能源经济学研讨会

 【总第94期】

      The California Litter Reduction and Recycling Program & How to Write a Good Introduction in an Academic Paper          
             本次能源经济学研讨会邀请到加州大学伯克利分校农业与资源经济学Peter Berck教授，环境发展讨论论文系列主编Cyndi Spindell Berck做学术演讲。          
         时间：4月4日，星期三，14:00—17:00                地点：中国人民大学明德主楼734会议室          报告摘要：              The California bottle and can deposit recycling system is unique in its use of a state fund to partially finance recycling centers and its requirement for supermarkets to have convenient recycling, a recycling center in the parking lot.  This paper reports on consumer`s views of convenience in recycling as well as on the likely effects of changing the deposit and the number of centers.            
                    
         作者简介：          
           Peter Berck is the S.J. Hall Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California Berkeley.  He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in mathematics in 1971 and took his Ph. D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1976 in economics. He is a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and holds an honorary doctorate from Umea University in Sweden.  He has over 100 research publications on the economics of the environment, agriculture, forestry and economy wide impact of regulation. He has worked on a myriad of economic topics mostly related to the natural world, including rational expectation fisheries, forests in economic equilibrium, ex urban development and fire, water in the mid-east, and water management in African agriculture.  His previous work on the California recycling system led to the legislature raising the deposit rate on bottles from two to five cents.            
             Cyndi Spindell Berck is Managing Editor of the Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series. She holds degrees in history, public policy and law from the University of California, and is a former instructor in legal writing. Her consulting firm, International Academic Editorial Services, provides services in editing, writing, and training in writing, with an emphasis on economics.          
             能源经济学研讨会（Energy Economics Seminar）由中国人民大学经济学院能源经济系定期推出，旨在为研究中国能源经济问题的学者提供交流的平台。          
         联系人：宋枫（songfeng@ruc.edu.cn）            
         中国人民大学 经济学院能源经济系