In Energy Insitute at Haas Blog ARE Professor Max Auffhammer discusses recent scientific literaturre that causally links air pollution and health outcomes.
ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and Co-Authors Awarded EAAE's 2017 Research Discovery Award
Award is for Journal of Industrial Economics publication entitled "Retail Mergers and Food Prices : Evidence from France".
Rebound’s Role in Trump’s Fuel Economy Rollback
A funny thing happened on the way to repealing fuel economy standards—program benefits went up.
Chinese, California Policymakers Share Sustainability Tactics
ARE Professor and Manging Director of the Center for Economics, Resources and Innovation (CERI), David Roland-Holst, featured in UC Berkeley News article regarding recent Berkeley conference “California and China: Leadership for a Low Carbon Future”.
Could This Slimy Corn 'Fix' One of Earth's Biggest Pollution Problems?
ARE Professor David Zilberman featured in Live Science article.
Max Auffhammer Awarded Peder Sather Grant Award
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer has received a 2018 Peder Sather Grant Program Award.
ARE Faculty and Alumni Recognized at the 2018 Annual Meetings of the AAEA and IAAE
ARE faculty and alumni were recognized for current and career-long accomplishments, reaffirming our department's top-ranked status in the field of agricultural economics.
Climate Change Will Be Deadlier, More Destructive and Costlier for California Than Previously Believed, State Warns
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer featured in Los Angeles Times article regarding publication of the Fourth Climate Change Assessment/San Francisco Bay Area Summary Report.
UC Berkeley Leads New Assessment of Bay Area Climate Impacts
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer among many UCB and CNR faculty authors of Fourth Climate Change Assessment/San Francisco Bay Area Summary Report.
Ann E. Harrison Is the Next Dean of the Haas School of Business
ARE is very pleased to announce that our former faculty member Ann E. Harrison, and current William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, is the next Dean of the Haas School of Business. She will begin her term on January 1, 2019.
California Giving Out $170 Million in Cap-And-Trade Revenue to Help Prevent Wildfires
ARE/ESPM Professor J. Keith Gilless comments included San Francisco Chronicle article.
Environmental Regulations Drove Steep Declines in U.S. Factory Pollution
Study co-authored by ARE Associate Professor Joseph Shapiro has shown that the federal Clean Air Act and associated environmental regulations have driven steep declines in air pollution emissions over the past several decades, even as U.S. manufacturers increased production.
A Plan to Shoot Tiny Droplets Into the Sky Would Cool the Planet—but Wouldn’t Help Crops
ARE doctoral student Jonathan Proctor explains in Berkeley News article the pros and cons of solar geoengineering when it comes to crops.
Here Comes the Electric Bus
ARE Associate Professor Meredith Fowlie discusses public transit emissions in the context of newly proposed California legislation that would drive tailpipe emissions from new transit buses to zero by 2030.
Peter Berck
We mourn the loss of our colleague and our good friend, Peter Berck. Not only was he an outstanding economist and a compassionate friend and colleague, he was a wonderful mentor to generations of students and made major contributions to the public.
Facebook Graphic Misrepresents Trump's $12 Billion Aid Package to Farmers After China Tariffs
Tampa Bay Times' Pulitzer Prize winning media project Politifact interviews ARE Professor Brian Wright regarding Trump's $12 billion aid package to farmers after China tariffs.
Mendocino Wildfire Explodes into Raging Monster Nearly the Size of Los Angeles
ARE/ESPM Professor J. Keith Gilless featured in San Francisco Chronicle article regarding the Clear Lake wildfire, now reported as the largest fire in California's history.
Hot Temperatures and Windy Conditions Fuel California's Wildfire
ARE/ESPM Professor J. Keith Gilless discusess big wildfires with hosts of KCBS radio.
Dangerous Wildfires Like the Carr Fire in Redding Driven by Sprawl, Climate Change, Experts Say
ARE/ESPM Professor Keith Gilless featured in news piece from Capital Public Radio.
Study Indicates Potential Rise in Suicides Due to Global Warming
ARE alum Patrick Baylis '16 is one in a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University involved in recent study which finds that suicide rates might rise because of climate change.