SANDEE Fellows
A. K. Enamul Haque is a Professor of Economics at the United International University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been teaching environmental and resource economics since 1992. Dr Haque completed his PhD degree from the University of Guelph Canada in 1991 in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics. Besides teaching, Dr Haque has contributed to several high level committees in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Bangladesh. His research fields include soil erosion, impact of agricultural land degradation and health costs and institutions related to drinking water contamination from arsenic. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, Dhaka, GTZ, Dhaka, IUCN Bangladesh and is a member of the SANDEE management and advisory committee. He is now advising the Government of Bangladesh as a member of its Technical Committee on mitigation due to climate change. He is a life member of Bangladesh Economic Association. |
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Bhim Adhikari has 13 years research and professional experience in poverty-environment nexus, ecological economics and community-based natural resource management in south Asia. He was an UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of York in which he was researching on institutional economics of community-based natural resource management in Nepal. Bhim's most recent affiliation was with IUCN -The World Conservation Union where he was involved in developing IUCN's programme on poverty-environment linkages, environmental economics, environmental fiscal reforms along with coordinating other poverty and livelihoods related research and programme development of IUCN Pakistan.He has received a number of professional trainings in environmental and development from various international academic institutions. Bhim has published two book chapters and over a dozen of research articles in international journals such as Environment and Development Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Environmental Management, African Journal of Ecology and Forest Policy and Economics. Bhim is currently working as a Research Fellow in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics and Management from the University of York, United Kingdom. http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/bhimadhi |
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E. Somanathan received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1995 and taught at Emory University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor before joining the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, where he is Professor. His main research interest is in development economics, particularly environmental problems and political economy. In 2002 he received a Sandee grant to study awareness and the demand for environmental quality in connection with drinking water. He became a Sandee resource person in 2004. He is writing a book on environmental problems in India.For more information please visit http://www.isid.ac.in/~som/ |
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Jeffrey Vincent is the Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Vincent's research focuses on the economics of natural resource management and policy in developing countries. Currently, his two main projects are a 5-year project with the Forest Research Institute Malaysia on biodiversity conservation in tropical landscapes affected by commercial logging, and an ongoing project on the joint impacts of brown clouds and greenhouse gases on climate change, water, and agriculture in South Asia. He has also worked extensively on the adjustment of national income and wealth accounts for resource depletion.Vincent's books include the Handbook of Environmental Economics (North-Holland, three volumes, 2003, 2005) and Managing Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia (RFF Press, 2005). His articles have appeared in environmental economics journals, including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics; economic development journals, including the World Bank Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and World Development; forestry journals, including Forest Science and the Journal of Forestry; and general science journals, such as Science. He received the Cozzarelli Prize for the best article in applied biological, agricultural, and environmental sciences published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and the McKinsey Award for the most significant article published in the Harvard Business Review in 2003. Vincent serves on the board of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, and the international advisory committees of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE) and the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA). He is on the editorial boards of Environment and Development Economics and the Journal of Tropical Forest Science. He consults regularly for the World Bank and other international organizations. He has directed or worked on projects in Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Prior to joining Duke in July 2007, he held positions in the Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego (2001-7); the Institute for International Development at Harvard University (1990-2001); and the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University (1987-90). He has degrees from Yale University (Ph.D., 1988), Michigan State University (M.S., 1984), and Harvard University (A.B., 1981). |
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Joyashree Roy is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at Jadavpur University. She leads several major collaborative research programs in the university including The Global Change Programme and the Nippon Foundation endowed long term SYLFF Project with a research focus on "Tradition, Social Change and Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach". Joyashree previously spent time at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California at the Environmental Technology and Energy Division as a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow on Environmental Economics. She was also involved in the preparation of the AR4 Report for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning Inter Governmental Panel for climate Change. Prof. Roy has authored one book "Demand for Energy in Indian Industries (A Quantitative Approach)," and jointly edited several books including ‘Environmental Economics in India- Concepts and Problems'. She has written over forty articles in peer reviewed professional journals and books. Her current research interests are modeling energy demand, climate change, environmental valuation, natural resource accounting, water quality and health and economy wide modeling. She takes interest in multidisciplinary approaches towards understanding developmental issues.http://www.geocities.com/joyashreeroy/ |
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