Dr. Sandy Dall'Erba's current research interests focus on environmental economics in general and the impact of climate change on agriculture, food security, and the global supply chain in particular. He studies each of these fields by modeling and measuring the externalities that place between regions/countries and economic sectors. In that purpose, he uses various tools of regional economics such as spatial econometrics, network econometrics, interregional input-output and structural gravity models. He has published one book and more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these topics and with those tools, some of them co-authored with past and current graduate students and/or international visiting scholars. Dr. Dall'Erba has been awarded various grants by, among others, NSF, NASA, and USDA, as well as various academic awards for his work. He has given lectures as a keynote speaker at several U.S. and international conferences in South Korea, Brazil, and Spain, and has been an invited professor at various universities and government agencies in Mexico, China, Turkey, Colombia, France, and the U.S. His research always attempts to provide a range of exposure to new curricula materials, methods of conducting interdisciplinary and international collaborative research and guidance in the preparation of material for dissemination in the public policy arena. In 2021, he co-founded CREATE, the University of Illinois Center for Climate, Regional, Environmental and Trade Economics, of which the goals are to study the impact of climate change and environmental accounts based on system-wide techniques developed in regional economics and trade economics and to train the next generation of scholars to climate economics.
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