Growth vs. Sustainability?
Economic Responses to Ecological Challenges
Conference Participants
Frank Ackerman
Frank Ackerman is Directory of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. His current research interests include the economics of climate change, energy, materials and waste, and the relationship between trade and the environment. He was co-founder and editor of Dollars & Sense magazine and has studied the economics of energy and environmental policy at Tellus Institute in Boston. He is the co-author of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, the author of Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy, and co-editor of several books in GDAE's Frontier Issues in Economic Thought book series. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
James Boyce
 James Boyce is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He works in development economics and environmental and natural resource economics. In recent years, his research has been centered on two themes: the interrelationships between economic policy and the dynamics of violent conflict and peace processes; and the interrelationships among environmental protection, poverty reduction, and environmental justice. He directs the Political Economy Research Institute's program on Development, Peacebuilding, and the Environment.
Suzanne Bremer
 Suzanne Bremer is Project Coordinator for the Social Science Library project at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Prior to joining GDAE, she worked as a municipal web master and as an automation consultant for the Bureau of Development Services at the New Hampshire State Library. The author of Long Range Planning: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Public Libraries she holds a BA from Boston University and a MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. Her current area of interests include access to knowledge and the application of traditional and emerging information and communication technologies to further sustainable development.
Peter Dorman
 Peter Dorman teaches at the Evergreen State College in Washington state. His research interests include environmental economics and policy, labor markets, international trade and public health. He is the author of Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Investing in Every Child (International Labor Organization, 2003) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Duncan Foley
 Duncan Foley is Lee Model Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. His research interests include classical, neoclassical, and Marxian economic theory, political economy, monetary economics, economic complexity, and global environmental economic policy. His publications include Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology (2006), Unholy Trinity: Labor, Capital, and Land in the New Economy (2002), Distribution and Growth (coauthor, 1999), and Marxian Economics: A Centenary Appraisal (1997). He received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
Kelly Sims Gallagher
 Kelly Sims Gallagher is Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Project (ETIP) of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. She has a M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her research interests include energy technology innovation, international energy cooperation, energy policy, climate change policy, international environmental policy, and technology transfer/economic development questions. Her book, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development, was published by MIT Press in 2006.
Eban Goodstein
 Eban Goodstein is a Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Goodstein's current research interests focus on the economic impacts of global warming, especially in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, now in its fourth edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. He is currently finishing a new book called Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Change the Future.
He is also directing a national educational
initiative called "Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for
America" (www.focusthenation.org).
Neva Goodwin
 Neva Goodwin is Co-Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. She received a Masters' degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government ('82) and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University ('87). She is active in a variety of attempts to synthesize and institutionalize an economic theory - "contextual economics" - that will have more relevance to real world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm. She has supervised the six-volume project, Frontier Issues in Economic Thought, and is editing a Michigan Press series, Evolving Values for a Capitalist World. Dr. Goodwin is lead author of the introductory college-level textbook, Microeconomics in Context and is currently working on the companion, Macroeconomics in Context.
Jonathan Harris
 Jonathan Harris is Director of the Theory and Education Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. He is the author of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach and co-editor of several of the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought volumes. He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions. Dr. Harris has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and as consultant and lecturer at the Brown University Watson Institute International Scholars of the Environment Program and the University of the Middle East.
He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University.
Richard Howarth
 Richard Howarth is professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College. He studies the normative aspects of environmental policy and governance with applications to issues such as energy use, climate change, 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. He received an M.S. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Program at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth College, he held positions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Sitanon Jesdapipat
Sitanon Jesdapipat is currently WWF Thailand’s Country Programme Director. Previously he was the Director of the Centre for Ecological Economics at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. His areas of research include trade and sustainable development, natural resource pricing and economic instruments, and climate change policy. A current interest is exploring 'cross-cutting issues' in various environmental agreements, especially how they are related to trade under the WTO and regional trade agreements and the impacts of those linkages on people's welfare. Dr. Jesdapipat is contributing a chapter on Thailand's experience with trade and environment to an edited book and is also the author of several publications on climate change, trade and sustainable development, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture.
Nadia Johanisova
 Nadia Johanisova teaches Human Ecology at the South Bohemian University and New Economics at the Masaryk University, both in the Czech Republic.
Her background is in biology and the environment and she has worked as a scientist, environmental activist and free-lance journalist. Her main interest is in the interface between economics and the environment, in the assumptions which lie behind economic theory and in practical solutions which blend economic, social and environmental benefits.
She has published many articles and helped found several Czech non-profit organisations, including the Economy and Society Trust, a sustainable economics think-tank. Her book, Living in the Cracks: A Look at Rural Social Enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic, was published in 2005.
Andrzej Kassenberg
 Andrzej Kassenberg is president of the Institute for Sustainable Development in Warsaw, Poland. He is a sustainable development policy expert on the national and regional level. His main areas of professional interest include environmental policy (including climate policy), public participation in sustainable development, environmental impact assessment, and regional sustainable development. He was the chairman of the Environmental Impact Assessment Commission of the Polish Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources, and Forestry and also co-founded the Institute for Sustainable Development. He is a member of Environmental Council to President of European Bank Reconstruction and Development. He has won several awards including the European Ford Award (Polish Section) in the field of nature conservation, the Scientific Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Scientific Award of Ministry of Environment.
Mohan Munasinghe
 Mohan Munasinghe is Chairman, Munasinghe Institute of Development; Vice Chair, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Hon. Education Advisor to the Sri Lanka Government; and Visiting Professor, United Nations University. During 35 years of distinguished public service, he has served as Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, Advisor to the United States Presidents Council on Environmental Quality, and Senior Advisor/Director, World Bank. He has post-graduate degrees in economics, natural sciences, and engineering, and won many international prizes and medals for his research and its applications. He has authored 87 books and over three hundred technical papers on economics, sustainable development, climate change, power, energy, water resources, transport, environment, disasters, and information technology.
Alejandro Nadal
 Alejandro Nadal is Professor of Comparative Economics at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, where he coordinates the research program on Science, Technology, and Development. He is a member of the steering committee of IUCN's working group on environment, trade, and investment policies, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the National Research System of Mexico.
Julie Nelson
 Julie A. Nelson is Senior Research Associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1986. Formerly an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California-Davis, she has also held appointments at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Brandeis University, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Harvard University, and Bates College. She is author of Economics for Humans (University of Chicago Press), Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics (Routledge), coeditor of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics and Feminist Economics Today (both University of Chicago Press), and author of numerous scholarly articles.
Conn Nugent
 Conn Nugent is executive director of the JM Kaplan Fund in New York City. He directs grant programs in conservation, immigration and historic preservation, each with local, regional, and international components. He has served as environment program director for the Nathan Cummings Foundation, director of the Five College consortium in western Massachusetts, and executive director of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War when that organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1985. He has written articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Brian Roach
 Brian Roach is Research Associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. His research interests include environmental economics and policy, corporate power in the global economy, tax policy, and economic inequality. He has worked as an economic consultant for various federal and state natural resource agencies as well as several consulting firms. He has also taught at the University of Maine, Brown University, and the Tufts program in Talloires, France. At GDAE he has worked on the texts Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach, Microeconomics in Context, and Macroeconomics in Context. He received his Ph.D. in environmental policy analysis from the University of California-Davis.
David Seckler
 David Seckler is an economist specializing in water resources and currently director of Winrock Water, an organization that disperses information and ideas in the field of water resources. He served as Director General of the International Water Management Institute (1995-2000) and has taught Colorado State University and at the University of California (Berkeley). He established and directed the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Winrock International. Among his numerous overseas engagements, he served as Senior Development Policy Advisor for the United States Agency for International Development in Indonesia and as Project Specialist for the Ford Foundation in India. Dr. Seckler is author and editor of three books and over 50 articles and holds patents in sprinkler irrigation and waste recycling systems. Dr. Seckler has a BS and MS in economics from the University of Denver and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Adam Seitchik
 Adam Seitchik is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Trillium Asset Management Corporation in Boston, the nation's oldest and largest independent investment firm dedicated solely to socially and environmentally responsible investing. He is the lead portfolio manager for the Green Century Balanced Fund, an environmentally focused mutual fund owned by a consortium of non-profit environmental organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University and early in his career was an assistant professor of economics at Wellesley College. He has published a variety of books and articles on economics, finance, and public policy, and has spoken widely on these issues. Dr. Seitchik is a trustee of the Hyams Foundation, which is dedicated to increasing economic and social justice and power within low-income communities in the Boston area.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is assistant secretary general for economic development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN. He was visiting senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, founding chair of International Development Economics Associates, and professor in the applied economics department, University of Malaya, until 2004. He has taught at Science University of Malaysia, Harvard University, Yale University, National University of Malaysia, University of Malaya, and Cornell University. He has authored more than 35 monographs, edited more than 50 books, and translated 11 volumes, in addition to writing many academic papers and articles for the media.
Betsy Taylor
 Betsy Taylor is currently working as a consultant to several foundations and donors. Her work is focused on strengthening the American progressive sector, building greater capacity to address climate change, and promoting sustainable development and consumption. From 1998 until early 2006 she was founder and President of the Center for a New American Dream, which helps individuals and institutions consume responsibly for a better world. Prior to founding the Center, Ms. Taylor spent twenty years in the philanthropic and non-profit sector, including being PAC Deputy Director in the anti-nuclear and peace movements and executive director of the Stern Fund, Ottinger Foundation and Merck Family Fund. She is the author of three books and appears frequently in the national media. She has a master's degree in management from Harvard University and a BA in psychology from Duke University.
Lance Taylor
 Lance Taylor is Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development and Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research. His work focuses on the relationship between economic development and the environment, macroeconomic stabilization and adjustment in developing and transitional economies, and the reconstruction of macroeconomic theory.
His authored books include Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals and Critiques of the Mainstream (2004), Global Finance at Risk (coauthor, 2000), and Income Distribution, Inflation, and Growth (1991). He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Pam Velez
 Pam Velez is the Director of Research for the Social Science Library Project at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Prior to joining GDAE, she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and the United Nations Development Programme in Ecuador. She holds a Masters Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she specialized in development economics.
Shiqiu Zhang
 Shiqiu Zhang is Professor in the College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University. She teaches environmental economics and has been conducting various research projects related to environment and development issues. She is a member of Environmental Economics Working Group and Environmental and Resources Pricing and Taxation Task Force under the China Council for International Co-operation On Environment and Development. She is also a senior expert member of UNEP Technology and Economic Assessment Panel for implementing Montreal Protocol, Co-Chair of the Task force for Replenishment of the Multilateral Fund of Montreal Protocol for the Period 2006-2008. She graduated with degrees in economics and environmental science from Peking University.
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