Jeffrey R. Vincent, Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management, and Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management

Jeffrey R. Vincent is the Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. Vincent’s research focuses on the economics of natural resource management and policy in developing countries. Currently, his two main projects are a 5-year project with the Forest Research Institute Malaysia on biodiversity conservation in tropical landscapes affected by commercial logging, and an ongoing project on the joint impacts of brown clouds and greenhouse gases on climate change, water, and agriculture in South Asia.

He has also worked extensively on the adjustment of national income and wealth accounts for resource depletion. Vincent’s books include the Handbook of Environmental Economics (North-Holland, three volumes, 2003, 2005) and Managing Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia (RFF Press, 2005). His articles have appeared in environmental economics journals, including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics; economic development journals, including the World Bank Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and World Development; forestry journals, including Forest Science and the Journal of Forestry; and general science journals, such as Science. He received the Cozzarelli Prize for the best article in applied biological, agricultural, and environmental sciences published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and the McKinsey Award for the most significant article published in the Harvard Business Review in 2003.

Vincent serves on the board of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, and the international advisory committees of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economists (SANDEE) and the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA). He consults regularly for the World Bank and other international organizations. He has directed or worked on projects in Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Prior to joining Duke in July 2007, he held positions in the Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego (2001-7); the Institute for International Development at Harvard University (1990-2001); and the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University (1987-90). He has degrees from Yale University (Ph.D., 1988), Michigan State University (M.S., 1984), and Harvard University (A.B., 1981).

Contact Info:

Office Location:	A118 LSRC
Office Phone:	(919) 613-8025
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• ENVIRON 531L.001, ECON VALUATION OF THE ENVIRON Synopsis

  Grainger 1111, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ENVIRON 531L.01L, ECON VALUATION OF THE ENVIRON Synopsis

  Grainger 1111, Th 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• ENVIRON 898.01, PROGRAM AREA SEMINAR Synopsis

  LSRC A155, Tu 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

• ENVIRON 521.01, RESOURCE & ENVIRON ECON II Synopsis

  Grainger 1112, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as ECON 531.01, PUBPOL 584.01)

• ENVIRON 521.02, RESOURCE & ENVIRON ECON II Synopsis

  Grainger 1112, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as ECON 531.02, PUBPOL 584.02)

• ENVIRON 680.01, ECONOMICS OF FOREST RESOURCES Synopsis

  LSRC A158, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• ENVIRON 727S.01, FORESTS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Synopsis

  LSRC A211, W 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• ENVIRON 898.01, PROGRAM AREA SEMINAR Synopsis

  Grainger 2102, Th 04:40 PM-05:55 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	1988
M.S.	Michigan State University	1984
AB	Harvard University

Specialties:

environmental economics
biodiversity
landscape dynamics
global climate change
environmental policy
business and the environment

Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers   (More Publications)

1. J.R. Vincent, Ecosystem services and green growth, World Bank Policy Research Working Papers (2012)
2. Susana Ferreira, Kirk Hamilton, and Jeffrey R. Vincent, Nature, Socioeconomics and Adaptation to Natural Disasters: New Evidence from Floods, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5725 (June, 2011)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Holl, KD; Bukoski, JJ; Curran, SR; Potts, MD; Vincent, JR, Abandoned land: Overestimated potential., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 381 no. 6655 (July, 2023), pp. 277-278 [doi]
2. Walker, B; Crépin, AS; Nyström, M; Anderies, JM; Andersson, E; Elmqvist, T; Queiroz, C; Barrett, S; Bennett, E; Cardenas, JC; Carpenter, SR; Chapin, FS; de Zeeuw, A; Fischer, J; Folke, C; Levin, S; Nyborg, K; Polasky, S; Segerson, K; Seto, KC; Scheffer, M; Shogren, JF; Tavoni, A; van den Bergh, J; Weber, EU; Vincent, JR, Response diversity as a sustainability strategy, Nature Sustainability, vol. 6 no. 6 (June, 2023), pp. 621-629 [doi]  [abs]
3. Vincent, J, The tropical timber trade and sustainable development, in The Causes of Tropical Deforestation: The Economic and Statistical Analysis of Factors Giving Rise to the Loss of the Tropical Forests (May, 2023), pp. 298-308, ISBN 9781032549354 [doi]
4. He, W; Nabangchang, O; Erdman, K; Vanko, ACA; Poudel, P; Giri, C; Vincent, JR, Inferring Economic Impacts from a Program's Physical Outcomes: An Application to Forest Protection in Thailand., Environmental & resource economics, vol. 84 no. 3 (January, 2023), pp. 845-876 [doi]  [abs]
5. Shyamsundar, P; Cohen, F; Boucher, TM; Kroeger, T; Erbaugh, JT; Waterfield, G; Clarke, C; Cook-Patton, SC; Garcia, E; Juma, K; Kaur, S; Leisher, C; Miller, DC; Oester, K; Saigal, S; Siikamaki, J; Sills, EO; Thaung, T; Trihadmojo, B; Veiga, F; Vincent, JR; Yi, Y; Zhang, XX, Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics, Global Environmental Change, vol. 76 (September, 2022) [doi]  [abs]