AERE Awards 

AERE honors the outstanding contributions to the field of environmental and resource economics with four annual awards as well as a Distinguished Service Award, given periodically as circumstances support. 

Wallace E. Oates Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

The Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is judged by a panel of AERE members, and emphasizes originality of research, quality of implementation, expositional clarity, along with intellectual and practical significance of research findings.
  • The winner receives a $1,500 cash award along with a $500 travel grant to attend a recognition ceremony at the AERE Summer Conference. The winner’s dissertation abstract is also published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE). Donate to the fund that supports this award.

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AERE Fellows Program

The AERE Fellows Program was instituted in 2005 to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the profession of environmental and resource economics. Six Fellows were chosen in each of the first three years, and up to three Fellows inducted each year thereafter.

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Publication of Enduring Quality Award

Each year since 1989, AERE has recognized works that are of seminal nature and with enduring value in environmental and resource economics. Place and type of publication are unrestricted for the AERE Publication of Enduring Quality (PEQ) award

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The Ralph C. d’Arge and Allen V. Kneese Award for Outstanding Publication in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Special Awards

Each year, AERE selects an outstanding research paper published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists during the calendar year.

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Distinguished Service Award

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2006 Petry Prize for the Economics of Climate Change

Richard Newell and William Pizer for their paper “Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?” published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management in July 2003.