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    ECON 1661/API-135: Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2020

    Provides a survey, from the perspective of economics, of public policy issues associated with environmental protection and natural resources management. Lectures on conceptual and methodological topics are combined with examinations of specific resource and environmental issues, with particular focus on global climate change economics and policy. Prerequisite: Introductory microeconomics.

    Also offered by the Economics Department as Ec 1661.

    ECON 3116HF/API-905Y: Seminar on Environmental Economics and Policy

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2021

    This is an advanced research seminar on selected topics in environmental and resource economics. Emphasizes theoretical models, quantitative empirical analysis, and public policy applications. Includes presentations by invited outside speakers. Students prepare critiques of presented papers and prepare a research paper of their own. Prerequisites: This course is intended primarily for PhD students in economics, political economy and government, public policy, or related fields with interests in applications in the environmental and natural resource area. Prerequisites include a PhD-level...

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    Outside Activities

    My responsibilities as a faculty member of the Harvard Kennedy School include research, teaching, outreach initiatives (which involve, in part, communicating research results and policy options), and university administrative responsibilities. Fulfilling some of these responsibilities – in particular outreach initiatives – frequently involves engagement with other organizations. Also, I periodically engage in outside activities (that is, engagement in my personal capacity, rather than as a representative of Harvard University or my research programs at the Kennedy School) with a range of...

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    Contact Info

    Email: robert_stavins@hks.harvard.edu
    Tel: 617-495-1820
    Office: Littauer 306

    Mailing Address:
    Robert N. Stavins
    Harvard Kennedy School, Mailbox #11
    79 John F. Kennedy Street
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

    Assistant: Jason Chapman
    Email: jason_chapman@hks.harvard.edu
    Tel: 617-496-8054

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    Biography

    Curriculum Vitae

    Robert N. Stavins is the A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Program in...

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