Kathleen Segerson, University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics, will join the Notre Dame community for a lecture examining a central paradox of environmental policy. Despite growing recognition that human well-being depends fundamentally on the services provided by nature, ineffective government policies often leave individuals and firms with little incentive to protect or restore the environment. This is especially true when environmental degradation or resource exploitation offers short-term economic gains.
Professor Segerson's research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental and conservation policies, with applications to groundwater contamination, hazardous waste management, land use regulation, climate change, agricultural pollution, and protection of marine species. Dr. Segerson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and a fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm.
Notre Dame Seminars on Sustainability Series is a signature lecture series organized by the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative that brings global sustainability leaders and world-class scholars to campus for knowledge sharing and engagement with the Notre Dame community.
Originally published at sustainability.conductor.nd.edu.