Zachary Brown
Associate Professor
Executive Committee, Genetic Engineering & Society Center
CEnREP Faculty Affiliate
Nelson Hall 4310
Zack Brown is an associate 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
- Biofuels policy and innovation impacts: Evidence from biofuels and agricultural patent indicators, ENERGY POLICY (2022)
- Distributional policy impacts, WTP-WTA disparities, and the Kaldor-Hicks tests in benefit-cost analysis, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (2022)
- Landscape-level feedbacks in the demand for transgenic pesticidal corn in the Philippines, ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS (2021)
- Coevolutionary Governance of Antibiotic and Pesticide Resistance, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2020)
- Crop rotation mitigates impacts of corn rootworm resistance to transgenic Bt corn, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2020)
- Does the U.S. public support using gene drives in agriculture? And what do they want to know?, Science Advances (2019)
- Economic principles and concepts in area-wide genetic pest management., The economics of integrated pest management of insects (2019)
- Governing evolution: A socioecological comparison of resistance management for insecticidal transgenic Bt crops among four countries, Ambio (2019)
- A roadmap for gene drives: using institutional analysis and development to frame research needs and governance in a systems context, Journal of Responsible Innovation (2018)
- An Introduction to the Proceedings of the Environmental Release of Engineered Pests: Building an International Governance Framework, BMC Proc (2018)
Publications
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Education
Ph.D. , Environmental and Resource Economics, Duke University (2011)
B.A., Mathematics-Economics, Lawrence University (2005)