Madeline Duhon
SEEPAC Intern 2011
In 2011, we had the pleasure of hosting Madeline Duhon and Mohit Thukral of Stanford University. They came to Motu as a part of the Stanford Energy and Environment Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC) fellowship to New Zealand. This fellowship programme looked to increase international collaboration in environmental economics between young researchers from Stanford and researchers at Motu. Their papers will be released over the coming months.
Madeline Duhon is one of Stanford’s top students, currently studying towards a Master of Science in Management Science and Engineering, having completed her Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Madeline worked with Justine Young of Environment Waikato and Motu Senior Fellow Suzi Kerr during her internship. Working with Suzi and Justine, Madeline analysed the Nitrogen Trading programme in Lake Taupo, as an example of innovative water management policy. The policy establishes a catchment-wide cap on nitrogen losses by allocating farmers individual nitrogen discharge allowances and allowing those farmers flexibility to trade allowances amongst themselves and to sell allowances to a public fund while remaining within the overall catchment cap. Madeline’s paper provides much needed evidence on the effectiveness of this programme, for similar polices elsewhere going forward.