Economics Principles and Practices Reading Essentials and Study Guide Answer Key

This website presents GDAE'southward electric current research and educational efforts in 3 areas:

Land, Energy, and Climate

Dark-green Economics

Ecology and Natural Resource Economics

Educational materials, including the "In Context" texts for Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Principles of Economic science and 1-semester Essentials of Economics, as well as free educational activity modules can now exist accessed at their new location at theEconomic science in Context Initiative at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center.

Publications reflecting GDAE'due south earlier research in areas such as globalization, merchandise, and feminist economic science, including Policy Briefs and Discussion papers, can exist institute in our Resource Directory.

All GDAEbooksandworking papers are also available.

COP26 REPORT: THE Function OF FORESTS AND SOILS

A new GDAE policy cursory past Anne-Marie Codur and Jonathan Harris addresses global climate issues in the wake of the Glasgow COP26 conference. The global context of COP26 was set by the sixth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), alarm of severe consequences if the planet exceeds 1.5°C of warming. The policy brief addresses both progress made at Glasgow towards this goal, and the significant ways in which the event of the conference fell short of what is needed. Codur and Harris outline the crucial importance of a largely missing element of climate policy: the role of natural climate solutions including forests, wetlands, and soils.

New Edition of Ecology and Natural Resource Economics

November 15, 2021

Thefifth edition ofEnvironmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Gimmicky Approach has been published! This text balances coverage of standard environmental economics topics with broader ecological economics assay and a global perspective on current bug such as global climate change, the transition to renewable energy, "green" national income accounting, population growth, agricultural sustainability, and natural resource systems. The new edition deals with the fast-changing economics of energy and climate, the rapid expansion of renewable energy, and issues of land direction, too as updating all data and presenting recent research on ecology issues. Two sample chapters are available.

GDAE Senior Researcher Jonathan Harris was interviewed past Good for you Living Good for you Planet Radio on Saturday, Oct 16^th for an episode on the Economic science of Climate Change, together with Dr. Richard Tol of the University of Sussex. The podcast (Episode 98) is available at https://www.healthylivinghealthyplanetradio.com/listen-online Topics discussed included the wellness and economic impacts of climate change , economic policies for responding to climatic change, expanding renewable free energy, and developing climate resilience.

GDAE Researchers Present at Ecological Economic science/Degrowth Conference

July 13, 2021

GDAE Researchers presented at the Online Joint Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, the European Club for Ecological Economics, and the international degrowth research networks, hosted by University of Manchester, UK, 5th-8th July 2021.

GDAE presentations included:

Anne-Marie Codur and Sam Polzin, Farmers as Ecosystem Regenerators: A Case Report of the Northeast Healthy Soil Network.

Jonathan Harris, Getting to Net Zip: Ecological Economics Can Help.

Brian Roach, Jonathan Harris, and Anne-Marie Codur, Educational activity Ecological Economics: Energy, Climate, Growth, and Degrowth and Changing Economics of Renewable Energy.

The presentations emphasized lessons from the preparation of the fifth edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Arroyo : the increasing prove of the severity and urgency of climate change, increased appetite for carbon reduction goals, and the essential role of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and carbon storage in soils and forests in achieving these goals.

Forum on Green and Blue New Deals

April 23, 2021

GDAE Senior Researcher Jonathan Harris participated in a symposium sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Boston on Light-green and Bluish New Deals: Science and Economics for 2021. Noel Healy (Salem Land University) and Rebecca Lewison (San Diego Land Academy) joined Dr. Harris with presentations on policy responses to the climate emergency. Dr. Healy's talk was entitled "Greenish New Deal: Go Big or Go Home", stressing the importance of a big-scale program with a focus on climate and economic justice. Dr. Harris'due south presentation on "Getting to Net Zero Carbon Emissions: Can Nosotros Practice Information technology?" surveyed the potential of renewable energy, free energy efficiency, and carbon storage in forests, grasslands, wetlands, and agricultural soils. Dr. Lewison emphasized the many ways in which healthy ocean ecosystems are key to climate stabilization. View the webinar. Encounter Dr. Harris'southward Powerpoint presentation.

New Research on Ecological Farming, Restorative Forestry, and Gender Economics

February 1, 2021

GDAE Researchers have new published work on important frontier areas in economics and ecology. Senior Research Fellow Timothy A. Wise has a new article on the hope of ecological agriculture in Africa, too every bit the social and ecological harm from intensive agribusiness. Run across original article and other work past Wise on the promise of ecological agriculture in Africa, likewise as the social and ecological impairment from intensive agribusiness. (See other recent piece of work past Wise.)

GDAE Co-Managing director William Moomaw is featured in aNew Yorker article by Bill McKibben who cites Moomaw's enquiry on "proforestation"— growing existing forests intact to their ecological potential—every bit an alternative to unsustainable policies of burning biomass. See the original commodity by Moomaw et al. and a summary in EnviroBites.

Senior Research Beau Julie A. Nelson discusses problems of economics, gender, and community cognition in two recent articles on "Economics, Considered" and"Economics and Customs Knowledge-Making". Dr. Nelson is one of the founders of feminist economics and presents feminist perspectives on the economics of care, ecological economic science, behavioral economics, and the theory of the firm.

Massachusetts Attorney General'southward Office Forum on Forest Carbon Storage

September 15, 2020

GDAE Co-Manager Dr. William Moomaw joined ii distinguished colleagues, Richard A. Birdsey of the Woodwell Climate Research Eye and John Sterman of the MIT Sloan Schoolhouse of Direction at a forum sponsored by the Massachusetts Chaser General's Office to discuss The Critical Role of Forests in Protecting Climate and Public Health. In addition to examining the crucial role of forests in carbon storage, the panelists discuss the potential of energy efficiency and renewables, concluding that an ambitious policy combining efficiency and renewables with forest protection and expansion can exist effective in reducing the impacts of climatic change. View the webinar.

Climate Change, Social Disinterestedness, and the Green New Bargain

August 14, 2020

GDAE Senior Researcher Jonathan Harris is quoted extensively in a new commodity on social equity and the Green New Deal. He argues that the political presentation of the Green New Bargain has improved, stressing its practical advantages especially for depression-income earners. A Green New Deal has the potential to create millions of jobs, while employing policy measures that are low price and can take firsthand impact. The COVID crisis increases the urgency of a broad Federal response both to unemployment and to the health crisis. The article builds on an earlier presentation about Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economic system. Run into besides Harris's policy brief on Ecological Economics of the Green New Deal and other research by GDAE on Green Economics.

2 New Policy Briefs on Soils and Climate

July thirteen, 2020

Policies to promote healthy soils are fundamental both for climate policy and agronomical sustainability. Post-obit two conferences on the topic, GDAE researchers present two policy briefs, ane by Sam Polzin on Soil Carbon, Water Direction, and Natural Infrastructure and one by Benjamin Johnson on Country Value and Soil Quality. They advocate:

Regionally coordinated state-level agronomical policy incentives to raise both soil wellness and water management in the Northeastern United States by harnessing the potential for agriculture to build natural infrastructure.
Reforming current systems of land valuation and taxation to reverberate soil quality and long-term productive potential, creating landowner incentives for proper stewardship.

See Salubrious Soils conference reports and other related climate policy briefs.

Moomaw Appeals to the European union Parliament for Climate-Focused Forest Management

May 22, 2020

GDAE Co-director William Moomaw has drafted a letter of the alphabet to the European Parliament emphasizing woods management equally an constructive tool to reduce atmospheric carbon. Forests remove more than carbon from the atmosphere than any other planetary system, but this storage potential is threatened by human activities. Long-term carbon storage in forests is critically important in lodge to achieve both Eu and global climate targets.

The letter has been signed by 370 scientists from 34 countries who have a range of expertise spanning multiple dimensions of climate, forests, energy, carbon bicycle bookkeeping and biodiversity. Signers include some of the senior scientists who warned well-nigh the consequences of climate change during the 1970s and 80s, leading scientists of today, and younger scientists who are studying to exist able to offering their talents to nature's climate solutions.

GDAE Co-Managing director Sponsors Letter Urging Congress to Protect Forests

May 13, 2020

GDAE Co-Director Dr. William Moomaw has sponsored a alphabetic character urging Congress to protect forests in the United States and shift abroad from wood consumption in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions. The letter of the alphabet has been signed by more than 200 climate and forest scientists.

The letter is further discussed here.

Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy

May 12, 2020

GDAE research is extensively cited in a new commodity on the Greenish New Deal and the transition to a low-carbon economic system. The article argues that a Dark-green New Deal can produce both environmental and economic benefits and quotes extensively from GDAE researcher Jonathan Harris.See also Harris'due south related Climate Policy Cursory.

Responding to Climate change in Japan

March 31, 2020

GDAE Visiting Scholar David Sussman writes that climate change is threatening of import cultural aspects of Japanese life, yet most people in the state have not taken actions to limit their carbon emissions.

In this op-ed in the Nikkei Asian Review, Dr. Sussman calls for individual and systemic changes that will reduce wasteful consumption and fossil fuel dependence.

Moomaw speaks atUnite Behind the Scientific discipline event hosted past Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer duringCOP25
December 10, 2019

GDAE Co-manager Dr. William Moomaw, co-author of the recent World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency, joins boyfriend scientist Youba Sokona, youth activists Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer, and scientists Ko Barrett, Sivan Kartha, and Rachel Cleetus, on the stage at the Un COP25 climate conference in Madrid. Read more about the event.

Earth Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency
November v, 2019

William Moomaw co-authored a paper published in the journal BioScience. In the paper, Moomaw and his co-authors declared a climate emergency that without deep and lasting shifts in homo activities will result in "untold human suffering". The authors present a suite of graphical vital signs of climate change over the concluding 40 years for human being activities that tin can touch GHG emissions and change the climate, too every bit actual climatic impacts. The newspaper is endorsed by 11,258 scientists from 153 countries.

The newspaper has been covered by TheWashington Postal service, The Guardian, TheBoston World, and USA Today.

Jonathan Harris awarded Herman Daly Award
August 2019

At the USSEE briefing, Jonathan Harris was awarded the Herman Daly Award " designed to recognize individuals who have connected ecological economical thinking to applied applications and implementation of solutions that are sustainable in calibration, equitable in distribution and efficient in allocation." Read more nearly the award.