University of Maryland (MARYLAND)

At the University of Maryland our project combines resources of its Department of Economics and Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. While the ARWU ranked MARYLAND as 38th in the world in 2012 in general and 23rd in economics, the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at MARYLAND has been widely regarded as one of the very top programs in its discipline for over a quarter-century. Recently A.G.F. Hoepner, B. Kant, B. Scholtens and P. Yu, Ecological Economics, 2012, 193–206 identified MARYLAND as the most influential institution in the world in the field of environmental and ecological economics over the period 2000-2009.

The University of Maryland has entered into educational and scholarly collaborations with more than 300 universities, government agencies and private institutions, over the past 35 years. This high level of international cooperation is significantly supported by the strategic location of the University of Maryland in the Washington D.C. area with the easy access to many international organizations relevant to energy and climate change economics as well as to other related research fields.

Website: www.usmd.edu

Adress: Metzerott Road 3300, Adelphi, MD 20783-1690, United States

Person in charge of project:

Prof. Anna Alberini, aalberini@arec.umd.edu

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects

Ms. Melekte Truneh, mtruneh@arec.umd.edu