Ermanno Affuso is an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow within the Department of Economics. Dr. Affuso earned his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Auburn University. He also has a Masters degree in Civil Environmental Engineering from Bari Polytechnical University (Politecnico di Bari) in Italy. His primary research interest is environmental policy and natural resource economics. Additionally, Dr. Affuso′s work includes bioeconomics and spatial econometrics in Regional Sciences.