Rate My Professor Steven Van Passel

Van Passel's research specializes in economic and sustainability assessments of clean technologies, agricultural systems, energy solutions, and ecosystem services, with applications in Western Europe and low- and middle-income countries. Key areas include farm sustainability and efficiency, agricultural responses to climate change, hybrid energy systems, microgrids, life cycle analyses of technologies like organic photovoltaics and plasma gasification, enhanced landfill mining, and plastic recycling policies. He utilizes methods such as environmental valuation techniques (hedonic pricing, Ricardian method, discrete choice modeling), techno-economic assessments, life cycle costing, life cycle analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and multi-criteria decision analysis. With approximately 14,800 citations, his influential publications include 'Techno-economic and policy insights from a cross-country assessment for plastics recycling' (2026, Journal of Environmental Management), 'Prospective water scarcity footprint under climate change applied to bio-based sustainable aviation fuel production pathways' (2026, iScience), 'Behavioral insights into distributed energy flexibility: evidence from discrete choice experiments' (2026), and 'Urban green infrastructure: a review on valuation toolkits from an ecosystem services perspective' (2020). He has supervised 32 PhDs to completion, contributing significantly to the field.