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| | NEWS & NOTES | | Former RFF Board Chair Wolman Dies | M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, a pioneering environmental scholar and champion of interdisciplinary environmental education, died February 24, 2010, at the age of 85. Wolman, who chaired the RFF Board of Directors from 1979 to 1987, was recognized for his distinguished work on the evolution of rivers and their influence on ecosystems, water resources management, flood plains, and urbanization. He was for many years a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Read more here. | | RFF Among Top-Rated Environmental Research Institutions | RFF placed in the top ranks worldwide among leading environmental research organizations, according to two recent international reports. In a global survey published in January, the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania ranked RFF third among all environmental think tanks worldwide, and 36th among the top 50 think tanks around the world. The results of the online poll can be found in the publication The Global “Go-To Think Tanks” 2009: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, available here (PDF).
Research Papers in Economics, an independent consortium that monitors working papers and published journal articles, reports that RFF ranks fourth in publication productivity in the field of environmental economics. Fifty RFF scholars were cited in the index, which can be found here. In the same survey, RFF ranked third in productivity in energy economics publications. Those rankings can be seen here. | | Op-ed: ‘Pollution Credits’ a Flawed Idea for Chesapeake Bay | Trading in credits to encourage farmers to reduce polluting runoff into the Chesapeake Bay will not be an effective way to clean up the waterway, according to an op-ed in the February 22, 2010, Baltimore Sun co-written by RFF Resident Scholar Leonard Shabman. The article suggests that market-oriented approaches to water quality management will provide better – and more equitable – results.
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| FEATURES | | Balancing Conservation and Development | | New research highlights the economics of critical developing world issues such as deforestation and water supply. | | NGO Strategy and Corporate Behavior | | A new book from RFF Press brings together leaders from the social sciences, NGOs, and corporations to assess how environmental NGOs seek to influence business, and what causes them to succeed or fail.
| | Event: Climate Policy Under the Clean Air Act | | Panelists debate the legal and practical aspects of greenhouse gas regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency at the March First Wednesday Seminar. Video, audio, and transcript available. | | Estimating the Cost of Oil Price Shocks | | Nonresident Fellow Stephen P. A. Brown and Stanford economist Hillard G. Huntington explore the security externalities that arise from oil disruptions and show what a policy to integrate these costs into the market might look like. | | Economics and Ecosystem-Based Management | | A new book from RFF Press describes the different economic tools which inform and improve ecosystem-based management (EBM).
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