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 TOM
TIETENBERG is the Mitchell Family Professor of Economics
and the Director of the Environmental Studies Program
at Colby College.
He
is the author or editor of 11 books and over 70 articles
and essays on environmental and natural resource economics,
including Environmental and Natural Resources Economics,
one of the best selling textbooks in the field.
Former
President of the Association of Environmental and
Resource Economists (1987-1988), he was the team leader
for the United Nations Project to define how Article
17 of the Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention,
which authorizes emission trading among the Annex
B nations, would be implemented. He has also served
as a member of the National Research Council Panel
mandated by the U.S. Congress to investigate the use
of individual transferable quotas for fisheries management
in the United States. Dr.
Tietenberg has also consulted with the World Bank,
U.S. AID, the OECD, the United Nations and several
foreign governments on the use of economics incentives
to produce sustainable development.
Dr.
Tietenberg was named "1990 Maine Professor of
the Year" by the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education, Washington, D.C. He has served
on the editorial boards of Land Economics, Journal
of Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics,
and Environmental Economics and Policy Studies.
His
website,
which has a considerable amount of information on
tradable permits and sustainable development, can
be accessed at: http://www.colby.edu/~thtieten.
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