Philip E.
Graves, Ph.D.
Dr. Philip Graves is nationally known for his work in
environmental economics, urban and regional economics and
monetary economics and is available to participate in
projects on these subjects at RCF. He is Professor of
Economics at the University of Colorado and has held
visiting positions at a number of other universities. He is
the author of seven books and many articles.
Dr. Graves was responsible for developing advanced
methodologies for estimating economic damages from air and
water pollution and for using these estimates in a
multidisciplinary team setting along with control cost
estimates, dispersion modeling and physical assessments. He
is co-author of two volumes in the Economic Policy Series:
Elements of Environmental Analysis and Air Quality.
Much of his work has concerned demographic trends in a
regional and urban setting. He has served as a consultant
to a variety of organizations. For Commonwealth Edison, he
studied short-run construction disturbances to communities
associated with nuclear power plants. A project with
Argonne National Laboratory included analysis of market
penetration over time of solar storage energy systems.
Dr. Graves is a graduate of Indiana University where he
received an A.B. in Economics. He later attended
Northwestern University, receiving an M.A. and a Ph.D. in
Economics.