About

Website of G. Cornelis van Kooten, Professor of Economics (since 2002) and former Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Climate (2002-2023) in the Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada. I am responsible for the Resource Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA) Research Group that consists of graduate students and affiliated researchers who are interested in applying economic analysis to issues in agriculture, forestry, energy and natural resources more broadly. 

My citations (list of publications): Google Scholar Page 
My rankings (all time and last 10 years): RePEc Ideas Canada (details)
ResearchGate link; web of science link
REPA working papers (listing & ranking).

Canada’s utter failure to help Europe’s energy security while failing to collect huge rents that could help alleviate the health care crisis (a sober analysis by a former finance minister) and its rapidity towards becoming an autocratic, undemocratic state.
Interesting article: How Power has Poisoned Academia (here) and scientific fraud
Wokeness and private companies: Companies need to focus on profits, not social agendas
Comments by Dutch legal philosopher on culture and Dutch Nitrogen Policy and farmers.
How the West was lost.

Climate: The Movie

Origins of wildfire (recent Canadian fires). Excellent explanation of Artificial Intelligence (chatGPT)

Latest articles (open access):
Carbon offsets and Agriculture (CJAE)
Accounting for post‐harvest carbon storehouses (CJAE).
Calibrating an Electricity Grid Model (Energies)
Mystery of Lumber Price Movements: Covid-19 and Atmospheric Rivers

My Books

My book on Climate Change (Springer 2013).
My book with Erwin Bulte, The Economics of Nature, is free to download (I own copyright).