Carolyn Kou sky Fellow 202.328.5188 kousky@rff.org
Climate: Climate Adaptation Ecosystems: Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Services Forests: Wildfire Management Land Use: Green Infrastructure Policy and Analysis: Regulation, State and U.S. Regional Policies Risk Management: Disasters, Extreme Events, Liability Water: Flooding
Carolyn Kousky’s research focuses on natural resource management, decisionmaking under uncertainty, and individual and societal responses to natural disaster risk. She has examined how individuals learn about extreme event risk, the demand for natural disaster insurance, and policy responses to potential changes in extreme events with climate change. She also is interested in ecosystem services policy, and has examined the design of incentivebased mechanisms to supply ecosystem services and the use of natural capital to reduce vulnerability to weatherrelated disasters. Education • PhD in public policy, Harvard University, 2008 • BS in earth systems, Stanford University, 2002 Selected Publications Explaining the Failure to Insure Catastrophic Risks (with R. Cooke), The Geneva Papers, 2012. Risk Premia and the Social Cost of Carbon: A Review (with R.M. Cooke and R.E. Kopp), Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Dec. 2011. The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Precipitation and Flooding: A Case Study in Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River Basin (with S.M. Olmstead, A. Stern, M.A. Walls, and M.K. Macauley), RFF Report, Nov. 2011. Directory of experts
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