James R. Kahn received his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland. In the 1980s, he worked in the Economics Department at SUNY-Binghamton (now known as Binghamton University). In the following decade, he had a joint appointment at the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Lab. Since 2000, Kahn has been the John Hendon Professor of Economics at Washington and Lee University, and served as the Director of the Environmental Studies Program from 2000 to 2017. He has been a collaborating professor at the Federal University of Amazonas (Manaus, Brazil) since 1992. 
Professor Kahn is highly published and widely cited. His research has been funded by several agencies, including: the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Department of Education, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq (Brazil), and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas - FAPEAM (Brazil). For his work, Professor Kahn has received several honors and awards. He was elected and served as President of the US Society for Ecological Economics from June 2017 until May 2019, was a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil (2002), received an Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia (2012), and a Chancellor's Award (SUNY System-wide) for Excellence in Teaching (1988). He is currently an editor on the journal Ecological Economics.
  
   
Contributors:
Babatunde O. Abidoye
The University of Pretoria and London School of Economics and Political Science

Mohammed Al-Azzawi
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Maria Alló
University of A Coruña

Christopher L. Ambrey
Griffith University

Luis Andrés
World Bank Group

Ragnar Arnason
University of Iceland

Shaun Awatere
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Edward B. Barbier
Colorado State University

Ashley Barfield
Georgia Department of Economic Development

Bartosz Bartkowski
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig

Jennifer Bauer
National Energy Technology Laboratory

Rawshan Ara Begum
Kumamoto University, Japan and National University of Malaysia

Maksud Bekchanov
University of Hamburg

Robert P. Berrens
University of New Mexico

Anna-Marie Blankenbach
Technische Universität Berlin

Ihtiyor Bobojonov
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

W. J. Wouter Botzen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Utrecht University

Kevin J. Boyle
Virginia Tech

Joanne C. Burgess
Colorado State University

Roger L. Burritt
Australian National University

Antoine Champetier
Independent Consultant

Jerónimo Chavarría
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla

Zhuo Chen
Tsinghua University

Andy Sungnok Choi
National Institute of Ecology

Katherine L. Christ
University of South Australia

Gregory Cooper
Washington and Lee University

Valeria Costantini
Roma Tre University

Robert Costanza
The Australian National University

Christine L. Crago
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá
Nova University

Rachel Dalafave
Vanderbilt Law School

Alexandra Dehnhardt
Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin

Jörg E. Drewes
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Rodrigo Duran
National Energy Technology Laboratory and Theiss Research

Sofia Ehsan
National University of Malaysia

Mark Eiswerth
University of Northern Colorado

Santiago Enriquez
The World Bank

James T. Erbaugh
Dartmouth College

Ann E. Ferris
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Christopher Fleming
Griffith University

Sofia F. Franco
University of California-Irvine and NovaSBE Environmental Economics Knowledge, Portugal

John Luke Gallup
Portland State University

Richard Garbaccio
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Junior Ruiz Garcia
Federal University of Parana

Jorge H. García
University of The Andes

Clemens W. Gattringer
Independent Scholar

Roger Ghanem
University of Southern California

Daphne Gondhalekar
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Martin Grambow
Bayerisches Staatsministerium fur Umwelt und Verbraucherschut

Wayne Gray
Clark University

Lilly Grella
Washington and Lee University

Therese Grijalva
Weber State University

Gianluca Grilli
Trinity College Dublin

Dennis Guignet
Appalachian State University

Joaquim J.M. Guilhoto
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Timothy C. HaabOhio State University

Brent M. Haddad
University of California Santa Cruz

Kati Häfner
Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and Technische Universität Berlin

Venetia Alexa Hargreaves-Allen
Independent Consultant

Marcello Hernández-Blanco
Ecological Economics, Independent Consultant

Kimberly S. Hodge
Washington and Lee University

Ferdiana Hoti
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

Hong-Ying Hu
Tsinghua University

María E. Ibarrarán
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla

Md Sayed Iftekhar
Griffith University

N. Vijay Jagannathan
World Resources Institute and George Washington University

Natasha James
USDA Forest Service and North Carolina State University

Yong Jiang
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Lulu Jin
Dalian University of Technology

George Joseph
World Bank Group

James R. Kahn
Washington and Lee University, Piatam Institute, and the Federal University of Amazonas

Fatma Kamkar
Canadian University Dubai

Joe Kerkvliet
Oregon State University

Andreas Klinke
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Jorie Knook
Lincoln University

Georgia Christina Kosmidou-Bradley
UNHCR

Phoebe Koundouri
Athens University of Economics and Business, ATHENA RC, and UN SDSN Europe

Olli-Pekka Kuusela
Oregon State University

Craig E. Landry
University of Georgia

Bjorn Larsen
The World Bank

Chad Lawley
University of Manitoba

Jonathan Lee
East Carolina University

Lynne Y. Lewis
Bates College

Nele Lienhoop
Bochum University of Applied Sciences

James B. London
Clemson University

Maria L. Loureiro
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Jon C. Lovett
University of Leeds

Lala Ma
University of Kentucky

Muthukumara Mani
World Bank Group

Faysal Mansouri
University of Sousse

Anil Markandya
Basque Center for Climate Change

Gerd Markus
m&p Information Systems GmbH, Bremen, and Steinbeis University

Till Markus
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Alex Marten
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Jürgen Meyerhoff
Technische Universität Berlin

Zouheir Mighri
University of Jeddah

Jason Paul Mika
Massey University

Dominic Moran
The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute

Stefanie Onder
American University

Elena Paglialunga
University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"

David Pannell
University of Western Australia

Christopher F. Parmeter
University of Miami

Hannah Patalong
Bayerisches Staatsministerium fur Umwelt und Verbraucherschut

Bruce Peacock
National Park Service

Maksym Polyakov
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research

Chen Qian
Dalian University of Technology

Suneira Rana
World Bank Group

V. Ratna Reddy
Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management Institute

John Reid
University of Canterbury

Ortwin Renn
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) and University of Stuttgart

Leslie Richardson
National Park Service

Robert B. Richardson
Michigan State University

Alexandre A.F. Rivas
Federal University of Amazonas and Piatam Institute

Kelly Rose
National Energy Technology Laboratory

Matthew Roskruge
Massey University

Matthew Rout
University of Canterbury

Christiane W. Runyan
Johns Hopkins University

Luca Salvati
University of Macerata

Ernesto Sánchez-Triana
The World Bank

Andreia Costa Santos
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Bank

Johannes Sauer
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Stefan Schaltegger
Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Pia-Johanna Schweizer
Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies

Roger Sedjo
Resources for the Future, Washington D.C.

Partha Sen
Centre for Development Economics

Giorgia Sforna
Roma Tre University

Ronald Shadbegian
San Diego State University

Kalim U. Shah
University of Delaware

Hilary Sigman
Rutgers University

Erin Sills
North Carolina State University

V. Kerry Smith
Arizona State University

Jinbo Song
Dalian University of Technology

John A. Sorrentino
Temple University

Jeff Stehm
Independent Consultant

David I. Stern
The Australian National University

Thomas Sterner
University of Gothenburg

Jane Stewart
Washington and Lee University

Jon Strand
World Bank

Anish Sugathan
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Rashid Sumaila
University of British Columbia

Yan Sun
Dalian University of Technology

Aseel A. Takshe
Canadian University Dubai

Shresth Tayal
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Michael H. Taylor
University of Nevada, Reno

Govinda R. Timilsina
World Bank

Rama Mohana R Turaga
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Hans-Dietrich Uhl
Bayerisches Staatsministerium fur Umwelt und Verbraucherschut

Achilleas Vassilopoulos
University of Ioannina

W. Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt University

Maria Vrachioli
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Feng Wang
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Jean-Louis Weber
International Consultant on Economic-Environmental Accounting

Alfons Weersink
University of Guelph

John C. Whitehead
Appalachian State University

Patrick Wingo
National Energy Technology Laboratory and Leidos Research Support Team

Ann Wolverton
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Takahiro Yamada
World Bank Group

Haitao Yin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Daowei Zhang
Auburn University

Xuemei Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Ruda Zhang
University of Southern California