Cooperative Extension Specialist, Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
ARE's "Hal the Hot Dog Guy" Weighs in on the Oakland A's Proposed Howard Terminal Project
SFGATE will be publishing guest columnists this Summer on each side of the debate surrounding the Oakland A's proposed Howard Terminal Project and ARE graduate student, and Oakland Coliseum hot dog vendor Hal Gordon, is the first guest columnist. "Let's Go Oakland."
David Zilberman Is Named a Fellow of the EAERE
ARE is very pleased to announce that Professor David Zilberman has been named a Fellow of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
ARE Alumna '98 Sandra Hoffman Has Been Appointed to FERG, the WHO Advisory Committee on Estimation of the Global Burden of Foodborne Disease
The Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) measures the global and regional burden of foodborne diseases and reports estimates of incidences, mortality, and disease burden caused by foodborne hazards. The outcomes collected can contribute to improvements in food safety throughout the food chain by incorporating these estimates into policy development at national and international levels.
ARE Alumnus '97 Jinhua Zhao named David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Zhao, spent eight years as director of Michigan State’s Environmental Science and Policy Program and will begin his appointment at Cornell University on July 1.
ARE '20 Alumna Susanna Berkouwer Wins the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention
ARE is very pleased to congratulate Wharton Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy Susanna Berkouwer on this very special distinction for their dissertation “Environmental and Energy Economics in Low-Income Countries.”
Chiman Cheung is the Recipient of the 2021 Sidney Hoos Award
Congratulations to Chiman Cheung for being awarded the 2021 Sidney Hoos Award for his paper "Political economy of information disclosure: Evidence from Indian rural road quality audits".
EEP Major Sabina Mahavni is the 2021 Student RCNR Commencement Speaker
The Student Commencement Speech this year will be given by Sabina Mahavni, graduate of the Environmental Economics and Policy major from ARE.
Five Key Lessons
Taught by Professor David Zilberman, Environmental Economics 141 offers a background in supply chains using examples from environmental and agrifood sectors.
State of Regulation
Researchers Joseph Shapiro and Meredith Fowlie, who are featured in Breakthroughs magazine, evaluate the legacy of landmark environmental policies.
Electrifying America
In Breakthroughs magazine, Meredith Fowlie and James Sallee discuss how California’s high energy prices offer lessons for the nation’s renewables-focused energy policy.
Yeeun Moon Wins the 2021 Spring Melis Medal in the Honors Symposium of the Rausser College of Natural Resources
Please join ARE and the EEP Major community in congratulating EEP graduating senior Yeeun Moon and her mentor, ARE PhD Candidate James Sayre. Yeeun Moon won the 2021 Spring Melis Medal in the Honors Symposium of the Rausser College of Natural Resources!
ARE Congratulates the Class of 2021
ARE is very pleased to announce it's graduating class of 2021. In an academic year of pandemic challenge, the department is honored to be represented by this outstanding group of scholars who skillfully navigated a formidable job market. ARE wishes them the best as they each move onto the next stage of their careers. To read more about these doctoral recipients please go here.
Class of 2021 EEP Award Recipients
Congratulations to graduating Environmental Economics and Policy (EEP) seniors Jerry Zhu, winner of the 2021 Department Citation Award and also co- winner of the Rausser College of Natural Resources Babcock Award in 2021, and Hila Etkin, winner of the 2021 EEP Major Citation award.
Why Wall Street Investors’ Trading California Water Futures is Nothing to Fear – and Unlikely to Work Anyway
Ellen Bruno and co-author, Assistant Professor Heidi Schweizer, North Carolina State University, address California water futures trading in the newsletter The Conversation, a self-described publication of 'academic rigor, journalistic flair.'
Ellen Bruno Recently Published "Missing Markets: Evidence on Agricultural Groundwater Demand from Volumetric Pricing" Jointly with Katrina Jessoe in the Journal of Public Economics
The research suggests that pricing agricultural groundwater use in Southern California leads to small changes in extraction but big changes in surplus. Water trading between urban and agricultural users can substantially mitigate the costs from water supply curtailments.
ARE PhD candidate Hal Gordon: PhD student and the Bay Area's (perhaps world's) Premier Hot Dog Vendor
Hal Gordon is featured in an SFGate sports article this week. Hal is an ARE graduate student studying to be an environmental economist. He wants to know more about how much vegetarians reduce their carbon footprints, and how the food industry might make dietary alternatives more accessible for everyday consumers.
California’s Billion Dollar Energy Bill Question
A looming problem and a proposal. Meredith Fowlie addresses the issue in her recent EI blog.
Dealing with Climate Change in Agriculture Locally
ARE Alumnus '19 Itai Trilnick and Professor David Zilberman explore the potential of new techniques that lower temperatures locally in critical times for crops. "Microclimate Engineering for Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture: The Case of California Pistachios" is published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
The Political Economy of COVID-19
ARE PhD Students Scott Kaplan and Jacob Lefler publish with ARE Professor David Zilberman in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.