Trudy Ann Cameron

PLC 430; 541-346-1242; cameron@uoregon.edu

Curriculum Vita (comprehensive): PDF

Abstracts of Research Papers

"Mikesell Lab" Activities

Biographical Information

Trudy Ann Cameron is the Raymond F. Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics. She received her B.A. (Honours) in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1977, and her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1982. In addition to her academic appointment, she remains engaged in policy advising by serving as the chair of the U.S. EPA's Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and as a member of the Executive Committee of the EPA's Science Advisory Board. (The Council is a committee of the Agency's Science Advisory Board that monitors the EPA's congressionally mandated benefit-cost analysis of the Clean Air Act.) Professor Cameron is currently President-Elect of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics. She has also served, in past years, as a member of the Board of Directors and as Vice-President of the organization. She has also been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. She joined the UO faculty in 2001. She was previously a Professor of Economics at UCLA.

Research Interests

Professor Cameron has research interests in the valuation of non-market goods--in particular, the empirical measurement of the social benefits of environmental regulations and policies. Her research focuses on empirical methodologies to improve the quality of stated preference demand information, both through appropriate survey design and suitable econometric models. Some of her recent research, on the demand for measures to reduce climate change, has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Another major ongoing project (with Professor J.R. DeShazo of UCLA) uses funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada to investigate individuals' willingness to pay to reduce environmental risks to human life and health.

Teaching

Professor Cameron teaches environmental economics and econometrics at the graduate level, as well as environmental and resource economics at the undergraduate level. She also teaches a special course in the principles of microeconomics (Economics 233) that is tailored for environmental studies majors. This course is designed to impart basic economic literacy. It encourages environmental advocates to examine society's choices in the face of scarcity, and to consider how these choices both reflect and affect the earth's resources and our environment. Recent syllabi and some course materials may be accessed as follows:
- Economics 607 (Environmental Economics seminar)
- Economics 425/525 (Econometrics)
- Economics 433/533 (Environment and Resource Economics)
- Economics 333 (Resource and Environmental Issues)
- Economics 233 (Microeconomic Principles and the Environment)