Prominent environmental economists?

Poor_old_gill

Who are they??
I am doing an environmental economics project at the moment and our lecturer has warned us that we need to have the most critical economists articles in there. He, however, wouldn't tell us who he was referring to.
Its on the EU ETS carbon permit trading system.

Where would be the best place to get information on this?
Who are the most prominent guys in this field?

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In Ireland, you can start with Colm McCarthy and Richard Tol.

Typically the favoured approach is an appropriately-set carbon tax. For starters outside of Ireland, try Mankiw.

Check out some of Richard Tol's work - his references should be a good start.

Poor_old_gill

Thanks lads- that should be a great help!

cavedave

Would Coase count as an environmental economist?

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cavedave wrote: »

Would Coase count as an environmental economist?

Not really. Try telling Britain that radiation from Sellafield is an infringement of our property rights, or convincing the people of Dundalk that they should pay Sellafield a yearly fee to make it profitable for them to cease production.

nesf

Time Magazine wrote: »

Not really. Try telling Britain that radiation from Sellafield is an infringement of our property rights, or convincing the people of Dundalk that they should pay Sellafield a yearly fee to make it profitable for them to cease production.

Coase's transaction cost approach is a useful way to look at the problem though. Cross-border applications of property rights are a nice example of prohibitively high transaction costs.

Black Swan

See Mark Sagoff in The Economy of the Earth(2008)

Poor_old_gill

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

See Mark Sagoff in The Economy of the Earth(2008)

Cheers!
I think the guys I'm meant to be looking up/finding out about are the big hitters internationally.
The project I'm doing is on the EU's Emissions trading system!

Toll is a 'big hitter' internationally. Kind of.

Poor_old_gill

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Toll is a 'big hitter' internationally. Kind of.

I have no doubt and do take your word for it!

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nesf wrote: »

Coase's transaction cost approach is a useful way to look at the problem though. Cross-border applications of property rights are a nice example of prohibitively high transaction costs.

Interesting yes, but not much more.

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

See Mark Sagoff in The Economy of the Earth(2008)

He's not an economist. Sagoff's in UMD's Public Policy school for a reason.

noodler

Frank J. Convery of UCD

He isn't economist but I think it would be useful to have a look at his paper titles anyway.

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BTW, RePEc is always a good place to look.