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New Pre-Doctoral Placements

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Current Pre-Doctoral Fellows Robyn Meeks and Matthew Ranson have accepted positions following completion of their doctorates—both in Public Policy— this spring. Matt will be a Senior Analyst in the Environment and Resources Division at Abt Associates Inc...

SO2 Allowance-Trading Policy Brief

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The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) released, on January 31, a policy brief based in large part on a research workshop and policy roundtable held May 19-20, 2011, “The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990...

Economics of the Environment

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The Sixth Edition of Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, edited by Robert Stavins, was recently published by W. W. Norton & Company of New York and London. Through five previous editions, Economics of the Environment has served as a valuable...

Making Drinking Water Clean

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Michael Kremer, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, was featured in an article in the Harvard Gazette discussing the importance of clean drinking water. Kremer recently spoke to a packed audience at the Radcliffe Institute for...

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

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Forest Reinhardt, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, was featured in an article exploring the importance of water and who controls it in a Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article. The author, Maggie Starvish, cites...

The Cookstove Conundrum

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Rema Hanna and Edward Glaeser, Faculty Fellows of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), and Michael Greenstone, HEEP Associate Scholar, were featured in a New York Times article on programs to distribute clean cookstoves to poor rural areas...

The Cost of Clean Energy

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In a new study, “ Willingness to pay and political support for a US national clean energy standard,” co-author Joseph Aldy, Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy...

Market Based Instruments to Address Climate Change.

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[ International Trade Centre Environment Blog ]... Stavins made a strong case for market-based instrument to mitigate climate change. There are millions of emissions sources (from cars to lawnmowers to power station) with hundreds of millions of decision...

There's Still Hope for the Planet

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[ The New York Times ] Still, the clean-energy push has been successful enough to leave many climate advocates believing it is the single best hope for preventing even hotter summers, more droughts and bigger brush fires. “Carbon pricing is going to have...