Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Catherine S. Norman


Assistant Professor
Geography and Environmental Engineering
Secondary Appointment: Economics

Ames 211 (office)
410-516-5184 ()
norman@jhu.edu (primary)

Education

PhD 2005, University of California, Santa Barbara
MA 2001, University of California, Santa Barbara
BA 1997, Drew University

Experience

2011-2012: Sabbatical funded by AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program, hosted at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Policy and Regulatory Analysis Division.
2005-: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (Joint with Economics since 2010), The Johns Hopkins University

Research Areas

Understanding links between the natural capital embodied in resource endowments and institutional and development outcomes
Evaluating linkages between economic growth and environmental quality
Environmental policy analysis
Economics of international environmental agreements
Applied Environmental Microeconomics

Journal Articles

Lo Prete, C., Hobbs, B.F., Norman, C.S., Cano-andrade, S., Fuentes, A., Von Spakovsky, M., Mili, L. (2011). Sustainability and reliability assessment of microgrids in a regional electricity market. Energy.
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Fan, L., Norman, C.S., Patt, A.G. (2011). Electricity capacity investment under risk aversion: A case study of coal, gas, and concentrated solar power. Energy Economics. 34(1). 54-61.
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Ashenmiller, B., Norman, C.S. (2011). Measuring the Impact of Anti-SLAPP Legislation on Monitoring and Enforcement. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 11(1).
Norman, C.S. (2010). Escaping the Resource Curse. Economica. 77 (306). 403-404.
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Norman, C.S. (2010). Anti-SLAPP Legislation and Environmental Protection in the United States: An Overview of Direct and Indirect Effects. Review of European Community and International Environmental Law.. 19(1). 28-34.
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Presentations

Rockets and Feathers in the EU ETS Phase II, US Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Economics, November 16, 2011
Rockets and Feathers in CO2-Power Markets: New Evidence from the Second Phase of the EU ETS. European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 18th Annual Meeting, Rome., July 2, 2011
NSF Workshop: Integrating Economic and Financial Principles into Environmental Engineering Research and Education. Invited speaker., January 27, 2011
Rockets and Feathers in the EU ETS Phase II, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, November 21, 2010
Resources For The Future Workshop. The Value of Information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications. Invited Discussant for Richard Bernknopf, “The Value of Earth Observations in Environmental Regulation: The Case of Land Use and Pollution.”, June 29, 2010
"Climate Policy" speech to the Anne Arundel County Elephant Club., January 28, 2010
Anti-SLAPP Legislation and Regulator Response: Spillovers to the Clean Air Act. Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio., November 23, 2009
Environmental Engineering and Science: the case for including economics. Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Annual Meeting, Iowa City., July 21, 2009
Risk Aversion and CO2 Regulatory Uncertainty in Power Generation Investment: Policy and Modeling Implications, Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Amsterdam., June 27, 2009
Risk Aversion and CO2 Regulatory Uncertainty in Power Generation Investment: Policy and Modeling Implications (poster), AERE Workshop on Energy and the Environment, June 18, 2009
Uncertainty and Risk Aversion In Electricity Supply and Investment Choices Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting . Washington, DC. 2008-11-21., November 21, 2008
Uncertainty& Risk Aversion in a Market Equilibrium Model: Are Deterministic & Risk-Neutral Policy Models Biased? INFORMS National Meeting. Washington DC. 2008-11-00., October 31, 2008
Regulatory Uncertainty & Risk Aversion in a Market Equilibrium Model: Are Deterministic & Risk-Neutral Policy Models Biased? CU Boulder Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop. Colorado. 2008-09-20., September 20, 2008
Uncertainty& Risk Aversion in a Market Equilibrium Model: Are Deterministic & Risk-Neutral Policy Models Biased? Atlantic Energy Group Meeting. FERC, Washington DC. 2008-09-17., September 17, 2008
Economics of Coordinating International Environmental Protection Regimes Economics Honor Society Awards Dinner. Drew University, Madison, NJ. 2008-04-28. (Invited), April 28, 2008
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Climate Change: Science and Solutions. 8th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment. Washington, DC. 2008-01-17. (Invited), January 17, 2008
The Montreal Protocol at 20: Ongoing Opportunities for Integration with Climate Protection Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans. 2007-11-19., November 19, 2007
Sustainability and Microdevelopment EWB-JHU Panel Session. Johns Hopkins. 2007-11-14. (Invited), November 14, 2007
Research Topics DoGEE Alumni Day. JHU. 2007-09-29. (Invited), September 29, 2007
Anti-SLAPP legislation and Citizen Enforcement: Measuring the ‘Chill’ of Strategic Lawsuits EAERE 2007. Thessaloniki. 2007-06-30., June 30, 2007
Anti-SLAPP legislation and Citizen Enforcement: Measuring the ‘Chill’ of Strategic Lawsuits American Economic Association / ASSA Annual Meeting. Chicago. 2007-01-05., January 5, 2007
Methyl Bromide Phaseout Under the Montreal Protocol Stratospheric Protection Division Brownbag Seminar Series. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC. 2006-12-13. (Invited), December 13, 2006
Rule of Law and the Resource Curse International Policy Seminar. Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. 2006-10-23. (Invited), October 23, 2006
Rule of Law and the Resource Curse Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. Kyoto, Japan. 2006-07-07., July 7, 2006
INTEGRATING SOCIAL SCIENCES INTO CLEANER-WATERS: Progress Report of the CLEANER-WATERS Social Science and Economics Committee National Academies of Science: Meeting of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change . Arlington, VA. 2006-05-19. (Invited), May 19, 2006
Anti-SLAPP legislation and Citizen Enforcement: Measuring the “Chill” of Strategic Lawsuits Economics Department Seminar. Occidental College. 2006-03-13. (Invited), March 13, 2006
Rule of Law and The Resouce Curse: Abundance versus Intensity Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group. Montreal. 2005-10-02., October 2, 2005
Rule of Law and the Resource Curse Fordham University Economics Seminar. New York. 2005-02-00. (Invited), January 31, 2005
Rule of Law and the Resource Curse Johns Hopkins University, DoGEE Seminar. Baltimore. 2005-02-00. (Invited), January 31, 2005
Rule of Law and the Resource Curse University of California, Davis Agricultural Economics Seminar. Davis, CA. 2005-02-00. (Invited), January 31, 2005
Rule of Law and the Resource Curse Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Economics Seminar. Carbondale, IL. 2005-01-00. (Invited), December 31, 2004
Is the Environmental Kuznets Curve an Emprical Regularity? Occasional California Conference on Environmental Economics. Santa Barbara. 2003-10-00., September 30, 2003

Committees

2011: Freshman Book Committee
2010: E2SHI Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute Executive Committee
2009: Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure Program - Advisory Committee
2008: Global Environmental Change and Sustainability- Advisory Committee
2007: JHU Sustainability Committee
2010 - 2010: Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lecture Planning Committee
2009 - 2009: Environment Institute Steering Committee
2009 - 2009: DoGEE Undergraduate Awards Committee
2007 - 2009: Faculty mentor – Green Idea Generator
2006 - 2009: DoGEE Fellowship Committee