Established at the end of last year, the Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University (EEPHU) has been gaining strength as a venue for Harvard students and faculty interested in studying the environment and its relation to economics and public policy. EEPHU Director Robert N. Stavins, Pratt professor of business and government, said he is excited that Harvard is the first university to establish a program in environmental economics. He said the program will bring together leading faculty from various departments in the University, and will serve as a resource for those both inside and outside Harvard.
"This program provides a convenient portal for students to gain access to resources. .. It also does something externally-it makes Harvard much more visible nationally and internationally for people studying environmental public policy," he said. "[The public did] not realize the simple truth that Harvard is the leading institution in the world for environmental economics because there was no venue-it hasn't been obvious."
Stavins said the idea to start EEPHU came from a discussion he had with University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Ira Jackson, director of the Center of Business and Government at the Kennedy School. Once the idea for the program was firmly established, the center provided grant funding.
EEPHU is not a degree-offering program-instead, it brings together 17 faculty members of the University and provides resources for academics and graduate students studying environmental economics. EEPHU Program Coordinator Lori Snyder, who is herself a graduate student, believes that the program supplements graduate work in environmental economics.
"There is now a well organized cohort of doctorate students who are now doing environmental economics," she said.
EEPHU's website allows the program to inform the community both inside and outside of the University about environmental economics.
"It is not always the case that students from other parts of the University are aware of what is happening," she said. "With the website, we wanted to make sure that events that are going on anyway are broadcasted to a wider population both within the school and externally."
Snyder also participates in EEPHU's biweekly lunch seminar where graduate students present their work to each other.
Read more in News
Student TFs Balance Friendships, FairnessRecommended Articles
-
Economics Dept. Approves Graduate Fellowship PlanEconomics has become the third Department to adopt a variation of the graduate fellowship program proposed by Dean Ford last
-
Lowell Institute Broadcasts Harris' GE Course Lectures'Recordings made this fall during the lecturer of Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, in his course "Economics for
-
RADICAL COHORTSTo the Editors of The Crimson: In The Crimson of Feb.16,1973, Mr.Samuel Bowles is reported as saying, in explaining the
-
New Joint Degree OfferedHarvard academics from both sides of the Charles have formed a collaboration to further bridge the gap between the education
-
Professor Advocates Cap-and-TradeA cap-and-trade system is the most practical, cost-effective way for the government to limit carbon emissions, according to a paper recently published by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Robert N. Stavins and University of Manchester Economics Professor Robert W. Hahn.
-
EU Representative Warns of Climate ChangeEuropean Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard warned of the impending effects of climate change and lauded the benefits of clean energy at a panel on the European perspective on international climate policy yesterday.
