program in Environmental and Resource Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

pERE Activity at Environmental Horizons

Keynote Speaker

The Science, Economics and Politics of Global Warming
Robert Watson, Chief Scientist and Senior Advisory for Sustainable Development, World Bank

    Chief Scientist & Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development, World Bank
    Chair-elect of Environmental Sciences at University of East Anglia
    Director of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science & Technology for Development
    Co-chair of the International Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ozone
 

Student Research Posters

Ecotourism and Fishing: Whales and Herring in the Gulf of Maine

    Min-Yang Lee (Dept. of ACE), Richard Brazee (Dept. of NRES), and Elisabeth Condon (IB)

Air Quality and Neighbors’ Effects: Evidence from Survival Analysis

    Mariano Rabassa (Dept. of ACE) and Nicholas Brozovic (Dept. of ACE)

Backyards and City Parks: An Economic Analysis of Public and Private Green Space

    Farah Abi-Akar (Dept. of NRES) and Amy W. Ando (Dept. of ACE)

An Empirical Investigation of Land Cover Choice in the Leuser Ecosystem, Inonesia Using Discrete Choice Models

    Jeffrey Savage, Gerald C. Nelson, Amy W. Ando, and Nicholas Brozovic (all of Dept. of ACE)

Modeling Recreational Fishing Response to Fish Consumption Advisories

    Cameron Speir (Dept. of ACE)

Effect of trade on agricultural land use change——Extension of Von Thunen model

    Xing Liang (Dept. of NRES)

Building a Dynamic Economic Model of Polluted Commercial Fisheries

    Yusuke Kuwayama (Dept. of ACE)
 


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