Brent Swallow, PhD, MSc, B.S.A.

Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology

Curriculum Vitæ

Contact Overview Courses Publications

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology

Email: bswallow@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-6656
Address: 5-67 General Services Building
9007 - 116 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2H1

Overview

About

Job/Research Area

Environment and Development Economist

Awards

University of Alberta, Faculty of ALES, Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2023
University of Alberta Student Union, Award for Leadership in Undergraduate Teaching, 2021
University of Alberta. Faculty of ALES, International Engagement Award, 2017
University of Alberta, Faculty of ALES, Teaching Wall of Fame, 2017
University of Alberta, Business Cooperative Education, Mentor of the Year, 2017
University of Alberta Graduate Student Association, Outstanding Supervisor Award, 2014
World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. Distinguished ICRAF Associate, 2009.
International Water Resources Association (IWRA) award for Best Paper published in the IWRA journal,Water International, 2006.
International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) award for Best Paper presented at the 2008 biannual meeting
Zayed International Prize for the Environment, 2005. Awarded to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (contributing author).

Awards granted to students

Thesis co-supervisor of Monica Shandal, Awardee of Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES), 2020
Thesis co-supervisor of Yangzhe Cao, Awardee of Outstanding Masters Thesis award, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES), 2019.
Thesis co-supervisor of Maria Montenegro, Awardee of Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES), 2017.
Thesis co-supervisor of David Kaczan, Awardee of Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), 2012 and Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES), 2012.

Service

Associate Department Chair, Graduate Programs, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, 2022-2023.
Trustee, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy, 2013-2019.
Advisory Committee Member, Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program, Columbo, Sri Lanka, 2017-present.
Edmonton Food Council, 2013-2016.
Department Chair, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, 2009-2014.

Research

Major Responsibilities/Research Interests

Climate change mitigation in agriculture and forestry
Rural poverty and economic development
Water and watershed management
Market-based instruments for environmental management
Land tenure and property rights
Economics of land use
Food deserts and local food economy

Teaching

AREC 173, Plate, Planet and Society, Since 2009. This course incorporates a CommunityServices-Learning component which allows students to fulfill course objectives while gaining volunteer experience with food-related NGOs in the Edmonton region.

AREC 375 / INTD 303. Economics of World Food and Agriculture, Since 2013.

ENCS 473. Environmental Policy, Since 2016.

Courses

ENCS 473 - Environmental and Conservation Policy

An overview of principles and programs relating to environmental and conservation policy. Selected local, national, and international environmental policy issues. Not to be taken if credit received in ECON 467. Prerequisite: AREC 200, AREC 365, ECON 365, ECON 369, or FOREC 345. [Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology].

Fall Term 2025

ENCS 673 - Environmental and Conservation Policy

An overview of principles and programs relating to environmental and conservation policy. Selected local, national, and international environmental policy issues. Not to be taken if credit received for ENCS 473 or ECON 467. Prerequisite: AREC 200, AREC 365, ECON 365, ECON 369, or FOREC 345. [Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology].

Fall Term 2025

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Featured Publications

Co-management for sustainable development and conservation in Sanjiangyuan National Park and the surrounding Tibetan nomadic pastoralist areas

Ma. T., Swallow, B., Foggin, J.M., Zhong, L., Xu, K., and Sang, W.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2023 August; 10 (1):1-13

Local perspectives on social-ecological transformation: China’s Sanjiangyuan National Park.

Ma. T., Swallow, B., Zhong, L., Xu, K., Sang, W. and Jia, L

Environment, Development and Sustainability. . 2022 November; 10.1007/s10668-022-02786-6

Using WTP and WTA to value farmland preservation under ambiguous property rights and preference uncertainty.

Luo, Y., Swallow, B. and W.L. Adamowicz

Land Economics. 2022 October; 10.3368/le.98.4.060120-0074R2

Coupling coordination analysis of China's water resources utilization efficiency and economic development level

Zhang, Y., Khan, S. U., Swallow, B., Liu, W., & Zhao, M.

Journal of Cleaner Production. 2022 September; 373 (133874)

Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance: institutional change and endurance in Finland and Canada.

Rantala, S., Swallow, B., Lahteenmaki-Uutela,A., Paloniemi, R.

Environmental Science and Policy. 2022 September; 136

Willingness to pay for multiple dimensions of green open space: applying a spatial hedonic approach

Hu, Z., Kobori, H., Swallow, B. and Qiu, F.

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. . 2022 September; 70 (3):179-201

An insight into the drag effect of water, land and energy on economic growth across space and time: The application of improved Solow growth model

Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Khan, S.U., Swallow, B., and Zhou, C.

Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2021 August; XXXX

Identifying the Effects of a Land-Use Policy on Peoples Willingness to Pay for Open Space using an Endogenous Switching Regression Model,

Cao, Y., Swallow, B.M., and Qiu, F.

Land Use Policy. 2021 March; 102 (105183)

Governance of forests and governance of forest information: interlinkages in the age of open and digital data

Rantala, S., Swallow, B., Paloniemi, R. and Raitanen, E.

Forest Policy and Economics. 2020 June; 113

What influence do empowered women have? land and the reality of women's relative power in Peru

Montenegro Guerra, M.J., Mohapatra, S., and Swallow, B.M.

Review of Economics of the Household. 2019 September; 17 (4):1225-1255

Forest conservation policy and motivational crowding: experimental evidence from Tanzania

Kaczan, D.J., Swallow, B.M., and Adamowicz, W.L.

Ecological Economics. 2019 September; 156

The roles of risk aversion and climate-smart agriculture in climate risk management: evidence from rice production in the Jianghan Plain, China

Tong, Q., Swallow, B.M., Zhang, L. and Zhang, J.

Climate Risk Management. 2019 July; 100199

On target? Using self-selection models to assess pro-poor targeting of processing technologies for undervalued staples in rural India

Miller-Tait, E.J., Mohapatra, S., Luckert, M. and Swallow, B.M.

Food Security. 2019 January; 11 (1):151-166

Resource use efficiency as a climate smart approach

Salat, M. and Swallow, B.M.

Environments. 2018 June; 5 (93)

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: a policy solution to rural poverty in India?

Breitkreuz, R., Stanton, C.J., Brady, N., Pattison, J., King, E.D.I.O, Mishra, C.S. and Swallow, B.M.

Development Policy Review. 2017 September; 35 (3):397-417

Costs of lost opportunities: applying non-market valuation techniques to potential REDD+ participants in Cameroon

Thompson, D.Y., Swallow, B.M., and Luckert, M.K.

Forests. 2017 July; 8 (60)

Characterizing social networks and their effects on income diversification in rural Kerala, India

Johny, J., Wichmann, B. and Swallow, B.M.

World Development. 2017 June; 94 (1):375-392

Impacts of HIV / AIDS on food consumption and wild food use in rural South Africa.

Ncube K, Shackleton CM, Swallow, BM, Dasanayake D

Food Security. 2016 January; 8 (6):1131-1151

Optimizing expenditures for agricultural land conservation: spatially-explicit estimation of benefits, budgets, costs and targets.

Wang H, Swallow BM

Land Use Policy. 2016 January; 59

Impacts of fragmentation and neighbour influences on farmland conservation: a case study of the Edmonton-Calgary corridor, Canada.

Qiu, F., Laliberte, L., Swallow, B.M., and Jeffrey, S.

Land Use Policy. 2015 November; 48

Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edmonton, Canada.

Wang, H., Qiu, F., and Swallow, B.M.

Applied Geography. 2014 December; 55

Designing a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program to reduce deforestation in Tanzania: an assessment of payment approaches.

Kaczan, D., Swallow, B.M., and Adamowicz, W.L. (Vic)

Ecological Economics. 2013 November; 95

Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: evaluating tradeoffs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor.

Jindal, R., Kerr, J.M., Ferraro, P.J. and Swallow, B.M.

Land Use Policy. 2013 February; 31

High-carbon-stock rural-development pathways in Asia and Africa: land management contributions to low-carbon-emission economic development

Minang, P.A., M. van Noordwijk, and B.M. Swallow

Agroforestry: The Way Forward. 2012 January;

Community organized household water increases rural incomes, but also men's work

Crow, B., B.M. Swallow, and I. Asamba

World Development.. 2012 January; 40 (3):528-541

Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa: a typology of information and institutional requirements for promoting update of existing adaptiation technologies

Yatich, T., B.M. Swallow, O.C. Ajayi, P. Minang, and J. Wakhayanga

Climate Change and African Forest and Wildlife Resources. 2011 January; Chapter 11

Compensation and rewards for environmental services in the developing world: framing pan-tropical analysis and comparison

Swallow, B. M., M. F. Kallesoe, U. A. Iftikhar, M. van Noordwijk, C. Bracer, S. J. Scherr, K. V. Raju, S. V. Poats, A. Kumar Duraiappah, B. O. Ochieng, H. Mallee, and R. Rumley

Ecology and Society. 2009 January; 14 (2):26