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College / Department

School of Business Administration
Department of Economics

Teaching areas

Microeconomics

Research areas

Environmental and Resource Economics, New Institutional Economics, Ecological Economics

Education

PhD, Cornell University, USA, 2014

Professional experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Bates College, Maine, USA, 2014-2015
Research Associate, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India, 2004-2007

Contact

alopes@aus.edu
+971 6 515 4691

Dr. Adrian Lopes

Assistant Professor
PhD in Economics, Cornell University, USA

Before coming to AUS, Adrian Lopes taught at the Economics Department at Bates College in the US. There he taught courses on microeconomics, environmental economics and resource economics—all of which are also among his research interests. Dr. Lopes was awarded the Joseph Fisher Fellowship from Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, for his PhD dissertation research. A native of India, he worked as a consultant in environmental and developmental policy at The Energy and Resources Institute in India prior to his academic career.

Publications

Lopes, Adrian. "Organized Crimes Against Nature: Elephants in Southern Africa." Natural Resource Modeling 28, no. 1 (February, 2015): 86-107. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JANUARY, 2015. ]
Lopes, Adrian. "Civil Unrest and the Poaching of Rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park, India." Ecological Economics 103, no. 1 (July, 2014): 20-28. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: APRIL, 2014. ]

Conference Presentations

Lopes, Adrian, Jon Conrad. "Poaching and the Dynamics of a Protected Species." Paper presented at the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Zurich, Switzerland, June 4, 2016.
Lopes, Adrian. "Organized Crimes Against Nature: Elephants in Southern Africa." Paper presented at the International Symposium on Sustainable and Legal Wildlife Trade. Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, UK, June 18-19, 2015.
Lopes, Adrian, Jon Conrad. "Poaching and the Protection of an Endangered Species: A Game-Theoretic Approach." Paper presented at the Allied Social Science Association Meetings, Philadelphia, January 4-5, 2014.
Lopes, Adrian, Jon Conrad. "Poaching and the Protection of an Endangered Species: A Game-Theoretic Approach." Paper presented at the Resource Modeling Association Meetings, Ithaca, July 2-3, 2013.
Lopes, Adrian, Jon Conrad. "Poaching and the Dynamics of a Protected Species." Paper presented at the International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 5-6, 2012.
Lopes, Adrian, Jon Conrad. "Poaching and the Dynamics of a Protected Species." Paper presented at the Annual Environment & Resource Economics Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, July 3-4, 2012.
Lopes, Adrian, Jon Conrad. "Poaching and the Dynamics of a Protected Species." Paper presented at the Adaptive Management Conference Series, Ithaca, New York, June 1-2, 2012.
Libecap, Gary, Adrian Lopes, Dean Lueck. "A Legacy of History: Land Demarcation and Agriculture in 19th Century California." Paper presented at the American Law and Economics Association Conference, Princeton University, April 3-4, 2010.
Libecap, Gary, Adrian Lopes, Dean Lueck. "A Legacy of History: Land Demarcation and Agriculture in 19th Century California." Paper presented at the Occasional Workshop on Environment & Resource Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2-3, 2009.
Ganguly, Anirban, Adrian Lopes. "Participatory Forest Management in India: benefit flows and equity." Paper presented at the International Society for Ecological Economics, New Delhi, May 3-4, 2006.

Awards and Honors

Joseph Fisher Fellowship for PhD Dissertation
Andrew Mellon Research Grant, Cornell University
Cornell University Graduate Research Grant
Richard Aplin Teaching Excellence Award, Cornell University
E. Ray Cowden Scholarship, University of Arizona

Other creative/research

Ganguly, Anirban, Adrian Lopes. "Participatory Forest Management in India: Benefit Flows and Equity." In Biodiversity conservation in India: Management practices, livelihood concerns and future options, edited by Bidhan Kanti Das, Ajit Banerjee,298. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 2013.

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