Energy and the Environment

William Alford

HLS
Research Interests: 

Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer

William Clark

HKS
Research Interests: 
Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology

Richard Cooper

FAS
Research Interests: 
International economic policy; economic stabilization and debt in developing countries; international approaches to climate change; carbon taxes; China

Jeffrey Frankel

HKS
Research Interests: 

International finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, trade, commodities, climate change policy, and international environmental issues

Jody Freeman

HLS
Research Interests: 
The design of governance institutions, regulatory tools and decision making procedures; climate related institutional design

Edward Glaeser

HKS
Research Interests: 
Urban and social economics; microeconomic theory; green cities

James Hammitt

HSPH
Research Interests: 
Management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion; characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks

John Holdren

HKS
Research Interests: 
Energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control

Sheila Jasanoff

HKS
Research Interests: 
Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; science and technology policy

Dale Jorgenson

HKS, FAS
Research Interests: 
Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics

Henry Lee

HKS
Research Interests: 

Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy

Jonathan Levy

HSPH
Research Interests: 
Development of models to quantitatively assess the environmental and health impacts of air pollution from local to national scales, with a focus on urban environments

Michael McElroy

SEAS, FAS
Research Interests: 

Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere; evolution of planetary atmospheres; global carbon cycle

Theodore Panayotou

HKS
Research Interests: 
Natural resource management; environmental economics as they relate to economic development

Peter Rogers

SEAS
Research Interests: 
Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict resolution in international river basins; impact of global change on water resources; development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development

Robert N. Stavins

HKS
Research Interests: 
Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and related public policy; innovation and diffusion of technology; market-based strategies for future climate policy; international climate agreements

Lawrence Summers

HKS, FAS
Research Interests: 
Economic aspects of climate change

Cass Sunstein

HLS
Research Interests: 
Administrative law, Behavioral law and economics, Constitutional law, Environmental law, Labor and employment law

Michael Toffel

HBS
Research Interests: 
Corporate environmental management, environmental policy, and information disclosure policy and strategy.

Martin Weitzman

FAS
Research Interests: 
Environmental and natural resource economics, green accounting, economics of biodiversity

Richard Zeckhauser

HKS
Research Interests: 
Performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality