Ph.D. Environmental and Resource Economics | ECON 8540/6000
Lecture: W 12:00pm - 2:30pm | Brewster C-304 (unless otherwise noted)
Office Hours: By Appointment | Brewster A-109
CLASS RESOURCES
Parallel Seminar Series for Class
Fridays 1:00pm - 2:15pm
October 6th, 2017:
Eli Fenichel
Assistant Professor
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Assigned Reading: Do Yun, Seong, Barbara Hutniczak, Joshua K. Abbott, and Eli P. Fenichel. "Ecosystem-based management and the wealth of ecosystems." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017).
Fenichel, E. P., & Abbott, J. K. (2014). Natural capital: from metaphor to measurement. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1(1/2), 1-27.
Other Selected Publications:
Fenichel, Eli P., Joshua K. Abbott, Jude Bayham, Whitney Boone, Erin MK Haacker, and Lisa Pfeiffer. "Measuring the value of groundwater and other forms of natural capital." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 9 (2016).
Fenichel, Eli P., Simon A. Levin, Bonnie McCay, Kevin St Martin, Joshua K. Abbott, and Malin L. Pinsky. "Wealth reallocation and sustainability under climate change." Nature Climate Change 6, no. 3 (2016).
October 27th, 2017:
Assigned Reading: Tessler ZD, Vörösmarty CJ, Grossberg M, Gladkova I, Aizenmann H, Syvitski J, FoufoulaGeorgiou E. (2015). Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world. Science, 349 (6248), 638-643, doi:10.1126/science.aab3574.
Other selected publications:
Haddeland I, Heinke J, Biemans H, Eisner S, Flörke M, Hanasaki N, Konzmann M, Ludwig F, Masaki Y, Schewe J, Stacke T, Tessler ZD, Wada Y, and Wisser D. (2014). Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (9), 3251-3256, doi:10.1073/pnas.1222475110.
Piontek, Franziska, Christoph Müller, Thomas AM Pugh, Douglas B. Clark, Delphine Deryng, Joshua Elliott, Felipe de Jesus Colón González et al. "Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 9 (2014): 3233-3238.
Haddeland, Ingjerd, Jens Heinke, Hester Biemans, Stephanie Eisner, Martina Flörke, Naota Hanasaki, Markus Konzmann et al. "Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 9 (2014): 3251-3256.
November 10th, 2017:
Ivan Rudik
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Assigned Reading: Lemoine, Derek, and Ivan Rudik. "Steering the climate system: Using inertia to lower the cost of policy." Forthcoming in American Economic Review (2017).
Other Selected Publications:
Burke, M., M. Craxton, C. D. Kolstad, C. Onda, H. Allcott, E. Baker, L. Barrage et al. "Opportunities for advances in climate change economics." Science 352, no. 6283 (2016): 292-293.
Required Course Textbooks
Holland, Daniel S., James Sanchirico, and Robert Johnston. Economic analysis for ecosystem-based management: Applications to marine and coastal environments. Routledge, 2010.
Angrist, Joshua D., and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion. Princeton university press, 2008.
Suggested Supplementary Textbook Resources
Hanley, Nick, Jason Shogren and Ben White. Environmental economicsin theory and practice. No. 333.7 H35. 2007.
Conrad, Jon M. Resource economics. Cambridge university press, 2010.
Hanley, Nick, Edward B. Barbier, and Edward Barbier. Pricing nature: cost-benefit analysis and environmental policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009.
October 20th, 2017:
Anna Birkenbach
Ph.D. Candidate
Duke Nicholas School for the Environment
Assigned Reading: Birkenbach, Anna M., David J. Kaczan, and Martin D. Smith. "Catch shares slow the race to fish." Nature 544, no. 7649 (2017): 223-226.
Other Selected Publications:
Bauch, Simone C., Anna M. Birkenbach, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Erin O. Sills. "Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 24 (2015): 7414-7419.
November 3rd, 2017:
Ryan Rykaczewski
Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
Assigned Reading: Sydeman, W. J., García-Reyes, M., Schoeman, D. S., Rykaczewski, R. R., Thompson, S. A., Black, B. A., & Bograd, S. J. (2014). Climate change and wind intensification in coastal upwelling ecosystems. Science, 345(6192), 77-80.
Other Selected Publications:
Stock, CA, JG John, RR Rykaczewski, RG Asch, WWL Cheung, JP Dunne, KD Friedland, VWY Lam, JL Sarmiento, RA Watson. 2017. Reconciling fisheries catch and ocean productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114:E1441-E1449, doi:10.1073/pnas.1610238114. Link to PNAS.
Black, B. A., Sydeman, W. J., Frank, D. C., Griffin, D., Stahle, D. W., García-Reyes, M., ... & Peterson, W. T. (2014). Six centuries of variability and extremes in a coupled marine-terrestrial ecosystem. Science, 345(6203), 1498-1502.
Hazen, EL, E Jorgensen, RR Rykaczewski, SJ Bograd, DG Foley, ID Jonsen, SA Shaffer, JP Dunne, DP Costa, LB Crowder, and BA Block. 2013. Predicted habitat shifts of Pacific top predators in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change 3:234-238, doi:10.1038/nclimate1686. Link to Nature Climate Change. Press Release.
Rykaczewski, RR and JP Dunne. 2011. A measured look at ocean chlorophyll trends. Nature 472:E5-E6, doi:10.1038/nature09952. Link to Nature. New York Times "Dot Earth" blog
Other Required Reading:
Costanza, Robert, Ralph d'Arge, Rudolf De Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg et al. "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital." Nature 387, no. 6630 (1997): 253-260.
Barbier, Edward B., and Ivar Strand. "Valuing mangrove-fishery linkages–A case study of Campeche, Mexico." Environmental and Resource Economics 12, no. 2 (1998): 151-166.
Costello, Christopher, Steven D. Gaines, and John Lynham. "Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse?." Science 321, no. 5896 (2008): 1678-1681.
Gopalakrishnan, Sathya, Dylan McNamara, Martin D. Smith, and A. Brad Murray. "Decentralized management hinders coastal climate adaptation: the spatial-dynamics of beach nourishment." Environmental and Resource Economics (2016): 1-27.
Gopalakrishnan, Sathya, Martin D. Smith, Jordan M. Slott, and A. Brad Murray. "The value of disappearing beaches: a hedonic pricing model with endogenous beach width." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 61, no. 3 (2011): 297-310.
Kriesel, Warren P., Craig E. Landry, and Mona Ahmadiani. "Are Some Natural Amenities as Good as Gold? Evidence from Coastal Real Estate and Marshlands." (2016).
Ferris, Jeffrey S., and David A. Newburn. "Wireless alerts for extreme weather and the impact on hazard mitigating behavior." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 82 (2017): 239-255.
Week of Wednesday August 30th, 2017
Costanza, Robert, Ralph d'Arge, Rudolf De Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon, Karin Limburg et al. "The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital." Nature 387, no. 6630 (1997): 253-260.
Fenichel, E. P., & Abbott, J. K. (2014). Natural capital: from metaphor to measurement. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1(1/2), 1-27.
Josh Abbott discussing technique
Crash Course in Net Present Value
Gopalakrishnan, Sathya, Martin D. Smith, Jordan M. Slott, and A. Brad Murray. "The value of disappearing beaches: a hedonic pricing model with endogenous beach width." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 61, no. 3 (2011): 297-310.
Fenichel and Abbott capN R Package
Week of September 6th, 2017
Fenichel, E. P., & Abbott, J. K. (2014). Natural capital: from metaphor to measurement. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1(1/2), 1-27.
Fenichel, Eli P., Joshua K. Abbott, Jude Bayham, Whitney Boone, Erin MK Haacker, and Lisa Pfeiffer. "Measuring the value of groundwater and other forms of natural capital." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 9 (2016).
GW Application and V3
NC Erosion and Accretion & Setback Factors
Week of September 13th, 2017
Mini research statement: Hochard and Li (2015)
Mini research statement: Assignment (due 9-20-2017)
Fenichel, Eli P., Simon A. Levin, Bonnie McCay, Kevin St Martin, Joshua K. Abbott, and Malin L. Pinsky. "Wealth reallocation and sustainability under climate change." Nature Climate Change 6, no. 3 (2016).
Week of September 20th, 2017
Brief Intro to Non-Market Valuation and Logit Models
Brief Intro to Quasi-Experimental Techniques
Greg Howard's Paper - Seminar on Choice Modeling
Gopalakrishnan, Sathya, Dylan McNamara, Martin D. Smith, and A. Brad Murray. "Decentralized management hinders coastal climate adaptation: the spatial-dynamics of beach nourishment." Environmental and Resource Economics (2016): 1-27
Week of September 27th, 2017
A review of the mini-proposal assignment. Major revisions due October 2nd.
Greg Howard Guest Lecture on Choice Modeling (12:30pm to 2:30pm). Slides.
Do Yun, Seong, Barbara Hutniczak, Joshua K. Abbott, and Eli P. Fenichel. "Ecosystem-based management and the wealth of ecosystems." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017).
Week of October 4th, 2017
Natural Capital Project: Shared geodatabase established. Data construction underway.
In class discussion of Eli's 2017 PNAS paper.
GIS lab.
Bauch, Simone C., Anna M. Birkenbach, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Erin O. Sills. "Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 24 (2015): 7414-7419.
Week of October 11th, 2017
Birkenbach, Anna M., David J. Kaczan, and Martin D. Smith. "Catch shares slow the race to fish." Nature 544, no. 7649 (2017): 223-226.
GIS lab (calculating beach width data).
Week of October 18th, 2017
In-class discussion of Birkenbach et al. (2017; Nature).
Beach width calculation progress.
Natural capital write-up for Birkenbach application due 10-25.
Tessler ZD, Vörösmarty CJ, Grossberg M, Gladkova I, Aizenmann H, Syvitski J, Foufoula, Georgiou E. (2015). Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world. Science, 349 (6248), 638-643, doi:10.1126/science.aab3574.