Faculty
Cutler J. Cleveland
Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
Professor, Geography and Environment & CEES
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
Areas of interest: Ecological economics; environmental science; the oil and natural gas industry; alternative energy; energy and environmental policy; natural resources and sustainable development; environmental economics
Phone: 617-353-7552
Fax: 617-353-5986
E-mail: cutler@bu.edu
Office: Room 447, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
675 Commonwealth Ave. 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Current Research
The Assessment of U.S. Oil and Gas Supplies
Cutler Cleveland and Robert Kaufmann
There are few issues more important and more hotly debated than the future supply of oil and natural gas. Our research has sought to identify the economic, geological, engineering and institutional forces that determined the historic pattern of petroleum discovery and production in the U.S., and then use that information to forecast future supply. Much of this work uses time series econometric models to quantify these relationships. Our results clearly show that (i) depletion effects now dominate technology effects in the discovery and production stages; (ii) models that rely exclusively on physical or economic driving forces have poorer explanatory power than those that integrate the effects of such forces, and (iii) policies that aim to subsidize or otherwise stimulate oil production in the U.S. will fail to do so in any appreciable way, and in doing so will damage the economy and the environment. A synthesis of this work is available at our web site.
The Encyclopedia of Energy
Cutler Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editors: Amory Lovins, Margaret Slade, Rajendra Pachauri, Vaclav Smil, Robert Costanza, Jose Goldemberg , Robert Ayres, Robert Kaufmann, Mohan Munasinghe and Lee Schipper.
Advances in our understanding of energy have catalyzed unparalleled social and technological transformations. However, there exists no authoritative reference providing an encyclopedic treatment of energy. This premise is the motivation for developing the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Energy. This scholarly endeavor will be designed as a comprehensive yet accessible reference; it will elucidate many of the transdisciplinary aspects of energy and illuminate energy's central role in society. Energy is designed to appeal to a variety of audiences including students, scholars and professionals in colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education; the libraries of non-governmental organizations, government agencies, and other consultants and researchers involved with energy, environmental, and public policy issues. Energy will follow in the path of Academic Press's award-winning reference series, The Encyclopedia of Energy.
Courses Taught
- GG 100 Introduction to Environmental Science
- GG/EE 518 Natural Resource Scarcity & Economic Growth
