Joshua K. Abbott – Arizona State University
Joshua Abbott is an Associate Professor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University,
where he has been since 2007. He received a B.B.A. from Baylor University in 2000, a Masters in
Economics from the University of Washington in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource
Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2007. He currently serves on the Editorial
Council for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and is an
associate editor for Marine Resource Economics.
Abbott’s research spans both environmental and resource economics, and focuses on topics such as
fisheries bycatch, the design and evaluation of rights-based fisheries policies, management of
recreational resources, the application and extension of non-market valuation techniques to urban land
and water use, and the pricing of natural capital for wealth accounting. He has collaborated extensively
with colleagues in government, non-governmental, and international organizations. His work has been
published in journals in economics, environmental economics, ecology and policy, including the Review
of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Ecological Applications, Land Economics,
Resource and Energy Economics, and Fish and Fisheries among others.
Lori Bennear – Duke University
Lori Bennear is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the Nicholas School
of the Environment at Duke University. She also has secondary appointments at the Sanford School of
Public Policy and the Economics Department at Duke. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from
Harvard University (2004) and also earned an MA in Economics from Yale University (1996) and an
AB in Economics and Environmental Studies from Occidental College (1995). She serves on the faculty
advisory group for two of Duke’s major interdisciplinary initiatives, the Nicholas Institute for
Environmental Policy Solutions and the Rethinking Regulation Working Group at the Kenan Institute
for Ethics. In addition she serves on several school and university governance bodies including as chair
of the Nicholas School Faculty Council, the university Academic Council, and the University Priorities
Committee.
Her research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of flexible environmental policies including
information disclosure regulations, management-based regulations, liability regimes, and demand-side
management programs. She has applied these evaluations across a range of environmental domains
including toxics, drinking water, and energy. Her work has been published in the Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
(forthcoming), the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Environment and Development
Economics, Marine Resource Economics, Regulation and Governance, Journal of Regulatory
Economics, among others. Current projects include a co-edited book on Regulatory Responses to
Crises, which provides an interdisciplinary examination of regulatory responses to oil spills, nuclear
accidents and financial crises across different historical time periods and across different countries.
Meredith Fowlie – University of California, Berkeley
Meredith Fowlie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at
UC Berkeley and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She
was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. She received
a Masters in Environmental Economics at Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource
Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. On behalf of AERE, Fowlie is currently the
Chair of the AERE Program Committee and is serving on the editorial council for JAERE.
Her research focuses on energy and environmental economics, including issues related to market-based
environmental regulation, renewable energy, the demand-side of energy markets, and work that
integrates methods and models from other disciplines into economic analysis of environmental policy
outcomes. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics
and Statistics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and
other scholarly journals and books.
Elena Irwin − Ohio State University
Elena Irwin is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development
Economics at Ohio State University (OSU). She is the faculty leader of the new multi-million-dollar
Sustainability Science for Materials Innovation research initiative at OSU and co-director of the
Environment, Economy, Development and Sustainability (EEDS) major. In addition, she is a co-PI with
the Baltimore Ecosystem Project, an NSF-funded Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site, and is a
member of the US EPA Advisory Subcommittee for the Sustainable and Healthy Communities.
Irwin recently served as a member of a National Research Council committee on land change modeling
and co-authored the report Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research
Requirements (published by the National Academies Press in 2014) and as an elected board member of
the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) from 2010-2012. She is the co-recipient of the
2009 Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America and the 2008 recipient of
NARSC’s Hewings Award for distinguished young scholars in regional science. Irwin received a B.A.
from Washington University in St. Louis in history and German (1988) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and
Resource Economics from the University of Maryland (1998).
Irwin’s research focuses on the economics of land use and land use change, including the role of
amenities in land and housing markets, causes of urbanization, and impacts of urban development and
agriculture land management on water quality and other ecosystem services. Her research has been
funded through competitive grants from NSF, USDA, NOAA, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Irwin’s research has been published in disciplinary journals such as JEEM, ERE, AJAE, Annual Review
of Resource Economics, Land Economics, J of Economic Geography, as well as interdisciplinary science
journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, J of Environmental Management,
Landscape Ecology, and Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.