Cal Fall semester has begun and instruction commenced Wednesday, August 25th. On Monday, August 23rd, ARE held its annual Orientation Day for its incoming cohort and an image of these new ARE graduate students was captured on the west portico steps of Giannini Hall.
ARE extends a warm welcome to Sheah, Ian, Kaleb, Michelle, Paula, Nicholas, Zachari, Suvy, Danial, Elena, and Takanao.
The latest issue of ARE Update features the article "The Outlook for California’s Almond Market" by Cooperative Extension Specialist Ellen Bruno and co-authors, as well as featuring an article by Professor David Zilberman, "Science-Based Agriculture for Expanding Food Production and Sustainability."
ARE alumna '17 and University of Chicago Harris Public Policy Assistant Professor Fiona Burlig is featured on the new Energy Policy Insitute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) podcast miniseries The Roadmap. Fiona discusses the line of research and ways policymakers could improve energy efficiency programs.
ARE alumni Tamma Carleton '18 and Jon Proctor '19 are part of a team based at UC Berkeley that have devised a machine learning system to tap the problem-solving potential of satellite imaging, using low-cost, easy-to-use technology that could bring access and analytical power to researchers and governments worldwide.
Fifty-seven Monarchs were counted overwintering at Gill Tract Farm last year. A group of farmers pushed back to get protective measures added to UC Berkeley’s development plans, and won.
The Society of Benefit-Cost Analysis notes that Gabe's "work on fisheries and the effect of regulations will inform future rule making and the associated benefit-cost analyses for quite a while."
ARE Update is a bimonthly magazine published by the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics for the purpose of providing wide dissemination of research results and expert opinion from faculty and graduate students in agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and UC Riverside.
Cooperative Extension Specialist, Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
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."
ARE is very pleased to announce that Professor David Zilberman has been named a Fellow of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
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.
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 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.”
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".
The Student Commencement Speech this year will be given by Sabina Mahavni, graduate of the Environmental Economics and Policy major from ARE.
Taught by Professor David Zilberman, Environmental Economics 141 offers a background in supply chains using examples from environmental and agrifood sectors.
Researchers Joseph Shapiro and Meredith Fowlie, who are featured in Breakthroughs magazine, evaluate the legacy of landmark environmental policies.
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.
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 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.