Andrew Plantinga
Position
Title
Principal Investigator. Professor of Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Research Interests
Andrew Plantinga’s research focuses on the economics of land use, climate change, and forests. Particular emphasis is given to the development of methods for econometrically modeling land-use decisions, the analysis of environmental policies that affect private land-use decisions, and the modeling of land development pressures. A current project, funded by the National Science Foundation, analyzes how risk salience affects decisions by public land management agencies to allocate wildfire management projects.