To help students see the relationship between theory and its application to important societal problems.
To help students integrate information from related fields of study in order to better understand, predict and resolve real world issues.
To help students develop interest in and aptitude for lifetime learning.
To stay effective as a teacher by associating and sharing with good teachers.
Courses to be taught (catalog number, title):
AEDE/IS H597.01, Spring Quarter — Problems and Policies in World Population, Food and Environment.
AEDE 899.02, Autumn and Spring Quarter — Environmental Economics PhD seminar.
AEDE 807, Summer Quarter — Economic Analysis for Collective Choice: BCA and Beyond
AEDE 631, Autumn Quarter — Benefit Cost Analysis.
Primary research and public service activities at OSU currently include the economics of sustainable agriculture, forest and mining systems with emphasis on off–site soil sediment and water quality costs, valuing river systems including, economic evaluation of dam and lock upgrades, zoning, bike trails, household septic systems, dam and toxic removal and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) antidegradation rules, development and application of benefit transfer and capture models, and economic-ecologic assessment of wetlands and rural landscapes. Hitzhusen has also done research and outreach on the economics of recycling Fluidized Gas Desulfurization (FGD) wastes from electric power plants, the economics of renewable energy (e.g., social costs of fossil vs. biomass fuels, energy from farm and forest residuals), and the economics of delivering and financing nonmetropolitan or rural government services (e.g., solid waste, emergency ambulance, roads and bridges).