Eli Fenichel

My research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. I am interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time.  This leads to a strong interest in feedbacks among humans, ecosystems, and the management of coupled ecological-economic processes. My research is applied in a wide variety of systems.

A primary focus of my research relates to valuing and accounting for natural capital. My work in this area spans the contexts of benefit-cost analysis and national accounting. I am particularly interested in how to develop scalable and replicable measurements. 

I also have a strong interest in how people respond to risk, especially from infectious diseases, and how those responses shape system dynamics.