Gerald Nelson received his PhD from Stanford University in 1982. Since that time he has served as the Agricultural Development Council representative at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos from 1982-85, and as assistant, associate and full professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 1985 to 2008.

• Climate change and agriculture
• Payments for environmental services

• Indonesia
• Ghana
• Philippines
• India
• Nepal

• Modelling Deforestation and Land-Use Change: Sparse Data Environments
  2007. De Pinto, A.; Nelson, G.C. Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (3):502-516.
• Comparing the GLC2000 and GeoCover LC land cover datasets for use in economic modelling of land use
  2007. Nelson, G.C.; Robertson, R.D. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28 (19):1-20.
• Report to the Future Land Imaging Working Group on the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Survey on the Future of Land Imaging
  2007. Green, K.; Plasker, J.; Nelson, G.; Lauer, D. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 73(1):5-9.
• Anthropogenic drivers of ecosystem change: An overview
  2006. Nelson, G.C. et al. Ecology and Society 11, No. 2.
• Sustainable Food for the World: Rethinking Policy, Technology, and the Environment
  2006. Nelson, G.C. Harvard International Review.
• Land use and road improvements: A spatial perspective
  2004. Nelson, G.C. et al. International Regional Science Review 27(3):297-325.
• Simulating a relative environmental effect of glyphosate-resistant soybeans
  2003. Nelson, G.C.; Bullock, D. Ecological Economics 45(2): 189-202.
• Introduction to the special issue on spatial analysis for agricultural economists
  2002. Nelson, G.C. Agricultural Economics 27(3):197-200.
• Deforestation and land use change: Sparse data environments
  2002. Nelson, G.C.; Geoghegan, J. Agricultural Economics 27(3):201-216.
• Deforestation, land use, and property rights: Empirical evidence from Darien, Panama
  2001. Nelson, G.C.; Harris, V.; Stone, S.W. Land Economics 77(2):187-205.