Brent Swallow, PhD, MSc, B.S.A.
Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology
- bswallow@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-6656
- Address
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5-67 General Services Building
9007 - 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H1
Overview
About
Job/Research Area
Environment and Development Economist
Awards
- 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
- 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.
- 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
AREC 375 - World Food and Agriculture
Economic issues in international agriculture including the world food problem, agricultural development; agricultural and food trade and policy and selected agricultural biotechnology issues. Selected international applications and issues are stressed. Not to be taken if credit received for INT D 303. Prerequisite: ECON 101.
INT D 303 - Economics of World Food and Agriculture
Economic issues in international agriculture including the world food problem; the role of agriculture in development; agricultural and food trade; biotechnology and associated environmental and globalization issues. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or 102. Not to be taken if credit received for AREC 375. (Offered jointly by the Departments of Economics and Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology (REES)). [REES]
Publications
Local perspectives on social-ecological transformation: China’s Sanjiangyuan National Park.
Author(s): Ma. T., Swallow, B., Zhong, L., Xu, K., Sang, W. and Jia, L
Publication Date:
11/28/2022
Publication: Environment, Development and Sustainability.
Using WTP and WTA to value farmland preservation under ambiguous property rights and preference uncertainty.
Author(s): Luo, Y., Swallow, B. and W.L. Adamowicz
Publication Date:
10/1/2022
Publication: Land Economics
Coupling coordination analysis of China's water resources utilization efficiency and economic development level
Author(s): Zhang, Y., Khan, S. U., Swallow, B., Liu, W., & Zhao, M.
Publication Date:
9/1/2022
Publication: Journal of Cleaner Production
Volume: 373
Issue: 133874
Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance: institutional change and endurance in Finland and Canada.
Author(s): Rantala, S., Swallow, B., Lahteenmaki-Uutela,A., Paloniemi, R.
Publication Date:
9/1/2022
Publication: Environmental Science and Policy
Volume: 136
Page Numbers: 751-760
Willingness to pay for multiple dimensions of green open space: applying a spatial hedonic approach
Author(s): Hu, Z., Kobori, H., Swallow, B. and Qiu, F.
Publication Date:
9/1/2022
Publication: Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Volume: 70
Issue: 3
Page Numbers: 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
Author(s): Zhang, Y., Liu, W., Khan, S.U., Swallow, B., and Zhou, C.
Publication Date:
8/30/2021
Publication: Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Volume: XXXX
Page Numbers: 1-14
Identifying the Effects of a Land-Use Policy on Peoples Willingness to Pay for Open Space using an Endogenous Switching Regression Model,
Author(s): Cao, Y., Swallow, B.M., and Qiu, F.
Publication Date:
3/1/2021
Publication: Land Use Policy
Volume: 102
Issue: 105183
Governance of forests and governance of forest information: interlinkages in the age of open and digital data
Author(s): Rantala, S., Swallow, B., Paloniemi, R. and Raitanen, E.
Publication Date:
6/1/2020
Publication: Forest Policy and Economics
Volume: 113
Forest conservation policy and motivational crowding: experimental evidence from Tanzania
Author(s): Kaczan, D.J., Swallow, B.M., and Adamowicz, W.L.
Publication Date:
9/1/2019
Publication: Ecological Economics
Volume: 156
Page Numbers: 444-453
What influence do empowered women have? land and the reality of women's relative power in Peru
Author(s): Montenegro Guerra, M.J., Mohapatra, S., and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
9/1/2019
Publication: Review of Economics of the Household
Volume: 17
Issue: 4
Page Numbers: 1225-1255
The roles of risk aversion and climate-smart agriculture in climate risk management: evidence from rice production in the Jianghan Plain, China
Author(s): Tong, Q., Swallow, B.M., Zhang, L. and Zhang, J.
Publication Date:
7/1/2019
Publication: Climate Risk Management
Volume: 100199
On target? Using self-selection models to assess pro-poor targeting of processing technologies for undervalued staples in rural India
Author(s): Miller-Tait, E.J., Mohapatra, S., Luckert, M. and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
2019
Publication: Food Security
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 151-166
Resource use efficiency as a climate smart approach
Author(s): Salat, M. and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
6/1/2018
Publication: Environments
Volume: 5
Issue: 93
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: a policy solution to rural poverty in India?
Author(s): Breitkreuz, R., Stanton, C.J., Brady, N., Pattison, J., King, E.D.I.O, Mishra, C.S. and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
9/1/2017
Publication: Development Policy Review
Volume: 35
Issue: 3
Page Numbers: 397-417
Costs of lost opportunities: applying non-market valuation techniques to potential REDD+ participants in Cameroon
Author(s): Thompson, D.Y., Swallow, B.M., and Luckert, M.K.
Publication Date:
7/1/2017
Publication: Forests
Volume: 8
Issue: 60
Characterizing social networks and their effects on income diversification in rural Kerala, India
Author(s): Johny, J., Wichmann, B. and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
6/1/2017
Publication: World Development
Volume: 94
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 375-392
Optimizing expenditures for agricultural land conservation: spatially-explicit estimation of benefits, budgets, costs and targets.
Author(s): Wang H, Swallow BM
Publication Date:
2016
Publication: Land Use Policy
Volume: 59
Page Numbers: 272-283
Impacts of HIV / AIDS on food consumption and wild food use in rural South Africa.
Author(s): Ncube K, Shackleton CM, Swallow, BM, Dasanayake D
Publication Date:
2016
Publication: Food Security
Volume: 8
Issue: 6
Page Numbers: 1131-1151
Impacts of fragmentation and neighbour influences on farmland conservation: a case study of the Edmonton-Calgary corridor, Canada.
Author(s): Qiu, F., Laliberte, L., Swallow, B.M., and Jeffrey, S.
Publication Date:
11/1/2015
Publication: Land Use Policy
Volume: 48
Page Numbers: 482-494
Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edmonton, Canada.
Author(s): Wang, H., Qiu, F., and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
12/1/2014
Publication: Applied Geography
Volume: 55
Page Numbers: 127-137
Designing a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program to reduce deforestation in Tanzania: an assessment of payment approaches.
Author(s): Kaczan, D., Swallow, B.M., and Adamowicz, W.L. (Vic)
Publication Date:
11/1/2013
Publication: Ecological Economics
Volume: 95
Page Numbers: 20-30
Social dimensions of procurement auctions for environmental service contracts: evaluating tradeoffs between cost-effectiveness and participation by the poor.
Author(s): Jindal, R., Kerr, J.M., Ferraro, P.J. and Swallow, B.M.
Publication Date:
2/1/2013
Publication: Land Use Policy
Volume: 31
Page Numbers: 71-80
High-carbon-stock rural-development pathways in Asia and Africa: land management contributions to low-carbon-emission economic development
Author(s): Minang, P.A., M. van Noordwijk, and B.M. Swallow
Publication Date:
2012
Publication: Agroforestry: The Way Forward
Page Numbers: 127-144
Community organized household water increases rural incomes, but also men's work
Author(s): Crow, B., B.M. Swallow, and I. Asamba
Publication Date:
2012
Publication: World Development.
Volume: 40
Issue: 3
Page Numbers: 528-541
Locating REDD: A Global Survey and Analysis of REDD Readiness and Demonstration Activities
Author(s): Cerbu, G., Swallow, B.M. and Thompson, Yvette D
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: Environmental Science and Policy
Volume: 14
Page Numbers: 168-180
Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa: a typology of information and institutional requirements for promoting update of existing adaptiation technologies
Author(s): Yatich, T., B.M. Swallow, O.C. Ajayi, P. Minang, and J. Wakhayanga
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: Climate Change and African Forest and Wildlife Resources
Volume: Chapter 11
The Conditions for Functional Mechanisms of Compensation and Reward for Environmental Services
Author(s): Swallow, B. M., B. Leimona, T. Yatich and S. J. Velarde
Publication Date:
2010
Publication: Ecology and Society
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Page Numbers: 6
External Link: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art6/
Tradeoffs among ecosystem services in the Lake Victoria Basin
Author(s): Swallow, B., Sang, J., Nyabenge, M., Bondotich, D., Yatich, T., Duraiappah, A., and Yashiro, M
Publication Date:
2009
Publication: Environmental Science and Policy
Volume: 12
Issue: 4
Page Numbers: 504-519
Payment for Environmental Services: Interactions with Property Rights and Collective Action
Author(s): Swallow, B., and Meinzen-Dick, R
Publication Date:
2009
Publication: Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment
Compensation and rewards for environmental services in the developing world: framing pan-tropical analysis and comparison
Author(s): 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
Publication Date:
2009
Publication: Ecology and Society
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Page Numbers: 26
External Link: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art26/
A Conjoint Analysis of Farmer Preferences for Social Forestry Contracts in the Sumber Jaya Watershed, Indonesia
Author(s): Arifin, B., Swallow, B., Suyanto and Coe, R
Publication Date:
2009
Publication: Ecological Economics
Volume: 68
Issue: 7
Page Numbers: 2040-2050
Local Organization and Gender in Water Management: a Case Study from the Kenya Highlands
Author(s): Were, E., Roy, J.L. and Swallow, B
Publication Date:
2008
Publication: Journal of International Development.
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 69-81
Carbon Sequestration Projects in Africa: Potential benefits and challenges
Author(s): Jindal, R., Swallow, B. and Kerr, J
Publication Date:
2008
Publication: Natural Resource Forum
Volume: 32
Page Numbers: 116-130
Fractal Poverty Traps
Author(s): Barrett, C.B. and Swallow, B.
Publication Date:
2006
Publication: World Development
Volume: 34
Issue: 1
Page Numbers: 1-15
Preparing for the Next Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects: Africa
Author(s): Swallow, B., Okono, N., Achouri, M. and Tennyson, L. (eds)
Publication Date:
2005
Publication: FAO and ICRAF: Rome and Nairobi
Page Numbers: 282+xi
Potential for Poverty Reduction Strategies to Address Community Priorities: Case Study of Kenya
Author(s): Swallow, B
Publication Date:
2005
Publication: World Development
Volume: 33
Issue: 2
Page Numbers: 301-321
The Effects of Scales, Flows and Filters on Property Rights and Collective Action in Catchment Management
Author(s): Swallow, B.M., Garrity, D.P. and van Noordwijk, M.
Publication Date:
2002
Publication: Water Policy
Volume: 3
Issue: 6
Page Numbers: 449-455
Innovation in Natural Resource Management: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Developing Countries
Author(s): Meinzen-Dick, R., Knox, A., Place, F. and Swallow, B. (eds)
Publication Date:
2002
Page Numbers: 317+xv
The Impacts of Trypanosomiasis on African Agriculture
Author(s): Swallow, B.
Publication Date:
2000
Publication: FAO: PAAT Technical and Scientific Series
Volume: 2
Property Rights, Risk and Livestock Development
Author(s): McCathy, N., Swallow, B., Kirk, M. and Hazell, P. (eds)
Publication Date:
2000
Publication: IFPRI: Washington D.C.
Page Numbers: 437
External Link: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/books/proprights.htm
Locating REDD: A Global Survey and Analysis of REDD Readiness and Demonstration Activities.
Author(s): Cerbu G, Swallow BM, Thompson YD
Publication: Environmental Science and Policy
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Page Numbers: 168-180