Erik J. Nelson

Postdoctoral economist, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University

nels1069@umn.edu

Research

Peer-Reviewed Papers / Book Chapters

Hill, J., S. Polasky, E. Nelson, D. Tilman, H. Huo, L. Ludwig, J. Neumann, H. Zheng, and D. Bonta. 2009. "Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (6): 2077-2082. (Abstract)

Nelson, E., G. Mendoza, J. Regetz, S. Polasky, H. Tallis, D.R. Cameron, K.M.A. Chan, G.C. Daily, J. Goldstein, P. Kareiva, E. Lonsdorf, R. Naidoo, T.H. Ricketts, and M.R. Shaw. 2009. "Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales." Front. Ecol. Environ. (Abstract; Appendix)

Nelson, E., S. Polasky, D. Lewis, A. Plantinga, E. Lonsdorf, D. White, D. Bael, and J. Lawler. 2008. "Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (28): 9471-9476. (Abstract; Supporting Information Text; Supporting Information Tables; Supporting Information Figure Legends; Supporting Figure 1; Supporting Figure 2; Supporting Figure 3; Supporting Figure 4; Supporting Figure 5)

Polasky, S., E. Nelson, J. Camm, B. Csuti, P. Fackler, E. Lonsdorf, D. White, J. Arthur, B. Garber-Yonts, R. Haight, J. Kagan, C. Montgomery, A. Starfield and C. Toballske. 2008. "Where to Put Things? Spatial Land Management to Sustain Biodiversity and Economic Production." Biol. Conserv. 141 (6): 1505-1524. (Abstract; Appendix)

Nelson, E., M. Uwasu, and S. Polasky. 2007. "Voting on open space: what explains the appearance and support of municipal-level open space conservation referenda in the United States?" Ecol. Econ. 62 (3-4): 580-593. (Abstract; Data)

Hill, J., E. Nelson, D. Tilman, S. Polasky, and D. Tiffany. 2006. "Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (30): 11206-11210. (Abstract)

Polasky, S., E. Nelson, E. Lonsdorf, P. Fackler and A. Starfield. 2005. "Conserving species in a working landscape: land use with biological and economic objectives." Ecol. App. 15 (4): 1387-1401. (Abstract)
             Reprinted in A. Kontoleon, U. Pascual, and T. Swanson, editors. 2008. Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press, New York.


Dissertation

Essays on the Allocation of Federal Species-Specific Recovery Funds under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Signed and submitted to the University of Minnesota Graduate School on July 28, 2007