The Faculty of
Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy
at the
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley

How to reach ARE faculty via e-mail

Peter Berck (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976). The economy wide costs and employment effects of natural resource policy and environmental regulation; forest and fishery economics and policy. Personal website.

Anthony C. Fisher (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968). Environmental decisionmaking under uncertainty, optimal timing of climate change policy, potential impacts of global warming on agriculture and other sectors of the economy. Personal website.

J. Keith Gilless (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1983). Economics of forestry, especially forest management planning, wildland fire protection, international trade in forest products, and regional economics.

George Goldman (M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959). Economic Impacts of Change in Resource Use. Personal website.

W. Michael Hanemann (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978). non-market valuation, discrete choice modelling, water demand and pricing, water utility economics, uncertainty and irreversibility in environmental management, environmental policy, climate change. Personal website.

Ann E. Harrison (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1991). Multinational investment and environmental impacts, trade and the environment. Personal website.

Larry S. Karp (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1982). Trade in carbon permits, trade liberalization and environment, nonrenewable resources models, taxes vs. quotas in global warming, agriculture and environment in China, fisheries, learning in pollution regulation. Recent papers. Personal website.

Jeffrey T. LaFrance (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1983). Property rights and public land management; land degradation; sustainable agriculture and natural resource use; dynamic games in natural resources. Personal website.

Richard B. Norgaard (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971). Environment and development, intergenerational equity and resource scarcity, ecological economics. Personal website.

Gordon C. Rausser (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1971). Environmental regulations, air quality, water quality, quantification of environmental externalities, biodiversity, stigmatized property values, collective decision-making and multilateral bargaining in water resource systems. Personal website.

Jeff Romm (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1970). Distribution, growth, and resource sustainability; watershed and basin policy; race and resources.

Gordon Rowe (Ph.D., Purdue University). Integrated pest management; information systems; cost-benefit analyses of pesticide use. Personal website.

Leo K. Simon (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981). Multilateral negotiations over common property resource allocation, esp. water allocation; mechanism design and environmental regulation; comparing agri-environmental policy processes in the U.S. and Europe. Personal website.

David L. Sunding (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989). Water resources, pesticides, wetlands, pollution monitoring, nonuniform regulation. Personal website.

Catherine Wolfram (Ph.D., MIT, 1996). Energy economics, environmental regulation in the energy sector. Personal website.

David Zilberman (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1979). Environmental policy, water, pest control, climate change, environmental risks and technologies. Personal website.

Alix Peterson Zwane (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002). Environment and development economics, especially poverty, land-use change, and deforestation; trade, agriculture and the environment; tropical agriculture R&D.


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