Michael Hanemann is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy in the Department of Agriculture & Natural Resources and the Director of the UC Berkeley California Climate Change Center (http://calclimate.berkeley.edu).

The California Climate Change Center advances state-of-the-science regarding the potential regional impacts of climate change on California and its economy, ecology and society, and to investigates policies that California might adopt both to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change and also to reduce California’s contribution by way of greenhouse gas emissions.

Hanemann’s research interests include non-market valuation, environmental economics and policy, water pricing and management, demand modeling for market research and policy design, the economics of irreversibility and adaptive management, and welfare economics. His work has appeared in AER, Econometrica, JEEM, AJAE, and elsewhere.