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If you want to fight for the environment, don't hug a tree; hug an economist!    - David Pearce

In a world of fast population growth and industrialization, economists have developed effective policies to incentivize efficient use of scarce natural resources and reduce environmental damage. The mission of the Department of Environmental Economics and Management is to provide academic training in economics and management with specialization in the areas of environmental, agricultural and natural resource economics. Our program trains applied economists with broad understanding and expertise in the management of systems connected to the natural, life and environmental sciences. Graduates of the department are professionals in a wide variety of occupations and positions in both the private and public sectors, including firms in the capital market, governmental agencies, research centers, consulting companies and academic institutes.

  • About

    The Department offers a high level, flexible, and practically oriented teaching program, integrating the disciplines of economics, business administration, and environmental, agricultural and natural resource economics, at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. Since 1937, the department established a long history and tradition of excellence, and is considered among the world leaders in its field.The Department's faculty members have earned their academic education at leading universities worldwide (e.g., Berkley, Chicago, Minnesota, Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

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    Their scientific research spans a wide range of topics:

    • theories in micro- and macro-economics
    • statistical and econometric methods
    • experimental and behavioral economics
    • political economics
    • marketing and finance
    • environmental and agricultural policies
    • economic development
    • natural resource management
    • agribusiness
    • agri-tourism
    • regional economics
    • and environmental valuation

     

     

    מחלקתנו היא המסגרת האוניברסיטאית היחידה בארץ העוסקת בהוראה ומחקר בכלכלה חקלאית ותחומים נלווים.

    ההוראה נעשית במסגרת החוג לכלכלת סביבה וניהול. הזרוע המחקרית של המחלקה הוא המרכז למחקר בכלכלה חקלאית.

    תחומי המחקר וההוראה במחלקה לכלכלת סביבה וניהול כוללים: 

    כלכלה כללית ויישומית; כלכלת המגזר הכפרי, כולל מלונאות ותיירות כפרית; מדיניות חקלאית בישראל ובמדינות אחרות; כלכלה וחקלאות במדינות מתפתחות; פריון הייצור החקלאי במדינות מפותחות; שיווק מוצרי מזון וחקלאות; כלכלת משאבי טבע; כלכלת סביבה; כלכלת משק המים; כלכלת קואופרטיבים; רפורמות חקלאיות במדינות סוציאליסטיות לשעבר; כלכלה ציבורית ומדינית; כלכלת המשפחה הכפרית ומימון הפירמה ושוק ההון. 

    המחלקה מכשירה כלכלנים ואנשי מנהל ברמות בוגר, מוסמך ודוקטור. תלמידי המחלקה זוכים במלגות וחלקם גם מועסקים בעזרה בהוראה ובמחקר. בוגרי המחלקה ומוסמכיה נמצאים בעמדות-מפתח במגזר החקלאי, בחברות תעשייתיות ומסחריות, בבנקים וחברות השקעה, ובמשרדי-ייעוץ פרטיים ובמשרדי הממשלה.

    צעדיה הראשונים של המחלקה לכלכלה חקלאית ומנהל בפקולטה לחקלאות

     

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  • Research

    The Department provides optimal facilities and conditions for research students, including study rooms, computers and data analyzing servers, access to literature and information databases, and a laboratory for conducting behavioral choice experiments. Researchers provide scholarships based on research grants, and students regularly occupied as teaching assistances.

    Below is a list of the main disciplines studied by the Department's members.

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    Environmental economics – Pollution as a side effect of economic activities is external to the considerations of agents in their production and consumption decisions, which therefore calls for governmental intervention policies. Research on this subject includes valuation of ecosystem services and health damage; spatial analyses of waste management; economic viability of biological pest control; optimal means for preserving biodiversity; and water reclamation and ruse and environmental regulations.

    Faculty Involved: Ebenstein, Finkelshtain, Fleischer, Kan, Kimhi, Tsur

     

    Natural resource economics – While renewable resources as water, wildlife and forests can be managed in a sustainable manner, optimal extraction of non-renewable resources such as oil and heavy metal deposits needs careful design of extraction across space and a long time. Researchers in the Department develop conceptual and empirical models for optimal management in the water, waste and energy sectors; estimate demand and supply of natural commodities and inputs; and assess the lobbying power of interest groups in relation to resource regulations.

    Faculty Involved: Bar-Shira, Finkelshtain, Kan, Raveh, Simhon, Tsur

     

    Agricultural economics – The impacts of market structure, trade policies, production technologies, and consumption behavior on the agricultural sector are immense. Studies in this field encompass examination of rural communities; agricultural effects of climate change; estimating market power of food processor, wholesalers and retailers, marketing methods of agricultural products; measurements of technological change; and perception of risk in food consumption.

    Faculty Involved: Bar-Shira, Ert, Finkelshtain, Fleischer, Heiman, Kan, Simhon

     

    Risk and decision-making under uncertainty – Uncertainty is incorporated in any economic decision with respect to both production and consumption. Research in this topic includes estimation of risk aversion and moral hazard; insurance mechanisms in agricultural systems; hazards associated with extraction of natural resources; social effects of risk perception and risk taking; experiential learning; risk-reducing marketing tools.

    Faculty Involved: Bar-Shira, Ert, Finkelshtain, Heiman, Tsur

     

    Macroeconomics and development – This discipline refers to an economy as a unit, and attempts to assess its performance based on indicators such as national income, unemployment, inflation, savings, investments, international trade, income distribution, etc. Examples of studies in this area include the assessment of links between inequality and growth; inflation and price variability; globalization effects on labor markets in developing countries; impacts of natural resource discovery in federal regimes; decomposition of inequality indices.   

    Faculty Involved: Ebenstein, Kimhi, Raveh, Simhon

     

    Tourism management and sharing economy – With more than 300 million jobs, the travels and tourism sector accounts for about 10% of the world GDP, where the part of the sharing-economy continuously grows. Scholars in the Department explore trust and reputation in the sharing economy; the link between agriculture, tourism and the optimal size for rural tourism villages; price premium in the online hotel market; measures of the recreational value of agricultural landscape.

    Faculty Involved: Ert, Finkelshtain, Fleischer

     

     

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