Alan Collins (academic)
Alan Collins is the Head of Department and Professor of Economics at the Portsmouth Business School, Portsmouth University, UK. Professor Collins teaches a wide range of subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, including Environmental Economics and Policy, Managerial Economics, Social Economics, Transport Economics, and Cultural Economics.
Collins is an ACTIVE researcher in other fields, the most significant of which are environmental and natural resource economics, transport economics, and social and cultural economics. He is also on the executive board of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI).
Publications
In Academic journals
Professor Collins publishes in a wide range of Scholarly journals. These include:
- Urban Studies
- European Journal of Law and Economics
- Land Economics,
- Managerial and Decision Economics,
- Journal of Bioeconomics,
- Applied Economics,
- International Journal of Transport Economics,
- Journal of Transport Economics and Policy,
- Kyklos,
- Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
- Environment & Planning A and C,
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management,
- European Journal of Operational Research,
- Creativity Research Journal, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, and
- American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
Books
Professor Collins is also the co-author (with Sam Cameron) of Playing the Love Market: Dating, Romance and the Real World (2000), and editor of Cities of Pleasure: [...] and the Urban Socialscape (2006), published by Routledge.