Henry An
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology
- henry.an@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-3915
- Address
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515A General Services Building
9007 - 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H1
Chair, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology
- henry.an@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Job/Research Area
Agricultural Economics, Biotechnology, Food Economics
Research
Major Responsibilities/Research Interests
- Agricultural technology adoption and disadoption
- Consumer demand for genetically engineered foods
- Food security and economic development
- Industrial organization of food markets
Teaching
Current undergraduate courses: AREC 250 - Economic and Social Issues of Food Biotechnology (Winter); AREC/RSOC 410 - Capstone course (Winter)
Current graduate courses: AREC 533 - Production Economics (Fall)
Courses
AREC 410 - Advanced Methods and Applications in Applied Economics
Empirical applications of methods used in resource, environmental, agri-food, and forest economics. Involves one or more case study projects that focus on the empirical examination of economic issues in renewable resource management. Prerequisite: AREC 313. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar.
ENCS 250 - Climate Change Economics and Policy
This course examines the economics and policy of climate change. Topics include an introduction to climate science; assessing the economic consequences of climate change (Integrated Assessment Models and the Social Cost of Carbon); evaluation of alternative policy instruments, to address both adaptation to and mitigation of the impacts of climate change, within an economic framework (taxes, subsidies, trading systems, investments in innovation, etc.); examination of the distributional impacts of economic policies; and, the treatment of uncertainty in climate change policy. The course will include examples and applications to agriculture, forestry, energy, and other sectors. Prerequisites: ECON 101 or 30 units.
R SOC 410 - Research Methods and Policy Applications in Applied Environmental Sociology
Empirical applications of theory and methods used in environmental sociology, rural sociology, and natural resource sociology. Involves one or more case study projects that focus on conceptual understandings, field research methods, and policy analysis in the human dimensions of resource management. Prerequisite: R SOC 355, R SOC 365, or R SOC 450.
Featured Publications
Yanan Zheng, Henry An, Meng Yang and Feng Qiu
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2024 January; 10.1111/cjag.12347
Jennifer Syme, Henry An, and Mohammad Torshizi
American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2023 April; 10.1111/ajae.12400
Henry An, Feng Qiu and James Rude
Economic Modelling. 2021 September; 102 (Sept 2021):105552 10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105552
Stephanie Le, Scott Jeffrey and Henry An
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 2020 January; 52 (2):177-193 10.1017/aae.2019.41
Shuo Wang, Henry An
Forest Policy and Economics. 2019 January; 102 (May 2019):130-137 10.1016/j.forpol.2019.03.004