Faculty & Staff
Dave Timmons, PhD
- Facilitator Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617.287.6945
- Email: David.Timmons@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00080
Areas of Expertise
Environmental and ecological economics, Renewable energy , Local food systems
Degrees
PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Estimating a technically feasible switchgrass supply function: a western Massachusetts example." Bioenergy Research, forthcoming.
- "Biomass energy from woodchips: diesel fuel dependence?" with César Viteri Mejía. Biomass and Bioenergy 34(9), September 2010, pp. 1419-1425
- "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.
- "Local foods: estimating capacity" with Qingbin Wang, and Dan Lass. Journal of Extension 46(5), October 2008.
- Biomass energy crops: Massachusetts' potential with David Damery, and Geoff Allen. Report for Massachusetts Sustainable Forest Bioenergy Initiative, January 2008.
- 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
Dave Timmons is an ecological economist who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and resource economics as well as microeconomics. He is particularly interested in the economics of renewable energy. His recent dissertation looked at the potential for biomass energy crops in Massachusetts. He has also served as academic director for a study abroad program on renewable energy in Iceland. Other research has included local food systems.
1 Course:
The Economics of Climate Change
