Rashid Mekki Hassan is the Professor and Director at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the
University of Pretoria.
He specialises in natural resource and
environmental economics,
agricultural economics
Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products.
Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specif ...
, and optimisation and modelling of economic systems.
Education
Hassan 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.
Career
Hassan is the professor of economics at the University of Pretoria where he studies natural resources management.[
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.
He was elected a foreign associate of the US ]National Academy of Sciences
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in April 2019.
Select publications
Books
The books which Hassan has authored, co-authored, or co-edited include:
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Journal articles
Hassan has written dozens of articles including:
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References
External links
Profile
on ResearchGate
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on Google Scholar
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Environmental economists
Ecological economists
Sudanese economists
21st-century South African economists
University of Khartoum alumni
Iowa State University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Pretoria
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences