Peter V. SchaefferPeter V. Schaeffer is professor, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia Univer¬sity (WVU) and a faculty research associate in WVU’s Regional Research Institute (RRI). His primary research interests are regional economic policy; international abor migration; domestic job mobility; natural resource management; and historic preservation. He serves and has served on editorial boards and is a past chair of the North American Regional Science Council and a past president of the Southern Regional Science Association. In 2008 he became WVU’s fourth scholar to receive RRI’s William H. Miernyk Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement since the award’s inception in 1990. Dr. Schaeffer earned the Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California. Read More Read Less