Louis Hotte is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa. He has published on issues of natural resource use, property rights and conflict; the political-economy of trade and the environment; and on the economics of crime and private protection. Louis has conducted a household survey in Costa Rica investigating the use of formal banking by women as a protection measure. His work appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, the Canadian Journal of Economics, Public Choice, Resource and Energy Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics. Louis was invited to contribute a chapter for the Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics by Elsevier Science. His work has attracted mention by scholars in both the Economics and Law literatures. He has been Associate Editor for the journal Environment and Development Economics at Cambridge University Press. He previously held a joint appointment at the Economics and Law Faculties of the University of Namur in Belgium, and has taught graduate students at the Université Catholique de Louvain, the Université d'Auvergne, the Université de Rouen, the Toulouse School of Economics, and the Université des Antilles.