Dr. Kathleen Segerson is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. Kathleen previously held the Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair and served as department head in the Department of Economics. Kathleen’s research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments, with particular emphasis on the application of legal rules and principles to environmental problems. Specific research areas include:
- The impact of legal liability for environmental damages in a variety of contexts, including groundwater contamination, hazardous waste management, and workplace accidents
- Land-use regulation and the takings clause
- Voluntary approaches to environmental protection
- The impacts of climate change on U.S. agriculture
- Incentives to control nonpoint pollution from agriculture.
Kathleen is a member of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and served from 2005–2011 as a member of the Chartered Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board (SAB). Kathleen is a co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and has previously served as a co-editor and an associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Kathleen received a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from Cornell University. Kathy served as a member of SESYNC’s External Advisory Board.
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