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For stipend/benefits and other information on this award, click on the link below.
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Viterbo Chair in Agricultural and Resource Economics (Italy)
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Award #9028
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Category:
Distinguished Lecturing
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Number of Awards: 1
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Special Deadline: August 1, 2008
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Grant Activity: Teach two courses: (1) A course for graduate students titled "The Economics of Biotechnology" (4 hours per week), with an expected class size of 25 students; (2) A class for Ph.D. students titled "Economics of Exhaustible and Renewable Resources" (4 hours per week), with an expected class size of 10 students. Both courses will use materials based on journal articles and other similar publications (to be assembled in a course reader available for purchase by the students at a nominal fee to cover copying costs).
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Specialization(s): Natural resource management, management of renewable and exhaustible resources, environmental policies: economic evaluation of environmental policies, cost/benefit analysis: agricultural research and productivity; economic evaluation of determinants and impacts of agricultural research funding; economics of biotechnologies
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Language: English
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Additional Qualifications: A full professor with a Ph.D. in economics or agricultural and resource economics. Extensive research experience and experience in national/international policy. More than 10 years of teaching experience.
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Location: Faculties of Economics and Agriculture, University of Tuscia
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Length of Grant: 4 months
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Starting Date: April 2010 or earlier
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Comments: The members of both departments conduct research on environmental and resources economics and economic innovation. They would like the American scholar to collaborate with them in on-going research projects focused on: research and innovation in agricultural economy, policies for competitiveness in the agri-food system, politics of Common Agricultural Policy, domestic policies and international agreements for genetically modified organisms market development, water economics. They would like the American scholar to also work with them to initiate new research projects in these areas. Visit www.unitus.it for additional information.
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Staff: Assistant Director Maria Bettua, 202.686.6245, mbettua@cies.iie.org or Program Associate Abby Greenwell, 202.686.6232, agreenwell@cies.iie.org
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