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T H E D AV I D B R A D F O R D S E M I N A R S I N
S C I E N C E , T E C H N O L O G Y, A N D E N V I R O N M E N TA L
POLICY
Wallace Hall, Room 300 (12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.)
February 6
Richard Tol, Visiting Research Environmental Economist and Visiting Professor in
Economics, Princeton University; Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global
Change, Departments of Geosciences and Economics; Hamburg University, Germany
“The Polluter Pays Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change: An Application of Fund”
February 13
Edward W. Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs; Director, Center
of Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
“The Internet is Broken, Please Don’t Fix It”
February 20
David N. Fisman, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor, Drexel University School of Public
Health; Visiting Research Scholar, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School
“Seasonality, Weather, and Acute Communicable Disease”
February 27
Daniel Pauly, Professor and Director of the Fisheries Centre, University of
British Columbia
“Global Trends in World Fisheries: Impacts on Marine Ecosystems and Food Security”
March 6
Andrew N. Revkin, Science Reporter, The New York Times
“The Daily Planet: Life on the Troubled Interface Between the Climate and the Media”
March 13
Samuel Wolfe, Assistant Commissioner, N.J. Department of Environmental Protection
“The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: An Agreement Among the Northeastern U.S. States”
March 20
Spring Break
March 27
Christopher Chyba, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs,
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
“Biosecurity and Globalization of the Life Sciences”
April 3
Jonathan Pershing, Director, Climate, Energy and Pollution Program, World Resources
Institute
“Framing the Post-Kyoto Debate: Options for Climate Policy after 2012”
April 10
Smita Brunnermeier, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Princeton University
“Effectiveness of Market Mechanisms for Wetland Conservation”
April 17
Jonathan Levy, Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Health
and Risk Assessment, Departments of Environmental Health Policy and Management,
Harvard School of Public Health
“Environmental Justice and Risk Assessment: Is There Any Common Ground?”
April 24
Markus Amann, Leader, Transboundary Air Pollution Program and Co-Leader of IIASA’s
Greenhouse Gas Initiative; Director, The Centre for Integrated Assessment Modeling
(CIAM) of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP)
“Modeling Synergies and Tradeoffs Between Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Air Pollution Control”
May 1
Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Professor of Energy Economics Technologies Power Systems and
Energy Economics, Vienna University
“Climate Change and the Role of Technology”
The STEP Lunchtime Seminar Series is co-sponsored with the Princeton Environmental Institute