energy policy alternatives and managesoperations of RFF’s Center for Climate and Electricity Policy and Center for Energy Econom-ics and Policy. Hayes received an M.Sc. from Oxford University and a B.S. in chemistry fromthe College of William and Mary.

J.W. (John) Anderson, Journalist-in-Residence


Since 1996, John Anderson has worked at RFF as a journalist-in-residence. He writes for RFFpublications and the organization’s website, mainly on issues related to climate change and en-ergy. Prior to RFF, Anderson had a long career in journalism, starting with staff positions on anumber of daily papers in Pennsylvania. From 1957 to 1996, he held a variety of reporting andnews management positions at the Washington Post, writing mainly for the editorial page oneconomic, energy, and environmental topics. He served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1948and was awarded an American Political Science Association congressional fellowship in 1957.A native of Philadelphia, he received his B.A. from Williams College.

Margaret Kriz Hobson, Journalist-in-Residence


Margie Hobson, who joined RFF as a journalist-in-residence in 2010, was chief correspondenton energy and environmental issues for National Journal—where she created the National Jour-nal Experts Blog on energy policies—from 1987 to 2010. She previously wrote about environ-mental regulations for the Bureau of National Affairs and was a suburban reporter for theChicago tribune. She currently writes a federal column for the Environmental Law Institute’sEnvironmental Forum magazine.

She has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists andon the advisory board of the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. In 2008, she re-

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Hobson, who was a fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism in2005–2006, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1976 and a master’sdegree in journalism from American University in 1980.

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ABOUT RFF

Resources for the Future (RFF) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts in-dependent research—rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences—on environ-mental, energy, and natural resource issues. Although RFF is headquartered in Washington, DC,its research scope comprises programs in nations around the world.

Founded in 1952, RFF was created at the recommendation of William Paley, then head ofthe Columbia Broadcasting System, who had chaired a commission appointed by PresidentHarry S. Truman to investigate the United States’ dependence on foreign sources of importantnatural resources and commodities. RFF became the first think tank devoted exclusively to nat-ural resource and environmental issues.

RFF pioneered the application of economics as a tool to develop more effective policy aboutthe use and conservation of natural resources. Our scholars continue to analyze critical issuesconcerning pollution control, energy policy, land and water use, hazardous waste, climatechange, biodiversity, and the environmental challenges of developing countries.

Today, RFF’s staff encompasses some 60 researchers operating within five focus areas: En-ergy and Climate, Regulating Risks, Transportation and Urban Land, e Natural World, andHuman Health. Most researchers hold doctorates in economics, but others hold advanced de-grees in engineering, law, ecology, city and regional planning, American government, or pub-lic policy and management, among other disciplines.

In addition, specialized centers, programs, and initiatives at RFF focus on specific areas ofresearch and operate collaboratively across disciplines. ese include the Center for Climateand Electricity Policy, Center for Energy Economics and Policy, Center for Forest Economicsand Policy, Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth,and the Environment for Devel-opment initiative. RFF also established and is closely affiliated with the Center for Disease Dy-namics, Economics, and Policy, which is now an independent organization.

Besides its research staff, RFF has a development operation, an office of communications,a book-publishing division now owned by Earthscan, and various research support functions,including a specialized library and information technology staff.

Operating as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, RFF has earned a reputation for con-ducting independent, nonpartisan research and policy analysis of the highest quality. RFF ea-gerly shares the results of its work with policymakers in government at all levels, environmen-tal and business organizations, academicians, the media, and the interested public. RFF neitherlobbies nor takes positions on specific legislative or regulatory proposals, although individualresearchers, speaking for themselves and not for RFF, do formulate specific policy recommen-dations based on the findings in their work.

RFF’s success is made possible by the financial support of individuals and organizationsthat have the vision to see the role research plays in formulating sound public policies. Morethan 70 percent of the contributions from individuals, corporations, private foundations, andgovernment agencies go directly to our research and public education activities.

RFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

e RFF Board of Directors is responsible for general supervision and strategic planning ofRFF, safeguarding the independence of its research, and ensuring financial stability. Membersare elected for three-year renewable terms.

VICKY A. BAILEY

President

Anderson Stratton,

International LLC

TRUDY ANN CAMERON

Raymond F. Mikesell

Professor of Environmental

and Resource Economics

University of Oregon

PRESTON CHIARO

Group Executive

Rio Tinto

W. BOWMAN CUTTER

Chair

Senior Fellow and Director

Economic Policy Initiative

The Roosevelt Institute

JOHN M. DEUTCH

Vice Chair

Institute Professor

Department of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

MOHAMED T. EL-ASHRY

Retired CEO and Chairman

Global Environment Facility

DANIEL C. ESTY

Vice Chair

Hillhouse Professor of

Environmental Law and Policy

Yale Law School

LINDA J. FISHER

Vice President & Chief

Sustainability Officer

DuPont Environment &

Sustainable Growth Center

top row, from le: Peter R. Kagan, W. Bowman Cutter, John M. Deutch, Preston Chiaro, Mohamed t. El-Ashry,

Richard L. Schmalensee, Michael A. Mantell. Middle row, from le: David G. Hawkins, Deborah S. Hechinger, Mark

R. tercek, Robert N. Stavins, Frank E. Loy, Vicky A. Bailey, Daniel C. Esty. Bottom row, from le: trudy Ann

Cameron, Lawrence H. Linden, Philip R. Sharp, Linda J. Fisher, Dod A. Fraser, Peter J. Robertson, Kathryn S. Fuller.

Not pictured: Rubén Kraiem and Joseph Stiglitz.

PHILIP R. SHARP

President

EDWARD F. HAND

Vice President, Finance and

Administration

MARK COHEN

Vice President, Research

LEA HARVEY

Vice President, Development

and Board Secretary

ALAN J. KRUPNICK

Research Director and

Senior Fellow

MOLLY K. MACAULEY

Research Director and

Senior Fellow

PETER NELSON

Director, Communications

KATHRYN S. FULLER

Chair

Ford Foundation Board of

Trustees

DAVID G. HAWKINS

Director of the Climate

Center

Natural Resources Defense

Council

DEBORAH S. HECHINGER

Debbie Hechinger Consulting

Group

PETER R. KAGAN

Managing Director

Warburg Pincus, LLC

RUBÉN KRAIEM

Partner

Covington and Burling, LLP

LAWRENCE H. LINDEN

Treasurer

Founder and Trustee

Linden Trust for Conservation

FRANK E. LOY

Vice Chair

Washington, DC

MICHAEL A. MANTELL

Attorney

Resources Law Group

PETER J. ROBERTSON

Vice Chairman of the Board,

Retired

Chevron Corporation

RICHARD L. SCHMALENSEE

John C. Head III Dean

Sloan School of Management

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

PHILIP R. SHARP

President

Resources for the Future

ROBERT N. STAVINS

Albert Pratt Professor of

Business & Government

Chairman of the Environment

& Natural Resources Faculty

Group, John F. Kennedy

School of Government

Harvard University

JOSEPH STIGLITZ

Professor of Economics,

Business & International Affairs

Columbia University School of

Business

MARK R. TERCEK

President & CEO

The Nature Conservancy

CHAIR EMERITI

DARIUS W. GASKINS, JR.

Partner

Norbridge, Inc.

ROBERT E. GRADY

Managing Director

Cheyenne Capital Fund

RFF SENIOR MANAGEMENT

CENTER FOR CLIMATE AND ELECTRICITY POLICY

e mission of RFF’s Center for Climate and Electricity Policy is to undertake policy-relevantresearch and analysis and to carry out extensive public outreach on issues related to domesticand international climate and electricity policy. Building on more than two decades of researchin these areas, the Center brings a critical mass of scholars together to tackle emerging issuesrelated to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

RESEARCH AGENDA

e Center maintains a focused and coherent agenda of research and policy engagement de-signed to inform the development of domestic and international climate mitigation, adaptation,and electricity policy.

DOMESTIC POLICY DEVELOPMENT Aer two years of intense political debate in the 111th U.S.Congress regarding the design of comprehensive federal policy to control greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions and the passage of such legislation in the House of Representatives, furtherlegislative progress will rest with the 112th Congress and its uncertain priorities. Renewed em-phasis on comprehensive climate legislation seems unlikely and Congress is expected to addressGHG emissions via new legislation focusing on energy efficiency and renewables, while directGHG regulation is likely to be developed under the authority of the existing Clean Air Act. eCenter is pursuing ongoing research in both areas, as well as continuing to examine a broad ar-ray of market-based policy options for the longer term.

INTERNATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT Several issues addressed by the Center now dominatepost-Copenhagen international climate negotiations. ese include: the strength of developingcountry mitigation programs and their link to financial contributions from developed coun-tries; monitoring, reporting, and verification of emissions reduction activities; reducing emis-sions from deforestation and degradation (REDD); developing global markets for GHG emis-sions trading; developing and deploying low-carbon technologies and growth paths; andadaptation to climate change.

ADVANCED RESEARCH FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE NEEDS OF POLICYMAKERS Much of the hall-mark research for which RFF is known resulted from years of work on issues that RFF scholarsinvestigated well before policymakers turned their attention to them. e vast body of RFF re-search and analysis on climate policies is no different, and the Center continues to look aheadto anticipate future public policy needs.

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RAYMOND KOPP Senior Fellow and Center Director


e Center for Energy Economics and Policy provides research, education, and guidance topolicymakers, opinion leaders, researchers, and the public to improve energy policymaking. Inthe RFF tradition, the Center performs original economic research and policy evaluation andworks to ensure that new knowledge serves to inform public- and private-sector actions. eCenter offers:∫ A five-decade legacy of energy-related research and policy analysis, including an ongoingresearch effort, “toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options.”∫ A policy orientation grounded in the rigors of academic research and knowledge of the en-ergy industry and markets, combined with a practical view of the policy process.∫ A distinguished forum for dialogue on energy policy issues among public, private, and non-profit actors, as well as participation in research and policy partnerships around the world.∫ An independent, nonpartisan voice in energy economics and policy.

RESEARCH AGENDA

Work conducted at the Center is organized around three interrelated themes:

UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT RFF has the independence, credibility, and expertise to dispelthe many myths about energy markets and to offer thoughtful, reasoned analyses that appro-priately inform and focus the debates about energy policies. e Center’s work looks at the un-derlying issues that motivate energy policies, assesses the energy-environmental interface, ex-amines the cost-effectiveness and net benefits of current policies, and investigates to what extentexisting policies are synergistic, redundant, or working at cross-purposes.

SHAPING THE FUTURE technological advances have changed the supply conditions for shale gasand tar sands, and new technologies and approaches to energy use could prove to be signifi-cant game changers. A barrage of new ideas for policies is being advanced, even as legislativeaction slows or stalls. e Center keeps pace with these changes, and help guide policy to takeadvantage of the most promising new technologies and thinking.

THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION Global economic growth, while valuable in many ways, is cre-ating significant challenges for world energy resources and greenhouse gas emissions. e Cen-ter examines international issues in energy consumption and use, including worldwide energysecurity, international policy coordination, and energy demand and energy efficiency in rapidlygrowing economies. RFF’s global affiliations and experience in developing country-specific pol-icy prescriptions add significant value in policy design.

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ALAN J. KRUPNICK Senior Fellow and Center Director


CENTER FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND POLICY

CENTER FOR FOREST ECONOMICS AND POLICY

e Center for Forest Economics and Policy undertakes research that examines the environ-mental and commodity aspects of forests. It is the oldest of RFF’s research centers and has beencontributing to the forest policy process since 1977.

e world’s forests are major contributors to a host of ecological goods and services, suchas clean air and water, plant and animal life habitat, productive soils, and carbon sequestration.In addition, forests provide wood for industry, homes for indigenous populations, and yieldimportant foods and materials. However, many forests are in decline or are threatened by forcessuch as infestation and wildfire, global demands to convert forestlands to other uses, or exces-sive logging for wood materials. Surging populations in developing countries, global climatechange, and other phenomena also contribute to forest loss or decline.

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Forest protection and management are critical to the renewal and continuation of healthy for-est systems. to address various natural and human threats, the Center works with practition-ers, scholars, and policymakers to better understand the nature of forests, their possibilities,and threats; incorporates economics and forest science into relevant public policies; and adaptsthe latest mapping and GIS soware to enhance research and outreach efforts.

Research efforts address three core themes:

MEASURING AND MONITORING GLOBAL FORESTS AND ANTICIPATING MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

APPROPRIATE FOR ADDRESSING FORESTS DAMAGED BY CLIMATE CHANGE Only imprecise mea-surements are currently available to help determine the value of the physical attributes of forests.New management strategies need to be developed to address climate-impacted forests.

ASSESSING BIOMASS AND CELLULOSIC BIOFUELS In response to growing interest in biofuel madefrom plant cellulose, the Center has launched a new initiative that examines the environmen-tal and economic feasibility of such renewable fuel sources.

ADVANCING TREE BIOTECHNOLOGY e field of forest biotechnology is still in its early stagesbut has the potential to bring important new products into the mainstream, from feedstock topharmaceuticals to pest management. Forest biomass will also continue to play key roles inboth renewable energy and carbon sinks.

CONTACT

ROGER A. SEDJO Senior Fellow and Center Director


Nature produces ecological goods and services—such as clean air and water, plant and animallife, productive soils and pollinators for crops—that currently are not well quantified, valued,or managed. As a result, many forms of ecological wealth are in decline or are threatened byglobal appetites for land, energy, and water. to address this social problem, the Center workswith practitioners, scholars, and policymakers to incorporate ecological science into public poli-cies focused on the social and economic benefits arising from natural systems.

RESEARCH AGENDA

Governments, academics, NGOs, and corporations rely on the Center to provide leadership onthe challenges posed by declining and threatened ecological wealth. e Center provides itspartners with access to a global research network, commitment to intellectual and policy inno-vations, extensive convening capacity, and access to key policy audiences. Research efforts fo-cus on three core themes:

DESIGNING AND DELIVERING POLICY-RELEVANT ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS What ecological inter-ventions and investments yield the greatest improvements in socially important ecological con-ditions, such as species abundance, water availability, and recreational and aesthetic opportu-nities? to address this question, the Center serves as a bridge between the ecological and socialsciences and builds on RFF’s strength in pragmatic economic analysis and policy design.

MEASURING AND COMMUNICATING THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF ECOSYSTEM GOODS, SERVICES,

AND SYSTEMS e Center develops data and tools so that public environmental wealth can bemeasured as clearly and systematically as market wealth, building on RFF’ s half century-longrole as a communicator of nature’s fundamental role in our collective economic wellbeing.

DESIGNING INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE ECOLOGICAL WEALTH Be-cause ecological goods and services are oen common property resources, governments, NGOs,and the private sector must be creative in the design and deployment of rules, institutions, andincentives to protect and enhance ecological wealth. e Center is involved in the creation andanalysis of novel approaches to natural resource management, including market- and incen-tive-based policies.

CONTACT

JAMES W. BOYD Senior Fellow and Center Director


CENTER FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ECOLOGICAL WEALTH

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RFF produces an array of publications, including DiscussionPapers, Reports, Issue Briefs, as well as our quarterly magazineResources and a Weekly Policy Commentary series. Most docu-ments are written or co-written by RFF researchers.

RFF Discussion Papers reflect findings of work in progressand are written primarily for academic colleagues to share ideas,concepts, and theories. RFF Reports typically represent the cul-mination of research projects and address major public policyissues in a manner designed to enrich debate and meet the needsof decisionmakers for impartial, relevant information. eshorter Issue Briefs provide topical, accessible, and timely infor-mation to a broad, nontechnical audience. RFF also publishestranscripts of congressional testimony given by its scholars.

Resources, RFF’s widely circulated magazine, provides inter-ested readers with information and insight on the most current,policy-relevant work being undertaken at RFF. Recent issueshave reported on engaging China on climate change, nanotech-nology and risk, the need for accurate maps of global forests, nat-ural gas in the context of energy markets and policy, and Amer-icans and outdoor recreation resources.

RFF Connection, a periodic electronic newsletter, alerts sub-scribers about forthcoming events, new research, and recent pub-lications.

e Weekly Policy Commentary series provides an easy wayfor students, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the gen-eral public to learn about economic and other aspects of impor-tant environmental, natural resource, energy, and urban issues.Each week, a leading expert provides a short, nontechnical as-sessment of a particular policy topic summarizing the currentstate of analysis or evidence on the issue, along with selected rec-ommendations for further reading.

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For a comprehensive list of RFF Press books, and for more information, visit www.rffpress.org.

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