2012 International Association for Energy Economics Conference in Perth

The 2012 conference of the International Association for Energy Economics (publisher of the Energy Journal) will be in Perth from June 24th-27th. The http://www.iaee.org/documents/2012/PerthCFP.pdf">deadline for paper submissions is 13 January 2012. There will be two types of paper sessions - 15 minute presentations (including questions) and 30 minute presentations with formal discussants. In

What is Ecological Economics?

So, time for another "serialization" in the spirit of John Quiggin's Zombie Economics and my earlier serialization of my Ecological Economics Reviews article. This time I have to write an encyclopedia article on "ecological economics". I only get 2000 words. This first very rough draft of the first section is titled "What is Ecological Economics?". Please contribute your insights and criticisms

S.A.P.I.E.N.S.

Another new journal, though actually it has been published since 2008: S.A.P.I.E.N.S. - Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society. This is an open-access journal, which is also free for authors to publish in. It is funded by French MNC Veolia Environnement through their non-profit research foundation. The inaugural issue featured articles by Esther Duflo and Bob Costanza.

Reviews in Ecological Economics

After two years of publishing Ecological Economics Reviews (EER) as a special issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Bob Costanza, Karin Limburg, and Ida Kubiszewski are announcing a move - to Springer - and a slightly different name: Reviews in Ecological Economics (REE). They are confident that this move will strengthen the new REE and increase its exposure and

Nature Publishing Group Goes Head to Head with PLoS ONE

Nature Publishing Group is launching yet another journal: Scientific Reports. It is an open access journal with the same $US1,350 publication fee as PLoS ONE. Nature recently launched another journal: Nature Communications that charges a $US5,000 open access fee, which is higher than any of the PLoS journals and the highest publication fee that I've seen. It's not a pure open access journal

Special Issue of Energy Economics

The latest issue of Energy Economics is a special issue on the economics of technologies to combat global warming. I haven't read the papers in detail yet, but there look to be several good overviews of the current state of play on the key issues in this area. Given the slowness with which countries are moving to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions, technology policies might end up being more

Episode 3

Evolutionary biology, HIV, and the Central African World War... This one is even more out there... There is more about the series on Wikipedia.

Episode 2: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

This episode should be of interest to ecological economists:It starts off with a discussion of the history of ecology including the Odum brothers as well as Jay Forrester and cybernetics. It goes on to the Club of Rome and The Limits to Growth and then to more recent developments in ecology. One of the themes is the rise in people's understanding of the world as an interconnected system. Today,

Review of the Publish or Perish Bibliometrics Software

Publish or Perish (PoP) is a freeware interface for deriving citation metrics from Google Scholar (GS). I downloaded it, wrapped it up as a Mac application using Wineskin and ran it. The three most useful features of the software are:1. It automatically computes a bunch of statistics such as the h-index from the GS results.2. It allows you to merge together the multiple entries for a single paper

Crawford School Working Papers on SSRN

I still don't quite get how SSRN works despite having my own page on there. All Crawford School papers that are on SSRN are now included in the Australian National University Crawford School of Economics & Government Research Paper Series. But the Crawford School has also launched a new working paper series on SSRN titled Crawford School Research Papers. We have a bunch more paper series too as

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

A new journal for a new academic society: Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences. I've long thought it strange that there has been no professional society for environmental studies. Well, apart from the International Society for Ecological Economics of course :) This makes academic job searches in environmental studies a bit more challenging than in other fields, for example. Unlike

Advice on Getting Published

Via Marginal Revolution a newsletter with a bunch of advice about getting published. Seems to make sense to me given my experience in publishing and being a referee for more than 50 journals and associate editor for Ecological Economics.

All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

An interesting take on the history of America in the last couple of decades. At least that's what I think it's about:

Follow Up on SD Cards

After my flash drive died I finally followed up on my idea of using an SD Card instead. The drive died after being knocked one too many times while plugged into my laptop.I bought a Dick Smith brand card as I wanted to get one right away after the flash drive died. It claims to be a Class 4 card but so far it seems to be extremely slow when writing data from my computer onto the card. This is

The "Google Way" to Visualize Research

Yesterday, I showed one potential way of visualizing my research areas. Another way is using the web to tell us just like Google does. In fact, I did a Google Scholar search on myself and then put the results (with some cleaning up) into Wordl:I could have also cleaned out my name from the data first (using the replace function in Word) but decided against that. Some of the topics from

Visualizing Research Areas and Links

I've been trying to give an overview of my research for a presentation and came up with this:I've tried to fit various of the topics I've worked on in the last decade within three disciplinary fields and the overlaps between them. In the middle I put "Meta" to represent my interest in meta-analysis and bibliometric analysis. This doesn't cover everything. My recent energy efficiency stuff is

New Private College of the Humanities in the UK

An interesting development in the face of the tremendous rise in tuition fees at public universities in the UK: "The New College of the Humanities. This will be a private college that is part of the University of London. It will grant London degrees and use their library facilities etc. There is star founding faculty of fourteen professors including well-known names like Richard Dawkins, Partha

CCEP Working Papers in May 2011

As the summer vacation gets going in the northern hemisphere, downloads and abstracts views on RePEc usually decline. So as expected there was some decline in the number of downloads that we received. We now have 14 CCEP working papers. The most popular paper this month was Frank Jotzo's paper Carbon Pricing that Builds Consensus and Reduces Australia's Emissions: Managing Uncertainties Using a

Price Floors in Emissions Trading to Reduce Policy Related Investment Risks: an Australian View

Frank Jotzo and Steve Hatfield-Dodds have a new CCEP working paper tiled: Price Floors in Emissions Trading to Reduce Policy Related Investment Risks: an Australian View, which is about the role of a price floor in a carbon emissions trading scheme in increasing the certainty of the investment environment. One of the downsides to emissions permit trading is that permit prices can be very volatile