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Dow, Gregory Dr.

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Dow, Gregory Dr.
Position: Professor
Faculty/Department: Department of Economics
Institution/Organization: Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Phone Number: +1-778-782-5502
Fax: +1-778-782-5944
Email: gdow@sfu.ca
Address:
8888 University Drive
Burnaby
British Columbia
Canada
V5A1S6
  

General Information
Languages: English
Field(s) of Research:
Agriculture
Anthropology
Climate Change and Impacts
Economics
Population Dynamics
Technology

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Research Keywords

Economic prehistory; relationships among climate change, technological change, population growth, and economic institutions during the period from the origin of modern humans until the last few thousand years; the role of climate change in creating conditions for the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and in stimulating technological change prior to the arrival of agriculture.

Past Research: Theory of the firm; the economics
of organization; and the evolution of economic institutions.

Courses Taught Related to Climate Change Solutions

Taught two courses on economic prehistory, one at the fourth year undergrad level and the other at the graduate level.

Both involved a significant amount of information on climate history and its effects on technology, population, economic institutions, etc.

Publications

Two working papers on economic prehistory with Clyde Reed that involve climate issues. Both are currently under review at scholarly journals.

Collaborative Activities

Interacted with archaeologists and anthropologists in connection with the economic prehistory project. At various stages of my career I have also interacted with sociologists, political scientists, biologists, etc.

Research and Collaboration Interests

I am very interested in developing contacts with researchers in the area of climate history. I would especially like to find data on climate for specific regions of the world from roughly the Upper Paleolithic (starting about 50,000 years ago) through the last 10,000 years or so.
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