Scott Barrett
Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar (April 2007)
Scott Barrett was the first Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar, in April 2007. He was hosted during his visit by Prof. Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and participated in several meetings and seminars with Harvard economics faculty and Ph.D. students. Dr. Barrett is Professor of Environmental Economics and International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he also directs the International Policy Program. He is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making (Oxford University Press 2005) and numerous research and policy papers on climate change. He has also advised a number of international bodies on the subject, including different agencies of the United Nations, the European Commission, the OECD and, most recently, the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was a lead author of the second assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was previously a member of the Academic Panel of Environmental Economists to the UK’s Department of Environment. He received his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. His latest book, Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2007. Prof. Barrett has also written a chapter for Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World, edited by Prof. Stavins and Joseph Aldy, Fellow at Resources for the Future, to be published by Cambridge University Press in August 2007.
e: sbarrett@jhu.edu
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Garth Heutel
Harvard University Center for the Environment Fellow (2007-2009)
Garth Heutel is a Harvard University Center for the Environment Fellow during academic years 2007-09. His faculty sponsor is Prof. Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a HEEP Faculty Fellow. Dr. Heutel is an economist who studies the dynamic interactions between environmental policies and economic issues. He earned his B.S. in physics and philosophy from the University of Michigan in 2000 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. His dissertation studied the effect of the Clean Air Act on electric utilities’ decisions to invest in new technologies, developed a model to examine the distribution of the costs of different types of environmental policies, and studied the interaction between public and private funding sources for public goods. As an Environmental Fellow, Dr. Heutel plans to continue modeling and analyzing environmental policies using recently developed computational methods. His first research project at Harvard will examine cases of grandfathering in environmental policies, such as the New Source Review policy of the Clean Air Act or Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for new automobiles.
e: heutel@fas.harvard.edu
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Charles D. Kolstad
Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar (December 2007)
Charles Kolstad will be the newest Harvard University Center for the Environment Visiting Scholar, in December 2007. He will be hosted by Prof. Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. On Monday December 3, Prof. Kolstad will give a public talk entitled, ""Climate Change: is economics the source of the problem or the key to the solution?" Prof. Kolstad (PhD, Stanford, 1982), a former president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), is an environmental economist, jointly appointed in the Bren School and the Economics Department at UCSB. He has held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois, MIT, Stanford, and the New Economic School (Moscow) and served for two years in the Peace Corps in Ghana. Prof. Kolstad’s research interests are broadly in environmental and natural resource economics. He is interested how information and learning influence the timing, strength and effectiveness of environmental regulation. Much of his applied work is in the area of climate change and energy markets. Prof. Kolstad is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), a member of the US National Academy of Sciences committee evaluating the US Climate Change Research Program, and a co-editor of the new journal Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. He is an author of over 100 publications, including his undergraduate text, Environmental Economics, which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish and Japanese.
e: kolstad at bren.ucsb.edu
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