Discounting the Environment - Landolt & Cie Public Lectures
Event details
| Date | 20.05.2010 |
| Hour | 18:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta, Univ. Cambridge, winner of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize |
| Location |
CO 1
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Discussions on the economics of sustainable development invariably move to debates on our obligations to future generations. Choice of the rates with which to discount the future environmental costs and benefits of current decisions is central to those debates. Prof. Dasgupta will present the ethical framework that has informed recent discussions on the subject by considering the economics of climate change. He will identify the source of the vigorous disagreements we have witnessed in the recent literature and then argue that the ethical framework that has been adopted by the protagonists is misconceived. Prof. Dasgupta will suggest that sustainable development doesn't so much involve an ethical problem facing the generations as it involves bargaining among contemporaries. Sir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the University of Manchester. Professor Dasgupta is, among others, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, was co-winner of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize, and was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Birthday Honours List in 2002 for "services to economics". His research interests have covered welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, the theory of games, and the economics of undernutrition.
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- Jean-Denis Bourquin