Environmental Economics
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Category: Recommended Reading
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I know you have all missed me for the last week, but I'm glad John was able to maintain the professional standards we have set for Env-Econ in my absence. As for me, I was able to spend five days of observational field research on coastal erosion in eastern Mexico. A few things I learned:…
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Kate Bahn ("a doctoral student in economics at the New School for Social Research and a writer and co-editor at LadyEconomist.com) in the Chronicle: So the problem is really twofold: Women have been discouraged and excluded, and those who make an impact anyway have had their contributions discredited. Add these together, and economics has a…
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For those who have followed our anticipatory posts, good news in the inbox this morning: I am pleased to inform you that Oxford Journals has published your article [From Hopeless to Curious? Thoughts on Hausman's "Dubious to Hopeless" Critique of Contingent Valuation by Timothy C. Haab; Matthew G. Interis; Daniel R. Petrolia; John C. Whitehead]…
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Look what we just got in the inbox! It's not the actual encyclopedia, just the cover art. But, for those of you who are planners, you can order it in advance on Amazon for $71.20. Just imagine the picture below in the little spot where it says 'No Image Available.'
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Hey John, looks like we have some competition for our FORTHCOMING encyclopedia titled "Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, available for pre-order on Amazon for the low price of $71.20 (with a picture above). And the competition comes from "Nobel Peace Prize winner"* and musician extraordinaire J. Shogren. *…"the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded…
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Warning: Spoiler Alert below the jump. If you haven't read 'Inferno' yet, don;t read below the jump, I'm going to give away the plot and ending. I recently finished reading Dan Brown's (author of The Da Vinci Code) newest book 'Inferno.' As a casual reader of the book, I found it entertaining. Brown does his…
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Warning, blatant self-and-John-promotion ahead. So I was reading this CNN story this morning about the recent increase in bottlenose dolphin deaths on the east coast. The carcasses of dozens of the marine mammals, seven times more than normal, have been washing up on beaches this summer, and scientists are struggling for answers to the die-off.…
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You write it up and send it to the Chronicle: Although I expected that he would be at the conference, I hoped he wouldn't attend my presentation. He did. But even in my wildest imagination I never could have foreseen that over the next three days we would share each other's company over breakfasts, dinners,…
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Kevin Haggerty (editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology) in the Chronicle: Writing anonymous peer reviews is an academic "black art." Such assessments are vital to scholarly publishing but we receive no formal training in how to write one. Drawing on my own experiences as an author and editor, I would like to offer guidance…
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Recommended reading (Inching Toward Energy Independence in America): Across the country, the oil and gas industry is vastly increasing production, reversing two decades of decline. Using new technology and spurred by rising oil prices since the mid-2000s, the industry is extracting millions of barrels more a week, from the deepest waters of the Gulf of…
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