Publications related to EfD by Alemu Mekonnen
Alemu Mekonnen is currently the center
director of the EfD center in Ethiopia/EEPFE and an assistant professor of
economics at the School of Economics of Addis Ababa University. He has
taught various subjects in economics for over two decades including natural
resource and environmental economics at undergraduate and graduate levels. His
research interests are on economic development and the environment. His work so
far has focused on forestry, energy, climate change, and poverty and the
environment. Methodologically he has a focus on non-market valuation techniques
and (agricultural) household models. Particular areas of focus on Ethiopia so
far include contingent valuation of community forestry, agricultural household
models applied in the context of energy, choice modeling related to health and
water, rural households’ tree growing behavior, impacts of biofuel expansion
and climate change on the economy, and poverty and the environment. He completed his PhD in the Department of Economics at Göteborg University. The title of his dissertation was "Rural energy and afforestation: Case studies from Ethiopia".
Expertise/Research area:
- Environmental valuation such as contingent valuation and choice experiment in Ethiopia, Agricultural household models applied to issues of energy and forestry in Ethiopia,
- Climate Change,
- Household behavior in general.
Peer reviewed
- Low-income fishermen's willingness-to-pay for fisheries and watershed management: An application of choice experiment to Lake Tana, Ethiopia Agimass, Fitalew and Alemu Mekonnen, 2011, "Low-income fishermen's willingness-to-pay for fisheries and watershed management: An application of choice experiment to Lake Tana, Ethiopia" Ecological Economics, 71:162-170 doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.08.025
- Urban Energy Transition and Technology Adoption: The Case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, and Gunnar Kohlin, 2010, "Urban Energy Transition and Technology Adoption: the Case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia",Energy Economics (2011), doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2011.07.017 (forthcoming)
- Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in Northern Ethiopia Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, Berhanu Gebremedhin and Alemu Mekonnen, 2011, "Institutions, sustainable land use and consumer welfare: The case of forest and grazing lands in Northern Ethiopia" Environment and Development Economics, 17(1): 21-40, doi:10.1017/S1355770X11000349
- Climate Change Policy in Africa with Special Reference to Energy and Land Use Köhlin, Gunnar, Alemu Mekonnen, and Lisa Westholm, 2010, “Climate Change Policy in Africa with Special Reference to Energy and Land Use”, Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 3(1), 63-76.
- Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock Andersson, Camilla, Alemu Mekonnen, and Jesper Stage, 2011, "Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on livestock and tree holdings of rural households", Journal of Development Economics 94 (1): 119 - 126.
- Tenure Security, Resource Endowments, and Tree Growing: Evidence from the Amhara Region of Ethiopia Mekonnen, Alemu (2009) "Tenure Security, Resource Endowments, and Tree Growing: Evidence from the Amhara Region of Ethiopia" Land Economics, Volume 85, Number 2, May 2009, pages 292-307.
- Valuation of community forestry in Ethiopia: a contingent valuation study of rural households Mekonnen, A. 2000. "Valuation of Community Forestry in Ethiopia: a Contingent Valuation Study of Rural Households". Environment and Development Economics 5(3): 289-308.
- Rural Household Biomass Fuel Production and Consumption in Ethiopia: A Case Study Mekonnen, A. 1999. "Rural Household Biomass Fuel Production and Consumption in Ethiopia: A Case Study". Journal of Forest Economics 5(1): 69-97.
EfD Discussion Papers
- Urban Energy Transition and Technology Adoption: The Case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, and Gunnar Kohlin (2010), Urban Energy Transition and Technology Adoption: the Case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia, EfD Discussion Paper 10-22, Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative and Resources For the Future (RFF), Washington DC, October 2010.
- Climate Change and the Ethiopian Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis Gebreegziabher Zenebe, Stage Jesper, Mekonnen Alemu, and Atlaw Alemu, 2011, “Climate Change and the Ethiopian Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis”. Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series, EfD DP 11-09.
- Coping with Fuelwood scarcity: Household responses in rural Ethiopia Damte, Abebe, Steven F. Koch and Alemu Mekonnen, 2012, "Coping with fuelwood scarcity: Household responses in rural Ethiopia", Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series January 2012, EfD DP 12-01.
- Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Urban Waste Management in Mekelle City, Ethiopia Hagos Dagnew, Alemu Mekonnen, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, 2012, "Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Urban Waste Management in Mekelle City, Ethiopia",Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series January 2012, EfD DP 12-06.
- Investments in Land Conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Household Plot-Level Analysis of the Roles of Poverty, Tenure Security, and Market Incentives Genanew Bekele and Alemu Mekonnen (2010), ”Investments in Land Conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Household Plot-Level Analysis of the Roles of Poverty, Tenure Security, and Market Incentives”, EfD Discussion Paper 10-09, Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future, Washington DC, March 2010.
- Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants Gebreegziabher, Zenebe, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, and Gunnar Köhlin (2010), "Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants", EfD Discussion Paper 10-01, Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future, Washington DC, January 2010.
- Is There a Link between Common Property Forest Management and Private Tree Growing? Evidence of Behavioral Effects from Highland Ethiopia Alemu Mekonnen and Randall Bluffstone, 2008, "Is There a Link Between Common Property Forest Management and Private Tree Growing? Evidence of Behavioral Effects from Highland Ethiopia" EfD Discussion Paper 08-29, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. October 2008.
- Private Trees as Household Assets and Determinants of Tree-Growing Behavior in Rural Ethiopia Mekonnen Alemu and Damte Abebe, 2011, “Private Trees as Household Assets and Determinants of Tree-Growing Behavior in Rural Ethiopia”. Environment for Development Discussion Paper Series, EfD DP 11-14.
- Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on Livestock and Tree Holdings of Rural Households Camilla Andersson, Alemu Mekonnen, and Jesper Stage, 2009, "Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia on Livestock and Tree Holdings of Rural Households", EfD Discussion Paper 09-05, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. Mars 2009.
- Biomass Fuel Consumption and Dung Use as Manure: Evidence from Rural Households in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia Alemu Mekonnen, and Gunnar Köhlin, "Biomass Fuel Consumption and Dung Use as Manure: Evidence from Rural Households in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia", EfD Discussion Paper 08-17, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. April 2008.
- Determinants of Household Fuel Choice in Major Cities in Ethiopia Alemu Mekonnen, and Gunnar Köhlin, ”Determinants of Household Fuel Choice in Major Cities in Ethiopia”, EfD Discussion Paper 08-18, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. August 2008.
Discussion Papers
- Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference Analysis Carlsson, F., G. Köhlin, A. Mekonnen, and M. Yesuf. 2005. "Are agricultural extension packages really what Ethiopian farmers want? A stated preference analysis". Working Papers in Economics No. 172, Department of Economics, Göteborg University.
- Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference variations Carlsson, F., G. Köhlin, and A. Mekonnen. 2004. "Contingent Valuation of Community Plantations in Ethiopia: A look into Value Elicitation Formats and Intra-household Preference Variations". Working Papers in Economics No. 151, Department of Economics, Göteborg University.
Books
- Distributional Consequences of Transport Fuel Taxes in Ethiopia Mekonnen, Alemu, Rahel Deribe, and Liyousew Gebremedhin, 2011, Distributional Consequences of Fuel Taxes in Ethiopia, In Sterner, T. (ed.) Fuel Taxes and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy, Resource For the Future (RFF).
- Farmers’ Choice between Public Goods and Agricultural Extension Packages in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Analysis Mekonnen, A., Yesuf, M., Carlsson, F. and Köhlin, G. (2010) Farmers’ Choice between Public Goods and Agricultural Extension Packages in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Analysis. In Bennett, J. and Birol E. (eds.) Choice Experiments in Developing Countries, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp 189-204
Policy briefs
- Income alone doesn’t determine adoption and choice of fuel types: Evidence from households in Tigrai and major cities in Ethiopia Mekonnen, A., and Köhlin, G. 2008 “Determinants of Household Fuel Choice in Major Cities in Ethiopia” Discussion Paper Series EfD DP 08-18, Environment for Development (EfD), University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. Gebreegziabher, Z., Mekonnen, A., Kassie, M., and Köhlin, G. 2009 “Urban Energy Transition and Technology Adoption: the Case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia” Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE), Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Addis Ababa.
- Impacts of the Productive Safety Net Program on livestock and tree holdings of rural households in Ethiopia Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD). 2004. “Productive Safety Net Targeting Guideline.” Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: MoARD, Food Security Coordination Bureau.
Reports
- Cost of Land Degradation in Ethiopia: A Critical Review of Past Studies Yesuf Mahmud, Alemu Mekonnen, Menale Kassie, John Pender, 2007, "Cost of Land Degradation in Ethiopia: A critical review of past studies", report, EfD/WB.
- Forest cover in Ethiopia - Workshop proceedings
Other
- Fuel Taxes and the Poor Fuel Taxes and the Poor, The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy (2011) Published by RFF Press with Environment for Development initiative. Edited By Thomas Sterner.
- Household tree planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree species, purposes and determinants Ethiopian Forestry Action Program (EFAP), 1994. The challenges for development" (Vol II). EFAP secretariat, Ministry of Natural Resources Development and Environmental Protection, Addis Ababa.
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