Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar

Seminar meets on Wednesday at 12pm in 201 Giannini Hall

Date Speaker Affiliation Presentation Title
September 20 Alex Farrell UC Berkeley ERG Effects of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles in California Energy Markets
September 27 Towa Tachibana Kobe University Do community management and co-management improve natural forest condition?: A case of the Middle Hills in Nepal
October 3 Sharyl Rabinovici UC Berkeley GSPP Cost-benefit analysis of rapid microbial detection for improving marine swim advisories **SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE: 11:30-12:30 IN 133 GIANNINI**
October 4 Fereidun Feizollahi California Air Resources Board Research Opportunities Related to AB32
October 11 Xiangyi Meng Berkeley ARE
October 18 Cynthia Lin UC Davis How should standards be set and met?: An incomplete contracting approach to delegation in regulation
October 25 Ralf Steinhauser Berkeley ARE Principals vs. Principles: What do Managers do when Governance is Slack?
November 1 Hendrik Wolff Berkeley ARE
November 8 Yanay Farja Berkeley ARE Optimal taxation of land trust activities
November 15 Michael Roberts USDA Economic Research Service How cost-effective are land retirement auctions? Estimating the difference between payments and willingness to accept in the conservation reserve program
November 22 No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week
November 29 Alejandro Caparros CSIC, and Berkeley ARE Carbon sequestration with reforestations and biodiversity-scenic values
December 6 Matthew Turner University of Toronto Fat City: The Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity
We're always looking for future speakers! Please write us if you would like to present or suggest an outside speaker for next semester.
Coordinators: Susan Stratton and Ryan Kellogg

Whenever possible, papers will be available on this website at least two days prior to the presentation.
Presentation papers from previous semesters are also available.


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