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Brian
Roach
Global Development And Environment Institute
Fletcher School, Cabot Center
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
Office Phone: (617) 627-6787
Fax: (617) 627-2409
brian.roach@tufts.edu
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. - University
of California, Davis, 1995. Major in Environmental
Policy Analysis
M.S. - Pennsylvania
State University, 1990. Major in Agricultural Economics
B.S. - Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture,
1987. Major in Agronomy, minor in Business Administration
EXPERIENCE
May 2001
- Present:
Research Associate at the Global Development
and Environment Institute, Tufts University at GDAE's
Theory and Education Program I have been involved
the development of textbooks, text supplements, and
other educational material. I wrote instructor's manuals
for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics:
A Contemporary Approach and Microeconomics
in Context. I am also writing topical educational
modules and working on the development of Macroeconomics
in Context.
July 1999
- May 2001: Instructor, University of Maine
As an instructor I taught several different courses.
I taught an introductory natural resources course
several times over the Internet. I also developed
an introductory economics course conducted over the
Internet. I proposed, developed, and taught a course,
titled “The Consumer Society” that explored
the history, theory, and social and individual implications
of mass consumerism in modern society.
May 1997
- June 1999: Research Assistant Professor, University
of Maine.
I worked on various economic analyses of Maine natural
resources including the impact of water levels on
whitewater rafting visitation and economic benefits,
the effect of fishery regulations on angler site choice,
and the impacts of contingent valuation formats on
moose hunters consumer surplus. I worked on a public
opinion survey asking questions about Maine wildlife
management. Another project measured the level of
support for various forest management regulations
and Maine state public land acquisition. In continuing
work, I estimated recreation demand models for the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers using data from the Willamette
Valley in Oregon. I also taught an undergraduate class
twice, Introduction to Natural Resources.
May 1995
- May 1997: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of
California - Davis.
This work for the Army Corps of Engineers involved
several projects, including extensions of my doctoral
research on reservoir recreation and an analysis of
water-based recreation benefits in the Southeastern
United States. The work also included the first part
of a project to estimate recreation demand models
for reservoirs and rivers in the Willamette Valley,
Oregon.Jan. 1992 - May 1995: Student Post-Graduate
Researcher at the University of California B Davis.
My research included an analysis of the economics
benefits Army Corps of Engineers' recreation sites
under various management scenarios. The study focused
on the impact of water levels, recreational facilities,
and visitor fees on reservoir visitation and economic
benefits. In a project for the Bureau of Land Management,
I conducted a cost-benefit analysis of wildlife/livestock
tradeoffs on public land in Northern California.
Aug. 1991
- Dec. 1991: Teaching Assistant at the University
of California - Davis.
As a TA for an undergraduate resource economics class,
I graded and lectured several times.
Aug. 1990
- Aug. 1991: Research Associate at the Pennsylvania
State University.
I worked full-time on several projects including the
development and implementation of agricultural production
surveys dealing with adoption of new technologies,
an economic risk analysis of agricultural cooperatives,
and a study of environmental risk perceptions.
Aug. 1987
- Aug. 1990: Research Assistant at the Pennsylvania
State University.
My research included a market analysis of organic
agricultural products and the valuation of changes
in water quality using data on averting expenses.
Private
Consulting Experience
May 2002 - Present: Private consultant for U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS.
This project involves estimating recreation demand
models for Corps reservoirs in Arkansas and Oklahoma
and analyzing the economic impacts of various water
management scenarios.
May
2001 - Present: Private consultant for Energy and
Water Economics, Columbia, TN.
I have worked for Energy and Water Economics on several
projects related to the management of water resources,
including reservoir operations in Georgia, river recreation
flows in Tennessee, and water allocation rights in
the Midwestern U.S.
September
1999 - March 2001: Private consultant for Foster Associates,
Inc., San Francisco, CA.
This project, sponsored by the U.S. Minerals Management
Service, estimates the potential ecological and economic
impacts of oil and gas development along the outer
continental shelf of the United States. Oil spill
scenarios are analyzed to determine the potential
recreation, commercial fishery, and wildlife losses.
October
1998 - May 1999: Private consultant for Industrial
Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
This work extends previous consulting work for Industrial
Economics. I am working on a meta-analysis of over
100 angler recreation demand studies, testing for
consistencies and the potential to transfer results
across geographic regions and angler target species.
October
1997 - April 1998: Private consultant for Environmental
Policy Options, Portland, ME.
This work involved two projects: an analysis of the
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated
Recreation for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and a study for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries
and Wildlife exploring the feasibility and economic
impacts of lifetime fishing and hunting licenses.
April
1996 - Oct. 1996: Private consultant for the Bureau
of Reclamation, Sacramento, CA.
This research included estimation of benefits accruing
to waterfowl hunters at wildlife refuges in the Central
Valley of California.
Feb.
1996 - May 1996: Private consultant for Industrial
Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
I reviewed and coded articles for a meta-analysis
of angler recreation demand models for a database
for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Oct. 1995 - March 1996: Private consultant for
Jones and Stokes, Associates, Sacramento, CA.
This project involved an analysis of angler benefits
along California rivers as part of the economic analysis
of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. The
study estimated the visitation and economic benefit
changes associated with changes in fishing quality.
June
1995 - November 1995: Private consultant for
Forest Guardians, Santa Fe, NM.
This study analyzed management alternatives for a
federal wilderness area in New Mexico. The costs and
benefits of grazing leases were estimated and compared
to the benefits of wilderness recreation.
Oct. 1993 - Jan. 1994: Private consultant to the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS.
This project involved development of a travel cost
recreation demand model for Missouri River recreation
sites.
PUBLICATIONS
AND PAPERS - Brian Roach
Abdalla, Charles
W., Brian A. Roach, and Donald J. Epp. "Valuing
Environmental Quality Changes Using Averting Expenditures:
An Application to Groundwater Contamination."
Land Economics 68(2):163-169, May 1992.
Abdalla, Charles
W., and Brian Roach. "Valuing Environmental Quality
Changes Using Averting Expenditures: An Application
to Groundwater Contamination." Paper presented
at the American Agricultural Economics Association
meeting at Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1990.
Epp, Donald
J. and Brian Roach. "Relating Qualitative and
Quantitative Evaluation of Collective Risks: The Case
of Drinking Water Contamination." Paper presented
at the American Agricultural Economics Association
meeting at Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1990.
Loomis, John
and Brian Roach. "Using Economics to Make Issues
into Non-Issues and Focus Wildlife-Livestock Trade-offs:
A Case Study of BLM and the East Lassen Deer Herd."
Paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium
on Society and Resource Management, Fort Collins,
CO, June, 1994.
Loomis, John,
Brian Roach, Frank Ward, and Richard Ready. "Testing
Transferability of Recreation Demand Models Across
Regions: A Study of Corps of Engineer Reservoirs."
Water Resources Research, vol. 31(3):721-730,
March, 1995.
Loomis, John,
Brian Roach, Frank Ward, and Richard Ready. "Reservoir
Recreation Demand and Benefits Transfers: Preliminary
Results." Paper presented at W-133 Western
Regional Resource Economics Conference, Santa
Fe, NM, March, 1993.
Musser, Wesley
N., James S. Shortle, Kathleen Kreahling, and Brian
Roach. "An Economic Analysis of the Pre-Sidedress
Nitrogen Test for Pennsylvania Corn Production."
Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 17(1),
January, 1995.
Roach, Brian. "Read My Lips: More New Tax Cuts
- The Distributional Implications of Repealing Dividend
Taxation," Global Development and Environment
Working Paper 03-01, February 2003.
Roach, Brian.
"Valuing Travel Time by Isolating the Components
of Recreation Benefits." Paper presented at W-133
Western Regional Resource Economics Conference,
Asilomar, CA, March, 1995.
Roach, Brian,
Kevin Boyle, and Michael Welsh. “Testing Bid
Design Effects in Multiple-Bounded Contingent-Valuation
Questions.” Land Economics, vol. 78(1):121-131,
February, 2002.
Roach, Brian,
Kevin Boyle, and Michael Welsh. "Testing Bid
Design Effects in Multiple-Bounded Contingent Valuation."
Paper presented at W-133 Western Regional Resource
Economics Conference, Tucson, AZ, February, 1999.
Roach, Brian,
Kevin Boyle, Stephen Reiling, and John Bergstrom.
"The Effect of Instream Flows on Whitewater Visitation
and Consumer Surplus." Rivers, vol.
7(1), 1999.
Roach, Brian
and Cathy Hamlett. "Dairy Farmers' Valuation
of Market Security Offered by Milk Marketing Cooperatives."
Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics
Association meeting at Manhattan, Kansas, August
1991.
Roach, Brian
and John Loomis. "Economic Analysis of Deer Management
Alternatives on Public Lands in Northern California."
Human Dimensions of Wildlife, vol. 1(2):14-23, Summer
1996.
Roach, Brian
and James Shortle. "A Diagrammatic Analysis of
Averting Expenditures." Paper presented at the
Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics
Association meeting at Turo, Nova Scotia, June
1990.
Roach, Brian,
Joan Trial, and Kevin Boyle. "Comparing 1994
Angler Catch and Harvest Rates from On-site and Mail
Surveys on Selected Maine Lakes." North American
Journal of Fisheries Management, vol. 19(1), February,
1999.
Roach, Brian and William Wade. "Policy Evaluation
Of Natural Resource Injuries Using Habitat Equivalency
Analysis." Paper presented at U.S. Society
for Ecological Economics meeting at Saratoga
Springs, NY, May 2003.
Roach, Brian
and Frank Ward. "A Comparison of Methods for
Estimating Recreation Demand Models with Collinear
Facilities." Paper presented at W-133 Western
Regional Resource Economics Conference, Tucson,
AZ, February, 1994.
Roach, Brian
and Frank Ward. "Ranking the Performance of Methods
for Estimating Recreation Demand Models with Collinear
Site Facilities." Paper presented at American
Agricultural Economics Association meeting at
San Diego, CA, August, 1994.
Smith, Cathy
A. and Brian A. Roach. "Dairy Farmer's Valuation
of Market Security Offered by Milk Marketing Cooperatives."
Journal of Cooperatives, vol. 10, 1995.
Ward, Frank
A., Brian A. Roach, and Jim Henderson. "Incremental
Values of Water in Recreation: Evidence from the California
Drought." Water Resources Research, vol. 32(4):1075-1081,
April 1996.
TECHNICAL
REPORTS
Abdalla, Charles
W., Donald J. Epp, and Brian A. Roach. "Valuing
Changes in Drinking Water Quality Using Averting Expenditures."
Final Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
under Cooperative Agreement No. CR-815412-01-0, February
1990.
Boyle, Kevin
J., Brian Roach, and Henry Hilton. "Maine Residents’
Opinions on Wildlife Management, Funding, and Policy
Issues". Department of Resource Economics and
Policy Staff Paper, REP 484, 1999.
Boyle, Kevin
J., Brian Roach, and David G. Waddington. "1996
Net Economic Values for Bass, Trout and Walleye Fishing,
Deer, Elk and Moose Hunting, and Wildlife Watching."
Addendum to the 1996 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting,
and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Report 96-2, August 1998.
Roach, Brian.
"A Travel Cost Analysis of Waterfowl Hunting
in the Central Valley of California." Final report
prepared for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento,
CA under contract number 1425-96-PG-20-08020, October
1996.
Roach, Brian.
"Application of the Boater Regional Recreation
Demand Model to Reservoir Sites in the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa
and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basins."
Final report prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, June
1996.
Roach, Brian
and John Loomis. "A Travel Cost Analysis of Angler
Benefits by Target Species Along Four California Rivers."
Final report prepared for Jones and Stokes, Associates,
Sacramento, CA, December 1995.
Roach, Brian.
"A Bioeconomic Analysis of Elk and Cattle Management
Alternatives within the San Pedro Parks Wilderness
Area, New Mexico." Final report prepared for
Forest Guardians, Santa Fe, NM, November 1995.
Roach, Brian
and John Loomis. "Economics Benefits, Costs,
and Regional Economic Effects of Deer and Livestock
Management in the East Lassen Deer Herd Management
Area." Final Report to the California Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection under Interagency
Agreement No. 8CA17257, March 1993.
Roach, Brian,
William W. Wade, Jason R. Plater, and Marvin Feldman.
“Forecasting Environmental and Social Externalities
Associated with OCS Oil and Gas Development: The Offshore
Environmental Cost Model, Volume 2: Determinants of
Environmental and Social Costs.” Final report
to the Minerals Management Service, OCS Study MMS-2001-018,
April 2001.
Ward, Frank
A., Brian A. Roach, John B. Loomis, Richard C. Ready,
and Jim Henderson. "Regional Recreation Demand
Models for Large Reservoirs: Database Development,
Model Estimation, and Management Applications."
Final report to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,Waterways
Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS under cooperative
agreement 91-COOP-1-6447, March 1995.
Ward, Frank
A. and Brian A. Roach. "Recreation Economic Benefits
Analysis for Missouri River Mainstream and Reservoir
Projects." Final report prepared for the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River Division,
Omaha, NE under cooperative agreement 91-COOP-1-6447,
January 1994.
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