THE BREN SCHOOL OF Environmental Science & Management
at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Presents

"Corruption, Trade and the Political Economy of Resource-Based Development in Asia and Africa"

Part of the 2007-2008 seminar series in Environmental & Natural Resource Economics.

Biography

Edward B. Barbier, PhD, is currently the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics, in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming. He was formerly at the Environment Department of the University of York, in the United Kingdom and previously served as Director of the London Environmental Economics Centre of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Professor Barbier has over 20 years experience as an environmental and resource economist, working mainly on the economics of environment and development issues. He has served as a consultant for a variety of national, international, and non-governmental agencies, including numerous UN organizations and the World Bank. Professor Barbier's applied work has focused particularly on issues of land degradation, wildlife management, trade and natural resources, coastal and wetland use, tropical deforestation, biological invasions, and biodiversity loss. He has written or edited 15 books in the economics of environment and development field, and has been published extensively in both academic and popular journals. Professor Barbier's latest book, Natural Resources and Economic Development, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.

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