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Shawn McCoy
Shawn McCoy is an economics professor, who specializes in urban-, environmental-, and health-related issues. He also serves as director of the UNLV Lee Business School's Lied Center for Real Estate, which brings together real estate researchers, students, and industry and community leaders and conducts policy-oriented research addressing issues that affect the real estate industry and public policy.
McCoy's research focuses on identifying cause-and-effect relationships between social problems, local economies, and the environment. His published works or works in-progress have explored a wide range of topics, including: the effect of wildfires and other storm damage on real estate transactions and homeowners' perceptions of disaster risk; how mass shootings and terrorism affect communities; and connections between disease and urban development, and fracking and indoor radon levels in homes.
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University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)
Economics Professor & Director, UNLV Lied Center for Real Estate
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Out-of-Towners Head to ‘Climate-Proof Duluth’ | New York Times
“Real estate and climate change cannot be separated,” said Shawn McCoy, a professor of real estate and economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies what he refers to as “the tug of war between risks and amenities” in the real estate market, and said that as knowledge of climate change increases, its influence on where people settle is growing.
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Wildfires don’t hurt hot real estate markets | High Country News
Our love for nature causes more homes to be built in the path of destructive wildfires and leads to more blazes.
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Why Remote Work Might Worsen Southwest Water Woes
Research by UNLV economists finds that pandemic stay-at-home orders put a strain on already tight water resources.
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We’re predominantly thinking of sprawling neighborhoods in mountainous topography far beyond Nevada into much of the state of California and Rocky Mountains of the West.
