Associate Professor

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Ohio State University.

Agricultural Science
Room 204C
(806) 742-2017 ext 251
michael.farmer@ttu.edu

Dr. Farmer is an environmental economist working primarily on the issue of water allocation and its consequences on land use. Dr. Farmer has served as day to day research manager for the US Dept. of Justice damage assessment of the Exxon Valdez wreck and has years of experience working with local water authorities.  Dr. Farmer currently serves as an advisor on the largest inter-state water use dispute in the nation and has just completed work in China on water allocation planning.   

Dr. Farmer writes on the ethical obligations of benefit-cost analysis in environmental policy and on reforms to the Endangered Species Act to improve jointly species preservation and promotion of economic development.  He writes on the urgency to coordinate US Corps of Engineer’s Planning Expertise with economic and ecological necessity in water reallocation decisions and maintains a dual appointment with the Departments of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Range, Wildlife and Fisheries Management.

Dr. Farmer’s works have appeared in Land Economics, European Planning Review, Policy Studies, Ecological Economics, The National Tax Journal and The Blackwell Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics.