Dr. Le Viet Phu

Le Viet Phu
Environmental Policy Lecturer

Email: phu.le@fulbright.edu.vn

Dr. Le Viet Phu was a member of the Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative at the Fulbright University Vietnam during 2014-2018. Dr. Phu's main areas of research include various environmental issues and policies in Vietnam, including energy economics, clean air policies, agricultural systems, and climate change. He is also a lecturer of sustainable development and environmental policies, and quantitative methods in economics at the Fulbright School.

Dr. Phu received his doctoral degree in environmental economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2013, and a master's degree in development economics from the Australian National University in 2004.

Courses Taught

  • Quantitative Methods 
  • Polciy Evaluation 
  • Environmental Economics and Policy

Research

Current Research

  • Economic impact of air pollution.
  • Electricity demand estimation.
  • Groundwater valuation.
  • Reflection on Climate Policy: Science, Economics, and Extremes, with Anthony Fisher, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 8(2): 307-27. Summer 2014.
  • Three Essays on the Impact of Climate Change and Weather Extremes on US Agriculture, PhD Dissertation (2013).
  • Contributed book chapters, in Agriculture, Livelihoods, and the Environment in the Lower Mekong Basin, SIRD, Malaysia (forthcoming, 2018):

Publication

  • Reflection on Climate Policy: Science, Economics, and Extremes, with Anthony Fisher, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 8(2): 307-27. Summer 2014.
  • Three Essays on the Impact of Climate Change and Weather Extremes on US Agriculture, PhD Dissertation (2013).
  • Contributed book chapters, in Agriculture, Livelihoods, and the Environment in the Lower Mekong Basin, SIRD, Malaysia (forthcoming, 2018): Hidden in Plain Sight: The Value of Groundwater Irrigation in Vietnam.
  • The Environmental-Economic Development Nexus in the Lower Mekong Basin: Hydropower Development, Climate Change, and Trans-boundary Water Cooperation.
  • Fisher, A. C., & Le, P. V. (2014). Climate policy: science, economics, and extremes. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 8(2), 307-327.

Academic Conferences & Workshops

  • Lower Mekong Policy Forum on Energy, Agriculture, and Natural Resources in Da Nang, Vietnam (2017).
  • EfD Annual Meeting in Ethiopia (2017).
  • SEAREG Annual Meeting (2017).
  • Stimson Water and Energy Dialogues (2017).
  • SEI Annual Meeting (2015, 2016).
  • Lower Mekong Policy Forum on Environment, Agriculture, and Livelihoods in Siem Reap, Cambodia (2016).
  • Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop at UIUC (2012).
  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in Rome (2011).

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