Research Interests

·        Ecological (or biophysical) economics analysis of human dominated ecosystems

·        Monetary and non-monetary valuations of nature’s service to human economy

·         Stakeholder analysis

·         Coastal management

·         Resource and waste management

·         Environmental and energy policy

·         Sustainable development
 

Academic Background

• PhD State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), Syracuse, New York, May 2000.

• M.A., Syracuse University; Syracuse, New York, 1994.

• M.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, 1987.

• B.A., Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, 1983.

Teaching

·         Coastal and Ocean Resources

·         Environmental Policy

·         Sustainable Development

·         Ecological Economics
 

Selected Publications

Ko, J.-Y. 2006. An explanation for South Korean experience in economic development. . In Charles A. S. Hall and Gregorie Leclerc (Eds.). Making World Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic Theory.  University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico (In Press).

Hall, C. A. S. and J.-Y. Ko. 2005. The myth of efficiency through market economics: a biophysical analysis of tropical economies, especially with respect to energy, forest and water. pp. 40-58. In M. Bonell and L.A. Bruijnzeel (Eds.). Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics: Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land and Water Management. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK. 944 pp.

Ko, J.-Y., and J. W. Day.2004. A review of ecological impacts of oil and gas development on coastal ecosystems in the Mississippi Delta. Ocean and Coastal Management 47: 597-623.

Ko, J.-Y., and J. W. Day.2004. Impacts of energy development in wetlands: the Mississippi delta. Encyclopedia of Energy (Editor-in-Chief: Cutler Cleveland). Elsevier. Vol. 6: 397-408.

Ko, J.-Y., et al. 2004. A comparative evaluation of money-based and energy-based cost-benefit analyses of tertiary municipal wastewater treatment using forested wetlands vs. sand filtration in Louisiana. Ecological Economics 49 (3):331-347.

28. Day, J. W., J.-Y. Ko, et al. 2004. The use of wetlands in the Mississippi Delta for wastewater assimilation: a review. Ocean and Coastal Management 47 (11/12):671-691.
 

Jae-Young Ko, PhD

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Marine Sciences

Texas A&M University at Galveston

koj@tamug.edu  

Phone: (409)740-4919  

Fax: (409)740-4787