A special Climate Change issue of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research will be published on January 10, 2011. Peter Berck, SJ Hall Professor and EfD Research Associate, is the guest editor of the special issue entitled "Climate Change Challenge: Policy Perspectives" which include several EfD authors.
"The climate change challenge is taken on so differently in different countries, from China with its emphasis on population control to the developed countries and their obsession with getting the control allocation and mechanisms right, to Africa, with its limited ability to analyze, cope and respond at all," says Peter Berck.
EfD authors of this special issue include besides Peter Berck also Gunnar Kohlin, Alemu Mekonnen, Lisa Westholm, Linyu Xi, and Jintao Xu.
The table of contents of the special issue, Climate Change Challenge: Policy Perspectives, will include:
1. Guest Editorial: The climate change challenge by Peter Berck
2. Do not give up hope for a climate agreement. by Larry Karp
3. Climate Change in China: Policy Evolution, Actions Taken and Options Ahead by Jie Li & Jintao Xu
4. A policy model for climate change in California by Peter Berck and Lunyu Xie
5. Green Regulations in California and Sweden by Peter Berck, Runar Brännlund, and Cyndi Spindell Berck
6. Climate change policy in Africa with special reference to energy and land use by Gunnar Köhlin, Alemu Mekonnen, and Lisa Westholm
7. International Emission Inequality and Per Capita Abatement Schemes by Amnon Levy, Khorshed Chowdhury and Jonathan Levy Livermore
Peter Berck is S.J. Hall Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as editor of Natural Resource Modeling and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. His research work has included studies of forests and fisheries with forward looking agents, the financial costs of state owned enterprises, the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas regulations, crop response to nutrients, risk management on diversified farms, tests of theories of sales, and other topics. Currently his research is focused on bio-fuels and their effects on food prices and on sustainable resource management in Africa.
By Karin Backteman