Brian Roach

Dr. Brian Roach is an environmental economist with over 20 years of experience as a teacher, researcher, and consultant. He is the Director of the Theory and Education Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, where he has worked since 2001.  At Tufts he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in several departments including Economics, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Sustainable Water Management, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a co-author on five college-level textbooks, most recently Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach (4^th edition, 2018, Routledge), Macroeconomics in Context (3^rd edition, 2019, Routledge) and Microeconomics in Context (4^th edition, 2019, Routledge). He has written on diverse policy topics including environmental valuation, oil spill policy, the role of corporations in the global economy, tax policy, and climate change.

Dr. Roach is also an adjunct instructor in the Sustainable International Development Master’s program at Brandeis University.  As a consultant, he has worked on numerous projects focused on the valuation of economic damages in legal cases, including loss of access to water resources, regulatory takings of business investments, and disputes over natural resources. He has also worked as a consultant for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other organizations.