Harvard Environmental Economics Program: Home

FEATURED PROFILE

Richard Zeckhauser, a HEEP Faculty Fellow, is the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School. He studies the perception and valuation of climate change risks, the obstacles to establishing sound natural disaster preparedness policies, and actions by public or private parties that jeopardize assets that are far away in time or space.

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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program was mentioned in the June 22, 2008 edition of The Washington Post. Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude.

Robert Stavins will serve as a member of the advisory panel to the newly formed Water Policy Institute. The Institute, chaired by former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, is a consortium of water policy leaders and will address a variety of important global and local water issues.

Forest Reinhardt, Robert Stavins and Richard Vietor have collaborated on a new working paper entitled Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens prepared for The Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, April 2008.

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Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Learn about this exciting initiative, whose goal is to identify policy architectures that hold promise as successors to the Kyoto Protocol.

DIRECTOR'S WELCOME

HEEP's director, Professor Robert Stavins, invites you to read his message here.