Environmental economist Catherine L. Kling has spent her career calculating the economic value of environmental resources and using the data to help design environmental policies. She has examined what consumers are willing to pay for environmental improvements and assessed the cost-effectiveness of policies to reduce nutrient runoff in waterways and alleviate hypoxic zones in places such as the Gulf of Mexico. Kling works with an interdisciplinary team to quantify the social costs of water pollution: How it imposes economic costs, including higher cost of drinking water, lost access to waterways, and lost enjoyment of rivers, lakes, and streams. The goal is to develop cost-effective policies that take into account the real economic cost of water pollution. Kling is a Tisch University professor in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Faculty Director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, and her Inaugural Article (1) calculates the effect of ozone pollution on bird populations in the United States. Kling and colleagues found that as ozone increases bird populations decline, and a program aimed at decreasing ozone levels in the eastern half of the United States has prevented the loss of up to 1.5 billion birds. Kling discussed her work with PNAS.

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凯瑟琳·L·克林的QnAs

环境经济学家凯瑟琳·L·克林（Catherine L. Kling）的职业生涯是计算环境资源的经济价值，并使用这些数据来帮助设计环境政策。她研究了消费者愿意为改善环境付出的代价，并评估了减少水道中养分径流并缓解墨西哥湾等地低氧区的政策的成本效益。克林（Kling）与一个跨学科团队合作，量化了水污染的社会成本：它是如何造成经济成本的，包括更高的饮用水成本，失去的水路，以及对河流，湖泊和小溪的乐趣。目标是制定考虑到水污染的实际经济成本的具有成本效益的政策。Kling是戴森（Dyson）应用经济与管理学院的Tisch大学教授，康奈尔大学（Cornell University）阿特金森可持续未来中心的系主任。她当选为美国国家科学院在2015年，她的就职文章（1）计算臭氧污染对美国鸟类的影响。克林和同事发现，随着臭氧的增加，鸟类数量减少，旨在降低美国东部臭氧水平的一项计划已经防止了多达15亿只鸟类的损失。克林与PNAS讨论了她的工作。