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Speaker: Gary Yohe
gyohe<at>wesleyan.edu
Wesleyan University, 238 Church Street Middletown, CT 06457, USA
Title of the talk: Definition
on the adaptive capacity (pdf: 4,5MB)
Biosketch
Gary Yohe is the John E. Andrus Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University and a collaborator at the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1975. He has contributed over 90 articles to the academic literature, focusing most of his attention over the past decade to climate change. His major research interests now see him applying the first principles of microeconomic analysis to decision-making under uncertainty and to exploring the tradeoff between mitigating climate change and abating its potential damage. Most recently, Yohe has been concerned with judging the vulnerability of economic, political and social systems to climate change, climate variability, and climate policy when adaptation is included in the calculus of cost accounting. These interests have lead to collaborations on coping capacity indicators with Richard Tol, on the global coherence argument for claiming a climate “fingerprint” with Camille Parmesan, and an integrated assessment project for Egypt with Kenneth Strzepek. Yohe served as a lead author for three Chapters of the Working Group II contribution (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability) to the Third Assessment Report (the TAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC): Chapter 2 (Methods and Tools), Chapter 18 (Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development and Equity), and Chapter 19 (Synthesis). He also contributed as a lead author for Chapter 1 (Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development) of the contribution of Working Group III (Mitigation) to the TAR. He is also currently serving as Convening Lead Author for Chapter 21 (or perhaps 5 after the reorganization – “Uncertainties in Assessing Response Effectiveness”) for the Response Options Technical Volume of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He is a member of both the Science Advisory Committee for the Inter-American Institute and the Science Committee of the Global Analysis, Integration and Modeling Program of the IGBP.
Yohe receives his external funding from the National Science Foundation through its support of the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carnegie Mellon University.
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