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Profile
I am a resource economist who specializes in global warming. Born in South Korea, I received a PhD degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from Yale University with a focus on global climate policy. Since 2003, I have been working with the World Bank on climate change issues in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Research
I contribute to the economics of global warming, a global stock public good. I am in support of managing global greenhouse gas emissions over time by a globally harmonized carbon tax. At the same time, communities should adapt as climate changes.
For the past 10 years, I have concentrated on measuring the impacts of climate change and adaptation behaviors on the farms in low-latitude developing countries. I spent the decade in developing behavioral models to quantify adaptations. I developed a new micro-econometric method to measure climate change impacts and endogenous adaptations simultaneously explicitly, which is the first economic model of adapations to climate change. This method was applied to study African livestock management, Latin American agriculture, and African agriculture. I have published a series of ‘ground-breaking’ papers on livestock management under climate change which have often been overlooked by researchers. I am working with the World Bank currently, along with many development economists, to understand the relationship between economic development in Africa and future climate changes, or to put it another way, the relationship between poverty and climate in the continent. Journal articles- Seo, S.N., 2009, “Assessing Relative Performance of Econometric Models in Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture using Spatial Autoregression”, The Review of Regional Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2. Books Seo, S.N. 2006. Modeling Farmer Responses to Climate Change: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in Livestock Management in Africa. Yale University. p218. (AAT 3214297). |
Personal Research Sites
Research on South Asia
Research on Livestock Management
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Economists
Bruce McCarl
Michael Greenstone
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