Curriculum Vitae
LYNNE Y. LEWIS
Bates College
Department of Economics
Andrews Rd.
Lewiston, ME 04240
phone: 207 786-6089
fax: 207 786-8337
Education
Academic Positions
Other Current Positions
Awards & Academic Honors
Funded Research &Teaching Development Support
Research & Publications
Other Publications
Working Papers
Completion Reports
Book Review
Selected Conference/Seminar Presentations
Teaching
Professional Service
Referee
Professional Affiliations
Community Service
Research Paper (abstract only)
Education
Ph.D in Economics. University of
Colorado at Boulder, 1994
B.A. in International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985
Academic Positions
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Bates College, 2000-present
Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1994-2000
Other Current Positions
Board of Directors, Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), Sept. 2003 – present
Research Advisory Board, Senator George Mitchell Center for the Environment and Watershed Research, University of Maine, 2005-present
Penobscot Science Steering Committee, 2006 -
Board of Directors, Universities Council on Water Resources, 1999 - 2005
Steering Committee, Androscoggin Valley Watershed Council, May 2003-2006
Awards & Academic Honors
Friend of UCOWR Award, 2005
Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Natural Resources Council of
Maine, July 2003
Appointed to the Steering Committee of the Androscoggin Valley Watershed
Council, May 2003
Nominated and elected to second term, Board of Directors of Universities
Council on Water Resources, 2002-2005
Nominated and elected to the Board of Directors of Universities Council
on Water Resources, 1999-2002
NSF/Lucent Technologies Research Fellowship Award, 1997-1999
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Travel Fellowship
Award, 1998
Universities Council on Water Resources Outstanding Dissertation Award,
1995
National Center for Atmospheric Research Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-1994
Morris E. Garnsey Fellowship, 1992
University of Colorado Dean’s Small Grant Award, 1990
Funded Research & Teaching Development Support
The Androscoggin River: A Socio-Economic Inventory, Harward Center For Community Partnerships Grant, 2006-2007, $7000.
Faculty Development Grant,, Bates College, 2006.
Valuing Environmental Changes for Decision Making: Dam Removal and Restoration on the Penobscot and Kennebec Rivers, Water Resources Research Institute, Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, Accepted. Funded for 2005-2006, $23,452.
Pearson Education, Inc. Authored Instructor’s Manuals for Tom Tietenberg’s Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Environmental Economics and Policy. Also assisted with revisions for new textbook edition. Have signed contract to phase-in as co-author of upcoming editions.
Karl Mills Grant for participating in the Seminar on Reflections in the
Liberal Arts, 2003-2004, $1,000.
Karl Mills Grant to design new interdisciplinary course on Environmental
Valuation. $10,000. With Frank Chessa.
“Management of River Basins Through Decentralization, “ Consultancy
with the World Bank, 2001.
LADD Grant, Bates College, with Maggie Maurer-Fazio and Francesco Duina,
$5,000, 2001.
“Connecting Ecological and Social Systems: Watershed Research Relating
Ecosystem Structure and Function to Human Values and Socioeconomic Behaviors,”
Co-PI with Stephen Kellert, Gaboury Benoit, Mark Ashton, David Skelly
and Paul Barten (NSF/EPA: $795,000), 1997-1999.
“Connecting Ecological and Social Systems: Watershed Research Relating
Ecosystem Structure and Function to Human Values and Socioeconomic Behaviors,”
Co-PI with Stephen Kellert (CT Sea Grant: $97,439), 1997-1999.
“Modeling the Industrial Ecosystem,” Co-PI with Thomas Graedel
and Oswald Schmitz, (NSF and Lucent Technologies: $100,000), 1997-1999.
“Effects of the Clean Air Act Amendments on Water Quality—812
Project,” consultancy with Industrial Economics, Inc, 1998.
“Effluent Trading in the Quinnipiac River Watershed: An Experimental
Market,” Principal Investigator (The Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation:
$19,550), 1997.
“Estimating the Effects of Water Rate Increases on Residential Customers,”
Principal Investigator (S. Connecticut Regional Water Authority ($10,000),
1995-1996.
Johnson & Associates, economic and business consulting, 1991-1994.
“Urban Water Supply Reliability: Planning Procedures and Survey
Techniques. Charles W. Howe, Principal Investigator, Environment and Behavior
Program and Department of Economics, University of Colorado, 1989-1991.
“An Experimental Analysis of Emission Permits with Banking and the
Clean Air Act of 1990,” Jamie Kruse, Principal Investigator, Department
of Economics, University of Colorado, 1991.
“An Evaluation of the Impacts of Fee Hunting in Northwestern Colorado
on Hunters and Hunting Opportunities,” Robert K. Davis, Principal
Investigator, Environment and Behavior Program, University of Colorado,
1991.
“Reputation Formation and International Threats,” Cooperative
Research Grant, University of Colorado Department of Economics cooperative
research grant, with William H. Kaempfer, 1990.
Research & Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Tietenberg, Tom and Lynne Lewis Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 8th Edition.
forthcoming in 2008.
“River and Lake Restoration: Changing Landscapes,” Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, Issue 134, July 2006. Issue Editor.
Refereed Articles, Book Chapters and Papers Under Review
“Demolish it and They will Come: Dam Removal and the Ex-post measurement of Fisheries Benefits,” with Jesse Robbins ’06, under review.
Dam Removal and Property Values: A Hedonic Analysis,” with Sarah Wilson and Curtis Bohlen, in prep for Ecological Economics.
“Environmental Quality and Housing Market: Does Lot Size Matter?” (with G. Acharya), Marine Resource Economics, in press.
“River and Lake Restoration: Changing Landscapes – An Introduction,” Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, Issue 134, July 2006.
“Interstate River Compacts of the West?” Water Allocation in the Southeast: New Issues, New Methods, New Models, (Jordan and Wolf, Eds.) University Press of Florida, 2006.
“The Value of Water Supply Reliability
in Urban Water Systems,” (with Charles W. Howe, Mark G. Smith, et
al.) Economics of Water Resources (K. William Easter and Mary Renwick,
Editors), February 2004.
reprinted from Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 26,
19-30, 1994.
“Interstate River Compacts of the West?”
Water Allocation in the Southeast: New Issues, New Methods, New Models,
(Wolf and Jordan, Eds) under revision for publication, University of Florida
Press, expected late 2004.
"Valuing Open Space and Land Use Chaos in Urban Watersheds: An Hedonic
Property Value Analysis,” (with G. Acharya) Journal of Real Estate
Economics and Finance.22:2/3, 221-237. 2001.
“Interstate River Compacts: Incentives for Noncompliance,”
(with C.W. Howe) Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Water Systems (Aaron
Wolf, Ed), Edward Elgar, November 2001,reprinted from Water Resources
Research, 34(3), 485-495, March 1998.
“Complexities with Transboundary Water Resource Management: Progress
and Stumbling Blocks,” (Editor) Water Resources Update, 2001.
“The Integration of Water Quality into Transboundary Allocation
Agreements: Lessons from the Southwestern United States,” Agricultural
Economics 24, 113-125, 2000.
“Cost-Effective Control of Nitrogen Loadings in Long Island Sound,”
(with S. Thorpe and A.J. Guse) Water Resources Research 36(12), 3711-3720,
December 2000.
“The Interstate River Compact as a Water
Allocation Mechanism: Efficiency Aspects,” (with C.W. Howe and J.S.
Shope) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November 2000.
“The Cost of Noncompliance: The Economic Value of Water in the Middle
Arkansas Valley,” (with R. Naeser) Natural Resources Journal, 38(3),
445-463, Summer 1998.
“Interstate River Compacts: Incentives for Noncompliance,”
(with C.W. Howe) Water Resources Research, 34(3), 485-495, March 1998.
“The Impact of Global Warming on Water Systems: Theoretical Issues,”
(with R. Mendelsohn) Climatic Change 37, 271-290, 1997.
Also reprinted in “Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria”
(Frederick, Major, and Stakhiv, Eds.), Kluwer, 1997.
“Facilitating International Agreements Through an Interconnected
Game Approach: The Case of River Basins,” (with S. Ragland and P.
Yolles) Conflict and Cooperation on Trans-Boundary Water Resources (Just
and Netanyahu, Eds.), Kluwer, 61-85,1997.
“The Arkansas River Compact: Integrated Watershed Management as
a Means of Conflict Prevention,” (with R. Naeser) in Water Resources
Education, Training and Practice: Opportunities for the Next Century (Warwick,
Ed.), Symposium Proc. AWRA/UCOWR,
723-732, 1997.
“Design and Analysis of Contingent Valuation Surveys Using the Nested
Tobit Model,” (with C.W. Howe and B.J. Lee) Review of Economics
and Statistics, 385-389, 1994.
“The Value of Water Supply Reliability in Urban Water Systems,”
(with Charles W. Howe, Mark G. Smith, et al.) Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 26, 19-30, 1994.
Other Publications
Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Environmental
and Natural Resource Economics, 7th Edition. (T. Tietenberg 2005), www.aw.com.tietenberg, June 2005
Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Environmental Economics and Policy,
4th Edition (T. Tietenberg 2004),
Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics (T. Tietenberg 2002), www.aw.com.tietenberg, January 2003.
Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Environmental Economics and Policy
(T. Tietenberg 2000), January 2001. http://occ.awlonline.com/bookbind/pubbooks/tietenberg_eep3_awl
/chapter98/deluxe.html.
“Land Use Diversity and Urban Watersheds: The Case of New Haven
County,” (with G. Acharya) Proceedings of the 1999 W-133 resource
economics meetings.
“Economic Considerations of the Restoration of a Tidal Salt Marsh:
The Case of the West River,” (with M. Udziela) in Restoration of
an Urban Salt Marsh: An Interdisciplinary Approach (David Casagrande,
Ed.), Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Bulletin
Series, No. 100, 1997.
“Unidirectional Problems with International River Basins: A Game
Theoretic Approach,” (with S. Ragland and P. Yolles) in Proceedings
of Water: A Trigger for Conflict/Reason for Cooperation, 1996.
“The Economics of Interstate River Compacts: Efficiency, Compliance
and Climate Change,” National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR/CT-151,
1994.
“Mocan Foreign Threats and Domestic Actions: The Case of Sanctions
Against South Africa,” (with W. H. Kaempfer, A. D. Lowenberg and
H. Naci) in Justice Without Violence, (Wehr, Burgess, and Burgess, Eds.),
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993.
Working Papers to be Submitted
Working Papers
“A Socio-economic Inventory of the Androscoggin River.”
“Citizen Purchases of SO2 permits: Bringing the Real World to the Classroom.”
“A Watershed-Based Investigation of the Connection Between Human and Natural Systems, (with Gaboury Benoit, Stephen Kellert, David Skelly, Shimon Anisfeld, Mark Ashton and Paul Barton), under review.
“Balancing Tension and Compatibility: Economics and Ethics in the
Classroom,”(With Frank Chessa) In preparation for Journal of Environmental
Education.
“Fisheries Law Enforcement in the Presence of Tradable Quotas: An
Extension” (with Peter Lyneis).
“Demand-side Management: A Lifeline for Longlining” (with
Mark Pojednic and Guillermo Herrera).
“Climate Variability and the Interstate River Compact: When Will
the Compact Fail?”
“Panel Data and the Estimation of Residential Water Price Elasticity:
The Case of Southern New England.
Completion Reports
“Effluent Trading for Quinnipiac River
Nitrogen Control: Simulation Analysis,” completion report for the
Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation, Inc. 1999.
“Estimating the Benefits of Decreased Nitrogen Deposition into Estuaries
in the United States Due to Air Quality Improvements Attributable to the
CAAA: A Marginal Cost and Avoided Cost Analysis,” completion report
submitted to Industrial Economics, Inc., July 1998.
“Estimated Impacts of Proposed Rate Increases on Residential Water
Demand for Customers Served by the South Central Connecticut Regional
Water Authority,” completion report for the South Central Regional
Water Authority, June 1996.
“Incorporating Public Preferences in the Optimization of Urban Water
Supply Reliability: Planning Procedures and Survey Techniques,”
(with Charles W. Howe, et al.), completion report for the U.S. Geological
Survey, December 1991.
“Urban Water Supply Reliability: Preferences of Managers, Elected
Officials, and Water Users in Boulder, Colorado,” (with Charles
W. Howe, et al.), Colorado Water Resources Research Institute Report No.
158, December 1990.
Book Review
Review of “Water Quantity/Quality Management and Conflict Resolution” (Dinar and Loehman, Eds.). In The Forum.
Selected Conference/Seminar Presentations
Invited Participant for Panel on Building Collaboratories, Campus Compact Conference, April 2006.
“Experimental Education for Undergraduates:
Getting Non-science Students into the Field,” Panel Discussion at
the UCOWR Annual Conference, Portland, ME 2005.
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Invited
Mentor for Workshop, Southern Economics Association, November, 2005.
Allocating Water: Economics and the Environment. Panel presentation on
the Columbia River Treaty, July 2004.
Water Security in the 21st Century, UCOWR Annual Conference, Moderator
for Plenary session, a breakout session and presented Warren Hall Medal
award, July 2003
University of Maine at Orono, Department of Resource Economics and Policy
Seminar Series, Presented, “Spatial Components of Environmental
Quality: Watersheds and Housing Markets, April 2003.
Maine Rivers Conference: Invited Presentation, “The Value of Water,”
Bethel, Maine, May 2002
September 2002. Planning Committee for Integrated Transboundary Water
Management, UCOWR sponsored, 2002.
Symposium on Climate, Water and Transboundary Challenges in the Americas,
UCSB, Presented “Climate Variability and the Interstate River Compact:
When will the Compact Fail?,” July 2000.
University of Rhode Island, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Seminar Series. Presented “Understanding Environmental Preferences
in the New Haven Watershed,” September 1999.
Universities Council on Water Resources and International Water Economics
Consortium annual meeting. Presented two papers and chaired two sessions,
June 1999.
University of New Hampshire, Department of Economics Seminar Series. Presented
“Valuing Open Space and Land Use Chaos in Urban Watersheds: An Hedonic
Property Value Analysis,” April 1999.
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, CCOFFE workshop,
Eastern Economics Association annual meeting, March 1999.
W-133 annual meeting. Presented “Land Use Diversity and Urban Watersheds:
The Case of New Haven County,” February 1999.
Connecticut State Legislature Opening Session. Moderated a panel on nitrogen
trading programs for Long Island Sound. 1998
Southern Economics Association annual meeting. Chaired a SAPPCREE session
on water quality and presented “Cross-Media Trading Possibilities
for Water Quality,” November 1998.
Organized, hosted, and conducted workshop on Permit Trading Possibilities
for Long Island Sound. Presented computer simulation of permit market.
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, October
1998.
Universities Council on Water Resources annual meeting. Presented “The
Design of Water Allocation Mechanisms: The Case of the Interstate River
Compact,” August, 1998.
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. Joint meeting
of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and Association
of Environmental and Resource Economists. Presented, June 1998.
Southern Economics Association annual meeting. Invited panelist for SAPPCREE
session on “Teaching Environmental and Natural Resource Economics,”
Atlanta, November, 1997.
AWRA/UCOWR annual meeting. Presented, June 1997.
University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Seminar Series. Presented,
April 1997.
Fifth Annual International Water and Resource Economics Consortium, Annapolis.
Presented, April 1997.
Twenty-eighth Annual Symposium on International Relations, Troubled Water:
An Impending Global Crisis, Invited Panelist, League of Women Voters of
Connecticut Education Fund and Yale University Center for International
Area Studies, March 1997.
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists annual meeting,
Lisbon. Presented and discussed paper, June 1996.
University of Massachussetts, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Seminar Series, May 1996.
Water: A Trigger for Conflict/Reason for Cooperation, Indiana University.
Presented, March 1996.
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies/Yale University
Economics Department, Environmental Economics Workshop, January, 1995
Environment and Behavior Program Seminar Series, University of Colorado,
December 1993.
ASSA meetings, AERE session. Presented, January 1993.
Teaching
Courses Taught
Bates College Department Of Economics
Valuation of Human Altered Ecosystems, Short Term
Valuing the Environment: Ethics and Economics in Practice, Short Term
Environmental Economics, Winter
Prices, Property and the Problem of the Commons, Fall
Principles of Microeconomics
Yale University School Of Forestry &
Environmental Studies
Water Resource Management, 1995-Spring, 2000
Economics of Natural Resources, 1994-1998
Resource Pricing in the American West, 1998
Seminar in Urban Infrastructure, 1997
Current Topics in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 1996,
1999
Wildlife Policy Short Course, 1995
University Of Colorado Department Of
Economics
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics, 1991-1994
Teaching Development
Seminar on Reflection in the liberal arts participant, 2003-2004.
Received Karl Mills Grant for interdisciplinary course development. Course
entitled, Valuation: Ethics and Economics in Practice, with Frank Chessa,
Philosophy, summer 2001.
Invited panelist. Teaching Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Southern Economics Association annual meeting, Atlanta, 1997.
Professional Service
Bates College
Elected to Coordinating Committee for General Education Reform, 2004-2005
Educational Policy Committee 2002-2004
Mellon Fellow Faculty Sponsor, Winter 2002
Environmental Studies Committee, 2000-present
Honors Committee, 2001-2004
Presidential Inauguration Committee, May 2002-October 2002
Presentation to Trustees on new interdisciplinary course and Karl Mills Grant
Universities Council of Water Resources (UCOWR)
Guest Editor, Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, July 2006
2005 Annual Meeting Program Chair
2004 Annual Meeting Program Committee
2002 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee
Guest Editor, Water Resources Bulletin, spring 2000-2001
Editorial Board, Water Resources Bulletin
Lead delegate, 1996-present
Dissertation Awards Committee, 1999
Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM)
Senator George Mitchell Center for the Environment and Watershed Research, University of Maine
Penobscot Science Steering Committtee
Androscoggin River Valley Watershed Council
Referee for:
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Water Resources Research
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Environmental Management
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Resource and Energy Economics
Environmental Management
South-Western Publishing
Dryden Press
Natural Resources Council
U.S. EPA
New Hampshire Sea Grant
Delaware Sea Grant
Industrial Economics, Inc.
Mountain Institute
NOAA
Professional Affiliations
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR)
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM)
Androscoggin River Valley Watershed Council
Community Service
Volunteer Co-coach for Bates Womens Ultimate Team. 2005-2006.
Volunteer for the Animal Refuge League of Greater
Portland, September 2000-present.
Volunteer Business Manager for CoolestGame2002, video project fundraising
for founding a high school ultimate league.