The MARTINZ Critical Review - Ep#68 - Perception and reality; integrating renewable energy sources into our power grids - with Dr. Cornelis van Kooten, PhD, University of Victoria

The MARTINZ Critical Review

In today’s episode we continue our investigation into the actual science behind the Earth’s ever changing climate, continue to provide clear evidence to counter the bogus mainstream narrative, and examine whether renewable energy sources have a realistic potential to power our nations.

Today we are very fortunate to have Dr Cornelis van Kooten from the University of Victoria joining us today. Presently he holds the position of Professor of Economics and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Climate in the Department of Economics. Dr. Kooten received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from Oregon State University in 1982.

Subsequently he has been an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Saskatchewan; an associate professor in the School of Management at Groningen University in the Netherlands; an associate and full professor in the Departments of Agricultural Economics and Forest Resources Management, and Chair of Agricultural Economics, at the University of British Columbia; and a professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Nevada.

Dr. van Kooten has over 30 years of experience with interests that range from agricultural and forest economics to development, computational and energy economics. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and some 40 book chapters; he is the author or co-author of five books on land and forest economics, and co-editor of three books.

His book with Erwin H. Bulte entitled The Economics of Nature (Blackwell, 2000) is considered a classic reference book for researchers in the field of wildlife and public land economics. And his 1995 paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics on the uptake of carbon in forest ecosystems is the standard reference for work in the field of terrestrial carbon offsets.

Dr. van Kooten has been a consultant to various governments and government agencies, the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union, and a variety of non-governmental organizations, including the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the WWF. His numerous graduate students have gone on to work in the private sector, academia and government. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (2012) and was awarded its Publication of Enduring Quality Award in 2011; in 2014, he won the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Research Excellence Award.

To learn more about Dr. van Kooten and his work please visit:

https://www.vkooten.net

https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/economics/faculty-staff/home/faculty-directory/vankootencornelis.php