Short bio Elena Irwin 

Elena Irwin is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics and Faculty Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Economy program at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the economics of land use change and integrated models of land use and ecosystem services in urban, urbanizing, and agricultural regions. Currently, she has several research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), including development of spatial models of exurban land markets and modeling the impacts of land use policy on watershed flows and nutrient run-off into Lake Erie. She is also a Co-Investigator with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, an NSF-funded Long Term Ecological Research project that is examining the influence of policies on urbanization patterns and ecosystem services. Elena is a member of the US EPA Advisory Committee for the Sustainable and Healthy Communities Program, an elected board member of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and past member of the North American Regional Science Council. She recently served on the National Research Council’s Committee on the Needs and Requirements for Land Change Modeling. She is the co-recipient of the 2009 Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America and the 2008 recipient of the North American Regional Science Council’s Hewings Award for distinguished young scholars in regional science.

 
Home page: http://aede.osu.edu/our-people/elena-irwin​ 

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