A world with 7 billion people, each of whom seeks to live the American Dream, will translate into increasingly serious environmental sustainability issues -- among them greenhouse gas emissions that will cause hotter temperatures, rising sea levels, and natural disasters. In this university podcast, UCLA professor Matt Kahn talks about the scope of the problem. Kahn was talking at the 2010 Climate Policy Instruments in the Real World conference, an event convened by the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at Stanford University.
Matthew E. Kahn is a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on measuring how environmental quality is affected by economic growth. Recently, he is conducting more research on the broad issue of climate change mitigation. A second general area of research focuses on measuring household demand for environmental quality. His areas of expertise include air pollution, economics, public policy, energy demand, social networks, urbanization, climate change mitigation and adaptation. Kahn is the author of several books including Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter World. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, a GC from London School of Economics, and a BA from Hamilton College.
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