Environmental Economics Working Group Meeting November 30, 1991, Cambridge, MA

这笔拨款将支持11月29日至30日在马萨诸塞州剑桥市国家经济研究局举行的环境经济学会议。会议有三个目标：(1)使环境经济学相关领域的研究人员认识到他们的工作与环境问题之间的联系，从而促进环境政策和全球变化领域的研究；(2)让美国经济学家了解美国国家科学基金会和其他来源为环境政策研究提供资金机会的性质；(3)鼓励志趣相投的欧美经济学家团队进行合作研究。这次会议非常及时。20世纪80年代末，公众对环境问题的兴趣急剧增加。国家和国际政策议程现在包括在空气和水污染、全球变暖、保护臭氧层和处理固体废物方面的重要新举措。这一领域的许多基本问题跨越了经济学的其他子领域，包括公共财政、产业组织、国际经济学和劳动经济学。

This grant supports a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 29-30th on environmental economics. The meeting has three objectives: (1) to make researchers in fields related to environmental economics aware of the links between their work and environmental issues, thereby stimulating research in the area of environmental policy and global change; (2) to acquaint U.S. economists with the nature of funding opportunities, both from NSF and from other sources, for research on environmental policy; (3) to encourage collaborative research by teams of U.S. and European economists with similar interests. This conference is very timely. Public interest in environmental issues increased sharply in the late 1980's. The national and international policy agenda now includes important new initiatives on air and water pollution, global warming, preservation of the ozone layer, and the disposal of solid waste. Many of the basic issues in this area cut across other sub-fields within economics, including public finance, industrial organization, international economics, and labor economics.