Qualifications
BSc, Brown University; MS, Mass. Inst. Tech.; PhD, Mass. Inst. Tech.

Professional experience
Dr Liddle obtained an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Management and Environmental Engineering from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His training emphasized economics, decision science, and modeling, including classes in environmental and resource economics, econometrics, linear programming, system dynamics, and general equilibrium modeling with GAMS. He has considerable experience performing interdisciplinary, policy oriented research in energy and climate change by applying modeling. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the population-environment-economy research group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Previously, he was an interdisciplinary economist at the Energy Information Agency, US Department of Energy working on the National Energy Modeling System.

March 2007 – present: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne
Spring 2006–Fall 2006: Adjunct Professor, Trinity University, Washington, DC and Adjunct Professor, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland
2004–2005: Interdisciplinary Economist, Energy Information Agency, US Department of Energy, Washington
2001–2003: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Group on Population, Economy, and Environment, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
1998–2000: Research Scientist, Technology and Development Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1991–1997: Research Assistant, Center for Construction Research and Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
 

Research interests

• Policy/institutional analysis and equity concerns of global climate change.
• Environmental impact of high concentration of human activities in urban systems (transport and buildings) and the policy, institutional, and technology options to lower that impact.
• Systemic relationship among population, development, and energy/environment.
• Global sustainability: flows of people, capital, and goods and their impact on environment and development.
• Relationship between development/trade and pollution (i.e., EKC, Pollution Haven Hypothesis).
• Stability of economic growth in developing countries.
• Privatization of infrastructure systems.
 

Publications

Book

Liddle, B. and Rothenberg, J., forthcoming 2008, Modeling the Challenge of Sustainability in a Global System, under contract, submitted, and under review at MIT Press.

Journal articles refereed

Liddle, B. 2006, ‘How linked are energy and GDP: Reconsidering energy-GDP cointegration and causality for disaggregated OECD country data’, International Journal of Energy, Environment and Economics, vol. 13, no. 2.

Liddle, B. 2004, ‘Demographic Dynamics and per capita environmental impact: Using panel regressions and household decompositions to examine population and transport’, Population and Environment, vol. 26, no. 1.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Sustainable development and globalization in a world with unequal starting points’, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, vol. 14, no, 3.

Liddle, B. 2001, ‘Free trade and the environment-development system’, Ecological Economics, vol. 39, no. 1.

Liddle, B. 2000, ‘Population growth, age structure, and environmental impact’, Population and Environment, vol. 21, no. 4.

Moavenzadeh, F. and Liddle, B. 1999, ‘Policy and institutional measures for reduction of transport generated pollution’, Journal of Urban Technology, vol. 6, no. 1.

Moavenzadeh, F. and Liddle, B. 1997, ‘The sustainability of the urban environment: A case for energy efficiency in the building sector’, Journal of Urban Technology, vol. 4, no. 2.

Book chapters

Liddle, B. 2006, ‘Sustainable development and globalization in a world with unequal starting points’, in M. Doi (ed.), Computable General Equilibrium Approaches in Urban and Regional Policy Studies, World Scientific, Hackensack, New Jersey.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Demographic dynamics and sustainability: Insights from an integrated, multi-country simulation model’, in New Challenges for Sustainable Development in Millennia, UN NGO Policy Series No. 3, United Nations, Washington DC.

Liddle, B. and Finch, M. 2002, ‘Green buildings: Private and public gains’, in F. Moavenzadeh, K. Hanaki and P. Baccini (eds), Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, Springer, Heidelberg.

Liddle, B. and Moavenzadeh, F. 2002, ‘Cities: Challenges and opportunities for sustainability’, in F. Moavenzadeh, K. Hanaki and P. Baccini (eds), Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, Springer, Heidelberg.

Liddle, B. and Moavenzadeh, F. 2002. ‘The sustainability challenge for climate change: Balancing inter- and intragenerational equity’, in F. Moavenzadeh, K. Hanaki and P. Baccini (eds), Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, Springer, Heidelberg.

Liddle, B. and Moavenzadeh, F. 2002, ‘Towards sustainable urban transport: Finding synergies between lowering local and global impacts’, in F. Moavenzadeh, K. Hanaki and P. Baccini (eds), Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, Springer, Heidelberg.

Invited presentations

Liddle, B. 2006, ‘Population and Development Impacts on Transport Energy Use’, presented at Department of Economics and Transportation Logistics, North Carolina A and T State University, June 27.

Liddle, B. 2006, ‘Sustainable Development and Globalization in a World with Unequal Starting Points’, paper presented at The Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, March 30.

Liddle, B. 2005, ‘Demographic Dynamics and Per Capita Environmental Impact’, presented at Environmental Sciences Institute, Florida A and M University, December 7.

Liddle, B. 2004, ‘Sustainability Dynamics in a World with Unequal Starting Points: A Transdisciplinary, Multi-Country Simulation Model’, presented at CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA, April 9.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Sustainability Dynamics in a World with Unequal Starting Points: Insights from a Transdisciplinary, Multi-country Simulation Model’, presented at the Conference "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie", session "Modellbildung und Simulation", Rostock, Germany, October 17.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Understanding and Projecting “Consumption-Based” Environmental Impact’, presented at Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Open Forum, University of Minnesota, May 6.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Sustainability Dynamics in a World with Unequal Starting Points: A Transdisciplinary, Multi-Country Simulation Model’, presented at Department of Geography Colloquium, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 25.

Liddle, B. 2002, ‘Demographic Influences on Economic Resiliency: Analyzing the Developing Country Growth Collapse of the 1970s and 1980s’, presented at 3rd Workshop on Demographic Macroeconomic Modeling, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, September 20.

Liddle, B. 2002, ‘Developing Country Growth Collapse Revisited: Determining Demographic Influences’, presented at the School of the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, May 8.

Liddle, B. 2001, ‘The Population-Development Nexus: Insights from a Multi-country Simulation Model’, presented at 2nd Workshop on Population and the Environment: Modeling and Simulating this Complex Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, May 18.

Conference presentations and proceedings

Liddle, B. 2007, ‘Long-Run Relation among Motor Fuel Use, Vehicle Miles Travelled, Income, and Gas Price for the US’, paper presented at the 27th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference ‘Developing and Delivering Affordable Energy in the 21st Century, Houston, Texas, 16-19 September.

Liddle, B. 2007, ‘Long-Run Relation among Motor Fuel Use, Vehicle Miles Travelled, Income, and Gas Price for the US’, paper presented at the EcoMod Conference on Energy and Environmental Modelling, EcoMod Network, Institute for the Economy in Transition, and Academy of National Economy (Russian Federation), Moscow, 13-14 September.

Liddle, B. 2004, ‘How Tied are Energy and GDP? Reconsidering Energy—GDP Cointegration and Causality for Disaggregated OECD Country Data’, presented at 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Montreal, Canada, July 14.
Liddle, B. 2004, ‘Household Dynamics and Per Capita Environmental Impact’, presented at 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Montreal, Canada, July 13.

Liddle, B. 2004, ‘Sustainable Development and Globalization in a World with Unequal Starting Points’, presented at 7th Annual Conference of Global Economic Analysis, Washington, DC, June 19.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘The Influence of Spatial and Demographic Dynamics on Per Capita Road Energy Use in OECD Countries’, poster presented at European Population Conference 2003, Warsaw, Poland, August 29.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Developing Country Growth Collapse Revisited: Determining Demographic Influences Countries’, poster presented at European Population Conference 2003, Warsaw, Poland, August 29.

Liddle, B. 2003, ‘Analyzing the Developing Country Growth Collapse of the 1970s and 1980s: Demographic Influences and Regional Differences’, presented at Population Association of America 2003, Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 3.

Liddle, B. 2002, ‘Demographic Dynamics and Sustainability: Insights from an Integrated, Multi-country Simulation Model. Presented at the World Forum on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 27.

Liddle, B. 2002, ‘Sustainable Development and Globalization in a World with Unequal Starting Points’, presented at the 3rd International Conference on Policy Modeling, Brussels, Belgium, July 5.