Vic Adamowicz, PhD, FRSC
Contact
Vice Dean, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Deans Office
- adamowic@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4603
- Address
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501 General Services Building
9007 - 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H1
Overview
About
Job/Research Area
Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Forest Economics, Consumer Demand / Behaviour
Dr. Adamowicz is a participant in the Land Reclamation International Graduate School (LRIGS) program sponsored by NSERC CREATE.
Research
Major Responsibilities/Research Interest
Integrating the environment into economic analysis
Environmental valuation
Consumer choice / behavior
Forest economics / management
Market based instruments for environmental conservation
Teaching
Teaching Areas
Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services (AREC 565)
- Environmental valuation
- Stated preference methods
- Revealed preference methods
- Experimental economics and valuation
- Behavioural economics and valuation
Courses
AREC 565 - Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Topics include: Theoretical and empirical analysis of environmental valuation methods, advanced benefit cost analysis, welfare economics, valuation of ecosystem goods and services, valuation of health impacts from environmental quality change, and linkages to experimental and behavioural economics. Prerequisite: *3 Introductory Econometrics course and consent of instructor; AREC 502 recommended. [Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology]
Featured Publications
Xie, L., W. Adamowicz, M. Kecinski, and J. R. Fooks.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. . 2022 April; 114 10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102659
The economics of conservation debt: a natural capital approach to revealed valuation of ecological dynamics.
Maher, S.M., E.P. Fenichel, O.J. Schmitz and W.L. Adamowicz.
Ecological Applications. . 2020 April; 30 (6):e02132
Decoupling the Value of Leisure Time from Labor Market Returns in Travel Cost Models.
Lloyd-Smith, P, J. Abbott, W. Adamowicz, D. Willard
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. . 2019 September; 6 (2):1-28
Assessing ecological infrastructure investments.
Adamowicz, W. L. Calderon-Etter, A. Entem, E.P. Fenichel, J.S. Hall, P. Lloyd-Smith, F.L. Ogden, J.A. Regina, M. Rouhi Rad, R.F. Stallard.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. . 2019 March; 116 (12):5254-5261
Status-quo management of marine recreational fisheries undermines angler welfare.
Abbott, J.K., P. Lloyd-Smith, D. Willard, and W. Adamowicz.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. . 2018 September; 115 (36):8948-8953
Can Stated Measures of Willingness-to-Accept be Valid? Evidence from Laboratory Experiments.
Lloyd-Smith, P. and W. Adamowicz.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. . 2018 September; 91
Economic analysis of threatened species conservation: The case of woodland caribou and oilsands development in Alberta, Canada
Hauer, G., W. Adamowicz, S. Boutin.
Journal of Environmental Management. 2018 January; 218
Holmes, T., W. Adamowicz and F. Carlsson
A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, Second Edition.. 2017 January; eds. P. Champ, T. Brown and K. Boyle, Kluwer
Johnston, R., K. Boyle, W. Adamowicz, J Bennett, R. Brouwer, T.A. Cameron, W.M. Hanemann, N. Hanley, M. Ryan, R. Scarpa, R. Tourangeau, C. Vossler
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.. 2017 January; 4 (2):319-405