Prof. Dr. Brent Sohngen is a professor of environmental and resource economics in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at The Ohio State University (since 2006). He received his doctorate in environmental and resource economics from Yale University in 1996. Dr. Sohngen developed a global forest and land use model that has been widely used to assess the implications of climate change on ecosystems and markets and to assess the costs of carbon sequestration in forests. He has authored/co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 60 monographs and book chapters. He also co-authored sections of the 2001 and 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, and he co-authored the forestry chapter of the U.S. National Climate Assessment Report. His research interests include modeling land-use and land-cover change, economics of non-point source pollution, and valuing environmental change.
