Benjamin A. Jones, Ph.D. Regents' Lecturer & Associate Professor Graduate Director Department of Economics The University of New Mexico [email protected] Department page: https://tinyurl.com/bajecon |
I'm a Regents' Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Graduate Director of Economics at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and I have faculty affiliations at the University of Oklahoma (National Institute for Risk and Resilience), the UNM Water Resources Program, and the UNM Sustainability Studies Program.
I currently serve on the Editorial Council for the Journal of Environmental Economics & Management and I'm a committee member of the AERE Scholars Program. I'm also the lead author of "Energy Use in Bitcoin Mining: The Environmental Impact of Cryptocurrencies" from Routledge Press. I specialize in environmental and natural resource economics with a particular emphasis on the epidemiological and health dimensions of environmental economics. My research focuses on the economic connections between nature, human health, and well-being. I'm interested in understanding how changes in pollution exposures caused by shocks to ecosystem services impact human health and welfare and how such information can inform resource management and policy. I see this work as contributing to the broader interdisciplinary literature on environmental and ecosystem determinants of health and social welfare in coupled human and natural systems.
My work has been discussed by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press (AP), CBS News, The Guardian, and Popular Science magazine. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS [full list available here]:
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BBC World News interview on the environmental impacts of Bitcoin mining (May 13, 2021)
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