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INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research

Partnership for Research and Education in Resources, the Environment, and Strategic Cooperation between Norway, USA and Japan

Alternative title: Partnerskap for forskning og utdanning i ressurser, miljø og strategisk samarbeid mellom Norge, USA og Japan

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

The Resourceful collaboration establishes a network between the University of Oslo and top Universities in the United States and Japan to cooperate on research and teaching in environmental and resource economics and policy. Our partners are located at the University of California at Berkeley, Colorado State University, University of Miami, Kobe University, Chiba University, Kyoto University, and Waseda University. Our research cooperation focuses on resource use and environmental conservation. It explores the tight links between resource extraction and environmental repercussions. We we work on developing modern approaches to design international cooperation and environmental policy and on integrating state-of-the art research insights into our teaching. The project has enabled the exchange between researchers and teachers between these institutions with visitor to the University of Oslo from Japan and the US who observed and taught classes and visits to our partners in the US and Japan. Subsequent to post-Covid reopening, we organized a small internal workshop on trade and international cooperation on climate change, and we co-organized two workshops on sustainable resource use in the US and in Japan. We are currently in the process of finalizing a student exchange program with the University of Kobe, our Japanese partner that offers a large part of its classes in English. We have also completed a draft of a textbook on Environmental and Resource Economics that pays particular attention to the careful characterization of intertemporal trade-offs including risk and uncertainty and a sustainable resource use.

The Resourceful project has successfully established a collaboration with partners in the US and Japan through brief and extended visits that brought together faculty and students from the University of Oslo, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Miami, Colorado State University, Chiba University, Kobe University, Kyoto University, and Waseda University. We collaborated on teaching and course design, discussed research on sustainable resource use, and organized workshops on the topic. Project outcomes include updates to our classes on Resource and on Environmental Economics, fruitful discussions of our mutual research projects, the elaboration of joint interests for an enduring collaboration, and the draft of a text book on Environmental and Resource Economics. The collaboration promises an important long-term impact by improving our teaching and the human capital building at the respective institutions where we joined forces to identify important topics and priorities for teaching about and working for a sustainable and cooperative resource use. By improving our understanding of the trade-offs, the opportunities, and the challenges, we hope to carry some of our insights on to the next generation of researchers, government employees, and business leaders. For our own research, we identified a research area of core interest that led to the creation of joint FRIPRO research project on Novel Insights and Mechanisms for the International Cooperation on Climate Change and the Avoidance of Global Risks (NIMICAR). Two network members have drafted a textbook on Environmental and Resource Economics. This book pays particular attention to the discussions in the network carefully considerations the intertemporal trade-offs governing resource use, the impacts of risk and uncertainty on today’s decision making, and connecting the classical theory of fossil fuel extraction to models of climatic change. Moreover, we are in the process of formalizing a long-lasting student exchange program with one of our Resourceful partners in Japan.

The network will cooperate on research, course design, and teaching in the fields of environmental and resource economics and international cooperation. INPART enables several short and extended visits over its three year duration between UiO and three network members in the US (UC Berkeley, Colorado State University, and University of Miami) and three members in Japan (Waseda University, Chiba University, and the University of Kyoto). These visits develop and carry out lasting research cooperations between experts in the field and cooperate on course design and teaching. All participating institutions offer courses in Environmental and Resource Economics and we jointly decided to overhaul our corresponding Master (focal point) and PhD programs. For this purpose, we cooperate on course design by jointly rethinking topical and methodological selections, material presentation and teaching methods, and creating and introducing new material. We will visit and co-teach each other’s classes, give feedback, and discuss our experiences. Over the course of INPART we will substantially revise our Master classes, carefully rethinking the needs of our diverse set of students. We will equip our students with the knowledge, skills, methods, and autarky required to face the challenges in today’s jobs in the field. In our network, we will experience a variety of international perspectives on resource use and environmental conservation across a diverse set of (in particular US-) states and countries. These experiences will allow us to prepare our students with an internationally balanced view on the increasingly transnational problems in environmental and resource economics, in theory and practice. Our exchanges will explore fields of joint research, foster collaborations on research articles and policy projects, and connect researchers between UiO and the host institutions, establishing long-lasting collaborations across the three participating countries.

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