North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle

Education

Ph.D. (Economics)
Cornell University
1974

M.A. (Economics)
Cornell University
1972

B.A. (Economics)
University of Utah
1970

Research and Teaching Fields

Environmental & Resource Economics

Natural & Man-Made Hazards

Energy Economics

Economic Development

Regional & Urban Economics

Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

Employment History

Professor, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
2002-

Professor, Department of Energy, Environmental, and Mineral Economics,
The Pennsylvania State University (Department Head, 1988-02)
1988-02

Professor, Department of Mineral Resource Economics, West Virginia University
(Department Chairman, 1986-88)
1984-88

Associate Professor, Department of Mineral Resource Economics, West Virginia University (Department Chairman, 1981-83)
1981-84

Faculty Associate, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University
1981-88

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside
1977-81

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside
1975-77

Senior Council Economist, New York State Council of Economic Advisers
1974-75

Recent Visiting Positions

Visiting Fellow, East-West Center
2004

Resident Visitor, Resources for the Future
2001

Recent Advisory Positions

U.S. EPA Advisory Panel on the Second Generation Climate Policy Model
2004

Chair, NSF Site Review Team, Center for Decision-Making under Uncertainty
2004

National Academy of Sciences, Panel on Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring
2003-

Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment of Climate Change, Advisory Council
2003-

NSF/Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Panel on Research Opportunities
for Earthquake Engineering
2001-03

Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy, Committee on Climate Change and Energy (Chair, 2001-03)
2001-

Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Research Committee
2001

Editorial Board, Energy Policy
2000-

Editorial Board, Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy
1995-

Editorial Board, Resource and Energy Economics
1993-

Selected Publications

Recent Refereed Journal Articles

“Modeling Regional Economic Resilience to Disasters: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Water Service Disruptions,” Journal of Regional Science, forthcoming (with S. Liao).

“Reducing the Conflict Between Climate Policy and Energy Policy in the U.S.: The Important Role of the States,” Energy Policy, forthcoming (with T. Peterson).

“Incentive-Based Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Pennsylvania: Protecting the Environment and Promoting Fiscal Reform,” Widener Law Journal, forthcoming (with R. McKinstry and C. Ripp).

“A Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory for Pennsylvania,” Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, forthcoming (with B. Yarnal and others).

“Global Climate Change and the Value of Solar Energy in the U.S. Agriculture,” Land Economics, forthcoming (with R. Kamat and J. Shortle).

“Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience to Disasters,” Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2004, pp. 307-14.

“Interregional Burden-Sharing of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the United States,” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2004, pp. 477-500 (with Z. Zhang).

“Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Action Planning,” Penn State Environmental Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2003, pp. 153-71.

“A Dynamic Analysis of the Marketable Permits Approach to Global Warming Policy: A Comparison of Spatial and Temporal Flexibility,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2002, pp. 45-69 (with B. K. Stevens).

“Business Interruption Losses from Natural Hazards: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Case of the Northridge Earthquake,” Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002, pp. 1-14 (with D. Lim).

“Greenhouse Gas Reduction in the U.S.: Identifying Winners and Losers in an Expanded Permit Trading System,” Energy Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-18 (with G. Oladosu).

“An Economic Analysis of Flexible Permit Trading in the Kyoto Protocol,” International Environmental Agreements, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2001, pp. 219-42 (with B. K. Stevens).

“Characterizing Economic Impacts and Responses to Climate Change,” Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2000, pp. 67-81 (with J. Shortle and others).

Recent Research Reports

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory for Pennsylvania, Report to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Center for Integrated Regional Assessment, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003 (with B. Yarnal and others).

User Costs in Seismic Risk Management for Urban Infrastructure Systems, Report to the National Science Foundation, Department of Geography, University of Washington, 2002 (with S. Chang and others).

Chad-Cameroon Development Project: Economic Impact Assessment of Cameroon, Report to the World Bank for ExxonMobil, URS Corporation, Houston, TX, 2002 (with F. Bayne).

Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment (MARA): The Impacts of Climate Change, Report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Pennsylvania State University, 2000 (with A. Fisher and others).

Recent Contributions to Public Documents

National Research Council. 2005. Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2004 (with other members of a National Academy of Sciences Panel).

European Union. 2003. “Understanding Sources of Resiliency to Natural Hazards,” in A. van der Veen et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the Joint NEDEIS and University of Twente Workshop: In Search of a Common Methodology for Damage Estimation, Bruxelles: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2003, pp. 137-50 (with S. Liao).

National Institute of Building Sciences/Federal Emergency Management Agency, “Indirect Economic Losses,” Flood Loss Estimation Methodology, Washington, DC, 2003 (with H. Cochrane and S. Chang).

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Securing Society Against Catastrophic Loss: A Research and Technology Transfer Plan, Report to the National Science Foundation, Oakland, CA, 2002 (with other members of an Expert Review Panel).

Professional Presentations (Selected)

Conferences of Professional Organizations

American Economic Association Meetings: 1986, 1987

American Association for the Advancement of Science Meetings: 1991, 1992, 1994

American Society of Civil Engineers

• Structural Engineers Joint World Congress: 1998
• U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering: 1999

Association of American Geographers Meetings: 2003, 2004

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

• European Meetings: 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
• World Congress: 1998

International Association for Energy Economics

• International Meetings: 1999, 2001, 2002
• North American Meetings: 2000

International Society for Ecological Economics Biennial Meetings: 1996, 1998

Regional Science Association

• European Meetings: 1994
• North American Meetings: 1990, 1992, 1994-97, 1999, 2001-03
• Pacific Meetings: 1995

Western Economic Association, 1980, 1994, 1999

Professional Research Activities (Recent and Current)

Major Grant and Contract Research

• Principal Investigator and Project Director, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection contract – Economic Impact Modeling of Pennsylvania’s Indigenous Resources, 2004-.

Consultantships