George Frisvold

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Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Institution The University of Arizona

Office Agriculture and Resource Economics Rm. 403E (Map)

George's Homepage

Email frisvold@ag.arizona.edu

Phone (520) 621-6269

George Frisvold is an investigator with the Institute of the Environment's Climate Assessment for the Southwest project (CLIMAS). He joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1997. He has been a visiting scholar at the National Institute of Rural Development in Hyderabad, India, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and chief of the Resource and Environmental Policy Branch of USDA's Economic Research Service.

His research interests include domestic and international environmental policy, as well as the causes and consequences of technological change in agriculture. In 1995-96, Dr. Frisvold served on the Senior staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers with responsibility for agricultural, natural resource, and international trade issues. Currently, he serves as co-editor of the Review of Agricultural Economics.