Andrew F. Seidl is Professor in Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at Colorado State University. Andrew has been active in national and international policy formation and training including: the US Farm Bill (Conservation title); the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Strategic Plan and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP); the UN Development Program’s biodiversity finance initiative (BIOFIN); an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) project supported by the German government (GIZ) addressing natural capital dependence and environmental mainstreaming in the Pacific (MACBIO); And the UN Convention on Sustainable Development (CSD), focusing on green economy and environmental mainstreaming issues. Andrew F. Seidl work focuses on natural resource-based economic development. He employs economic approaches to help decision makers identify, quantify and capture the wealth of nature. Nature-based economic development solutions improve the efficiency of resource management and benefit human well-being by identifying hidden costs as well as unexplored opportunities.

Andrew F. Seidl recent research and outreach efforts include the economics of: agricultural land preservation and rural/agricultural land use planning, recreation and tourism management, oil and gas, climate change vulnerability, and forest landscape restoration.