Steven Dundas is an environmental and resource economist with a research and teaching focus on non-market valuation and coastal and marine ecosystem services. He joined the Applied Economics and Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station faculty at Oregon State University in 2015 and received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in Economics. Steve’s research work is motivated by aims to provide policy-relevant analysis to help understand the value of ecosystem services, the effects of climate change on economic outcomes, and the efficacy of environmental regulations. His research is published in peer-reviewed outlets such as the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Conservation Letters and has been funded by NOAA, the National Science Foundation, the US Forest Service and Oregon Sea Grant. He also serves as an Associate Editor at Marine Resource Economics and on the Science Panel for the Puget Sound Partnership.
Steve currently advises graduate students in Applied Economics and the Marine Resource Management programs and mentors undergraduate students in the Environmental Economics and Policy major.
For more information, please visit Steve’s website.
Steven Dundas
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Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics
CURRENT GRANTS
Estimating the Economic Value of Wildfire Impacts on Ecosystem Services in Watersheds
US Forest Service, 2023 - 2026
Equity in Water Information for Community Capacity Building
National Science Foundation, 2024 - 2025
The Cascadia Coastlines and People Hazards Research Hub.
National Science Foundation, 2021 - 2026
Using ESLR-funded Datasets and Tools to Evaluate Alternative Backshore Management Options along US Pacific Northwest Coastlines.
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, 2023 – 2025.
RESEARCH
Steve's Google Scholar
Recent Publications
How Tourist Escaping the Heat May Drive Future Increases in Municipal Water Demand in Oregon Coastal Communities - Discover Water (2024)
Barriers to Coastal Managed Retreat: Evidence from New Jersey’s Blue Acres Program - Marine Resource Economics (2024)
The Instagram Effect: Is Social Media Influencing Visitation to Public Land? Land Economics (2024)
Recreational Cannabis Dispensary Access Effects on Prescription Opioid Use and Mortality - Regional Science and Urban Economics (2024)
The Effects of a Voluntary Property Buyout and Acquisition Program on Coastal Housing Markets: Evidence from New York - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2023)
Quality over Quantity: Non-market Values of Restoring Coastal Dunes in the US Pacific Northwest. Land Economics - (2023)
Estimating the Value of Threatened Species Abundance Dynamics. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2022)
Hold the Line: Modeling Private Coastal Adaptation through Shoreline Armoring Decisions - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2021)
Fall in the Sea, Eventually? A Green Paradox in Climate Adaptation for Coastal Housing Markets - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2020)
Integrating oceans into climate policy: Any green new deal needs a splash of blue - Conservation Letters (2020)
Estimating Option Values and Spillover Damages for Coastal Protection: Evidence from Oregon's Planning Goal 18 - Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2020)
The Effects of Weather on Recreational Fishing Demand and Adaptation: Implications for a Changing Climate. - Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2020)
IN THE NEWS
Two recent research articles (climate impacts on recreation, coastal armoring decisions) cited in the chapter on economic risk of climate change in the 2023 Economic Report of the President
Podcasts & Radio Interviews
Should a lack of snow become its own economic disaster? Interlochen Public Radio (December 2024).
Does Instagram lead to overcrowding in Oregon Parks? Peak Northwest podcast (December 2023)
The ecological restoration project that exceeded expectations. Jefferson Public Radio (January 2022)
The economics governing coastal armoring trends. American Shoreline Podcast (January 2021)
Recent Newspaper/Magazine Articles
Study finds lower opioid prescription rates in areas with cannabis dispensaries nearby. High Times, June 2024.
How much can we blame Instagram for overcrowding in Oregon Parks? The Oregonian, October 2023.
Is ocean policy key to solving climate change? The Regulatory Review, August 2023.
Neighbors influence coastal landowners’ decisions to armor shorelines against erosion, rising seas. ScienceBlog, January 2021.
This is how oceans can be used to help fight climate change. The World Economic Forum, June 2020.
Climate change may make some days too darned hot to fish off the Southeast coast. The Charlotte Observer, October 2019.
Research puts economic value on endangered species. Farm Progress, September 2019.