Timothy Swanson

Timothy Swanson is an American economics scholar specializing in environmental governance, biodiversity, water management, as well as intellectual property rights and biotechnology regulation.^[1]

Background

After attending law school at the University of Michigan, Swanson completed his PhD at the London School of Economics under the supervision of Nick Stern. Swanson currently holds the André Hoffmann Chair of Environmental Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he is also is director of the Centre for International Environmental Studies. In parallel, Swanson is also affiliated professor at the University of Cambridge. Previously he held the Chair in Law & Economics at University College London and was research Director for the United Kingdom’s National Centre on Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Washington from 2004 to 2005. ^[2]

Work

His research covers the issues dealing with legal reform and institution building in the areas of environment, intellectual property and technology. He has advised the governments of China, India, and many international and development agencies.^[3]

Bibliography

• Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation: the case of China, (with Tun Lin), Routledge: London, 2009.
• Biodiversity Economics, (editor with Kontoleon and Pascual) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007.
• Managing Water Resources in Developing Countries, (editor with Koundouri, Pashardes and Xepapadeas), 2003, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.
• The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies. (editor), Kluwer: Dordrecht, 2002.
• Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World (editor), Edward Elgar: London, 2002.
• Current Issues in the Economics of Water Resource Management, (editor with Panos Pasharades and Anastasios Xepapadeas), Kluwer: Netherlands, 2002.
• Global Environmental Problems and International Environmental Agreements, (with Sam Johnston), Edward Elgar: London, 1999 (reprinted 2001, 2003).
• The Regulation of Chemical Accumulation in the Environment (editor With M. Vighi), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1998.
• Tragedy for the Commons? The Economics of Environmental Degradation, Edward Elgar: London, 1996.
• A Global Framework for Biodiversity Conservation: Developing the Biodiversity Convention, Earthscan: London, 1997.
• Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Conservation, (editor), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1995.
• The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity's Decline: The Forces Driving Global Change, (editor), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1995.
• The International Regulation of Extinction, MacMillan: London and New York University Press: New York, 1993.
• Economics for the Wilds, (with Barbier,E.), Earthscan: London, 1992.
• Elephants, Economics, and Ivory, (with Barbier,E., Burgess,J. and Pearce, D.) Earthscan: London, 1990.

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