Faculty in the Spotlight: Kevin Berry
Kevin joined ISER as an assistant professor of economics in January 2017, with a joint appointment in UAA's economics department. His research interests include natural capital, endogenous risk, dynamic optimization, social-ecological systems, bio-economic modeling, and applied econometrics. His research is focused on how people respond to environmental risk, including how they adapt (reduce the damages associated with) and mitigate (reduce the probability of) risk. Before coming to ISER he was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, working with Eli Fenichel to study how people adapt in response to infectious disease and make land-use decisions when faced with catastrophic risk. He has also studied human response to invasive species.
Kevin has published 5 articles in the past year including The Allocation of Time and Risk of Lyme: A Case of Ecosystem Service Income and Substitution Effects and The Role of Restoration in the Prevention of a Large-scale Native Species Loss: Case Study of the Invasive Emerald Ash Borer.