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PERSONAL DETAILS
Anil Markandya:
Professor of Economics
E-mail Address: A.Markandya@bath.ac.uk
Postal
Address:
Department of Economics
& International Development,
University of Bath,
Bath
BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
PROFILE
Professor Markandya was
appointed as Professor of Economics at Bath in 1996. He has taught
economics at University College London from 1970 to 1992 and at the Kennedy
School of Government Harvard University from 1992 to 1996. At various times
he has been a visiting professor at Princeton and Berkeley in the US and at
universities in Italy, France and Australia.
Professor Markandya has
taught courses in microeconomics, quantitative economics, including
econometrics, and environmental economics. It is the last of these that has
been the focus of his research over the last twenty years and he is an
acknowledged international authority in the field. The undergraduate course
in environmental economics has benefited from his substantial knowledge in
the area and he can bring some of latest thinking on the subject to the
lectures. In 1992 he published 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' (With David
Pearce and Edward Barbier), which changed the way the subject was perceived
in the UK. That book has been used extensively in teaching elsewhere,
although it is now somewhat outdated. Anil has recently published a
textbook on environmental economics – Environmental Economics for Sustainable
Growth (published by Edward Elgar).
Anil has worked on a
wide range of topics in environmental economics. In recent years he has
been a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change's Third Assessment Report - with responsibility for costing
methodologies for mitigation options. He was also until recently on
secondment as Lead Economist at the World Bank.
He has several PhD
students looking at issues of the valuation of mortality risk, climate
change, rural energy use and biodiversity.
Anil is the leader of
an active research team on environmental economics, which is currently
working on a number of European Commission funded projects. Current
projects include METHODEX (industrial externalities), THRESHOLDS (Marine
ecosystems), SENSOR (land use) and HEATCO (Tranport externalities). The
team includes Alistair Hunt, Tim Taylor, Nick Dale, Richard Boyd, Ramon
Ortiz, Marta Petrucci and Harry Walton. Alberto Longo is a visiting fellow
with the group.
Recent projects
coordinated at the University of Bath have included the SAUNER and GREENSENSE
projects.
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