Karen Fisher-Vanden elected new AERE President

Congratulations to Karen Fisher-Vanden, co-Director of PCHES, on being elected President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), an international organization founded in 1979 as a means for exchanging ideas, stimulating research, and promoting graduate training in environmental and resource economics. AERE currently has over 1,000 members from more than thirty nations, coming from academic institutions, the public sector, and private industry, and oversees two flagship journals, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE) and the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP).