David Finnoff

David Finnoff was a 2023 PERC Lone Mountain fellow. He is interested in the interplay between humans and nature, how risk affects this interplay, and in working on projects that help inform policies aimed at this interface. In some of the work he has done with collaborators and graduate students, we have (1) developed models that link the general public’s preferences, ecological science, and management responses together in bioeconomic models that evaluate current and proposed policies for managing wildlife; (2) integrated economic/ecological models for optimal management of economic and ecological systems subject to the risk of nonindigenous species invasion; (3) integrated economic/ecological models for optimal management of native pests; (4) integrated economic/epidemiological models for management of infectious diseases in humans; and (5) integrated economic/ecological/epidemiological models for management of infectious diseases in wildlife.