Steve Polasky is a Regent’s
Professor and holds the Fesler-Lampert Chair in
Ecological/Environmental Economics at the University of Minnesota. He
previously held faculty positions at Boston College and Oregon State
University. He served as the senior staff economist for environment and
resources for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers 1998-1999. He is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He also serves on the
Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency and is on the
Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy.
His research interests focus on issues at
the intersection of ecology and economics and include the impacts of land use
and land management on the provision and value of ecosystem services and
natural capital, biodiversity conservation, sustainability, environmental
regulation, and fisheries management. He contributed to the national Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB).
He has also worked on issues involving renewable energy, renewable and
exhaustible resources, environmental regulation, and common property resources.
His research has been
published in Science, Nature, Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers of Ecology and
Environment, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land
Economics, and other journals. He is currently serving as an Associate
Editor for Conservation Letters, Ecology and Society, and Ecology Letters. He
was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.