Zachary Brown
Assistant Professor
Executive Committee, Genetic Engineering & Society Center
CEnREP Faculty Affiliate
Nelson Hall 4310
Zack Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and also part of the NCSU faculty cluster in the Genetic Engineering & Society Center. He earned his PhD from Duke University and his BA from Lawrence University. His research and teaching broadly revolve around the field of bioeconomics, analyzing the dynamic interactions between human behavior and complex environmental and ecological systems, using experimental methods, observational data, mathematical models and theory. His current and previous pursuits include researching the effects of alternative economic incentives and policies for managing pesticide resistance in agricultural systems, public perceptions and consumers’ willingness to pay for food products using new genetic engineering technologies, the economics of controlling vector-borne diseases such as malaria, as well as economic evaluations of more efficient household cookstoves for reducing air pollution and deforestation.
Publications
- An Introduction to the Proceedings of the Environmental Release of Engineered Pests: Building an International Governance Framework, {BMC} Proceedings (2018)
- Antibiotic and pesticide susceptibility and the Anthropocene operating space, Nature Sustainability (2018)
- EPA Scientific Advisory Panel 2018 Meeting Report on Resistance to Lepidopteran Pests to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Plant Incorporated Protectants (PIPs) in The United States (2018)
- Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Supply and Demand for Cooking in Northern Ghana, {EcoHealth} (2018)
- Prices, peers, and perceptions (P3): study protocol for improved biomass cookstove project in northern Ghana, {BMC} Public Health (2018)
- Voluntary Programs To Encourage Refuges for Pesticide Resistance Management: Lessons from a Quasi-Experiment, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2018)
- Wicked evolution: Can we address the sociobiological dilemma of pesticide resistance?, Science (2018)
- A roadmap for gene drives: using institutional analysis and development to frame research needs and governance in a systems context, Journal of Responsible Innovation (2017)
- Economic issues to consider for gene drives, Journal of Responsible Innovation (2017)
- Preference Heterogeneity in the Structural Estimation of Efficient Pigovian Incentives for Insecticide Spraying to Reduce Malaria, Environmental and Resource Economics (2017)
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Education
Ph.D. , Environmental and Resource Economics, Duke University (2011)
B.A., Mathematics-Economics, Lawrence University (2005)