Rate My Professor Charles Sims

Key publications include 'Coal-fired power plant retirements in the United States' (2022), 'When is a “wait and see” approach to invasive species justified?' (2013), 'A dynamic bioeconomic analysis of mountain pine beetle epidemics' (2010), 'Will Ecosystem Services Attract Investors?' (2024, Land Economics), 'Environmental Policy Uncertainty' (2024, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists), and 'Irreversible Adaptation and Knightian Climate Uncertainty' (2025, Environmental & Resource Economics). Sims has obtained major grants, such as a $1.5 million U.S. Department of Energy award to the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation for innovative uses of South Appalachian coal resources, along with funding from the National Energy Technology Laboratory and National Science Foundation. He contributed to a team receiving the University of Tennessee's Excellence in Research award. His scholarship impacts discussions on energy policy transitions, conservation strategies, and environmental risk management. Sims holds affiliations with the Institute for Energy and Environment and Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment at UTK and engages in public policy seminars and committee service.