Hodjat Ghadimi, Ph.D.

For more than three decades, Hodjat Ghadimi has studied how cities and regions can be designed to last, teaching and leading research in Tehran and in West Virginia.

Professor Ghadimi is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the School of Design and Community Development at the Davis College of West Virginia University, and a Faculty Research Associate in the Regional Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the Ohio State University, focusing on international development planning.

His research looks at how energy-rich regions around the world develop, how economies built on exhaustible resources can transition to diversified and creative economies, and how sustainable cities and regions are designed. He has significant expertise in computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling.

• Science of sustainability & design
• Development planning
• Technology, energy, environment and economy interaction modeling
• Economic development in energy-rich regions
• Creativity and innovation in urban and regional economies
• Geo-technologies to measure comprehensive regional wealth
• Transition of resource-based economies to diversified, creative economies
• Design and development of sustainable cities and regions

Research projects

Book

1. Ghadimi, H. (2012). Economic Development Planning in Oil Economies: A Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Analysis. AV Akademikerverlag. First published 2007, VDM Verlag.

Journal articles

1. Ghadimi, H. (2016). Sustainable Economic Development Planning in Energy Rich Regions. The Journal of Energy and Development, 41(1–2).
2. Ghadimi, H., Harris, T., & Warner, T. (2015). A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Regional and Sub-Regional Inclusive Wealth: The Case of Resource Rich West Virginia, USA. Regional Science Policy and Practice, 7(4), 199–224.
3. Ghadimi, H. (2015). Energy Rich Regions in the United States and China: Sustainability and Global Implications. The Global Studies Journal, 9(1).
4. Ghadimi, H. (2015). Strategic Investment Decisions in Oil Exporting Economies: The Effects of Government Savings Rule. Strategic Management Quarterly, 3(3), 25–32.
5. Ghadimi, H. (2012). Global Impact of Energy Use in Major Oil Economies: A Modeling Framework. The Journal of Energy and Development, 36(1–2), 85–97.

Book chapters

1. Ghadimi, H. CGE Models of Optimal Energy Depletion. In A. Dinar & T. Bryant (Eds.), Global Economic and Computable General Equilibrium Models of Society, Environment and Resources, Vol. 3.
2. Jackson, R. W., Court, C. D., & Ghadimi, H. (2015). Linking Environment and Economic Frameworks to Model Technology Transitions. In M. Ruth (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Environmental Studies. Edward Elgar.
3. Ghadimi, H., Harris, T., & Warner, T. (2014). Measuring the Wealth of Regions: Geospatial Approaches to Empirical Capital Estimation. In J. L. Pender et al. (Eds.), Rural Wealth Creation. Routledge.

Research papers

1. Ghadimi, H., & Bird, D. (2012). A Knowledge Base for the World's Energy Rich Regions. RRI Paper 2012-07, West Virginia University.
2. Ghadimi, H. (2010). Sustainable Economic Development in Energy Rich Economies: A Regional Approach. RRI Paper 2010-18, West Virginia University.
3. Ghadimi, H. (2008). Energy in a Resource-Based Regional Economy: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis. RRI Paper 2008-02, West Virginia University.
4. Ghadimi, H. (2006). An Optimal Depletion CGE Model: A Systematic Framework for Energy-Economy Analysis in Resource-Based Economies. RRI Paper 2006-11, West Virginia University.

1. 1993Ph.D., City and Regional Planning
   The Ohio State University
2. 1987M.C.R.P., City and Regional Planning
   The Ohio State University
3. 1979B.S., Architecture
   Lawrence Technological University

Courses for the Human and Community Development, Design, Landscape Architecture and Energy Environments programs at West Virginia University.

• The Creative Economies
• Sustainable Cities: Best Practices
• Global Context for Design
• Economics of Innovation & Creativity
• Regional Design
• Intro to Urban Design
• Seminar: Physical & Environmental Planning
• Research Seminar
• CGE Modeling Short Course

Class projects

Visionaries · EcoPolis · City Posters

Earlier graduate teaching

Quantitative Methods in Urban and Regional Planning · Information Technology in Architecture and Planning · Intelligent Built Environment · National and Regional Development Planning · Systems Theory for Designers and Planners · Project Management and Professional Practice · Thesis Seminar and Research Methods · Urban and Regional Planning Studios

1. 2010School of Design and Community Development
   West Virginia University. Now Emeritus Associate Professor.
2. 2005Research Associate Professor, Regional Research Institute
   West Virginia University
3. 1993Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran
   Chair of the Planning Department, 2004–2005. Also taught at the University of Tehran College of Fine Arts, 1993–1997.
4. 2000Strategic planning, Tehran
   Project Director, Tehran Strategic Planning Center (2000–2002); Technical Director, Tehran Software and IT Park strategic plan (2002–2004).

Member of the Regional Science Association International and the Southern and Western Regional Science Associations. Reviewer for the Journal of Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science and Regional Studies.