Faculty
Ian Sue Wing
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environment & Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
Areas of interest: integrated assessment of climate change, emissions trading under uncertainty, regional economic and emissions modeling, induced technological change and environmental policy
Office: STO Room 461
Phone: 617-353-5741
Fax: 617-353-5986
E-mail: isw@bu.edu
Website: http://people.bu.edu/isw
Address: Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
675 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02215, USA
Current Research
Representing Endogenous Technological Change in Climate Policy Models: General Equilibrium Approaches
- The impact on the costs of GHG abatement of the accumulation and substitution of knowledge in an intertemporal setting.
- The effects of future markets and competition for inputs on the timing and rate of penetration of new energy supply technologies.
- The role of international capital goods trade in diffusing productivity to less-developed countries (LDCs), and the effect of such spillovers on LDCs' economic growth and emissions.
Courses Taught
- GG 103 Economic Geography
- GG 365 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- GG 542 Models of Urban Transportation Systems
