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Barry D. Solomon
Department of
Social Sciences
Dr. Solomon spent over 10 years working in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and also taught at West Virginia University before coming to MTU in 1995. In fall 2008, he is on sabbatical leave with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, at its Center for Public Sector Research (CEFOS), where he is a collaborating on a major study on nuclear waste management. His main research interests are economic incentives for environmental protection, energy policy, air pollution, global climate change, and endangered species protection. He is the founder and past president of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, a cutting edge professional organization in the environmental policy field. Currently he is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of an interdisciplinary team to investigate the development of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass resources in the Upper Midwest. Other recent research projects have included "Novel Direct Steelmaking by Combining Microwave, Electric Arc & Exothermal Heating Technologies," with MTU's Institute of Materials Processing , supported by the DOE, and a project to establish an environmental compliance assistance center for the chemical industry (http://www.chemalliance.org/), supported by EPA. In addition, he has consulted for Isle Royale National Park and the National Geographic Society. In the Environmental Policy Program, Dr. Solomon teaches Environmental Policy and Politics, Environmental Policy Analysis, and Energy Technology and Policy.
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Recent Publications
Solomon, B.D. and Luzadis, V.A., eds. Renewable Energy From Forest Resources in the United States (Oxfordshire: Routledge), in preparation.
Ilija Ojeda, M., Mayer, A.S. and B.D. Solomon. Economic valuation of environmental services sustained by water flows in the Yaqui River delta. Ecological Economics, Vol. 65, No. 1 (March 15, 2008), pp. 155-66.
Heiman, M.K. and B.D. Solomon. Fueling U.S. transportation: The hydrogen economy and its alternatives. Environment, Vol. 49, No. 8 (October 2007), pp. 10-25.
Solomon, B.D., Barnes, J. and Halvorsen, K.E. Grain and cellulosic ethanol: History, economics, and energy policy. Biomass & Bioenergy, Vol. 31 (June 2007), pp. 416-25.
Solomon, B.D. Work and life of living legends in ecological economics: Robert Costanza. International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Vol. 7 (Winter 2007), pp. 96-99.
Solomon, B.D. and Banerjee, A., A global survey of hydrogen energy research, development and policy. Energy Policy, Vol. 34, (May 2006), pp. 781-92.
Barnes, J. and Solomon, B.D., Renewable energy development policies in the upper Midwest, in: Sustainable Energy and the States, D. Rahm, editor (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers, 2006), pp. 81-107.
Solomon, B.D., The size thing revisited: The optimal scale of the transdiscipline of ecological economics. International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Vol. 3, No. 4 (September 2005), pp. 1-20.
Mayumi, K., Solomon, B.D. and Chang, J., The ecological and consumption themes of the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Ecological Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1 (July 2005), pp. 1-7.
Solomon, B.D. Corey-Luse, C.M. and Halvorsen, K.E. The Florida manatee and eco-tourism: Toward a safe minimum standard. Ecological Economics , Vol. 50, Nos. 1/2 (September 2004), 101-15.
Solomon, B.D., Economic geography of energy, in: Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), Vol. 2, pp. 25-34.
Heiman, M.K. and B.D. Solomon. Power to the people: Electric utility restructuring and the commitment to renewable energy. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 94, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 94-116.
Awards
- EPA Bronze Medal for Commendable Service, 1993
- EPA Cash Awards for Sustained Superior Performance, 1990-94
- EPA Quality Achievement Award, 1991
- Best Article Award, Journal of Geography, National Council for Geographic Education, 1987-88
- National Student Award Runner-up, American Planning Association, 1982
- SPEA Fellowship, Indiana University, 1980-81
In the Community
- Vice President, Copper Country (MI) Audubon Society, 2001 - ; Board of Directors, 1996-2001
Consulting
- Professor Barry Solomon consulted to the National Geographic Society for its Atlas of the World, 8th edition (2005), and wrote the captions for the energy and minerals plates.
- Professor Barry Solomon and Katie Strong (M.S. 2005) consulted with the Isle Royale National Park and wrote the Socioeconomic Environment section of the Park’s Environmental Impact Statement for the Wilderness and Backcountry Management Plan (2005).
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