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On Economics of Global Warming
 
 
 
 
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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 greenhouse gas emissions over time by a globally harmonized carbon tax and of supporting communities to adapt to climate change.

With the World Bank, I have concentrated on measuring the impacts of climate change and adaptation behaviors on the farms in low-latitude developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
 
I spent a 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.

I have published a series of ‘ground-breaking’ papers on livestock management under climate change which have often been overlooked by researchers.

Journal articles 
 

 

-Seo, S.N., 2010. "Keys to Economics of Global Warming: A Critique of the Dismal Theorem," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(1): 130-138.
 

-Seo, S.N., 2009, “Is an Integrated Farm More Resilient Against Climate Change?: A Micro-econometric Analysis of Portfolio Diversification in African Agriculture”, Food Policy. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2009.06.004.

 
- 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 38(2): 195-209.


- Seo, S.N. 2009, “Designing a Climate Policy: A Carbon Tax Approach with Adaptation Funds”,
Energy and Environment 20(6): 961-966.

-Seo, S.N., R. Mendelsohn, A. Dinar, R. Hassan, and P. Kurukulasuriya 2009, “A Ricardian Analysis of the Distribution of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture across Agro-Ecological Zones in Africa”,
Environmental and Resource Economics 43(3): 313-332. Frontiers in the Economics of Climate Change.

-Seo, S.N., R. Mendelsohn, A. Dinar, and P. Kurukulasuriya 2009, “Adapting to Climate Change Mosaically: An Analysis of African Livestock Management across Agro-Ecological Zones”,
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 9, Iss. 2, Article 4. Special Issue on Economic Geography.

-Seo, S. N. and R. Mendelsohn 2008, “Measuring Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change: A Structural Ricardian Model of African Livestock Management”,
Agricultural Economics 38 (2):151-165.

-Seo, S. N. and R. Mendelsohn 2008, “An Analysis of Crop Choice: Adapting to Climate Change in South American Farms”,
Ecological Economics 67:109-116.

-Seo, S. N., and R. Mendelsohn 2008, “Animal Husbandry in Africa: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations”,
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2: 65-82.

-Seo, S. N., and R. Mendelsohn 2008, “A Ricardian Analysis of The Impact of Climate Change Impacts on South American Farms”,
Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research 68:69-79.

-Seo, S. N. 2007, “Is Stern Review on Climate Change Alarmist?”,
Energy and Environment 18(5): 521-532.

-Kurukulasuriya, P., R. Mendelsohn, Rashid Hassan, S. N. Seo, Ariel Dinar, and others 2006, “Will African Agriculture Survive Climate Change?”,
World Bank Economic Review 20(3):367-388.

-Seo, S. N., R. Mendelsohn, and M. Munasinghe 2005, “Climate Change and Agriculture in Sri Lanka: A Ricardian Valuation”,
Environment and Development Economics 10(5):581-196.

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 and Publication Sites
 
                                  Research on Adaptation Models
 
                                  Research on Climate Policy
 
                                  Research on Africa
 
                                  Reseach on Latin America
 
                                  Research on South Asia
 
                                  Research on Livestock Management
 
                             
                Associated Research Centers
 
                                       ADB-Asia
 
                                        CEEPA-Africa
 
                                        IICA- Latin America
 
                                        UNDP
 
                                        World Bank
 
                                        Yale University
 
                                
                 Economists
 
                                       William Nordhaus
 
                                        Robert Mendelsohn
 
                                        Donald Andrews
 
                                        Ariel Dinar
 
                                        Brent Sohngen
 
                                        Bruce McCarl
 
                                        Michael Greenstone
 
 
          Academic Associations
 
               American Economic Association