Allen Victor Kneese (5 April 1930, Fredericksburg, Texas - 14 March 2001) was an American economist. He was a pioneer in what came to be called environmental economics. [1] He worked at Resources for the Future from 1961 onwards. He earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Southwest Texas State College in San Marcos, master's degree in economics from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Ph.D. in 1956 from Indiana University Bloomington. [2] [3]
Kneese' research focussed on the integration of environmental pollution in economic models, [3] and on the use of economic incentives to encourage environmental improvements. [4]
Kneese was the first president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and was a founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Water Resources Research. With John V. Krutilla, he was the inaugural winner of the Volvo Environment Prize in 1990. [3]