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Scott Barrett
International Affairs Building, Room 1427
Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Phone: 212-851-5861
sb3116@columbia.edu
Biography:
Scott Barrett is the Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics at SIPA and the Earth Institute.
Professor Barrett previously served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to serving Johns Hopkins, Professor Barrett taught at the London Business School, where he was also dean of the Executive MBA program.
Professor Barrett's research focuses on interactions between natural and social systems, especially at the global level. He is best known for his work involving international environmental agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Barrett's work on international environment agreements earned him the Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics, bestowed by the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Published in 2007, Professor Barrett's book Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods examines issues such as nuclear proliferation, infectious disease pandemics, overfishing, and the standard for determining the time to international development. His book on international environmental agreements Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making, was published in 2003.
Barrett has advised a number of international organizations, including different agencies of the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, the World Commission on the Oceans, the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change second assessment report. He was previously a member of the Academic Panel for the UK's Department of Environment.
Professor Barrett holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.