Thomas Harry (Tom) Tietenberg (born 21 October 1942) is an American

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and

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, and Emeritus Professor at

Colby College Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philant ...

, known for his work in the field of

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Biography

Born in 1942 to Harry Hall and Florence Elaine (Moxley) Tietenberg, Tietenberg obtained his BA in International Affairs at the

United States Air Force Academy The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is a United States service academy in El Paso County, Colorado, immediately north of Colorado Springs. It educates cadets for service in the officer corps of the United States Air Force and U ...

in 1964. The next year he obtained his MA in Economics from the

University of the East The University of the East ( fil, Pamantasan ng Silangan), also known as UE, is a leading private university located in Manila, Philippines. Founded in 1946, business tycoon Lucio Tan acquired the university in 1990. UE was once labeled as the ...

. In 1970 he obtained another Msc from the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...

, where in 1971 he also obtained his PhD in economics.Thomas H. Tietenberg
Colby College. Accessed 26-05-2017 After his graduation Tietenberg started his academic career in 1971 as assistant professor in economics at

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kill ...

. In 1977 he started at

as Associate Professor in economics, got promoted to Professor in Economics in 1984, and chaired the department of economics from 1985 to 1988 and from 1993 to 1995. Tietenberg was also principal consultant in the field of environmental policy for national and international government agencies and organizations, such as the

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, the Inter-American Development Bank and the

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. He was one of the speakers at the first

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in Rio in 1992. In 1987, Tietenberg cofounded the

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) was founded in 1979 in the United States as a means of exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in environmental and natural resource economics. The major ...

(AERE), serving as its President, in the year 1987–1988. In 2010 the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association awarded him the Outstanding Public Service Though Economics award.

Selected publications

* Tietenberg, Thomas H. ''Emissions trading, an exercise in reforming pollution policy.'' Resources for the Future, 1985. * Thomas H. Tietenberg (1988), ''Environmental and Natural Resource Economics,'' Scott-Foresman. . 2018 edition * Tietenberg, Thomas H., and Lynne Lewis. ''Environmental economics and policy.'' New York: Pearson, 2010. * Thomas H. Tietenberg and Lynne Lewis. ''Environmental and natural resource economics.'' Routledge, 2016. ;Articles, a selection * Tietenberg, Thomas H. "Transferable discharge permits and the control of stationary source air pollution: a survey and synthesis." Land economics 56.4 (1980): 391–416. * Tietenberg, Thomas H. "Economic instruments for environmental regulation." ''Oxford Review of Economic Policy'' 6.1 (1990): 17–33.

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Thomas H. Tietenberg
Colby College * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tietenberg, Thomas H. 1942 births Living people 21st-century American economists American environmentalists United States Air Force Academy alumni University of the East alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Colby College faculty