Rashid Hassan

Economics professor in Pretoria

Rashid Mekki Hassan
Nationality	Sudanese

Academic career
Institution	University of Pretoria
Field	Environmental economics Ecological economics
Alma mater	University of Khartoum(BSc.) (MSc.) Iowa State University (MSc) (Ph.D.)

Rashid Mekki Hassan is the Professor and Director at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the University of Pretoria.^[1] He specialises in natural resource and environmental economics, agricultural economics, 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.^[1]^[2]

Career

Hassan is the professor of economics at the University of Pretoria where he studies natural resources management.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]^[4]

He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.^[5]

Select publications

Books

The books which Hassan has authored, co-authored, or co-edited include:

Rashid M. Hassan; Glenn-Marie Lange; Jaap Arntzen; Jackie Crawford; Eric Mungatana (2007). The Economics of Water Management in southern Africa: an environmental accounting approach. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781847203021. ISBN 9781843764724.

Journal articles

Hassan has written dozens of articles including:

Rashid Hassan; Eric Mungatana; Glenn-Marie Lange (2007). "Water accounting for the Orange River Basin: An economic perspective on managing a transboundary resource". Ecological Economics. 61 (4): 660–670. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.032.
Rashid M. Hassan; Temesgen Tadesse Deressa; Claudia Ringler; Tekie Alemu; Mahmud Yesuf (2009). "Determinants of farmers' choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia". Global Environmental Change. 19 (2): 248–255. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.01.002. hdl:2263/9270.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Rashid Hassan". Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Rashid Hassan". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^ Rashid Hassan; Eric Mungatana; Glenn-Marie Lange (2007). "Water accounting for the Orange River Basin: An economic perspective on managing a transboundary resource". Ecological Economics. 61 (4): 660–670. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.032.
^ Rashid M. Hassan; Glenn-Marie Lange; Jaap Arntzen; Jackie Crawford; Eric Mungatana (2007). The Economics of Water Management in southern Africa: an environmental accounting approach. Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781847203021. ISBN 9781843764724.
^ "2019 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. 30 April 2019.