The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Newsletter was received last week by AERE members. AERE President Richard Carson begins his column with this:
This is an exciting time for AERE. We are on the verge of launching a new journal, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP). The editors will be Rob Stavins (Harvard), Carlos Carraro (Venice and FEEM), and Charles Kolstad (UC Santa Barbara) with Rob taking the lead. Our new journal seeks to fill a niche similar to the Journal of Economic Perspectives by publishing less technically oriented papers that will help advance the policy debate on key environmental and natural resource issues.
This is great news. The J of Econ Perspectives publishes readable articles, sans equations, on economic issues of importance. An AERE journal with the same purpose would be great way for policy makers (i.e., their staffers), students and others (i.e., me) to get a better handle on current environmental economic research and policy prescriptions.
Only the announcements from the November AERE newsletter will be posted on the AERE website very soon. The real meat of the newsletter, including an essay on this blog ("the first 3 months" Wow!), won't be a freebie until May 2006. I realize that I'm giving away a paragraph of the paid for benefits of AERE membership. Maybe this plug will lead to forgiveness:
Founded in 1979, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) was established as a means of exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in resource and environmental economics.
AERE currently has over 800 members from more than thirty nations, coming from academic institutions, the public sector, and private industry. It draws from traditional economics, agricultural economics, forestry, and natural resource schools.
With its own journal, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), a newsletter issued twice a year, sponsorship of annual sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) and American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) meetings, the AERE Workshop, the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, and affiliation with organizations in Europe (EAERE) and Latin America (ALEAR), AERE provides many forums for exchanging ideas relevant to the allocation and management of natural and environmental resources.
