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Students in “Assessing Sustainability: Project Experience” (ENR 4567) received hands-on training this semester on preparing and presenting research to policymakers. The class, which is co-taught by Elena Irwin and Gregory Hitzshusen, recently presented research findings to the City of Columbus’ Mayor’s Green Team. The work conducted by the students will contribute to the development of the Green Team’s “Green Memo III” which is the city’s next five-year plan for sustainability that the Mayor will unveil in 2015.
AEDE's Elena Irwin and Ian Sheldon participated in a panel discussion with economist Jeffrey D. Sachs during the Ohio State University Provost’s Discovery Themes Lecturer Program and COMPAS (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society) conference on April 4th. They shared their thoughts on sustainable development at the special event, which more than 1,000 people attended.
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This article was originally published on the website of OSU's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
AEDE economists Elena Irwin and Ian Sheldon will discuss sustainable development April 4 during the annual Ohio State University Provost’s Discovery Themes Lecturer Program and COMPAS (Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society) conference.
This article was originally published in the Winter 2014 issue of Twine Line, a publication of The Ohio State University's Ohio Sea Grant College Program.
Written by Christina Dierkes, Ohio Sea Grant Communications
Professor Elena Irwin will speak at George Washington University's Urban Planning Research Symposium on Friday, December 6, 2013. The gathering will focus on Land Use & Resiliency.
Dr. Irwin's area of specialization is land use economics and human-natural systems. Her research focuses on spatial modeling of land use and the development of integrated models of land use and ecosystem services at local and regional scales.
Maintaining its strong presence in the field of regional economics, AEDE recently sent a dozen faculty members and doctoral students to Atlanta, Georgia for the 60th annual North American meeting of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which was held from November 13-16, 2013.
Brent Sohngen, Elena Irwin, Barry Ward and Matthew Roberts in Farm and Dairy
This article was originally published on the website of OSU's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.
Written by Tracy Turner and Nicole Pierron Rasul
September 10, 2013
The 2013 Farm Science Review will be held from September 17-19, 2013 at Ohio State’s 2,100 acre Molly Caren Agricultural Center near London, Ohio.
Learn more about the many roles that AEDE faculty, staff and students will have at this year's event, including headlining a panel discussion on water quality.
The 2013 Farm Science Review will be held from September 17-19, 2013 at Ohio State’s 2,100 acre Molly Caren Agricultural Center, which is located two miles north of London, Ohio on US Route 40.
In early August, one of the most highly anticipated events for AEDE’s faculty and students takes place: the annual meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). AAEA is the premier professional organization for agricultural and applied economists working in the U.S.
This summer several Ohio State students are interning with the city of Columbus in the Environmental Steward’s Office, a division of the Mayor’s Office, to help the city improve sustainability in Ohio’s capital.
This week the annual meeting of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) will be held at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. The theme of the meeting, which will run from June 6-8, 2013, is “Mixing Oil and Water: The Nexus between Energy and Water Resources”. AEDE will have a strong presence at the gathering with a number of faculty and students participating, including the following:
The Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics (AEDE) at The Ohio State University hosted the Midwest Graduate Student Conference on Regional and Applied Economics (CRAE) on April 5 and 6, 2013.
The Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics (AEDE) at The Ohio State University is organizing the Midwest Graduate Student Conference on Regional and Applied Economics (CRAE), which will be held on the campus of Ohio State on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, 2013.
From November 7-10, 2012, the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), which is a member of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), will hold its 59th annual conference in Ottawa, Canada.
In the November 2012 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, AEDE’s Professor Elena Irwin, former AEDE doctoral student Yong Chen, now a faculty member at Oregon State University, and Ciriyam Jayaprakash from the Department of Physics at Ohio State offer new analysis on the dynamic interaction between humans and ecological systems in the article “Threshold management in a coupled economic-ecological system”.
Beginning in Spring 2013, Ohio State will offer several new courses as part of the Environment, Economy, Development, and Sustainability (EEDS) curriculum. EEDS is a multi-disciplinary degree program that focuses on the human dimensions of sustainability. The program is offered as a joint major between the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) and the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics (AEDE).
Please join the faculty, staff and students of AEDE in congratulating AEDE Ph.D. students Mitch Livy and Wendong Zhang for winning the department's 2012 award for best doctoral research manuscript. Honorable mention was awarded to Matthew Pham and John Newton. More on each of the winning research papers is below.
Elena Irwin gave the J.W. Fanning Lecture at the Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Georgia on January 20, 2012. She presented joint work with Jill Clark entitled “The Implications of the Housing Bust and Other Recent Trends for Urban, Suburban, and Exurban Growth.” The annual J.W. Fanning lecture is sponsored by the Agricultural Economics Association of Georgia.