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S. Niggol Seo, PhD

Topic Editor in Environmental Economics, The Encyclopedia of Earth

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Professor S. Niggol Seo is a natural resource economist who specializes in the study of global warming. Born in a rural village in South Korea in 1972, he studied at a doctoral degree program at the University of California at Berkeley and received a Ph.D. degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from Yale University in May 2006 with a dissertation on micro-behavioral models of global warming. Since 2003, he has worked with the World Bank on various climate change projects in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He held Professor positions in the UK, Spain, and Australia from 2006 to 2015. Since September 2015, he is Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the Muaebak Institute of Global Warming Studies in Seoul. Prof. Seo has published three books and over 50 international journal articles on global warming. He frequently serves as a journal referee for more than 30 international journals and has been on the editorial boards of the two journals: Food Policy, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. He received an Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Article Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in Pittsburgh in June 2011.