Opportunities for Collaboration with RFF

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Opportunities for Collaboration with RFF

• Carolyn FischerResources for the Future

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Introduction

• RFF is an independent, nonprofit research
  institute (think tank), based in Washington DC,
  devoted to improving environmental and natural
  resource policymaking through high-caliber
  research, rooted in the social sciences.

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Academic Fellowships and Internships

• Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation
  Fellowships
• Gilbert F. White Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• John V. Krutilla Research Stipend 
• Walter O. Spofford, Jr. Memorial Internship
  Program
• Summer Internship Programs

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Office Facilities
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Expressions of Interest

• Several fellows have expressed interest in EfD

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Joe Aldy

• Harvard Project on International Climate
  Agreements (www.belfercenter.org/climate).
• environmental fiscal reform and the
  distributional effects of energy taxes. could
  include CDM.
• focus on adaptation to climate change with a
  particular interest in focusing on the design of
  adaptation policy and institutions.

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Allen Blackman

• evaluating innovative policies to control
  industrial pollution and stem tropical
  deforestation
• voluntary regulation,
• economic incentive regulation, and payments for
  ecological services.
• particularly interested in new projects on
  generating carbon credits via Reduced Emissions
  from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

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Carolyn Fischer

• policy instruments
• Forestry illegal logging, trade, and
  certification issues.
• Fisheries trade, and labeling work.
• Climate policy design permit allocation,
  technology, standards
• Resource benefit sharing, communities, wildlife
  trade, farming, etc.

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Sandy Hoffmann

• Environmental health issues, including water
  quality and air quality.
• Environmental health valuation
• Adapation of institutional structures/policy
  instrument design to accommodate increasing
  globalization.

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Alan Krupnick

• Analysis of air quality and congestion during
  Olympics and of prior pilot experiment
• mortality risk valuation as complement to
  on-going projects
• survey of attitudes towards China's role in
  climate change mitigation
• adaptation to climate change -- identical study
  in all centers ecosystem valuation -- first ever
  study in China

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Ian Parry

• political economy of fuel taxation
• environmental fiscal reform

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Billy Pizer

• mechanisms for engaging developing countries in
  climate change mitigation efforts, particular in
  China and Costa Rica.
• (a) what kinds of policies are possible, given
  political and institutional constraints
• (b) how can industrialized countries like the US
  support and incentivize those policies
• (c) more narrowly, what opportunities exist to
  connect policies in developing countries to
  carbon markets.

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Elena Safirova

• urban transportation-related research
• corruption and corruption- mitigation mechanisms
  (I haven't really done anything on this topic
  since graduate school, but I have first-hand
  experience in the issue).

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Roger Sedjo

• Forestry
• trade in forest products
• carbon sequestration

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Juha Siikimaki

• valuation of the environment
• conservation of biodiversity and other ecosystem
  services in working landscapes
• (i) Designing and evaluating payment for
  ecosystem services programs for promoting
  wildflife conservation (maybe in Africa, e.g. the
  Eastern Arcs, or Kenya)
• (ii) Valuing benefits from African wildlife for
  outdoor recreation and ecotourism (e.g. safaris,
  national parks)
• (iii) Systematic approaches to prioritizing
  biodiversity conservation efforts in Tanzania and
  Kenya

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Shalini Valjhana

• Climate adaptation
• Geography and human behavior

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Margaret Walls

• land use issues, particularly around the
  urban/rural fringe
• ecosystem services
• wildlife conservation

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Others

• Jim Boyd
• water, ecosystem services
• Ramanan Laxminarayan
• public health, resistance, malaria, antibiotics,
  HIV
• Dick Morgenstern
• climate policy

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Others

• Urvashi Narain
• natural resources and poverty
• urban energy use and air quality
• Jhih Shyang Shih
• water quality, air quality management and policy
  analysis and conservation design in China

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Others

• Molly Macauley
• Remote sensing
• Toshi Arimura, visitor
• voluntary environmental actions in China
• Anthony Paul, research associate
• electricity markets and their interaction with
  markets for pollution rights