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Economics

College of Business

Heidi J. Albers

Professor; Wyoming Excellence Chair in Conservation Economics

BU 289 W | Office Hours

307-766-5331 | jo.albers@uwyo.edu

Curriculum Vitae

About

Heidi J. Albers (Jo) is the Wyoming Excellence Chair in Conservation Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Wyoming. Jo’s research follows two strands: integrated spatial bio-economic models for optimal resource and conservation decisions and economic policy analysis at the intersection of biodiversity conservation and rural poverty. Methodologically, Jo’s research typically develops empirically-inspired spatial and temporal decision models that include characteristics of both the socioeconomic and ecological setting. Her international work includes recent and current research in Tanzania, Costa Rica, and Chile, with less recent research in China, Thailand, and India. This research includes her career-long emphasis on protected areas as a conservation tool, including both terrestrial and marine settings, and other topics such as integrating poverty-alleviation projects, their locations, and enforcement activities for better forest/land management and rural livelihoods; improving REDD implementation through appropriate incentives; spatial allocations of projects and management to improve marine protected area outcomes; and small-scale aquaculture adoption. Her current and recent domestic (and international) bio-economics research includes highly interdisciplinary spatial-dynamic analysis of: invasive species management in terrestrial and riparian systems; forest management in wildfire-prone landscapes; spatial economic analysis of landscape policies to conserve migratory species; and farm/landscape decision analysis with multiple ecosystem services (pollination, pest control). In collaboration with mathematicians, biologists, data analysts, and other economists, a primary thrust of Jo’s current work considers how people and economics can be incorporated into systematic conservation planning to generate more conservation benefits from landscapes. In addition, Jo acts as a mentor to women and other junior researchers in Wyoming and around the world.

Selected Publications

H. Jo Albers, P. David Campoverde, Bethany King, Stephen Newbold, Erin Sills, Lemiani Alais, Victoria Bugni, and Erica Mtenge. EfD “Public Good Projects in Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Maasai Women’s Valuation in Terms of Grain.”Discussion Paper 22-16. October, 2022.

H. Jo Albers, P. David Campoverde, Bethany King, Erin Sills, Lemiani Alais, Stephen Kirama, Victoria Bugni, Razack Lokina, and Erica Mtenge. EfD “Status and Perspectives of Maasai Women in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania” Discussion Paper. October, 2022

Heidi J. Albers and Madison F. Ashworth. “Economics of Marine Protected Areas: Assessing the Literature for MPA Network Expansions.” 2022. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 14 (1) 533-554.October. http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/IYWBGURWBBTHVNXPFUPE/full/10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-024652

H. Jo Albers, P. David Campoverde, Bethany King, Stephen Newbold, Erin Sills, Lemiani Alais, Victoria Bugni, and Erica Mtenge. “Public Good Projects in Ngorongoro Conservation Area – Maasai Women’s Valuation in Terms of Grain.” Efd. Discussion Paper 22-16. October, 2022.

H. Jo Albers, P. David Campoverde, Bethany King, Erin Sills, Lemiani Alais, Stephen Kirama, Victoria Kreinbrink, Razack Lokina, and Erica Mtenge.“Status and Perspectives of Maasai Women in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania” EfD Discussion Paper. October, 2022.

Heidi J. Albers.“Economic analysis to improve protected area network expansion and management: Using the Dasgupta Review as a foundation.” 2022. Environmental and Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00653-6

Heidi J. Albers and Madison F. Ashworth.“Economics of Marine Protected Areas: Assessing the Literature for MPA Network Expansions.” 2022. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 14 (1) 533-554. October. http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/IYWBGURWBBTHVNXPFUPE/full/10.1146/annurev-resource-111820-024652

Martin Drechsler, Heidi J. Albers, and Henrik G. Smith.“Editorial: Policies and Strategies for the Conservation of Metacommunities.” 2021. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Conservation and Restoration Ecology https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.817530/full

Heidi J. Albers, Marjorie Baquedano, Carlos Chávez, Jorge Dresdner, and Kelly Yubini.“Opportunities and challenges for small-scale aquaculture in southern Chile: The stakeholders’ perspective.” 2021. International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Resources. 48(3):259-287. https://scielo.conicyt.cl/pdf/ijanr/v48n3/2452-5731-ijanr-48-03-0259.pdf

Albers, Heidi J., Cisneros-Pineda, Alfredo, and Tschirhart, John.“Conservation actions in multi-species systems: Species interactions and dispersal costs.” 2021. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Conservation and Restoration Ecology (8) https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.707375

Heidi J. Albers, Madison Ashworth, Tabare Capitan, Roger Madrigal, Louis Preonas.“MPAs and Aspatial Policies in Artisanal Fisheries.” 2021. Marine Resource Economics 36(4). https://doi.org/10.1086/715818

Heidi J. Albers, Carlos Chavez, Jorge Dresdner, and Mauricio Leiva.“Promoting small-scale aquaculture in coastal Chile: The roles of user rights and location in activity choices and incomes.” 2021. Marine Resource Economics 36(4). https://doi.org/10.1086/715548

H. Jo Albers, Carlos Chavez, Jorge Dresdner, Yanina Figueroa, and Mauricio Leiva.“Low propensity to move and marine resource-based livelihood choices for coastal communities in southern Chile.” 2021. Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series 21-11.

Kyle G. Horton, Benjamin M. Van Doren, Heidi J. Albers, Andrew Farnsworth, Daniel Sheldon.“Near-term ecological forecasting for dynamic aerial conservation of migratory birds.” 2021. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13740

Heidi J. Albers, Stephanie Brockmann, and Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio.“Maintenance Costs, Price Uncertainty, and Abandonment in Shade-Grown Coffee Production: Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico.” 2021. Environment and Development Economics 26: 403-428.

Heidi J. Albers, Kailin Kroetz, Charles Sims, Amy Ando, David Finnoff, Richard D. Horan, Rongsong Liu, Erik Nelson, and Jerod Merkle. “Using the Characteristics of Seasonal Migratory Species To Inform Conservation Policy Analysis.” Paper 2 in Economics and Policy for Seasonal Migratory Species Conservation Symposium. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Forthcoming February 2023.

Marc N. Conte, Kristiana Hansen, Kyle Horton, Chian Jones Ritten, Leah H. Palm-Forster, Jason F. Shogren, Frank Wätzold, Teal Wyckoff, and Heidi J. Albers. “A Framework to Evaluate Mechanisms that Support Seasonal Migratory Species.”Paper 3 in Economics and Policy for Seasonal Migratory Species Conservation Symposium. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Forthcoming February 2023.

Heidi J Albers, Katherine D. Lee, Alejandra Martínez-Salinas, Arthur Middleton, Melanie Murphy, Stephen Newbold, Temple Stoellinger. “Ecological Characteristics of Seasonal Migratory Species: Understanding Threats and Policy Needs.”Paper 1 in Economics and Policy for Seasonal Migratory Species Conservation Symposium. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Forthcoming February 2023.

H.J. Albers.“Introduction to Economics and Policy for Seasonal Migratory Species Conservation Symposium.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Forthcoming February 2023.

Education

Ph.D. in Economics. University of California at Berkeley.

M.E.S. in Environmental Studies. Yale University.

B.S. in Geology and Economics. Duke University.