Fred Hitzhusen
Professor
Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
226 Agricultural Administration Building
2120 Fyffe Road
614.292.6244
hitzhusen.1@osu.edu
Education
B.S., Agricultural Education, Iowa State University (1962)
M.S., Agricultural Economics, Purdue University (1968)
Ph.D., Agricultural/Resource Economics, Cornell University (1972)
Teaching/Research
Dr. Hitzhusen specializes in natural resource and environmental economics, economics of sustainable natural resource systems, cost-benefit analysis, and ecological economics.
Selected Publications
"Cost Benefit Analysis and Application to River Water Quality and Infrastructure Improvements" (International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 2008)
"Willingness to Pay for Low Impact Development Environmental Benefits," with Meng-Fen Yen and Jack Schieffer, special edition (ASCE Journal, 2008)
Problems and Policies in World Population, Food and Environment: An Integrated Approach (Concepts and Cases Reader for AEC/IS 597.01, 1995, rev. ed., 2005)
"Economic Analysis Of Energy: Toward a Renewable and Clean Energy Research and Policy Agenda," with P. Wilner Jeanty and Bibhakar Shakya (Global Energy, 2006)
"Science in the Public Process of Ecosystem Management: Lessons from Hawaii, S.E. Asia, Africa, and U.S. Mainland," with John Gutrich (Journal of Environmental Management, 2005)
"Assessing the Substitutability of Mitigation Wetlands for Natural Sites: Estimating Restoration Lag Costs of Wetland Mitigation," with John Gutrich (Journal of Ecological Economics, 2004)
"Context, Concepts and Policy on Poverty and Inequality" in Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World, by Rattan Lal, David Hansen, Norman Uphoff, and Steven A Slack (CRC Press LLC, 2002)
"Economic Analysis as a Basis for Large Scale Nitrogen Control Decisions: Reducing Nitrogen Loads in the Gulf of Mexico," with Otto C. Doering and Marc Robaudo (The Scientific World, 2001)
"Land Degradation and Sustainability of Agricultural Growth: Some Economic Concepts and Evidence from Selected Developing Countries" (Agriculture, EcoSystems and Environment, 1993)
"Impact and Implications of Price Policy and Land Degradation on Agricultural Growth in Developing Countries,"with F. Zhao and W. Chern (Agricultural Economics, 1991)
A multidisciplinary approach to renewable energy in developing countries, ed. with Robert D. Macgregor (Publishing Horizons Inc., 1987)
COMPRAN: A computerized project analysis package for developing countries, with M. McCullough, M., M. Gowen, C. Feinstein, and S. Pintz (The Ohio State University, 1986)
Honors, Awards and Service
Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Beta Delta
Member, Environmental Economics International Scientific Advisory Committee (2008)
Ohio Department of Development/Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center grant for $34,000 for Biomass Inventory Project (2004-06)
Gamma Sigma Delta International Award of Merit (2003-04)
Blue Ribbon Award for Sustainable Agriculture, Charter Member of OSU AMP team, Ohio Citizen Action (2003)
Great Lakes Protection Fund grant for $832,000 to couple economic, ecologic and hydrodynamic models to Value Dam Removal in Great Lakes Watersheds (2002-04)
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Competitive Interdisciplinary grant for $75,000 for Landscape Indicators project (2001-02)
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Distinguished Multidisciplinary Team Research Award (1998)
Gold Quill Award, Outstanding Journal Article, with Lynn Forster, Journal of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (1997)
College Teaching Excellence Award, The Ohio State University (1995)
U.S. Department of Agriculture grant of $82,145 for Economics of Sustainable Agriculture (1992-95)
U.S. Agency for International Development grant of $327,000 over three years for support of international agricultural and natural resource research at The Ohio State University. Served as Acting Director of International Programs in Agriculture Office. (1984-87)
Mershon Project
Violent Conflict, Environmental Degradation, and Food Security
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