Stephen Polasky

Regents Professor and Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics

337E Ruttan Hall

Department of Applied Economics

1994 Buford Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55108

polasky@umn.edu

+1 612 625 9213

Subject Areas

Climate Change

Environmental Economics

Land Economics

Natural Resource Economics

Water Economics

Education

Ph.D. Economics, University of Michigan, 1986
B.A. Williams College, cum laude, 1979

Areas of Interest

Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental Economics, Game Theory, Land Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Sustainability, Water Economics

Teaching

APEC 5651 Economics of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy - syllabus
APEC 8003 Applied Microeconomic Analysis of Game Theory and Information - syllabus
APEC 8601 Natural Resource Economics - syllabus
CBIO 8004 Economic and Social Aspects of Conservation Biology - syllabus
GCC 5008 Policy and Science of Global Environmental Change - syllabus
EEB 8200 Sustainability Science Distributed Graduate Seminar - syllabus
FW 8452 Conservation Biology - syllabus

Research

My research focuses on issues at the intersection of ecology and economics and include the impacts of land use and land management on the provision and value of ecosystem services and natural capital, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, environmental regulation, renewable energy, and common property resources.

Awards

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Elected 2010
Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Elected 2011
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected 2009
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected 2007
Publication of Enduring Quality, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Awarded 2012

Select Publications

Goodstein, E. and S. Polasky. 2014. Environmental Economics (7th edition). John Wiley & Sons.

Kareiva, P., H. Tallis, T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily, and S. Polasky. (eds.) 2011. Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services. Oxford University Press.

Ouyang, Z., H. Zheng, Y. Xiao, S. Polasky, J. Liu, W. Xu, Q. Wang, L. Zhang, Y. Xiao, E. Rao, L. Jiang, F. Lu, X. Wang, G. Yang, S. Gong, B. Wu, Y. Zeng, W. Yang, and G.C. Daily. 2016. Improvements in ecosystm services from investments in natural capital. Science 352: 1455-1459.

Polasky, S., B. Bryant, P. Hawthorne, J. Johnson, B. Keeler, and D. Pennington. 2015. Inclusive wealth as a metric of sustainable development. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 40: 6.1-6.22.

Guerry, A., S. Polasky, J. Lubchenco, R. Chaplin-Kramer, G.C. Daily, R. Griffin, M.H. Ruckelshaus, I.J. Bateman, A. Duraiappah, T. Elmqvist, M.W. Feldman, C. Folke, J. Hoekstra, P. Kareiva, B. Keeler, S. Li, E. McKenzie, Z. Ouyang, B. Reyers, T. Ricketts, J. Rockström, H. Tallis, and B. Vira. 2015. Natural capital informing decisions: from promise to practice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 7348-7355.