Bio

G. Cornelis van Kooten is professor and Senior Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria, Canada. He received a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from Oregon State University in 1982. Subsequently he has been an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Saskatchewan; an associate professor in the School of Management at Groningen University in the Netherlands; an associate and full professor in the Departments of Agricultural Economics and Forest Resources Management, and Chair of Agricultural Economics, at the University of British Columbia; and a professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics at the University of Nevada. Currently, he is a professor in the Departments of Economics and Geography, and the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies, at the University of Victoria. He is a frequent visiting professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and has been a visiting professor at Washington State University and the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He is also a research fellow at the Landbouw Economische Instituut (Agricultural Economics Institute) in The Hague, Netherlands.

Dr. van Kooten has over 25 years experience in natural resource economics, including non-market valuation, bio-economic modeling of wildlife populations, economics of carbon sequestration, managing lands for multiple tradeoffs, and the economics of renewable energy. His interests range from agricultural and forest economics to development and computational economics. He has published some 170 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 35 book chapters; he is the author or co-author of five books on land and forest economics, and co-editor of three books. His book with Erwin H. Bulte entitled The Economics of Nature (Blackwell, 2000) is considered a classic reference book for researchers in the field of wildlife and public land economics. And his 1995 paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics on the uptake of carbon in forest ecosystems is the standard reference for work in the field of terrestrial carbon offsets.

Dr. van Kooten has been a consultant to various governments and government agencies, the United Nations, the World Bank, and a variety of non-governmental organizations, including the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the WWF. His numerous graduate students have gone on to work in the private sector, academic institutions and government.

A detailed CV for Dr. van Kooten can be found at http://www.vkooten.net/

Publications

Selected Publications (for complete list, see Dr. van Kooten's Website):

Books:

• van Kooten, GC and H Folmer, 2004. Land and Forest Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  
• Wang, S and GC van Kooten, 2001. Forestry and the New Institutional Economics. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
  
• van Kooten, GC and EH Bulte, 2000. The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
  
• van Kooten, GC, EH Bulte and AER Sinclair (editors), 2000. Conserving Nature’s Diversity: Insights from Biology, Ethics and Economics. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
• van Kooten, GC, 1993. Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development: Economic Policies and the Common Good. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

• Cotteleer, G., T. Stobbe and G. C. van Kooten, 2010. Bayesian Model Averaging in the Context of Spatial Hedonic Pricing: An Application to Farmland Values, Journal of Regional Science. In press.
• Boronowski, S., A. Rowe, P. Wild and G.C. van Kooten, 2010. Integration of Wave Power in Hadai Gwaii, Renewable Energy. In press.
• Stennes, B., K. Niquidet and G.C. van Kooten, 2010. Implications of Expanding Bioenergy Production from Wood in British Columbia: An Application of a Regional Wood Fibre Allocation Model, Forest Science. In press.
• van Kooten, G. C., 2010. Wind Power: The Economic Impact of Intermittency, Letters in Spatial & Resource Sciences 3: 1-17.
• van Kooten, G.C. and L. Wong, 2009. Economics of Wind Power when National Grids are Unreliable, Energy Policy In press. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2009.11.080
• Sun, Lili, G. Cornelis van Kooten, and Graham M. Voss, 2009. What Accounts for the Divergence between Ranchers' WTA and WTP for Public Forage? Forest Policy & Economics 11(4): 271-279.
• Abbott, B., B. Stennes and G.C. van Kooten, 2009. Mountain Pine Beetle, Global Markets and the British Columbia Forest Economy, Canadian J of Forest Research 39(7): 1313-1321.
• van Kooten, G.C., 2009. Biological Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Trading Re-visited, Climatic Change 95(3-4): 449-463.
• Eiswerth, ME. and GC van Kooten, 2009. The Ghost of Extinction: Preservation Values and Minimum Viable Population in Wildlife Models, Ecological Economics 68: 2129-2136.
• Sun, L and GC van Kooten, 2009. Fuzzy Logic and Preference Uncertainty in Non-market Valuation, Environmental & Resource Economics 42(April): 471-489.
• van Kooten, GC, 2009. Biological Carbon Sinks: Transaction Costs and Governance, The Forestry Chronicle 85(3): 372-376.
• Prescott, R and GC van Kooten, 2009. Economic Costs of Managing of an Electricity Grid with Increasing Wind Power Penetration, Climate Policy 9(2): 155-168.

Courses

ECON 353, Computer Aided Modelling in Economics

ECON 382, Natural Resource Economics I

ECON 383, Climate Economics

ECON 422, Issues in European Economic Integration

ECON 549, Computational Methods in Economics and Econometrics

Research Projects

Links

Resource Economics and Policy Analysis (REPA)