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Roger Sedjo, Ph.D., will be the first ELE Scholar in Residence this semester and teach a seminar course “ELE Seminar on Climate, Forestry and Land Use” available to graduate and law students.
Dr. Sedjo is a senior fellow and the director of Resources for the Future’s forest economics and policy program. Sedjo is also adjunct professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics and faculty affiliate of the Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment at the University of Arizona. His research interests include forests and global environmental problems; climate change and biodiversity; public lands issues; long-term sustainability of forests; industrial forestry and demand; timber supply modeling; international forestry; global forest trade; forest biotechnology; and land use change.
He has written or edited 15 books related to forestry and natural resources, the most recent Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America. Sedjo has served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Committee of Scientists and has co-chaired the committee of authors who wrote the chapter on biological sinks for the International Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report on climate change mitigation through forestry and other land use measures. He also was a contributor to the IPCC Second and Fourth Climate Change Assessment Reports.
Sedjo also has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other international organizations in more than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, Russia, Romania, Estonia, and Thailand.
Dr. Sedjo’s course is titled "ELE Seminar on Climate, Forestry and Land Use" and will be offered M/W from 3 to 5 from February 23 through March 6. The course is listed as AREC/ECON/LAW 569b. The seminar is designed to facilitate the development and exchange of original research on environment and natural resource topics, including climate change. through discussion, reports and/or papers. Topics covered will include: global carbon markets and America’s forests; forests, carbon credits, forest sequestration and avoided deforestation; land use: forest, agriculture, biofuels and biodiversity competition; the climate problem: evidence and a critique; the Kyoto Protocol: the process, the future; the economics of climate change; The Stern Report and other estimates. During this period Dr. Sedjo will be in residence at 319F Chavez Hall. Please contact Nancy Smith (nansmith@ag.arizona.edu) for information on the seminar.
