Degrees & Credentials:
Ph.D., Environmental and Resource Economics, Duke University, 2010
MS, Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, 2005
MA, Economics, University of Hyderabad, 2003
B. Com., Brakatullah University, 2001
Interests & Expertise:
Non-market Valuation
Bioeconomics
Coupled models of human-natural systems, particularly focusing on coastal systems
Biography:
Sathya Gopalakrishnan is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) at The Ohio State University. She also serves on the faculty of the Environmental Science Graduate Program (ESGP) and is a founding member and former Director of the STEAM Factory - a diverse and inclusive grassroots faculty network within the Ohio State community committed to interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and education. She completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Economics and Policy from Duke University in 2010 and joined the AEDE faculty in 2011.
Climate-change impacts are among the most serious and complex challenges facing society. Climate adaption presents a grand challenge for resource and environmental economists, requiring interdisciplinary modeling and empirical analysis from disparate sub-fields to inform policy. Sathya's research is motivated by an interest in applying economic theory to understand ubiquitous interdependencies between human decisions and geophysical processes in complex resource systems. She works on developing coupled models of complex human and natural systems, applied to coastal and water resources; non-market valuation of environmental amenities and risks; and resource management problems in which environmental and economic systems are linked by spatial-dynamic processes. Her research is published in journals in applied economics (e.g., Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics) and in interdisciplinary journals with broad scientific research (e.g., Climate Change, Conservation Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research), and has been supported with over $2.5 million in total funding through national and state agencies. She serves as an associate editor for the flagship journal of the association of agricultural and applied economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, an inaugural area editor of the Journal of the Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (JAAEA), and an elected member of the board of directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERE).
She teaches environmental and resource economics at the undergraduate (AEDE 4310) and graduate levels (AEDE 8301) and a PhD course in applied welfare economics (AEDE 8101).
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