Jacob Hochard

Dr. Jacob Hochard
Dr. Jacob Hochard
Economics
hochardj15@ecu.edu

Research Outputs

Publications

  • Barbier, E., and J. Hochard. “Land degradation and poverty.” Nature Sustainability 1, no. 11: 623. 2018.
  • Garg, T., S. Hamilton, J. Hochard, E. Kresch and J. Talbot. “(Not so) gently down the stream: River pollution and health in Indonesia”. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) 92 35-53. 2018.
  • Barbier, E. and J. Hochard. “The Impacts of Climate Change on the Poor in Disadvantaged Regions. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP) 12(1) 26-47. 2018.

Conferences

  • June 2018: World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Gothenburg)
  • May 2018: United Nations Development Programme (New York)
  • May 2018: US Environmental Protection Agency-Research Triangle Park (Raleigh) April 2018: Appalachian Experimental and Environmental Economics Workshop (Blowing Rock)
  • April 2018: Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop (Bergen)
  • April 2018: Bergen Economics of Energy and Environment Research Conference (Bergen)

 

Research Projects

  • Mangroves shelter economic activity from cyclones (with Edward Barbier and Stu Hamilton)
  • Poverty-Environment Traps (with Edward Barbier)
  • Beyond the Bonus: Reuniting and Adapting to Fragmented Habitat for Species Recovery (with Yuanhao Li, Jason Shogren and David Finnoff)
  • The Burden of Success: Who should manage species removed from the endangered species list? (with Charles Sims and David Aadland)
  • Anticipating Mother Nature: Uncertain Hurricane Forecasts Impair Birth Outcomes (with Yuanhao Li)

 

Awards

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID: Decision Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS). “Rural residents self-protections to perceived and actual contamination risk in private drinking wells after Hurricane Florence”, $179,223. 2018-2019. Lead-PI.
  • Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program. Integrating Human Health and Well-Being with Ecosystem Services. “Community-level Management of Human Health Risks from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) with Defensive Natural Capital Investments”, $399,226. 2017-2020. Lead-PI.

 

Prizes

  • 2018 ECU Residence Hall Associated Honored Instructor
  • 2018 Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Early Career Award
  • 2018 East Carolina University Coastal Scholar Award

 

Research Activities

  • Special issue guest editor (with J.B. Kruse), Flood risk and economics symposium, Southern Economic Journal, 2017-18.