Richard Howarth

Professor

Rich Howarth is an environmental economist interested in the concept of sustainable development and its applications to energy policy, climate stabilization, and ecological conservation. His work emphasizes mathematical models of the links between economic growth, natural resources, and environmental quality, focusing on the integration of economic efficiency, ecological sustainability, and distributional fairness in the design of policies and institutions.

Selected Publications

• R. B. Howarth. 2009. Rethinking the theory of discounting and revealed time preference. Land Economics 85: 24-40.
• C. Zografos and R. B. Howarth (editors). 2008. Deliberative ecological economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• J. Gutrich and R. B. Howarth. 2007. Carbon sequestration and the optimal management of New Hampshire timber stands. Ecological Economics, 62:441-450.
• K. Nyborg, R. B. Howarth, and K. A. Brekke. 2006. Green consumers and public policy: On socially contingent moral motivation. Resource and Energy Economics 28: 351-366.
• Howarth, R. B. and M. A. Wilson. 2006. A theoretical approach to deliberative valuation: aggregation by mutual consent. Land Economics, 82:1-16.
• Howarth, R .B. 2005. The Present Value Criterion and Environmental Taxation: The Suboptimality of First-Best Decision Rules. Land Economics, in press.
• Sneddon, C., R. B. Howarth, and R. B. Norgaard. 2006. Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world. Ecological Economics 57: 253-268.
• R.B. Howarth, 2004. Calibration Bias in the Analysis of Environmental Taxes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86:813-818.

Courses

• ENVS 3
• ENVS 12
• ENVS 50
• ENVS 55

Office: 106 Fairchild

Phone: 603-646-2752

Email: RBHowarth@dartmouth.edu

Web Page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rhowarth/

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