Outstanding Public Service through Economics Award
NAREA has an annual Award for Outstanding Public Service through Economics. This award honors and recognizes economists who have applied agricultural, environmental, consumer, resource, or community development economics in a unique way that has contributed toward solving an important problem and improving the welfare of society.
Previous recipients:
| 2002 | Bruce Gardner |
| 2003 | Adesoji Adelaja |
| 2004 | Paul Portney |
| 2005 | Sandra Batie |
| 2006 | Thomas Johnson |
| 2007 | Nelson Bills |
| 2008 | Walter Armbruster |
| 2009 | James Horne |
| 2010 | Tom Tietenberg |
| 2011 | Ronald W. Cotterill |
| 2012 | Katherine "Kitty" Smith |
| 2013 | Al McGartland |
| 2014 | Julie Caswell |
| 2015 | Stephan Goetz |
| 2016 | David Just |
| 2017 | Dallas Burtraw |
| 2018 | Marc Ribaudo, Jim Shortle |
| 2019 | Nancy Bockstael |