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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Environmental and ecological economics, Urbanization environmental impacts, Renewable energy economics, Local food systems

Degrees

MS in Community Development and Applied Economics, with graduate certificate in Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, 2006
PhD in Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010

Professional Publications & Contributions

• "Social cost of biomass energy from switchgrass in western Massachusetts." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, forthcoming
• "Estimating a technically feasible switchgrass supply function: a western Massachusetts example." Bioenergy Research 5(1), March 2012, pp. 236-246.
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  "Biomass energy from woodchips: diesel fuel dependence?" with César Viteri Mejía. Biomass and Bioenergy 34(9), September 2010, pp. 1419-1425.
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  "Direct food sales in the United States: evidence from state and county-level data," with Qingbin Wang. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 34(2), February 2010, pp. 229-240.
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  "Local foods: estimating capacity" with Qingbin Wang, and Dan Lass. Journal of Extension 46(5), October 2008.
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  Biomass energy crops: Massachusetts' potential with David Damery, and Geoff Allen. Report for Massachusetts Sustainable Forest Bioenergy Initiative, January 2008.
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  Energy from forest biomass: potential economic impacts in Massachusetts, with David Damery, Geoff Allen, and Lisa Petraglia. Report for Massachusetts Sustainable Forest Bioenergy Initiative, December 2007.

Additional Information

Professor Timmons is an ecological economist, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and resource economics as well as microeconomics. He has also served as academic director for a study abroad program on renewable energy in Iceland. Professor Timmons is currently studying urbanization environmental impacts, looking at how environmental effects change when people move from rural to urban areas, or the reverse. He is also interested in the economics of renewable energy, and has studied potential production costs and impacts of biomass crops in Massachusetts. Other research has included local food system potential.