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Professor Richard S. J. TOL
Professor of Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, Germany

Prof. Richard S.J. Tol Hamburg University Bundesstrasse 55 Hamburg, 20146 Germany Tel: +49.40.428387007 Fax: +49.40.428387009 E-mail: tol@dkrz.de

Richard S.J. Tol is the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change, Departments of GeoSciences and Economics, and Director, Research Unit on Sustainability and Global Change, Centre for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University, Germany; a Principal Researcher, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and an Adjunct Professor, Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He received an M.Sc. in econometrics (1992) and a Ph.D. in economics (1997) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. After a short while as a research assistant at the Department of Econometrics, he joined the Institute for Environmental Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1992. He joined the Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change in 1998. He joined Hamburg University in 2000. He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia (March 1994), and the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, University College London (March 1995). He has 75 publications in learned journals (with 47 co-authors), 1 book, 4 major reports, 32 book chapters, and many minor publications. He is interested in the application of economic, mathematical and statistical techniques, such as time series analysis, valuation, decision analysis, and game theory, to environmental problems, in particular climate change, natural disasters, marine resources and river basin management. He is known for his work on impacts of, and adaptation to climate change. He developed the Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation and Distribution, an integrated assessment model for climate change. He is a board member of the Centre for Marine and Climate Research and of the International Max Planck Research Schools of Earth Systems Modelling and Maritime Affairs, all at Hamburg University. He participates in the model comparison exercises of the Energy Modeling Forum of Stanford University. He is an editor for Energy Economics and an associate editor for Environmental and Resource Economics. He is advisor and referee of national and international policy and research. He is an author (contributing, lead, principal and convening) of Working Groups I, II and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is an author and editor of the UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies. He is actively involved in the European Climate Forum and the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment.

Selected references
Fankhauser, S. and R.S.J. Tol (forthcoming), ‘On Climate Change and Economic Growth’, Resource and Energy Economics (D91, E21, O13, Q25)
Tol, R.S.J., T.E. Downing, O.J. Kuik and J.B. Smith (forthcoming), ‘Distributional Aspects of Climate Change Impacts’, Global Environmental Change (D39, Q25).
Zhou, Y. and R.S.J. Tol (2004), ‘The Implications of Desalination to Water Resources in China – An Economic Perspective’, Desalination, 163 (4), 225-240. (Q25)
Tol, R.S.J., N.M. van der Grijp, A.A. Olsthoorn and P.E. van der Werff (2003), ‘Adapting to Climate Change: A Case Study of Riverine Flood Risks in the Netherlands’, Risk Analysis, 23 (3), 575-583. (Q25)
Tol, R.S.J. (2002), ‘New Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change, Part I: Benchmark Estimates’, Environmental and Resource Economics, 21 (1), 47-73. (Q25)
Tol, R.S.J. (2002), ‘New Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change, Part II: Dynamic Estimates’, Environmental and Resource Economics, 21 (1), 135-160. (Q25)
Yohe, G.W. and R.S.J. Tol (2002), ‘Indicators for Social and Economic Coping Capacity – Moving Towards a Working Definition of Adaptive Capacity’, Global Environmental Change, 12 (1), 25-40. (Q20)
Darwin, R.F. and R.S.J. Tol (2001), ‘Estimates of the Economic Effects of Sea Level Rise’, Environmental and Resource Economics, 19 (2), 113-129. (Q17, Q24, Q25)
Strzepek, K.M., D.N. Yates, G.W. Yohe, R.S.J. Tol and N. Mader (2001), ‘Constructing “Not Implausible” Climate and Economic Scenarios for Egypt’, Integrated Assessment, 2 (3), 139-157. (Q25)
Tol, R.S.J. and H. Dowlatabadi (2001), ‘Vector-borne Diseases, Climate Change, and Economic Growth’, Integrated Assessment, 2, 173-181. (I12, Q25)