Location: Bowdoin / Erik J. Nelson

Economics

Erik Nelson

Assistant Professor of Economics

Contact Information

enelson2@bowdoin.edu
207-725-3435
Economics
109B Hubbard Hall


Spring 2012

  • Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 101)
  • Environmental Economics and Policy (ECON 218)


Erik Nelson

Education

  • Ph.D. in Applied Economics with a concentration in Environmental Economics and a minor in Conservation Biology, 2007.
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
           Dissertation: Essays on the Allocation of Federal Species-Specific Recovery Funds under
           the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
  • M.A. in Public Affairs with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Economic Development, 1998.
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, 1993.
    Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Data and Methodology for “Box 4.4. Adapting to Climate Change By Maximizing a Supporting Service: Soil Quality” from Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services. Technical Input to the National Climate Assessment

Methodology (PDF)
Instructions for using data (PDF)
Zipped folder containing data (ZIP)

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Matlab code for landscape optimization model used in the paper "Optimal Conservation with Spatially-Dependent Benefits and Asymmetric Information":

Download the Matlab .m files SpatiallyDependentBenefitsModel.m and findoptimal.m to the same folder.  In Matlab change the working directory to the folder with the two .m files.  Open SpatiallyDependentBenefitsModel.m and adjust model inputs if so desired (the output that can be varied is indicated with a "User Input" label).  Finally, run SpatiallyDependentBenefitsModel.m (this foile calls the function findoptimal.m).

Appendix for "Obesity Overtaken by Leanness as a Repeated Game: Social Networks and Indirect Reciprocity" (PDF)

Your Call, 09/22/09, KALW, Biofuels.

CNNMoney, 11/09/11, 2012 candidates slip on Econ 101.

The Natural Capital Project

InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs)