CCPO Fall 2016 Seminar Series - Sept. 26
CCPO and ODU Resilience Collaborative
Fall 2016 Seminar
Monday, 26 September 2016
3:30 p.m., Conference Center
First Floor, IRB II
4211 Monarch Way
Web streaming link:
http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/seminar.html
or
http://vs.odu.edu/kvs/interface/?cid=201530_CCPOSeminarSeriesVS_96096
The next seminar is co-sponsored by the ODU Resilience Collaborative and will be presented by Dr. Andrew Keeler from the Coastal Studies Institute and Department of Economics, East Carolina University. Dr. Keeler’s research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics, climate change economics, and public policy. His current research is on public policy aspects of adaptation to environmental change. His seminar will consider aspects of short term and long term adaptations to sea level rise and the trade-offs associated with implementing a this type of approach.
More information on Dr. Keeler’s research is available at:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/econ/andrew-keeler.cfm
and
http://coastalstudiesinstitute.org/about/faculty-and-staff/andy-keeler/
Dr. Keeler will be at ODU on Monday. If you would like to schedule time to talk with him, please contact Michelle Covi (mcovi@odu.edu) or Eileen Hofmann (hofmann@ccpo.odu.edu).
Coffee and cookies are available prior to the seminar at 3:00 p.m.
Everyone is encouraged to attend the seminar.
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Title: Adapting to Sea Level rise in the Short Run and the Long Run: Markets, Choices, and Public Policy
Abstract
Adapting to sea level rise is a complex process that takes place through both public and private decisions, influenced by policies from different and overlapping levels of government, and perhaps most crucially over multiple time scales. Our particular interest is in the tension between short-run adaptation through risk-reducing expenditures and the long-run need for discontinuous responses like large-scale relocation. We approach this topic through examining the interaction of private choices mediated by markets, and public policies toward infrastructure and risk management. We present a model structure and strategy that we believe is both rich enough and sufficiently tractable to begin to make progress on the key determinants of the benefits and costs of alternative policy approaches.
Biography
Andy Keeler heads the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute’s program in public policy, is a professor in the Department of Economics at East Carolina University, and is Director of UNC-CH’s Outer Banks Field Site. He previously held faculty positions at the University of Georgia and the Ohio State University. Keeler served as the Senior Staff Economist for Environment at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2000–2001) where he was a member of the US negotiating team for climate change and a diplomatic representative to OECD meetings on coordinating national sustainability policies. He served on the White House climate change policy teams under both President Clinton and President Bush. Keeler has also worked as a senior economist at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Innovative Strategies and Economics Group (1999-2000) and for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in Tanzania (1982-1985). He has served in advisory capacities to legislative and executive agencies in Georgia, Florida, and Ohio, and advised the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners on climate change policy. Keeler received a B.A. in Economics for UNC-Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Resource Economics from the University of California-Berkeley.
Posted By: Julie Morgan
Date: Thu Sep 22 07:52:13 EDT 2016