Robert H. Beach

Expertise

Climate Change
Environmental Policy Analysis
Natural Resource Management
Economic Impact Analysis

Biography

Robert Beach, PhD, specializes in the development and application of economic models to analyze agricultural, environmental, and natural resource regulations, programs, and policies. Research applications include studies evaluating the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture and forests, the potential for and economic impacts of agricultural mitigation of greenhouse gases for regions around the world, potential mitigation of black carbon and organic carbon emissions, farm household response to livestock disease prevention and control policies, risk management and crop insurance, policies to mitigate the impacts of natural disasters, and factors influencing forest investment and management. He has published his research in journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, the American Journal of Public Health, Forest Policy and Economics, The Energy Journal, and Land Economics. Dr. Beach is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University.

Education

PhD, Economics, North Carolina State University; BSE, Biomedical Engineering (Economics minor), Duke University.

Selected Publications

Kindermann, G., Obersteiner, M., Sohngen, B., Sathaye, J., Andrasko, K., Rametsteiner, E., Schlamadinger, B., Wunder, S., & Beach, R. (2008 July 29). Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (30):10302-10307.

Sohngen, B., Beach, R.H., & Andrasko, K. (Jun 2008). Avoided deforestation as a greenhouse gas mitigation tool: Economic issues. Journal of Environmental Quality, 37 (4):1368-1375.

Mansfield, C., Phaneuf, D.J., Johnson, F.R., Yang, J.C., & Beach, R. (May 2008). Preferences for public lands management under competing uses: The case of Yellowstone National Park. Land Economics, 84 (2):282-305.

Beach, R.H., Jones, A.S., & Tooze, J.A. (2008). Tobacco farmer interest and success in income diversification. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 40 (1):53-71.

Beach, R.H., DeAngelo, B.J., Rose, S., Li, C., Salas, W., & DelGrosso, S.J. (Mar 2008). Mitigation potential and costs for global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural Economics, 38 (2):109-115.

Beach, R.H., Poulos, C., & Pattanayak, S.K. (December 2007). Farm economics of bird flu. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne D Agroeconomie, 55 (4):471-483.

Beach, R.H., Poulos, C., & Pattanayak, S.K. (Aug 2007). Agricultural household response to avian influenza prevention and control policies. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39 (2):301-311.

Jones, A.S., Austin, W.D., Beach, R.H., & Altman, D.G. (Jan 2007). Funding of North Carolina tobacco control programs through the Master Settlement Agreement. American Journal of Public Health, 97 (1):36-44.

DeAngelo, B.J., de la Chesnayne, F.C., Beach, R.H., Sommer, A., & Murray, B.C. (Dec 2006). Methane and nitrous oxide mitigation in agriculture. Energy Journal, Special Issue:89-108.

Beach, R.H., Pattanayak, S.K., Yang, J.C., Murray, B.C., & Abt, R.C. (2005). Econometric Studies of Non-Industrial Private Forest Management: A Review and Synthesis. Forest Policy and Economics, 7 (3):261-281.

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