Dr. Robert Johnston’s February 25th lecture, Economic Tradeoffs in New England Coastal Management, is currently available online here.

The lecture, which was part of Rhode Island Sea Grant’s Coastal State Series, addressed the economic impacts of climate change and explored the challenges of balancing waterfront development with effective protection of coastal ecosystem services and related costs and benefits to management decisions.

Dr. Johnston is a Professor of Economics and the Director for the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University, and former URI Alum where he received his doctorate from the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. His research focuses on the economic values and tradeoffs of certain coastal management schemes used throughout New England to mitigate climate change impacts from storms, flooding, erosion, and sea level rise.