G. Cornelis (Kees) van Kooten, PhD, FRSC

Associate Professor of Business
I am a Christian economist who is drawn to the application of simple economic theory to real world problems, particularly those in the fields of agriculture, forestry, climate and energy. I find it intriguing to discover the unanticipated consequences of proposed public policies, particularly ones that, despite good intentions, harm the most vulnerable people in society.

G. Cornelis van Kooten has more than 35 years of experience in natural resource economics, including agricultural and forest economics, land-use management, mathematical programming, and, most recently, the economics of renewable energy and climate. Dr. van Kooten's interests range from agricultural and forest economics to development economics and computational economics. He has published more than 230 peer-reviewed journal articles and 55 book chapters; He is the author or co-author of eight books on natural resource economics, and a co-editor of four books. His book with Erwin H. Bulte entitled The Economics of Nature (Blackwell, 2000) is considered a classic reference for researchers in the field of wildlife and public land economics, and his 1995 paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics on the uptake of carbon in forest ecosystems is the standard reference in the field of terrestrial carbon offsets.

Dr. van Kooten has been a consultant to various governments and government agencies, the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union, and a variety of non-governmental organizations, including the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the WWF. His numerous graduate students have gone on to work in the private sector, academia and government. He earned the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society’s Publication of Enduring Quality Award in 2011; in 2014, he won the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Research Excellence Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2023) and a Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (2012).

  • PhD - Agricultural & Resource Economics (Oregon State University; 1982)
  • MA - Economics (University of Alberta; 1974)
  • BSc (with distinction) - Physics (University of Alberta; 1972)

Expertise

Agricultural economics and policy, Forest economics, Climate change economics and carbon offsets, Mathematical economics and mathematical programming, Mathematical modeling, Philosophy of science

See attached Curriculum Vitae
Also see: https://www.vkooten.net/

Awards & Honors

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (September 2023)
  • Winner of the Faculty of Social Sciences Research Excellence Award (2014)
  • Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES) (July 2012)
  • Publication of Enduring Quality Award, CAES (July 2011)
  • Mansholt Sabbatical Fellowship, Wageningen Agricultural University (1995–1996)
  • CAEFMS Outstanding Journal Article Honorable Mention (with John Spriggs) (1991)
  • CAEFMS Outstanding Journal Article Award (1989)

Recent Publications

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=9...

Selected Books (Total 12):

  • Schmitz, A, C Moss, T Schmitz, GC van Kooten & C Schmitz, 2022. Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness and Rent Seeking Behavior. 3rd edition. Toronto, ON: UofT Press.
  • van Kooten, GC, 2021. Applied Welfare Economics, Trade and Agricultural Policy Analysis. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  • van Kooten, GC & L Voss (editors), 2021. International Trade in Forest Products: Lumber Trade Disputes, Models and Examples. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.
  • van Kooten, GC, 2013. Climate Change, Climate Science and Economics: Prospects for a Renewable Energy Future. Dordrecht, NL: Springer.
  • van Kooten, GC & H Folmer, 2004. Land and Forest Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
  • van Kooten, GC & EH Bulte, 2000. The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
  • van Kooten, GC, 1993. Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development: Economic Policies and the Common Good. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Selected articles (Total 240):

  • van Kooten, G.C., 2023. Determining Optimal Forest Rotation Ages and Carbon Offset Credits: Accounting for Post-Harvest Carbon Storehouses, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(2): 255-272
  • Liu, X, GC van Kooten, EM. Gerbrandt & J Duan, 2023. Prospects for Weather-Indexed Insurance for Blueberry Growers, Agricultural Finance Review 83(2): 333-351.
  • Russell, AR, GC van Kooten, JG Izett & ME Eiswerth, 2021. Damage Functions and the Social Cost of Carbon: Addressing Uncertainty in Estimating the Economic Consequences of Mitigating Climate Change, Environmental Management DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01608-9.
  • van Kooten, GC & A Schmitz, 2022. COVID-19 Impacts on U.S. Lumber Markets, Forest Policy and Economics 135: 102665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102665.
  • van Kooten, GC, P Withey & CMT Johnston, 2021. Climate Urgency and the Timing of Carbon Fluxes, Biomass and Bioenergy 151: 106162.

Affiliations & Memberships

  • Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
  • Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES)
  • Western Association of Forest Economists
  • European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-Canada)
  • Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA)

  • BUSI 301 Managerial Economics
  • ECON 301 Managerial Economics
  • MBA 525 Managerial Economics