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Upcoming Seminars and Presentation

Applied Economics: 

• • 2/2/24 - Brent Sohngen, Professor, Ohio State

  • 2/16/24 - Tamma Carleton, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara

  • 3/15/24 - Elena Irwin, Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in Economics and Sustainability; Faculty Director, Sustainability Institute, Ohio State

  • 4/5/24 - Stefanie Onder, Assistant Professor, American University

  • 4/26/24 - Jennifer Morris, Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and the MIT Energy Initiative

Johnson-Polasky Lab:

• 01/22/2024 - Semester Kickoff, Justin Johnson and Nfamara Dampha

• 01/26/2024 - Global GEP Working Session, Steve Polasky

• 02/19/2024 - TBD, Lijing Wang

• 02/26/2024 - Global Economic Impact of Wildfire, Lifeng Ren

• 03/11/2024 - Climate, Fragility, Finance and East Africa, Nfamara Dampha

• 03/18/2024 - TBD, Yanxu Long

• 04/08/2024 - American Tornadoes: U.S. Metropolises Adapt to Disaster Risk, Ryan Mcway

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To make better land-use decisions, we must consider air quality too

• • A new study from Natural Capital Project researchers based at the University of Minnesota’s Department of Applied Economics finds that land-use decisions can greatly affect human health through changes in air quality.