Brian Danley

Short presentation

My primary research and teaching interest is applying economic analysis and statistical techniques to study public policy issues, with particular focus on forestry and fish conservation. The key policy questions that drive my work center on how to assist the public and public policy makers in converting well-intentioned environmental ideas into effective behavior.

Keywords

• public policy
• environmental economics
• pro-environmental behavior
• nature-based tourism
• environmental valuation
• private forest owners
• human dimensions of wildlife and natural resources

Biography

From the beginning of my academic career, I have studied and researched in multiple disciplines and in international, cross-cultural environments. My studies have taken me from my origins in the midwest United States to the following destinations before coming to Campus Gotland as Assistant Professor in Environmental Science: Tokyo, Japan, Umeå, Sweden, Stirling, Scotland, Amherst, Massachusetts, and Seattle, Washington. I hold a bachelors degree in International Relations and Economics from William Jewell College, a masters degree in economics from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in environmental and resource economics from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. I did my postdoctoral studies at the US Family Forest Research Center and the University of Washington's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

I enjoy exploring a diverse profile of research topics at the intersection of nature and society. So far my research has included family forest owners' management decisions and risk perceptions, forest policy, non-market valuation, the human geography of entrepreneurship and natural hazards, and freshwater conservation issues. I have taught at the undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels in subjects such as environmental economics, resource economics, public policy, human geography, and nature-based tourism. I can lecture in both English and Swedish.