Environmental Economics

This week, ARE PhD candidate Bruno Pimenta gave an Exit Seminar in the lab, designed to summarize his dissertation research, describe his research journey, and give the lab a preview of his future research agenda. 

Bruno entered the ARE PhD program in 2020 and has been a regular member of the lab since 2022. Before coming to Davis, he completed a master's degree at the University of São Paulo. Following graduation, he will join Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher, studying the electrification of supply chains with renewable energy.

This week, ARE postdoc Sandy Sum and ARE PhD student Fabiana Natali each presented their ongoing work.

This week, ARE PhD students Jordan Trinh and Greg Boudreaux each presented their ongoing work to the Lab.

This week, Sam Evans presented in the Lab. Sam is a research economist in the Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) at CAL FIRE. He is part of the agency's risk and hazard mitigation branch and also does work on California's timber and forest products sectors. Sam provided an overview of the program, the use of applied research in the agency, the need for more economics, and opportunities for funding and collaboration. 

This week, Econ PhD candidate Robert Reaser and ARE postdoc Leslie Sanchez each presented their ongoing work to the Lab.

This week, ARE PhD candidate Will Troske presented his ongoing work on the behavioral response of commercial shipping firms to sulfur emissions regulations. 

This week, the Lab hosted a two-part seminar. First, Gal Koss presented on best practices for data visualization, graphing, and plotting. Gal discussed Edward Tufte and seminal work The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, the Coolors palette generator tool, and how to avoid "chartjunk." Some data visualization resources from Gal are attached at the end of this post. 

This week, Indu Roychowdhury, PhD candidate in Geography, and Robert Reaser, PhD candidate in Economics, each presented their ongoing work. 

This week, ARE PhD candidate Ignacio Oliva presented his ongoing work with Bruno Pimenta, entitled "Unintended consequences of nature-based climate mitigation: Exotic natural capital and water scarcity."

Nature-based climate mitigation strategies aim to enhance carbon sequestration by protecting or restoring natural habitats. Additionally, these strategies can improve the provision of ecosystem services. However, these strategies can damage local ecosystems if they prioritize monoculture of exotic species.

ARE PhD candidates Matt Brooks and Stuart Morrison each presented their ongoing research this week in the Lab. 

This week, the Lab hosted Andres de Loera, a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard University. Andres studies environmental and public economics with a focus on the governance of internationally shared ocean resources. He presented his job market paper, entitled "Climate Change and the Common Pool Problem in Fisheries". 

This week, ARE PhD candidate Bruno Pimenta presented his job market paper, entitled "The Differential Responses of Farmers on Private and Public Lands to Droughts in the Brazilian Amazon." 

This week, we had a busy lab seminar. First, three PhD students - Tom Cromsjo and Kevin Cao in ARE, and Wantong Yuan in ESP - presented 5 minute egg-timer style presentations detailing their in-progress work. These short talks were a resounding success, and we will continue this new Lab format with another egg timer session later in the quarter. 

We kicked off the Lab on September 29th with a presentation by NatuRE Policy Lab co-coordinator Will Troske, who presented joint work with Laura Alcocer Quinones and Jeffrey Hadachek (UW-Madison) entitled "Behavioral Responses to PFAS in Drinking Water." 

ARE PhD students Matt Dudek and Mahdi Shams presented their respective research in the Lab this week.