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Ecological Economics Seminar

This seminar series takes place every two years at RPI. The seminars are open to all those interested in attending. The seminars are also part of a course in Ecological Economics. Seminars will take place in Room 212 in the Ricketts Building on the Troy Campus at 4pm on the dates scheduled below. Copies of background papers are available from the speakers or from David Stern. Speakers scheduled for 2006:

January 30, 2006 Faye Duchin Dept. of Economics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sustainable Consumption of Food
February 6, 2006 Jack Manno Faculty of Environmental Studies SUNY-ESF Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection
February 13, 2006 Maurie Cohen Dept. of Chemistry and Environmental Science New Jersey Institute of Technology Automobility and Sustainable Systems Innovation
February 21, 2006 Charles Hall Faculty of Environmental & Forest Biology SUNY-ESF Biophysical Economics: the Need for a New Approach for the Second Half of the Age of Oil
February 27, 2006 John Gowdy Dept. of Economics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cost Benefit Analysis and Experimental Economics
March 6, 2006 Peter Stauvermann School of Business, Public Administration, and Technology University of Twente Why and How Should We Account For the Environment?
March 20, 2006 Cutler Cleveland Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Boston University TBA
March 27, 2006 David Stern Dept. of Economics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute The Diffusion of Emissions Abating Technology: Convergence in the OECD and NAFTA?
April 3, 2006 Valerie Luzadis Faculty of Forestry and Natural Resource Management SUNY-ESF The Science of Ecological Economics
April 10, 2006 Joshua Farley Dept. of Community Development and Applied Economics University of Vermont Ecosystem Services, Information and the Tragedy of the Non-commons
April 17, 2006 Neha Khanna Department of Economics Binghamton University The Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: Myths and Realities
April 24, 2006 Ian Sue Wing Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Boston University TBA


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