Interests

Resource Economics & Environmental Policy  - Environmental benefits and costs; Environmental policy instruments; Policy for sustainability

Biographical Info

In addition to responsibilities as department chair, Alan Randall teaches a graduate course in research methods, maintains several active research projects, and advises graduate students. He focuses on environmental economics, and is active in several topical areas including regulatory and non-mandatory instruments for policy, ecosystem and habitat conservation, and theory and methods of estimating environmental benefits and assessing environmental damages. Current and recent projects include incentive-based mechanisms for control of non-point source pollution; coupled human and natural systems; a meta-analysis of benefits of conservation programs in agriculture; and valuing the outputs of multifunctional agriculture. Randall is author or contributor to five books and many widely-cited professional articles. Recent writings include examination of the economic and ethical foundations of policy to promote sustainability and biodiversity. Randall came to Ohio State in 1985 after 11 years at the University of Kentucky. He has served on Ohio State’s University Senate, University Faculty Council, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, and Research Commission. He currently heads a major campus initiative on environmental policy. Randall recently completed a six-year term on the National Research Council Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change. He holds honorary doctorates from the Norwegian University of Environment and Life Sciences and the University of Sydney, and he has been a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association since 1993.