CURRICULUM VITAE: Charles Edward Palmer Tel: +1 718 499 1527 486 4th Street, Apt. 4L [email protected] and [email protected] Brooklyn NY 11215, United States Date of Birth: 22 December 1974 Place of Birth: Falkirk, United Kingdom Nationality: British Languages: English, Indonesian, German

Current 2005 Visiting International Research Scholar Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, US 2002 - 2005 International Doctoral Studies Programme Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn, Germany - Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Bonn. Thesis title: ‘The Impacts From Decentralization on Forest-Dependent Communities in Indonesia’. - Working collaboration: the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia. - 10 months fieldwork in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Coordinated six person fieldwork team. - Supervisors: Dr. Stefanie Engel & Prof. Dr. Karin Holm-Müller. Advisors: Prof. Ramon López (University of Maryland) & Emeritus Prof. David Pearce OBE (University College London). - Financial sponsor: The Robert Bosch Foundation

Academic Record 1999 - 2000 MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics University College London, London, UK 1998 - 1999 Postgraduate Certificate in Economics (PCE) Birkbeck College, London, UK 1994 - 1997 BA (Hons) in Biological Sciences Oxford University (Merton College), UK

Work Experience 2002 International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED): project economist Indonesia 2002 Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): forest policy consultant Indonesia 2001 Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK Government: environmental accounts consultant London 2001 National Grid Company Plc. (NGC): project coordinator London 2001 Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), Economics Department, University College London: Research Fellow London

Conferences and Workshops March 2005 Property and Environment Research Centre (PERC) Liberty Fund colloquium: Cambridge ‘Free Market Environmentalism in Theory and Practice’ Sept 2004 Annual Conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics Tucson Presented: ‘Who owns the right?’ (co-authored with Stefanie Engel) Aug 2004 10th Biennial Conference: International Association for the Study of Common Property Oaxaca Presented: ‘Who owns the right?’ (co-authored with Stefanie Engel) June 2004 Annual meeting European Association for Environmental and Resource Economics Budapest Presented: ‘How much do you wanna buy? A methodology for estimating the level of illegal logging in East Kalimantan, Indonesia’ (co-authored with Krystof Obidzinski) June 2004 European Development Network (EUDN) Fourth Workshop on Development Bonn Research for Doctoral Students Presented: ‘Who owns the right? The Determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia’ (co-authored with Stefanie Engel) Sept 2003 Annual Conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics Budapest Presented: ‘Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: The case of Indonesia’ (co-authored with Stefanie Engel and Ramon López) Sept 2003 Ronald Coase Institute Annual Workshop Budapest Presented: ‘Mixed Blessings? The Benefits from the Decentralization of the Forest Sector in Indonesia’. June 2003 EAAE Workshop on Contracts in Agriculture Copenhagen Presented: ‘Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: The case of Indonesia’ (co-authored with Stefanie Engel and Ramon López) Sept 2001 London School of Economics Research Workshop on Environmental Policy and the London Costs of Compliance. Presented: ‘Public Spending and Environmental Protection: a Cross-country Policy Analysis’ (co-authored with David Pearce)

1 Publications and Working Papers Engel, S, and Palmer, C. 2004. ‘Who owns the right? The determinants of community benefits from logging in Indonesia.’ Invited submission in ‘Community-based forestry in the next decade: Towards an 'agrarian' approach?’, forthcoming May 2005 in Forest Policy and Economics. Palmer, C. 2004. ‘Negotiations and outcomes from small-scale logging agreements between communities and brokers in Malinau, Indonesia.’ Invited submission to Wollenberg, E. (ed): “Decentralization, forests and ethnicity”, forthcoming. The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. Atkinson, G., Day, B., Mourato, S., and Palmer, C. 2004. ‘’Amenity’ or ‘eyesore’? Negative willingness to pay for options to replace electricity transmission towers.’ Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 11, Number 4/15 March 2004, pp. 203-208. Palmer, C. 2004. ‘The role of collective action in determining the benefits from IPPK logging concessions: a case study from Sekatak, East Kalimantan’. Working Paper No. 28, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. Engel, S. and Palmer, C. 2003. ‘Can decentralization benefit people and forests? – Evidence from Indonesia’. Center for Development Research (ZEF) newsletter No. 14, December 2003, pp4. Bonn, Germany. Engel, S., López, R., and Palmer, C. 2003. ‘Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: The case of Indonesia’. Forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics. Richards, M., Palmer, C,. Young, C,. and Obidzinski, K. 2003. ‘Higher International Standards or Rent-Seeking Race to the Bottom? The Impacts of Forest Trade Liberalisation on Forest Governance’. Report prepared for the International Institute for Environmental and Development (IIED), London, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Rome. Project GCP/INT/775/JPN. Palmer, C. 2003. ‘The physical and economic accounts for UK fisheries.’ Report prepared for the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), London. Web only: www.nationalstatistics.gov.uk/downloads/ theme_environment/UKfisheries_accounts.pdf Pearce, DW., Pearce, C., and Palmer, C. (eds). 2002. ‘Valuing Environmental Benefits. Volume I: Case Studies from the Developing World’. Edward Elgar publishing, Cheltenham, UK. Obidzinski, K. and Palmer, C. 2002. ‘How much do you wanna buy? A methodology for estimating the level of illegal logging in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.’ Research Report for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. Forthcoming, Bulletin for Indonesian Economic Studies. Pearce, DW. and Palmer, C. 2001. ‘Public Spending and Environmental Protection: a Cross-country Policy Analysis’. Journal for Fiscal Studies, Vol. 22 (4), December 2001, pp.403-456, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London. Reprinted in ‘The Economics of Public Spending’, I.Preston, and D.Myles (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2003. Palmer, C. 2001. ‘The Extent and Causes of Illegal Logging in: an Analysis of a Major Cause of Tropical Deforestation in Indonesia’. Working Paper ISSN 0967-8875 (web only). The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University College London, London.

Membership of organizations

The International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) – 2003-05 The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE) – 2004-05 The International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) – 2004-05

Contacts for References (1) Dr. Stefanie Engel (Senior Fellow, Centre for Development Research, Bonn, Germany) Contact: [email protected]

(2) Dr. Lini Wollenberg (Manager, Forests and Governance Programme, The Centre for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia) Contact: [email protected]

(3) Emeritus Prof. David Pearce (Economics Department, University College London) Contact: [email protected]

(4) Prof. Ramon López (Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of Maryland, College Park) Contact: [email protected]

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