The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) develops innovative answers to today’s complex environmental issues. HEEP provides a forum for policymakers, scholars and advocates to grapple with such difficult questions as whether the Environmental Protection Agency should consider costs as well as benefits when determining regulatory targets; or what level of carbon reductions are appropriate to limit global climate change; and whether the United States should open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration as dependence on foreign oil pushes prices higher.

Established at the end of 2000 under the direction of Professor Robert Stavins, HEEP offers a venue to bring together faculty and graduate students from across the University engaged in research, teaching, and outreach in environmental and natural resource economics and related public policy.  The program, supported by the Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics and the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and housed at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, develops curricula, sponsors research projects, and convenes conferences to further the understanding of the critical issues in Environmental Economics in the U.S. and around the world.

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