Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Justin Andrew Johnson

Justin Andrew Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the department in 2014. Justin works closely with the Natural Capital Project at the University of Minnesota and Stanford University. Justin’s research focuses on how the economy affects the environment, and vice versa, on global to local scales. Currently, Justin leads a project that links the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) out of Purdue University with the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model from the Natural Capital Project, aiming to build strong quantitative evidence on how changes in ecosystem services affect economic performance at the macroeconomic level and how global policies can be designed to sustainably manage our natural capital.

Contact

jajohns@umn.edu

Publications

Land-Use Decisions Have Substantial Air Quality Health Effects. (2023). Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c02280
Investing in nature can improve equity and economic returns. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(25), e2220401120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220401120
Projected landscape-scale repercussions of global action for climate and biodiversity protection. (2023). Nature Communications, 14(1), 2515. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38043-1
Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science. (2021). Nature Sustainability, 4, 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00625-y
Global Futures report. (2020). A Landmark Study into the Global Economic Impacts of Nature Loss. WWF. https://www.wwf.org.uk/globalfutures