Immersion Workshop: Economics

Dr. Carmen Carrión-Flores is a research assistant professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Syracuse University. Carmen has held faculty appointments at Binghamton University and the University of Florida, and she has visited CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg). She holds a BA in economics from Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) in Mexico, a MS in Agricultural Economics from The Ohio State University, and a MA and PhD degrees in economics from The University of Arizona.

Dr. Joshua Farley is an ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration. He has previously served as program director at the School for Field Studies, Centre for Rainforest Studies, as Executive Director of the University of Maryland International Institute for Ecological Economics, and as adjunct faculty and licensed examiner at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.  He recently returned from a Fulbright fellowship in Brazil, where he served as visiting professor at the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Bahia (UFBA).

Dr. Elena Irwin is a Distinguished Professor of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences in Economics & Sustainability in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics and faculty director of the Sustainability Institute at the Ohio Stat University. Her research addresses the sustainability of human-natural systems at local and regional scales, with a focus on land use, ecosystem services, and integrated models of land-water systems.

Dr. Kailin Kroetz is in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Kailin’s research focuses on policy questions related to aquatic and terrestrial species management. Kailin’s  fisheries economics work is focused on developing and evaluating fisheries management policies with multiple objectives such as sustainable stocks, economic efficiency, and thriving fishing communities. Her current work includes analyzing the design of commercial fishery catch-share programs in the United States and developing-country contexts. She also examines the potential gains to fishing communities from integrating socioeconomic factors into ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) decision frameworks. Her additional research focuses on how to efficiently use terrestrial conservation funds to maximize biodiversity protection. For example, Kailin’s ongoing work examines the extent to which conservation actions taken by government and private organizations operating across spatial scales may be complementary to one another, and/or may present opportunities for more efficient use of conservation funds by considering the actions of other stakeholders. Kailin received her PhD from the University of California, Davis. Kailin served on SESYNC’s Scientific Review Committee. 

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