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Geoffrey R. McCarney
www.columbia.edu/~grm2119

Geoff McCarney is a second-year student in the PhD program in Sustainable Development. His interests include the economics of climate change, environmental valuation, natural resource management and linking public policy and patterns of resource use to development. He also has research experience in the areas of econometrics and experimental economics.

Geoff obtained his B.A. in History and Economics from the University of Ottawa in 2002 and his M.Sc. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Alberta in 2006. Following his Master's, Geoff remained at the University of Alberta for two years where he taught undergraduate natural resource economics and researched questions of land use change and the management of ecosystem service values in the boreal forest.