Portney, Paul

Portney, Paul. 1981. Housing Prices, Health Effects, and Valuing Reductions in Risk of Death. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. March 72-8. 

Cropper, Maureen L., William N. Evans, Stephen J. Berardi, Maria M. Ducla-Soares, and Paul R. Portney. 1992. The Determinants of Pesticide Regulation A Statistical Analysis of EPA Decision Making. Journal of Political Economy 100 (February) ... 

Paul R. Portney was President of Resources for the Future for ten years before becoming Dean of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, where he holds the Halle Chair in Leadership and is Professor of Economics. He received his B.A. in Economics from Alma College (Michigan), and his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. 

The overall goals of this interdisciplinary conference were to summarize scientific and policy lessons learned from the attempt to mitigate acid deposition, and to discuss the future of transboundary pollutants and market-based emission control systems. Anthony Janetos, Vice President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment gave the keynote address providing the conferees with an historical perspective on lessons learned from the acid deposition research experience. In the evening address, Paul Portney, the former President and Senior Fellow of Resources for the Future discussed economical benefits and costs of air pollution... 

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