David E. Ervin Professor of Environmental Studies and  Coordinator of Academic Sustainability Programs      Phone:    503.725.3935  Fax:         503.725.3945 Email:     ervin@pdx.edu

Background

Education

• B.S.   The Ohio State University
• M.S.   The Ohio State University
• Ph.D. Oregon State University

• Professor, Environmental Studies, and Coordinator of Academic Sustainability Programs, Portland State University, September, 1999 - present.
• Senior Policy Analyst, Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy, Winrock International, January, 2000 – June, 2002.
• Director, Policy Studies Program, The Henry A. Wallace Institute, Greenbelt, Maryland, July, 1996-December, 1999.
• Professor,  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, January, 1994 - July, 1996. (Visiting Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment, January, 1994 - September, 1995, on assignment from Oregon State University)
• Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, August, 1991 - January, 1994.
• Chief, Resource Policy Branch, Resources and Technology Division, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, DC, July, 1988 - July, 1991.

Teaching Fields

• Natural Resource Economics and Management
• Business Environment Management Economics
• Global Environmental Economics

Research Interests

• Agricultural Biotechnology and Environmental Management
• Business Environmental Sustainability
• Environmental Policy Reform
• International Trade and Environmental Management

Research Projects

• "Developing Design Tools for Estimating the Energy and Water Performance of Ecoroofs." The Ecoworks Foundation, Portland Office of Sustainable Development, and Gerding Edlen Development. 2006-2009.
• "Oregon Business Decisions for Environmental Performance." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2003-2007.
• “Public Goods and University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology.” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems. 2001-2006.
• www.agri-biotech.pdx.edu
• “Economic Measures of Mt. Hood National Forest Sustainability.” U.S. Forest Service. 2001-2002.
• “Motivations for Business Sustainability.” FatEarth. 2001.
• “Policy for Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment.” Kellogg Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1999-2000.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

• Ervin, D., J. Kahn and M. Livingston, eds. 2004.  “Does Environmental Policy Work: The Theory and Policy of Outcomes Assessment.” Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
• Brouwer, F. and D. Ervin, eds. 2002. “Public Concerns, Environmental Standards, and Agricultural Trade.” New York: CAB International.

• D. Ervin, S. Buccola, R. Welsh, L. Glenna, W. Lacy, K. Kim, E. Minor, K. Clancy, D. Biscotti, and W. Armbruster, “University-Industry Research Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology: Balancing Public and Private Goods” (forthcoming).
• D. Ervin, M. Khanna, P. Koss, J. Wu, C. Jones, T. Hall and C. Speir. “Business Environmental Management in Oregon: Motivations, Barriers and Policy Implications” (forthcoming).
• Welsh, R. and D. Ervin. 2006. "Precaution as an Approach to Technology Development: The case of transgenic crops." Science, Technology and Human Values. 31(2): 153-172.
• Ervin, D., R. Welsh, S. Batie, and C. Carpentier. 2003. "Towards an ecological systems approach in public research for environmental regulation of transgenic crops." Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 99. pp. 1-14.
• Batie, S. and D. Ervin. 2001. “Biotechnology and the Environment: Issues and Linkages.” Environment and Development Economics, 6. pp. 435-457.
• Ervin, D. and F. Casey. 2001. “Green Business Rising.” Choices, 3rd Quarter. pp. 34-37.
• Ervin, D. 1999. “Toward GATT-Proofing Environmental Programmes for Agriculture.” Journal of World Trade, 33(2), April. pp. 63-82.
• Batie, S. and D. Ervin. 1998. “Will Business-Led Environmental Initiatives Grow in Agriculture?” Choices, 4th Quarter. pp. 4-10.
• Fleming, R., R. Adams and D. Ervin. 1998. “The Role of Soil Test Information in Reducing Groundwater Pollution.” Journal of Agr. and Resource Economics, 23(1). pp. 20-38.

• Welsh, R., D. Ervin, B. Hubbell and M. Jahn. 2002. “GM Crops and the Pesticide Paradigm.” Nature Biotechnology 20(6). pp. 548-549.

• Ervin, D. and R. Welsh. 2006. “Environmental Effects of Genetically Modified Crops: Differentiated Risk Assessment and Management” in R.E. Just, J.M. Alston, and D. Zilberman, editors. Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy. New York: Springer Publishers.
• Ervin, D. and R. Welsh. 2005. “Environmental effects of genetically modified crops: A differentiated risk assessment model.” in Wesseler, Justus (ed.), Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops. Wageningen UR Frontis Series vol. 7, Springer, Dordrecht.
• Carpentier, C.L. D. Ervin, and S.Vaughan. 2004. "Multifunctionality and Trade Disciplines in North America" in Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Economy: Governance, Policy and Multifunctionality. F. Brouwer, editor. Edward Elgar.
• Ervin, D. and F. Casey 2002. “The Changing Economics of Agriculture and the Environment” in Challenging the Agricultural Economics Paradigm, Luther Tweeten, editor. Iowa State University Press, pp. 254-274.
• Brouwer, F. and D. Ervin. 2002. “Introduction” in Public Concerns, Environmental Standards, and Agricultural Trade.  2002. F. Brouwer and D. Ervin, editors, New York: CAB International: 1-10.
• Carpentier, C. L. and D. Ervin. 2002. “USA” in Public Concerns, Environmental Standards, and Agricultural Trade.  2002. F. Brouwer and D. Ervin, editors, New York: CAB International: 95-140.
• F. Brouwer and D. Ervin 2002. “Environmental and Human-health Standards influencing Competitiveness”  in Public Concerns, Environmental Standards, and Agricultural Trade.  2002. F. Brouwer and D. Ervin, editors, New York: CAB International: 255-284.
  
• Ervin, D. 2001. “Trade, Agriculture, and the Environment ” in International Environmental Economics, G. Schulze and H. Ursprung, ed’s. Oxford Press, pp. 84-113.
• Ervin, D. 2000. "Taking Stock of Methodologies to Assess the Environmental Effects of Liberalised Agricultural Trade” in Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalization Agreements. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris.
• Batie, S. and D. Ervin, 1999. "Flexible Incentives for Environmental Management in Agriculture: A Typology," in Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, F. Casey, S. Swinton, A. Schmitz, and D. Zilberman, ed's. Kluwer, pp. 55-78.
• Potter, C. and D. Ervin. 1999. "Freedom to Farm: Agricultural Policy Liberalization in the US and EU," in Agriculture and World Trade Liberalization: Socio-Economic Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy. M. Redclift, J.  Lekakis, and G. Zanias, eds.  Wallingford: CABI, pp.53-72.
• Crosson, P. and D. Ervin. 1999. "Effects of Environmental Programs on the Competitiveness of US Agriculture," in Agriculture and World Trade Liberalization: Socio-Economic Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy. M. Redclift, J.  Lekakis, and G. Zanias, eds.  Wallingford: CABI, pp.143-166.
• Ervin, D. and G. Fox. 1998. “Environmental Policy Considerations in the Grain-Livestock Subsectors in Canada, Mexico and the United States,” in Economic Harmonization in the Canadian/U.S./Mexican Grain-Livestock Subsector. R. Lyons, R. Knutson, and K. Meilke, eds. Guelph: U. Guelph, pp. 275-303.

• Ervin, D. 2006. “University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology Research.” Issue Report Seven, Chicago: Farm Foundation, December, 2006.
• Ervin, D. 2005. “Key Issues: Evaluation of Payments – Mid-term Evaluation of Rural Development Plans,’ in Evaluating Agri-Environmental Policies: Design, Practice and Results, OECD, pp. 101-102.
• Ervin, D. 2005. “An Analysis of the Trade Effects of Agri-Environmental Payments and Regulations on Arable Crops.” Chapter 7 Agriculture, Trade and the Environment: The Arable Crop Sector, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris.
• Ervin, D., T. Lomax, S. Buccola, K. Kim, E. Minor, H. Yang, L. Glenna, E. Jaegar, D. Biscotti, W. Armbruster, K. Clancy, W. Lacy, R. Welsh, and Y. Xia. 2003. "University-Industry Relationships: Framing the Issues for Academic Research in Agricultural Biotechnology." Report of Workshop, "University-Industry Relationships and the Public Good: Framing the Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology", November 19-20, 2002.
• Speir, J., M. A. Bowden, D. Ervin, J. McElfish, R.P. Espejo, T. Whitehouse and C.L. Carpentier. 2003. "Comparative Standards for Intensive Livestock Operations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States." Montreal: Commission on Environmental Cooperation, February.
• Carpentier, C. L. and D. Ervin. 2002. “Business Approaches to Agri-Environmental Management: Incentives, Constraints and Policy Issues.” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris.
• Ervin, D., S. Batie, C. L. Carpentier, J. Fern, N. Richman, M. Schulz, and R.Welsh. 2001. “Transgenic Crops: An Environmental Assessment.” Policy Studies Report, Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy, Winrock International, November.
• Brouwer, F., D. Baldock, C. L. Carpentier, J. Dwyer, D. Ervin, G. Fox, A. Meister, and R. Stringer. 2000. “Comparison of Environmental and Health-Related Standards Influencing the Relative Competitiveness of European Union Agriculture vis a vis Main Competitors in the World Market.” European Commission.
• Batie, S., D. Ervin, and M. Schulz, eds. 1998. “Business-led Initiatives in Environmental Management: The Next Generation of Policy?” Special Report 92, Department of Agricultural Economics. Michigan State University. pp. 1-16.

• Ervin, D. 1998. “Shaping a Smarter Environmental Policy for Farming.” Issues in Science and Technology, Summer. pp. 73-79.
• Ervin, D., W. Anthony, S. Batie, P. Faeth, E. Graffy, C. Runge, T. Penny, and T. Warman. 1998. “Agriculture and the Environment: A New Strategic Vision.” Environment, vol.40 (6), July/August. pp. 8-15, 35-40.

• Seminar “What Motivates Business Environmental Management: Sticks, Carrots, or Both.” Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Portland, Oregon, June 6, 2007.
• Six lectures on economics of sustainable development to the UNEP-Tongji University Masters Program in Environment and Sustainable Development, April 30-May 12, 2007.
• Seminar “Business Environmental Management in Oregon: Identifying Key Motivations and Barriers to Practice Use.” Workshop of Oregon Resource and Environmental Economists, Willamette University, December 15, 2006.
• Seminar "Factors Affecting Voluntary Business Environmental Management in Oregon." College of William and Mary, November 18, 2006.
• Elton R. Smith Distinguished Lecture Series. "What Motivates Business Environmental Management: Carrots or Sticks?" Michigan State University, November 16, 2006.
• Seminar "University-Industry Relationships in Research on Agricultural Biotechnology." Michigan State University, November 17, 2006.
• Special session organizer and presenter, “Public Goods and Private Goods from Agricultural Biotechnology Research: The Roles of University-Industry Relationships.” International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, Ravello, Italy, June 29-July2, 2006.
• Conference Director, “Public Goods and Private Goods from Agricultural Biotechnology Research: The Roles of University-Industry Relationships.” Wash., D.C., May 1, 2006.
• “Scientists’ research on agricultural biotechnology: the influence of industry support and other factors” at Public Goods and Private Goods from Agricultural Biotechnology Research: The Roles of University-Industry Relationships conference, Wash., D.C., May 1, 2006. with Steve Buccola and Hui Yang, Oregon State University.
• Expert reviewer, Environmental Performance Index Project, Yale University Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network, and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, October 27-28, 2005.
  
• “Green Business and Solid Waste Management.” Oregon Solid Waste Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 10, 2005.
• “Green Business Economics.” Hazardous Waste Summit, Portland, Oregon, October 13, 2005.
• “A Recapitulation of Natural Resource Economics, 1950-2000, and the Economics of Rural Areas, 1900-2000.” Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics Conference, Oregon State University, October 6, 2005.
• "Agriculture and the Environment: Production and Trade Linkages." U.S. Agency for International Development workshop, Washington DC, Friday, September 9, 2005.
• "Science and Commerce: University-Industry Relationships in Agricultural Biotechnology." Panel presentation, American Agricultural Economics Association meetings, Providence RI, Tuesday July 26, 2005.
• Yang, H., S.T. Buccola, D. Ervin, K. Kim, and E. Minor.  “University-Industry Relationships and the Biotechnology Research Agenda.”  Presentation delivered at the Conference on Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology, Economic Research Service and CSREES, USDA, October 14 - 15, 2004.
• “Oregon Business Decisions for Environmental Performance.” Corporate Environmental Behavior and the Effectiveness of Government Interventions. U.S. EPA conference, April 26-27, 2004.
• "University-Industry Relationships and the Public Good: Framing the Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology." 7th International Conference organized by the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR), " Public Goods and Public Policy for Agricultural Biotechnology." Ravello, Italy. July 1-3, 2003.
• "Environmental Effects of Genetically Modified Crops: A Differentiated Risk Assessment Model." Frontis Workshop, "Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops in Europe."  Wageningen, Netherlands. June 1-4, 2003.
• “Genetically Modified Crops and the Environment.” Portland State Weekend Seminar. October 26, 2002.
• “Sustainable Literacy: The Educational Challenge.” Ecotrust Series on Sustainability Now. Portland, Oregon, October 1, 2002.
• “Are Environmental Reviews Affecting Public Policy?” North American Conference on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalization. Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Montreal, Canada. January 17-18, 2002.
• “Economics and the Changing Structure of Agriculture: Adapting Technology to Meet Economic, Environmental and Social Needs.” Plenary presentation. Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop and Soil Science Society, and Soil Science Society of America. Charlotte, North Carolina. October 21-25, 2001.
• “Transgenic Crops and the Environment: The Economics of Precaution.” Invited Paper. Western Agricultural Economics Association. Logan, Utah. July 10, 2001.
• “Public Research for U.S. Biosafety Regulation of Transgenic Crops.” 5th International Conference organized by the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR), “Biotechnology, Science and Modern Agriculture: A New Industry at the Dawn of the Century.” Ravello, Italy. June 15-18, 2001.

Recent Awards

• Outstanding article, Choices. 1999 (S. Batie, co-author).
• President’s Citation, Soil and Water Conservation Society. 1995.

Consultations and Service

• Advisory Group on Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade, Commission on Environmental Cooperation
• Commission on Environmental Cooperation
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

For more information, contact ervin@pdx.edu