Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Winners

1999 - 2000

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, in the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Cardenas’s dissertation is a study of people’s willingness to pay to preserve biodiversity. He collected his own data and conducted CV studies with the rural population in Columbia.

Anne-Juliane Hunnemeyer, in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business at the University of Guelph, exploring ways to give financial incentives to the private sector to preserve biodiversity in Canada.

Becky Mansfield, in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Mansfield’s research addresses the production, processing, export, import, marketing, and consumption of Alaskan pollock in the context of a global market in trade for the fish. Specifically, she models economic and political factors that influence the sustainability of the fish stock, bringing to bear both her geography training and economic analyses.

Mahesh Sankaran, in the Department of Biology at Syracuse University. Sankaran looks at the effects of humans on tropical ecosystems in Southern India, using tools of biology but drawing out management and economic policy implications.

Michelle Villinski, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. Villinski’s research empirically applies and critiques the usefulness of option pricing as a management tool for water resources in California. Her work appears thoughtful – not just a rudimentary approach to filling in the formula, but a considered look at the limits and advantages of option pricing as a possible real tool for water management. She has had some practical experience working with HIID and researching water issues for the Indonesian Department of Finance.

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