Since 1987, Jack Pezzey has held research fellowships at the Universities of Colorado, Bristol and London, and a lectureship at the University of York, before joining the ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (now Fenner School) in 1999.

Professional Activities

My research covers two main areas. One (which I also teach) is the economics of sustainability and growth of national income, which hinges on limits to substitutability of human-made capital and knowledge for environmental resources in producing output and wellbeing. The other is on political and economic comparisons of taxes and tradable permits for controlling polluting emissions. The two areas combine when studying the control of greenhouse gas emissions in the 21st century in order to limit global warming.

Further personal details, links to publications, course details, etc are available at: http://people.anu.edu.au/jack.pezzey

Academic Highlights

In 2002, with Quentin Grafton, I founded the ANU Economics and Environment Network. In 2003-04, my PhD student Frank Jotzo (who completed in 2006) and I received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation through Stanford University to study the use of flexible country targets for abating greenhouse gas emissions.

Chair of supervisory panel of Greg Buckman and Qinghong Pu.

Founder member, Economics and Environment Network http://een.anu.edu.au/

Selected Publications

Pezzey, John C.V., Frank Jotzo and John Quiggin 2008. "Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion." Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol 52 No 1, 97-110.

Jotzo, Frank and John C.V. Pezzey 2007. "Optimal intensity targets for greenhouse gas emissions trading under uncertainty." Environmental and Resource Economics, 38, 259-284.

Pezzey, John C.V., Nick Hanley, Karen Turner and Dugald Tinch 2006. "Comparing augmented sustainability measures for Scotland: is there a mismatch?" Ecological Economics, Vol 57, 60-74.

Pezzey, John C.V. and Michael A. Toman 2005. "Sustainability and its economic interpretations." In R.D. Simpson, M.A. Toman and R.U. Ayres, eds., Scarcity and Growth: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millennium, 121-141. Washington D.C.: RFF Press.

Pezzey, John C.V. 2004. "One-sided sustainability tests with amenities, and changes in technology, trade and population." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol 48 No 1, 613-631.