Eric Edwards

Bio

Eric uses geospatial analytics to understand how economic incentives affect the use and management of natural resources. He develops contemporary and historic spatial datasets using economic, demographic and land-use measures to statistically test the impact of institutions (like property rights and regulations) on economic and environmental outcomes. Interests include the regulation of water quality, management of ground and surface water, the relationship between land ownership and oil and gas production, and historical agricultural land use.

Publications

• The Impact of Property Rights to Fish on Remote Communities in Alaska , LAND ECONOMICS (2022)
• The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions across the GlobeJEL codes , APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY (2021)
• Water storage and agricultural resilience to drought: historical evidence of the capacity and institutional limits in the United States , ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2021)
• Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production: the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared , (2020)
• Contracting and the Commons: Linking the Insights of Gary Libecap and Elinor Ostrom , The Environmental Optimism of Elinor Ostrom (2020)
• Institutional and Organizational Analysis: Concepts and Applications. By Eric Alston, Lee Alston, Bernardo Mueller, and Tomas Nonnenmacher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 406. $78.91, hardcover. , The Journal of Economic History (2020)
• Irrigation Investment on an American Indian Reservation , American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2020)
• Predator–prey dynamics in general equilibrium and the role of trade , Resource and Energy Economics (2020)
• The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions Across the Globe , (2020)
• The economics of indigenous water claim settlements in the American West , Environmental Research Letters (2020)