Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Charles Sims
I am currently a Faculty Fellow at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee. I attended the University of Tennessee, receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Forest Resource Management and an MS in Forestry, with a minor in Environmental Policy. After spending a year as a Research Associate at the University of Tennessee, I headed west to join the Economics doctoral program at the University of Wyoming. I then spent four years as an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics at Utah State University.
My research is in applied microeconomic theory with a focus on management of natural resources, coupled human and natural systems, risk and uncertainty, invasive species, endangered species, public land management, optimal control theory, dynamic programming, real options, computable general equilibrium.
Selected Publications
1. Sims, C., D. Finnoff, J. Shogren. Taking One For the Team: Is collective action more responsive to ecological change? Environmental and Resource Economics forthcoming.
2. LaRiviere, J., D. Kling, J. Sanchirico, C. Sims, M. Springborn. Characterizing Uncertainty and Learning in the Economics of Resource and Environmental Management. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy forthcoming
3. Sims, C., D. Finnoff, A. Hastings, J. Hochard. 2017. Listing and delisting thresholds under the Endangered Species Act. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 99(3): 549-570.
4. Sims, C., D. Finnoff, S. O’Regan. 2016. Public control of rational and unpredictable epidemics. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 132(B): 161-176..
5. Sims, C., D. Finnoff. 2016. Opposing irreversibilities and tipping point uncertainty. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 3(4): 985-1022.