Alan Randall

Alan Randall is an academy professor and scholar in residence in the Sustainability Institute at the Ohio State University, and an honorary professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. His research interests are in environmental economics and policy with modest sidelines in research methods and environmental ethics.  Current work is addressing inter-generational sustainability of welfare, climate change adaptation, policy and management implications of ambiguity, and the challenge of validating integrated assessment models.

His writings include Risk and Precaution (Cambridge University Press 2011), Resource Economics: An Economic Approach to Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (4th ed, Edward Elgar, 2016 in press, with John C. Bergstrom), Making the Environment Count: Selected Essays, (Edward Elgar, 1999), and numerous journal articles.  In addition to research and classroom teaching, he has supervised 30 PhD students to graduation, served as chair of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at Ohio State (1998-2010) and head of Agricultural and Resource Economics at U Sydney (2011-2014), and has been active in consulting and on committees advisory to various public agencies. 

Alan holds two honorary doctorates, is a Fellow of three scholarly societies, recently served as President of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, and completed a 6-year term on the US National Research Council standing committee on human dimensions of global change.  He chaired the long-serving external review panel for the recent Australian National Outlook project, which was featured in Nature on November 5, 2015.