Prof. dr. R.S.J. Tol

Summary

Richard S.J. Tol is interested in the application of economic, mathematical and statistical techniques, such as time series analysis, valuation, decision analysis, game theory, and integrated modelling, to environmental problems, in particular climate change, tourism, land use, and water management. He is ranked among the top 250 economists in the world, and has 148 publications in learned journals (with 102 co-authors), 3 books, 5 major reports, 35 book chapters, and many minor publications. He is known for his work on impacts of, and adaptation to climate change. He developed the Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation and Distribution, an integrated assessment model for climate change. He is an editor for Energy Economics, and an associate editor of Economics. He is advisor and referee of national and international policy and research. He is an author (contributing, lead, principal and convening) of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shared winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007; an author and editor of the UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies; and a GTAP Research Fellow. He is actively involved in the European Climate Forum, the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment, and the Energy Modeling Forum.

Academic training

2000:	PhD Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992	MSc Econometrics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Professional employment history

2008-present	Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies & Department of Spatial Economics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006-present	Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland
1998-2008	Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2000-2006	Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change, Department of Geosciences and Department of Economics, Hamburg University, and Director, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Science, Hamburg, Germany
1992-2007	Researcher, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Awards

•      Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (together with Albert A. Gore Jr and some 5,000 IPCC members)

•      GTAP Research Fellow 2007-2010 “in recognition of his innovative applications of the GTAP Data Base in the field of environmental economics”

•      Global IDEAS/RePEc rank: 212 (April 2009)

Selected publications

Tol, R.S.J. (2009). The Economic Impact of Climate Change, Journal of Economic Perspectives. (forthcoming).

Anthoff, D., Tol, R.S.J. & Yohe, G.W. (2009). Risk Aversion, Time Preference, and the Social Cost of Carbon. Environmental Research Letters, 4 (2-2), 1-7.

Berrittella, M., Hoekstra, A.Y., Rehdanz, K., Roson, R. & Tol, R.S.J. (2007). The Economic Impact of Restricted Water Supply: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis. Water Research, 42 , 1799-1813.

Nicholls, R.J. & Tol, R.S.J. (2006). Impacts and responses to sea-level rise: A global analysis of the SRES scenarios over the 21^st Century. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A – Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences,361(1841), 1073-1095.

Tol, R.S.J. (2005). The Marginal Damage Costs of Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Assessment of the Uncertainties . Energy Policy, 33(16), 2064-2074.

Tol, R.S.J. (2003). Is the Uncertainty about Climate Change Too Large for Expected Cost-Benefit Analysis?. Climatic Change, 56(3), 265-289.

Yohe, G.W. & Tol, R.S.J. (2002). Indicators for social and economic coping capacity – moving towards a working definition of adaptive capacity. Global Environmental Change, 12(1),
25-40.

Lise, W. and R.S.J. Tol (2002). The Impact of Climate on Tourism Demand. Climatic Change, 55(4), 429-449.

Tol, R.S.J. (2002). New Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change, Part I: Benchmark Estimates. Environmental and Resource Economics, 21(1), 47-73.

Tol, R.S.J. (2001). Equitable Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change. Ecological Economics, 36(1), 71-85.

Tol, R.S.J. & Langen, A. (2000). A Concise History of Dutch River Floods. Climatic Change, 46, 357-369.

Tol, R.S.J. (1999). Spatial and temporal efficiency in climate policy: applications of FUND. Environmental and Resource Economics, 14 (1), 33-49.

Dorland, C., Tol, R.S.J. & Palutikof, J.P. (1999). Vulnerability of the Netherlands and Northwest Europe to Storm Damage under Climate Change. Climatic Change, 43 , 513-535.

Tol, R.S.J. & Vos, A.F. de (1998). A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect. Climatic Change, 38 , 87-112.

Fankhauser, S., Tol, R.S.J. & Pearce, D.W. (1997). The Aggregation of Climate Change Damages: A Welfare Theoretic Approach. Environmental and Resource Economics, 10 , 249-266.

Books

Hertel, T.W., S. Rose & Tol, R.S.J. (eds.) (2009). Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy. London: Routledge.

Von Storch, H., Tol, R.S.J. & Floeser, G. (eds.) (2008). Environmental Crises: Science and Policy, Berlin: Springer , 146 pp.

Downing, T.E., Olsthoorn, A.A. & Tol, R.S.J. (eds.) (1998). Climate, Change and Risk, London: Routledge, 407 pp.