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Environmental Science Faculty

Kerry Krutilla
Associate Professor

Ph.D., Duke University, 1988

Kerry Krutilla has been on the faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs since 1987. His current research focuses in the area of benefit-cost analysis and environmental policy, program evaluation of environmental programs, and natural resource management in developing countries. He has taught graduate courses in cost-benefit analysis, managerial economics, environmental economics, energy policy, and sustainable development, as well undergraduate classes in environmental economics and public finance. He was awarded the SPEA Graduate Teaching Award in 1996 for his course on Sustainable Development. He has consulted for a variety of government agencies and organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development; the U.S. Department of State; U.S. Department of Energy; the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture; the World Bank; and the (former) Harvard Institute for International Development.

Recent Publications
K. Krutilla, with Rene Aubourg and D. Good. (2008) "Debt, Democratization, and Development in Latin America: How Policy Can Affect Global Warming." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 27(1): 7-19.

K. Krutilla and R. Reuveny. (2006) “The Systems Dynamics of Endogenous Population Growth in a Renewable Resource-Based Growth Model," Ecological Economics 56: 256-267.

K. Krutilla, with Douglas Barnes and William F. Hyde. (2005) "The Urban Household Energy Transition: Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World." (Washington D.C: Resources for the Future Press).

K. Krutilla. (2005) "Using the Kaldor-Hicks Tableau Format for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Policy Evaluation." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 864-875.