J.E. ("Ed") de Steiguer
Dr. de Steiguer specializes in natural resource policy and planning on public lands. He has expertise in the use of economic and quantitative methods for the evaluation of natural resource projects and policies. His current research includes integrated watershed planning, meta-analysis of rangeland water yield experiments, analysis of global change policy and carbon emissions trading. His teaching includes courses in natural resource economics, planning and policy.
In the 1980's, Dr. Ed de Steiguer was active in the study of timber supply from public lands and also of public policies used to stimulate private timber supplies. During the 1990s, Dr. de Steiguer studied the impact of damaging agents on forests. This included the study of forest pest damage, acid precipitation and global climate change. Important studies during this period include the economic analysis of the impacts of southern pine beetle on commercial forests, of global climate change on timber supplies in the southeastern U.S., and of climate change impacts on coldwater recreation fisheries.
During more recent years, Dr. de Steiguer has been involved in the study of integrated watershed planning as well as a continuation of global change research. His primary focus has been on methods to improve public involvement in the watershed planning process. One method being explored for improving public participation is the multi-attribute decision method called the Analytic Hierarchy Process. He has also studied the social networks associated with watershed planning. Dr. de Steiguer also studied the costs and benefits of the Kyoto Protocol while serving as a Fellow in the Udall Center for Studies of Public Policy. Under a grant from NASA, he examined carbon offset trading on semi-arid rangelands. He has studied state-level climate change policies with a grant from the Institute for Study of Planet Earth. With support from the Water Resources Research Center, he is conducting a meta-analysis of rangeland water yield experiments. Dr. de Steiguer also headed-up a socio-economic assessment of the national forests located in Arizona.
Ed de Steiguer holds a Ph.D. in forestry economics and policy from Texas A&M University. He has authored more than 100 publications, 40 of which have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Climate Change, BioScience, Forest Science, the Journal of Forestry and the Southern Journal of Applied Forestry. In 2006, he published a book through the University of Arizona Press titled, The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought.
