The Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy (CEnREP) welcomes Catherine Kling, Tisch University Professor and director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, to give the annual lecture. The lecture, “The Social Cost of Water Pollution,” will be held on Thursday, March 27 in Withers Hall.

Kling is a leading expert in the economic valuation of ecosystem services, water quality and interdisciplinary environmental assessment. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and currently chairs the Water Science and Technology Board. Previously, she was director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University.

Her talk will focus on the widespread problem of nutrient runoff from agriculture and other sources degrading water quality across the United States. She will examine how property rights and misaligned incentives contribute to this issue and discuss how interdisciplinary research is helping to quantify the economic and social damages caused by pollution.

This event is part of CEnREP’s ongoing efforts to improve public understanding and management of environmental resources by linking economics to science, agriculture and technology. CEnREP works to help create solutions that work for a society of mutual benefit, through the application of state-of-the-art economic science. For more information, visit https://cenrep.ncsu.edu/.

All are welcome to attend!