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Richard B Howarth

Professor of Environmental Studies
Pat and John Rosenwald Professorship
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Departments

  • Environmental Studies

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Contact Information

Email: richard.howarth@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603 646-2752
Office: 6182 Steele Hall

Education

A.B. Cornell University; M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Natural resource and environmental economics; discounting, sustainability, and intergenerational fairness; climate change policy analysis; economics of energy efficiency; ecosystem valuation; welfare implications of economic growth

Selected Works

  • Howarth, R B and M A Wilson, "A Theoretical Approach to Deliberative Valuation: Aggregation by Mutual Consent," Land Economics, 82 (2006) 1-16.
  • "The Present Value Criterion and Environmental Taxation: The Suboptimality of First-Best Decision Rules," Land Economics, 81 (2005) 321-336.
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, W and R B Howarth (eds.) Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics (2005).
  • "Calibration Bias in the Analysis of Environmental Taxes," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86 (2004) 813-818.
  • Howarth, R B and D Rothman (eds.) Special issue on 'Climate Change and Ecological Economics', International Journal of Sustainable Development, 6 (2003) 263-392.

Current Projects

"Rethinking the Theory of Discounting and Revealed Time Preference"; "Carbon Sequestration and the Optimal Management of New Hampshire Timber Stands"; "Optimal Environmental Taxes under Relative Consumption Effects"; "Green Consumers and Public Policy: On Socially Contingent Moral Motivation"; "Sustainable Development in a Post-Brundtland World"