Erik J. Nelson

Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural Capital Project, Stanford University

4337 29th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
nels1069@umn.edu

Research

Published Papers / Book Chapters

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)

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)

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)

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.

Bochniarz, Z. with E. Nelson. 2000. "International Team Teaching for CEE Executives: Assessing Experiences of Warsaw Executive and Other Post Graduation Programs." Pages 52-73 in A. Sulejewicz and M. A. Zaidi, editors. Polish American MBA at the Warsaw School of Economics. Lessons Learned from an International Partnership. Warsaw School of Economics Press, Warsaw, Poland.


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