The Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics

This Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics focuses on the most important research topics in environmental and natural resource economics, with a treatment of close to 100 different research areas. Each chapter offers a critical analysis of key contributions to the field. The contributions, authored by experts from institutions around the world, are useful for informing policy as well as future research.

The chapters will prove a vital point of demarcation for researchers and practitioners. It will be a good foundation for researchers who want to extend the frontiers of the state of the art in a given area of research, as well as those who want to base their empirical work on the best possible theoretical pillars. Practitioners can more effectively develop policy, as they see the documentation of cause and effect relationships in the appropriate chapters. The chapters are an ideal starting point for Ph.D. students developing thesis topics.

Professors will want to assign chapters in the encyclopedia to undergraduate and graduates students in classes in environmental economics, natural resource economics, fishery economics, forest economics, economic development, health economics and sustainability. Students will find the chapters useful as a starting point for writing research papers in these classes.

James R. Kahn received his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland. In the 1980s, he worked in the Economics Department at SUNY-Binghamton (now known as Binghamton University). In the following decade, he had a joint appointment at the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Lab.
Since 2000, Kahn has been the John Hendon Professor of Economics at Washington and Lee University, and served as the Director of the Environmental Studies Program from 2000 to 2017. He has been a collaborating professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (Manaus, Brazil) since 1992.

Professor Kahn is highly published and widely cited. His research has been funded by several agencies, including: the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Department of Education, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e
Tecnológico - CNPq (Brazil), and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas - FAPEAM (Brazil).

For his work, Professor Kahn has received several honors and awards. He was elected and served as President of the US Society for Ecological Economics from June 2017 until May 2019, was a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil (2002), received an Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council on Higher
Education in Virginia (2012), and a Chancellor’s Award (SUNY System-wide) for Excellence in Teaching (1988). He is currently an editor on the journal Ecological Economics.