I build microeconometric models to analyze the policy causes and consequences of interactions between human behaviors and environmental services in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and the United States.  I have directed several research projects funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, the World Bank, Health Canada, and the National Science Foundation, among others.  My research lies in three domains: (a) practical methods for non-market valuation, (b) evaluation of forest ecosystem services, and (c) economics of environmental epidemiology.  Most of this research has relied on specifying testable hypothesis by applying economic theory to environment and development policies, conducting field experiments through household surveys in developing countries, matching the survey  (microeconomic) data with meso-scale environmental and social statistics, and estimating econometric models to generate policy parameters and recommendations.  I am a member of the American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics. You can find additional details on my research web-page. I am also a Fellow at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Sciences in Conservation International and a Research Advisor to the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE). 

I have been fortunate to have diverse teaching experiences including courses in economics of forest resources, cost-benefit analysis, microeconomics, and modules in econometric program evaluation, environmental health, calculus, resource and environmental economics, and survey research methods.  You can find additional (although dated) details on my teaching web-page. Graduate students please visit the graduate student link.