Alemu Mekonnen
Alemu Mekonnen is an assistant professor of economics at the Department of Economics of Addis Ababa University. He has taught, for over two decades, various subjects in economics 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, 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 modelling related to health and water, rural households’ tree growing behaviour, and poverty and the environment.
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
Household behaviour in general.
