Alan Randall

Alan Randall is a professor of agricultural, environmental, and development economics at The Ohio State University, and chair of the department. He specializes in environmental economics and policy, with particular interests in the theory and practice of estimating benefits and costs of environmental projects and programs, biodiversity and habitat conservation, policies for environmental sustainability, and environmental regulation, monitoring, and enforcement. His writings include Making the Environment Count: Selected Essays, (Edward Elgar, 1999), Resource Economics: An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (Wiley, 1981 and 1987; Edward Elgar, 2010 with John Bergstrom), and numerous journal articles.

Alan is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. He has received Ohio State University Awards for Distinguished Scholarship and Distinguished Faculty Service, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sydney and the Norwegian University of Environment and Life Sciences.

Watch for Alan's forthcoming book, Risk and Precaution, Cambridge University Press, 2011 -- see cover design in the photos section.