Biography
Eli Fenichel’s research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. He is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time. This leads to a strong interest in feedbacks among humans, ecosystems, and the management of coupled ecological-economic processes. Fenichel’s research is applied in a wide variety of systems.
A primary focus of his research relates to valuing and accounting for natural capital. His work in this area spans the contexts of benefit-cost analysis and national accounting. He is particularly interested in how to develop scalable and replicable measurements. He is increasingly interested in intersections with the financial system.
He also has a strong interest in how people respond to risk, especially from infectious diseases, and how those responses shape system dynamics.