Rashid Mekki Hassan is the Professor and Director at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria.[1] He specialises in natural resource and environmental economics, agricultural economics, and optimisation and modelling of economic systems.
Rashid Mekki Hassan | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Sudanese |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Environmental economics Ecological economics |
| Institution | University of Pretoria |
| Alma mater | University of Khartoum(BSc.) (MSc.) Iowa State University (MSc) (Ph.D.) |
Education
editHassan holds a BSc and MSc., both in Agricultural Economics, from the University of Khartoum in 1977 and 1983 respectively. He proceeded to Iowa State University where he got MSc and Ph.D. degrees, both in Economics, in 1988 and 1989 respectively.[1][2]
Career
editHassan is the professor of economics at the University of Pretoria where he studies natural resources management.[1][2]
He has authored co-authored and co-edited journal articles and books on Water management in the South Africa which has been used to chart the efficiency of use of water.[3][4]
He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.[5]
Select publications
editBooks
editThe books which Hassan has authored, co-authored, or co-edited include:
- Rashid M. Hassan; Glenn-Marie Lange; Jaap Arntzen; Jackie Crawford; Eric Mungatana (2007). The Economics of Water Management in southern Africa: an environmental accounting approach. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781847203021. ISBN 9781843764724.
Journal articles
editHassan has written dozens of articles including:
- Rashid Hassan; Eric Mungatana; Glenn-Marie Lange (2007). "Water accounting for the Orange River Basin: An economic perspective on managing a transboundary resource". Ecological Economics. 61 (4): 660–670. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.032.
- Rashid M. Hassan; Temesgen Tadesse Deressa; Claudia Ringler; Tekie Alemu; Mahmud Yesuf (2009). "Determinants of farmers' choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia". Global Environmental Change. 19 (2): 248–255. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.01.002. hdl:2263/9270.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Rashid Hassan". Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Rashid Hassan". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ Rashid Hassan; Eric Mungatana; Glenn-Marie Lange (2007). "Water accounting for the Orange River Basin: An economic perspective on managing a transboundary resource". Ecological Economics. 61 (4): 660–670. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.032.
- ^ Rashid M. Hassan; Glenn-Marie Lange; Jaap Arntzen; Jackie Crawford; Eric Mungatana (2007). The Economics of Water Management in southern Africa: an environmental accounting approach. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781847203021. ISBN 9781843764724.
- ^ "2019 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. 30 April 2019.