Herbert H. Stoevener Professor Emeritus Resources and Environmental Economics Ph.D. 1963, University of Illinois E-mail: stoevenr@vt.edu

Herb Stoevener came to Virginia Tech in 1980 as department head. In 1991 he assumed the position of Special Assistant to the Provost for International Programs. Professor Stoevener has done research in natural resource economics focusing primarily on issues in environmental management, the measurement of publicly provided recreational benefits, and the economics of land use policy. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in these subjects and in the theory of welfare economics. He has also been an advisor to several national and international agencies.

Professor Stoevener is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. He has received the 1973 AAEA award for Published Research for the paper "Multi-disciplinary Study of Water Quality Relationships: A Case Study of Yaquina Bay, Oregon" (with Joe B. Stevens, Howard F. Horton, Adam Sokoloski, Loys P. Parrish, and Emery N. Castle), the 1977 AAEA award for Quality of Research Discovery for "The Demand for Non-Unique Outdoor Recreational Services: Methodological Issues (with J. A. Edwards, K. C. Gibb, and L. J. Guedry) and the 1982 AAEA award for Quality of Communication for "Three Small Watershed Projects in Midlife: Performance Evaluation" (with Roger Kraynick).