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John Whitehead is a professor and department chair in the Department of Economics at Appalachian State University, arriving in Boone in 2004. He received his PhD from the University of Kentucky in 1990 and has worked at East Carolina University (12 years) and UNC-Wilmington (3 years). In addition to two sections of economics principles each semester, he has taught benefit-cost analysis, environmental economics, international economics and senior seminar while at AppState. John's research interests include finding better ways to attach monetary values to environmental and natural resources for use in benefit-cost analyses (e.g., sea-level rise, recreational fishing). He is an Associate Editor at Marine Resource Economics and formerly on the editorial council of JEEM. He is a member of the SSC of the SAFMC and the past-president of the Socioeconomics Section of the AFS. Previously he served on the Board of Directors of AERE and as the AERE webmaster. He has been blogging at Environmental Economics since 2005 and is a member of the The Energy Collective Advisory Blogger Board. He has received the 2008 Distinguished Economist Award by the Kentucky Economic Association, the 2007 Excellence in Research Award from the Walker College of Business, two Great Blue Heron awards and, perhaps most importantly, he was elected "Player with the Best Attitude" in the Noon-Time Faculty-Staff Basketball Game.

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