Robert P. Berrens
Professor of Economics,
and Regents' Lecturer (2004-2007)
Associate Editor, Water Resource Research

Graduate Director, Dept. of Economics
Send inquiries about applying to the program to: econgrad@unm.edu

Research Interests

Interested in a broad array of environmental issues, with a particular focus on the American West. Research emphasizes an interdisciplinary perspective. Areas of interest include: environmental economics, non-market valuation, sustainable development and ecological economics, policy and institutional analysis, forest and water resources management, public lands management, biodiversity and endangered species protection, survey and experimental methods, consumer economics.

Teaching

Courses Taught

• Econ 106: Principles of Microeconomics
• Econ 203: Society and the Environment
• Econ 300: Intermediate Microeconomics I
• Econ 330: Consumer Economics
• Econ 342: Environmental Economics
• Econ 400: Intermediate Microeconomics II
• Econ 442: Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Public Lands Management
  • Sustainable Development
• Econ 541: Sustainable Development
• Econ 544: Environmental Economics
• Econ 570: Institutional Economics

Ancillary Information

To see the Beta version of the web-based survey used for various research papers on global climate change and national Internet samples go to:

http://www.unm.edu/~rberrens/gcc/

The basic template also matches national telephone surveys (2000) designed and conducted at UNM's Institute for Public Policy. This work was oringinally funded by a National Science Foundation grant, and was part of a collaborative research effort with my colleagues: Dave Weimer (La Follette School, University of Wisconsin), Hank Jenkins-Smith, and Carol Silva (Bush School, Texas A&M University), Alok Bohara (UNM), and Hui Li (Eastern Illinois University)