SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

Sections

Status: Approved

Basic Information

Participants

See attachment

participants_W3133_2017mtg.pdf

[Attachment: Annual meeting program, last page is business meeting agenda]

The annual meeting was called to order by outgoing chair Julie Mueller.

Julie was recognized for her service planning the annual meeting, but more importantly for doing the lionshare of the work to write and submit the proposal for W-4133. Incoming president Ben Gramig and vice-president Dale Manning were recognized.

Roll was taken from amongst those on the meeting program.

Open Issues

1) John Tanaka was present at the meeting and offered a brief update on the re-chartering process that was underway. He indicated that regional review was taking place and that we might expect to hear someing in the next 45-60 days about requested revisions or further instructions. John reminded the group that a final report for W-3133 was due within 60 days after the close of the annual meeting.

2) Election of a new officer -- There was discusion and Craig Landry was nominated to serve as secretary (2017-2018), provided our W-4133 proposal is ultimately successful.

3) Incoming chair solicted location suggestions for the 2018 meeting. Suggestions received: Santa Fe, NM, Tucson, AZ, or the coast of NC. Members emphasized the tradition of, first and foremost, the meeting organizer/incoming president selecting a location where they want to hold the meeting they will plan.

4) Recruiting new members to the regional project was discussed

New Business

1) The group decided to leave the standing model for handling inter-annual carryover of project funds in placegoing forward.

2) Julie Mueller suggested that the group try to formalize some guidelines for writing future annual meeting reports, and indicated that she would draft some suggestions to passed along to future officers.

3) Julie led a discussion of how to handle the re-chartering process in the future in order to ease the disproportionate burden that it placed on her over the previous year. The group thanked her again for her outstanding leadership and service to W-3133. The members accepted Julie's recommendation that there be a dedicated session at the annual meeting prior to the year when a re-charter proposal is due, led by the then-president, to establish new objectives and set in motion a plan to deliver the re-charter proposal by January 15 of the year when (proposed) W-4133 is set to expire. This would mean having a dedicated session at the 2020 annual meeting to organize the re-chartering process so that the application is ready to be submitted by January of 2021, prior to the 2021 annual meeting in the final year of (proposed) W-4133.

The meeting was adjourned.

 

2017_AnnualMtgSchedule_W3133Program.pdf

Accomplishments

Accomplishments 

North Carolina State University, Michigan State University, and University of Maryland economists assessed the recreational natural resource damages associated with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the largest spill ever in US waters. 

Conservation easement (CE) markets have become an important public/private land conservation tool in addition to standard land use controls. Stated choice analysis using a random utility model and mixed logit estimation techniques indicated differences between Colorado and Wyoming landowner preferences for conservation easement programs. It also indicates that land trusts have different missions that influence the types of Conservation Easements they would pursue. This research has policy ramifications as per NRCS’s and FSA’s CPGL, CRP, CSP, EQIP, FRPP, GRP, WRP, WHIP; USFS’s Forest Legacy, Stewardship and Land Enhancement Programs; USF&W’s Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund and Partnership with Private Landowners for fish and wildlife habitat conservation; LT’s and Public PACE programs. The work also has implications for state, county and municipal land use planning efforts as well as property owners, rural communities and developers. Outcomes provide perspectives as per landowner preferences for conservation easements as well as land trust concerns for initiating conservation easement agreements. The research is designed to improve the decision making environment for program provider and participants. These results are being shared with the academic community, extension educators, land trusts and producer groups. 

Economists in Wyoming and neighboring states have examined:

  • The consequences of local land use decisions on federal lands management. Federal fire suppression costs have risen dramatically as ex-urban development (on former agricultural lands) has occurred in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).
  • Land use decisions and resource management that affects and is affected by water allocation in the face of competing demands and limited supplies. There is a continuing effort to collect data relevant to land use for valuation of parcel attributes and to track development trends.

We reached landowners, land use planners, land trusts, federal, state and local agency personnel, other researchers, elected official, taxpayers and concerned citizens in the Mountain West to offer insights into how land use decisions may affect the provision of public services in rural communities and ultimately affects community budgets and development decisions. Public service provision can be shown to be dependent, in part, on the patterns of rural development. Exurban sprawl and landscape fragmentation continue to be critical issues with respect to resource management, local governance and rural community development.

Economists at Oregon State, UC Santa Barbara, and USDA ERS published an analysis of how urbanization affects water withdrawals in the face of population growth and climatic change (Bigelow et al. 2017).

Economists at Oregon State, Penn State, and Wisconsin published an analysis examining how protected open-space affects the spatial structure of land development (Zipp et al. 2017).

Economists at Oregon State published a paper that estimates the effect of the Federal Northwest Forest Plan on community level measures of economic growth in Oregon (Chen et al. 2016).

Economists and natural scientists at Oregon State, Idaho, Colorado State and Wisconsin published a series of papers examining the effects of decentralized governance and protected areas on timber extraction in European Russia using multiple periods of satellite imagery and econometric methods (Jones and Lewis 2015; Wendland et al. 2015; Wendland et al. 2014). 

Economists at Oregon State published a paper that examines the microeconomic foundation for land-use policies that to provide spatially-dependent ecosystem services (Lewis and Wu 2015). 

Economists at Oregon State, Minnesota, UC Santa Barbara, and Bowdoin published a paper that shows how to optimally implement the provision of ecosystem services using an incentive-based mechanism under the common problems of spatial dependent environmental benefits and asymmetric information regarding landowner opportunity costs (Polasky et al. 2014).

Economists and natural scientists at Oregon State, Washington, Minnesota, Florida International, Wisconsin, Bowdoin, and UC Santa Barbara published a series of papers that project land-use change impacts under alternative economic and policy scenarios on terrestrial ecosystem services for the lower 48 states (Lawler et al. 2014; Martinuzzi et al. 2014; Beaudry et al. 2013; Martinuzzi et al. 2013; Hamilton et al. 2013; Radeloff et al. 2012).

Economists at Colorado State and Univerity of Nevada-Reno (UNR) developed water-based computable general equilbrium models of western cities dealing with increasing water scarcity to inform resource allocation

Economists at Colorado State are:

  • Analyzing previous survey on the impact of research-based information provision on support for groundwater conservation
  • Evaluating the impact of productive use interventions on electricity demand and socioeconomic outcomes in rural Rwanda.
  • Examining optimal investment in R&D in the control of an invasive species with an application to the Brown Tree Snake in Guam.
  • Quantifying the quasi-option value that drives local hydraulic fracking bans in the presence of uncertainty and learning about environmental risks.
  • Evaluating the impact of land and water quality on enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.

Economists from the University of Illinois and Ando and U. Minnesota have translated portfolio diversification tools from finance into the world of environmental investments, showing conservation agents how to harness relatively safe bets and the presence of negative correlations between future outcomes in different parts of the landscape to pick a mixture of conservation sites in a landscape that will be effective long into the future. Climate change means we don’t know where high quality habitat or species populations will be in the future. Thus, places protected now for nature may fail as sanctuaries in the future as species and ecosystems change location. How can we reduce future uncertainty in conservation outcomes associated with climate change? This research is influencing the work of other conservation scientists, and helping conservation agents to inform their own efforts to develop conservation plans that are robust to climate change.

Economists at Oregon State and Wisconsin published a pair of stated preference analyses which quantify shoreline property owners and boaters’ willingness to pay to prevent aquatic species invasions on Wisconsin lakes (Lewis et al. 2015, Provencher et al. 2012). 

Economists at Colorado State are:

  • Conducting a Contingent Valutaion survey to value groundwater conservation beyond profit impacts
  • Running a coupled hydro-economic model of groundwater use to guide decision-making in eastern Colorado
  • Working with an 8-state team to model test areas across the Ogallala region using the DSSAT crop growth simulation and SWAT-MODFLOW hydrological models imbedded in an economic optimization framework to analyze planting and irrigation decisions.

Economists at the University of Illinois and coauthors from Arizona and Michigan estimated the value of additional plant biodiversity in grasslands through the additional carbon those plants store in biomass. This research helps policymakers think about how much more to incentivize grassland planting that is biodiverse in programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program, and helps utility companies and departments of transportation who are voluntarily planting biodiverse grasslands in rights-of-way to develop a business model for that activity.

Economists at Purdue University have developed free web-based decision support tools for farmers and farm advisors in the 12 state Corn Belt region to evaluate (i) the economics and risk associated with splitting nitrogen fertilizer applications at planting and (ii) the NPV of investment in center pivot irrigation in maize-based cropping systems. The tools are being used to evaluate investments in specialized fertilizer application equipment and changing management practices in ways that are more profitable and reduce loss of N to waterways that contribute to hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Economists at Iowa State University have made progress on several key aspects of environmental valuation methodologies. In particular, how sensitive recreational benefit estimates are to the metric used to measure water quality. These results will help inform policy makers of the implications of using various water quality metrics for cost-benefit analyses. A second project tests the stability of welfare estimate from revealed preference methods using a unique panel of recreational visits to lakes within the state of Iowa. This research informs policy makers of the implications of using benefit estimates from a single cross-section to value long-term water quality improvements. 

Economists at iowa State And Middlebury have developed an integrated assessment model of water pollution in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio Tennessee watersheds. This model will help analyze land use and water quality policies that affect a wide range of water uses such as drinking water and water-based recreational use.

 

Outputs (includes decision support tools, published data sets and other products not subjected to journal peer review or currently under review)

Chamberlain, J.L., Frey, G.E., Ingram, D., Jacobson, M.G., and Downes, C.M.S.. Provisioning of Non-Timber Forest Products. In: Sills, E.O. and Mercer, D.E. Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Southern Forests. 

Ehrlich, O., X. Bi., T. Borisova, S. Larkin. “A Latent Class Analysis of Public Attitudes toward Water Resources with Implications for Recreational Demand." Revise and resubmit.

Frey, G.E., Blatner, K.A., Jacobson, M.G., Downes, C.M.S., Sills, E.O., Mercer, D.E., Alexander, S.J., Chamberlain, J.L., Gold, M.A., Godsey, L.D., Emery, M.R., Coffin, A.W., Barlow, R.J., and Lohr, L. "Economics of Non-Timber Forest Products in the United States." In: Chamberlain, J.L, Patel-Weynand, T., and Emery, M.R., eds. US Assessment of Non-Timber Forest Products. Under Review. . 

Gramig, BM, R Massey and L Biehl. 2016 (v2). Corn Split-N Decision Support Tool. http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/U2U/splitn/

Guilfoos, Todd and Emi Uchida. 2016. “Special Issue on Economics of Water Quality: Challenges, Policies, and Behavioral Mechanisms.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 45 (02), 209-216

Jacobson, M. Y. Shr, F, Delamans, C. Magaju, and R. Cianella. 2017. "Using a Choice Experiment Approach to Assess Production Tradeoffs for Developing the Croton Value Chain in Kenya." Under review, Forest Policy and Economics.

Jarrad, Maya, Noelwah R. Netusil, Klaus Moeltner, Anita Mozillo, and J. Alan Yeakley. Urban Stream Restoration Projects: Does Project Age, Type and Proximity Affect Nearby Property Sale Prices? 

Ji, Yongjie, David A. Keiser, and Catherine L. Kling. 2017. “Temporal Reliability of Welfare Estimates from Revealed Preferences.” Mimeo, Iowa State University.

Lieske S., R. Coupal and D. McLeod. “Political jurisdiction, reputation and urban form: a more complete specification of public service costs.” Submitted to Quantitative Economics. Under review.

Liu, Tingting, James Opaluch and Emi Uchida. 2017. “Home values affected by Narragansett Bay water quality. 41N Winter, Rhode Island Sea Grant Program & URI Coastal Institute, p.9.

Londono, Catalina, Amy Ando, and Noelwah R. Netusil. "Willingness to Pay and Willingness-to-Do: Estimating the Benefits of Stormwater Management."

Mutandwa, E., R.K. Grala, and D.R. Petrolia. “Estimates of willingness to accept compensation to provide ecosystem services from private forest land.” In review.

Smith, Elizabeth C and Emi Uchida. 2017. “Narragansett Bay Watershed: The value of an ecosystem.” 41N Winter, Rhode Island Sea Grant Program & URI Coastal Institute, Pp.38-39.

Van Dop, M, BM Gramig and L Biehl. 2016. Irrigation Investment Calculator online decision support tool. http://mrcc.isws.illinois.edu/U2U/irrigation/

Yun, S. D., Gramig, B.M. (2017). Agro-Climatic Data by County, 1981-2015. Purdue University Research Repository. doi:10.4231/R72F7KK2

 

Presentations to research and outreach audiences that disseminated research findings during the final reporting period.

Author, details 
(bolded author(s) are W-3133 members for multi-authored works)

Objective(s)

Multi-state

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3

A.W. Ando. “Uncertainty in and Distribution of the Benefits of Conservation.” Keynote address, 18th Annual Bioecon Conference, Kings College, Cambridge. September 2016.

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A.W. Ando, Jennifer Fraterrigo, Glenn Guntenspergen, Aparna Howlader Mindy Mallory, Jennifer H. Olker, and Samuel Stickley. “Reducing Climate-Related Uncertainty in Outcomes of Investments: When Does Spatial Conservation Portfolio Diversification Work Best?” World Bank, Washington D.C. March 2017.

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A. W. Ando, Jennifer Fraterrigo, Glenn Guntenspergen, Aparna Howlader Mindy Mallory, Jennifer H. Olker, and Samuel Stickley. “Reducing Climate-Related Uncertainty in Outcomes of Investments: When Does Spatial Conservation Portfolio Diversification Work Best?” AERE Summer Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. May 2017.

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A.W. Ando. “Diversifying Risk in Multiple Environmental Objectives under Climate Uncertainty.” Keynote talk, NAREA Workshop on Climate Change and Land Conservation/Restoration, Washington D.C. June 2017.

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Aryal, Ballav, J. Yoder, R. G. Taylor “Effects of Drought on Farm Revenues: Ten Western US States.” Annual Western Snow Conference, April 2017, Boise, ID.

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Crofton, K and DT Manning.”A Spatial-Dynamic Economic Analysis of Groundwater Management Policies: Impact of Population Growth on Water Allocation and Pricing in the West.” Ohio State University, Seminar Series, 4/7/2017.

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Dundas, S. “How do Multiple Natural Hazards Affect the Value of Housing? Evidence from the Oregon Coast”, AERE Summer Conference, June 2017, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

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Dundas, S. “A transdisciplinary approach to valuing ecosystem services from coastal natural infrastructure”, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, August 2017, Portland, OR.

 

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Gramig, B.M. “Behavioral insights from qualitative and quantitative research on agricultural conservation adoption and stated preferences,” Land, Water & Environment (ENV) track session, 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

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He, X., B.M. Gramig, M. Zischke, B. Dickinson, C. Roswell. “Least-cost Travel Cost Estimation Using a Multi-site User Intercept Survey of Southern Lake Michigan Anglers,” Selected poster, 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

 

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IL, IN

Landry, C.E. "Economic Values of Coastal Erosion Management" SEC Academic Conference, The Future of Water: Regional Collaboration on Shared Climate, Coastlines, and Watersheds: Starkville, MS, 2017.

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Landry, C.E. "Addressing Onsite Sampling in Recreation Research", National Environment & Recreation Research Symposium: Annapolis, MD, 2017

 

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Manning, DT . “Impact of Resource Availability on Preferences for Resource Conservation”, W3133, 2017 annual meeting, Carlsbad, CA.

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Suter , J and DT Manning. “Explaining Producer Preferences for Conservation”, 2017 AAEA annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

 

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Mueller, Julie M. (2017) “Can Environmental Attributes Influence Protected Area Designation? A Case Study Valuing Preferences for Springs in Grand Canyon National Park.” Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, Colorado.

 

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Mueller, Julie. M. (2017) “Restore the Forest, but Not My Trees: Willingness to Pay For Forest Restoration as a Function of Proximity.”. Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

 

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Netusil, NR. Urban Stream Restoration Projects: Does Project Age Affect Property Sale Prices? W-3133 meeting, Carlsbad, California, 2017.

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Netusil, NR. Urban Stream Restoration Projects in Johnson Creek: Does Project Age Affect Property Sale Prices? 25 Years of Johnson Creek Watershed Restoration: A Synthesis of Scientific and Economic Impacts. Portland, Oregon. 2017.

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Bryan Nguyen, Qianyan Wu, and Xiang Bi. Using the TCM to Estimate Fresh-Water Based Recreation in North Central Florida. Selected poster, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Chicago, July 30-Aug 2, 2017.

 

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Nian, Y., Q. Huang, K. Kovacs, C. Henry. “Factors that influence the adoption and continued use of irrigation technologies and water management practices.”, Invited Presentation, Arkansas Water Resources Center Annual Watershed and Research Conference, Fayetteville, AR, 2017, July 25th-26th.

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Rimsaite, R., K.A. Fisher-Vanden, and S.M. Olmstead. “How efficient are U.S. water rights markets among other natural resource markets?” Paper presentation, AAEA Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, 2017, Chicago, IL

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PA, TX

Rimsaite, R., K.A. Fisher-Vanden, and S.M. Olmstead. “How efficient are U.S. water rights markets among other natural resource markets?” Paper presentation, AERE Summer Conference, May 31-June 2, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA

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PA, TX

J.S. Shonkwiler and Jiahui Ying. "Calculating Willingness to Pay in Mixed Logit Models." Selected poster. 2017 Meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Assn., Chicago, IL

 

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Steele, Amanda Harker, J.W. Burnett, and J.C. Bergstrom. “Gone with the Wind”: The Unintended Consequences of Increasing the Capacity of Intermittent Renewable Resources Used for Electricity Generation.” Selected Paper, Annual Meetings of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2017

 

 

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Sun, S., B.M. Gramig, M. Delgado and J.P. Sesmero. "Spatial spillovers and temporal dynamics: heterogeneous impacts of agricultural cropland allocation and crop rotation on water quality," Selected poster, 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

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Sun, S., B.M. Gramig, M. Delgado and J.P. Sesmero. "Measuring the effectiveness of agricultural conservation expenditures on water quality," Poster presentation, 2017 AERE Summer Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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von Haefen, Roger H. “The Nationwide Loss of Recreational Ecosystem Services from the BP Gulf Oil Spill.” Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, MT, 7/17/17.

 

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MD, MI, NC

von Haefen, Roger H. “Costs of Endangered Species Protection on Public Lands: Evidence from Cape Hatteras National Seashore,” Presented at the European AERE Annual Meetings, Athens, Greece, 6/29/17.

 

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NC, OR

von Haefen, Roger H.  “A zonal travel cost approach to estimating recreational damages from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill,” Presented at the W3133 Annual Meetings in Carlsbad, CA, 2/24/17.

 

 

 

MD, MI, NC

von Haefen, Roger H.  “A zonal travel cost approach to estimating recreational damages from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill,” Presented at the AERE Summer Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, 6/1/17.

 

 

 

MD, MI, NC

Yoder, Jonathan. 2017. State of Washington Water Research Center Contributes to the debates over the Yakima Basin IWRM plan. National Institutes for Water Resources Meetings. Washington D.C., February.

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Rui Zhang and J.S. Shonkwiler. "Bias Correction of Welfare Measures in Non-Market Valuation: Comparison of the Delta Method, Jackknife and Bootstrap." Selected presentation. 2017 Meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Assn. Chicago, IL.

 

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Activities

M.G. Interis led the organizing committee for the Land, Water, and Environmental Economics section of the AAEA’s workshop “Water Resources & Policy: Exploring the Risks, Benefits, and Opportunities for Conservation” held in Washington, D.C., March, 2017. The workshop brought together representatives from academia, research organizations, government agencies, and congressional staff to discuss the current state of science, critical knowledge gaps, and policy constraints.

 

 

 

Future Work

This is the final year for W-3133, and we are hopeful that our pending proposal with NIFA will be approved to continue our multi-state project as W-4133 in the years to come.

Impacts

  1. Shed light on the outcomes of parcelization and fragmentation of rural lands by offering information to a diverse audience consisting of concerned citizens, ranchers, and state and federal policy analysts. Frequently in contact with land trust personnel, economics students and non-majors, cooperative extension personnel, faculty at other institutions, NRCS personnel, and state agencies.
  2. We found that despite a projected doubling of population, urbanization in western Oregon will likely increase freshwater withdrawals by at most 17%. The effect on water withdrawals from growth in income and population is moderated by development that displaces irrigated agricultural land, which lowers water withdrawals (Bigelow et al. 2017).
  3. In a growing region of northern Wisconsin, we found that 57% of conserved open-space created between 1978 and 2009 generated close to zero change in total localized development. Conserved open-space parcels of land mostly reallocated development within small localities (Zipp et al. 2017).
  4. In an analysis of the protected Federal forests in Oregon from the Northwest Forest Plan of 1994, we found highly localized and positive amenity effects on growth in median income, population, and property values for small neighboring communities (Chen et al. 2016).
  5. Found that indicators of water quality, such as E. coli and dissolved oxygen, are being capitalized into property sale prices. Estimated effects are largest for properties located closest to urban streams in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington.
  6. The proximity, abundance, and characteristics of green street facilities affect the sale price of single-family residential properties in Portland, Oregon. Sale prices increase as distance from a facility increases. Facility characteristics, such as size, tree canopy coverage, and design complexity, were found to positively effect nearby sale prices.
  7. Tree canopy has a positive effect on nearby property sale prices and the costs of planting and caring for trees may be less than the increase in property sale prices. Benefits received by nearby property owners may justify actions by government agencies to expand canopy coverage.
  8. We find in India that even in areas that experience climate change induced precipitation increases, expansion of irrigated agriculture will require increasing amounts of unsustainable groundwater. The large proposed National River Linking Project has limited capacity to alleviate groundwater stress. Thus, without intervention, poverty and food insecurity in rural India is likely to worsen.
  9. We find that college graduates in the U.S. are more sensitive to extreme temperatures and are willing to pay more than other demographic groups to avoid hot weather. In light of predicted increases in extreme heat days in the West and Southwest, these areas may be at risk of significant human capital loss.
  10. We find that spending on FEMA ex-ante mitigation and planning projects leads to greater reductions in property losses than spending on ex-post adaptation programs — specifically, a one percent increase in annual spending on ex-ante risk reduction and warning projects reduces damages by 0.21 percent while a one percent increase in ex-post recovery and clean-up spending reduces damages by 0.12. Although both types of program spending are effective, we find the marginal return from spending on programs that target long-term mitigation and risk management to be almost twice that of spending on ex-post recovery programs. With the predicted increases in the frequency and severity of North Atlantic hurricanes in the future, our findings suggest there are important potential gains that could be realized from the further diversification of FEMA spending across project categories.
  11. Research on recreation demand and valuation in Michigan and the Great Lakes has been extensively used by state and federal agencies facing resource management decisions. For example, the US Army Corps of Engineers has used valuation results to inform and support their efforts to assess the possible economic effects (positive and negative) of investments to reduce the risk of Asian Carp entering the Great Lakes via the Mississippi River system. Similarly, this research has been utilized in support of fishery management and habitat restoration investment decisions by regional partners at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Great Lakes Commission, NOAA' Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, and the USGS’s Great Lakes Science Center, as well as by state decision makers at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Research and expertise on the economics of harmful algal blooms (HABs) on Lake Erie has been and continues to be used by the International Joint Commission for policy recommendations and research priorities for dealing with HABs on Lake Erie and led to invited presentations to the IJC commissioners and at the Great Lakes Commission’s Great Lakes Day in Washington D.C.
  12. Willingness to pay (WTP) for springs in Grand Canyon National Park is highest for springs that provide habitat for species of concern. Further, WTP is positive and statistically significant for springs with cultural significance—an attribute that is rarely valued in the environmental literature.
  13. We found that net present value of ecosystem services from coastal restoration rapid land-building projects can exceed that of more natural diversion projects. This work has convinced many coastal restoration stakeholders in Louisiana to consider both time and risk when evaluating and selecting coastal restoration projects.
  14. Integrated assessment models link policy actions to their resulting benefits. Analysis of integrated assessment models of air and water pollution highlights how these models help inform both ex ante and ex post analyses of federal, state, and local regulations. Furthermore, we continue work on developing an integrated assessment model of water pollution in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio Tennessee watersheds. This model will help analyze land use and water quality policies that affect a wide range of water uses such as drinking water and water-based recreational use.
  15. We found that existing Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) restriction policies in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore pass a benefit-cost test under a wide range of plausible assumptions. Our findings suggest that current proposals to rescind these restrictions may not be justified on economic grounds, and that proposed similar rules for the neighboring Cape Lookout National Seashore may be welfare enhancing.
  16. We found total recreational damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill were roughly $700 million (2015 US$s), a finding that was published in NOAA’s final Damage and Restoration Plan (DARP).
  17. Found that improvements in water quality in Narragansett Bay have had a positive impact on property values in the surrounding areas and future improvements to water quality could continue to benefit nearby property. The researchers found the housing market responded most to extreme events – indicated by chlorophyll levels at or above the 95th percentile – more than fluctuations in the average water quality from year-to-year. The results could help policy makers and leaders prioritize areas that stand to gain the most from water quality improvement efforts in the future.
  18. Found that Floridians derive about $212 per household from recreating in the St. Johns River in Florida, and identified two segments of households in Florida that placed different values on recreation in the river.
  19. We found that households in China are willing to pay to preserve the endangered crane, and that their willingness to pay is positively correlated with their income and pro-environmental attitudes.

Publications

Author, details
(bolded author(s) are W-3133 members for multi-authored works; FY 16-17 only)

Objective(s)

Multi-state

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Ademola, Adenle, Dale T. Manning, and Joseph Arbiol. (forthcoming). “Mitigating Climate Change in Africa-Barriers to Financing Low-Carbon Development.” World Development.

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Ando, A.W. and P.S. Shah. 2016. “The economics of conservation and finance: A review of the literature.” International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 8(3-4): 321-357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000072

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Bastian, C., C. Keske, D .McLeod and D. Hoag. 2017. “Landowner and land trust agent preferences for conservation easements:  Implications for sustainable land uses and landscapes.” Landscape and Urban Planning: 157: 1-13

 

 

 

 

Bauer, DM, KP Bell, EJ Nelson, and AJK Calhoun. 2017. Managing small natural features: a synthesis of emergent economic issues and opportunities, Biological Conservation 211 (Part B): 80-87, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.01.001.

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 MA, ME

Bergstrom, J.C., and J. B. Loomis. 2017. Economic Valuation of River Restoration: An Analysis of Valuation Literature and Its Uses in Decision-making. Water Resources and Economics 17 (2017): 9-19. 2)

 

 

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CO, GA

Bigelow, D.P., Plantinga, A.J., Lewis, D.J., and C. Langpap. 2017. “How Does Urbanization Affect Water Withdrawals? Insights from an Econometric-Based Landscape Simulation.”  Land Economics, 93(3): 413-436.

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Booth, Pamela, Todd Guilfoos, Emi Uchida. (2016) “Loss aversion and water quality.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 45 (02), 338-366.

 

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Tatiana Borisova, Xiang Bi, and Sherry Larkin. 2016(October). “Assessing Nature-Based Recreation to Support Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability Extension Programs.” Journal of Extension, 15191RIB, https://joe.org/joe/2016october/rb1.php

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Calhoun AJK, Mushet DM, Bell KP, Boix D, Fitzsimons JA, Isselin-Nondedeu F.  2017. Temporary wetlands:  challenges and solutions for protecting a "disappearing" ecosystem, Biological Conservation 211 (Part B):3-11, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.024

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international 

Calvin, K., K. Fisher-Vanden. 2017. “Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: The role of Integrated Assessment Models,” in press, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa843c

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Chen, Y., Lewis, D.J., and B. Weber. 2016. “Conservation Land Amenities and Regional Economies: A Post-Matching Difference-in-Differences Analysis of the Northwest Forest Plan.” Journal of Regional Science, 56(3): 373-394.

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Davlasheridze, M., K. Fisher-Vanden, A. Klaiber, 2017, “The Effects of Adaptation Measures on Hurricane Induced Property Losses,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 81:93-114.

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OH, PA

Dundas, S.J. 2017. Benefits and Ancillary Costs of Natural Infrastructure: Evidence from the New Jersey Coast. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 85: 62-80.

 

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Dundas, Steven, Roger H. von Haefen and Carol Mansfield. “Costs of Endangered Species Protection on Public Lands: Evidence from Cape Hatteras National Seashore,” Marine Resource Economics, forthcoming.

 

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NC, OR

Fernando, F. and R. Hearne. In press. “Housing for Essential Service Workers during an Oil Boom: Opportunities and Policy Implications.” Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. DOI 10.1007/s10901-016-9539-9. November 2016.

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Garnache, C., S. Swinton, J. Herriges, F. Lupi, J. Stevenson, 2016. Solving the phosphorus pollution puzzle: Synthesis and directions for future research. American J. of Agricultural Economics. 98: 1314–1333.

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Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Craig E. Landry, and Martin Smith. 2017. “Coastal Climate Adaptation: A Grand Challenge for Resource and Environmental Economists.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, forthcoming.

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Gramig, BM, R Massey and SD Yun. "Nitrogen Application Decision-making under Climate Risk in the U.S. Corn Belt". Climate Risk Management 15:82-89, 2017.

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Hamaide, B., H.J. Albers, G. Busby, A.W. Ando, and S. Polasky. 2016. “Spatially-correlated risk in nature reserve site selection.” PLOS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146023.

 

 

 

IL, MN, WY

Horan, R. D., & J.S. Shortle. (2017). Endogenous risk and point-nonpoint uncertainty trading ratios. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(2), 427-446.

 

 

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MI, PA

Huang, Q., Y. Xu, K. Kovacs, G. West. 2017. “Analysis of factors that influence the use of irrigation technologies and water management practices in Arkansas.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 49(2): 159-185.

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Hunter, ML Jr., V Acuña, DM Bauer, KP Bell, AJK Calhoun, MR Felipe-Lucia, JA Fitzsimons, E González, M Kinnison, D Lindenmayer, C Lundquist, R Medellin, EJ Nelson, and P Poschlod. 2017. Conserving small natural features with large ecological roles: a synthetic overview, Biological Conservation 211 (Part B): 88-95, DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.12.020.

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 MA, ME

Hungate, Bruce A., Edward B. Barbier, Amy W. Ando, Samuel P. Marks, Peter B. Reich, Natasja van Gestel, G. David Tilman, Johannes M.H. Knops, David U. Hooper, Bradley J. Butterfield, Bradley J. Cardinale. 2017. “The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage.” Science Advances 3(4): e1601880. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1601880.

 

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CO, IL, MN

Interis, M., and D. Petrolia. 2016. “Location, Location, Habitat: How the Value of Ecosystem Services Varies Across Location and by Habitat.” Land Economics 92(2): 292-307.

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Interis, M., C. Xu, D. Petrolia, and K. Coatney. 2016. “Examining Unconditional Preference Revelation in Choice Experiments: A Voting Game Approach.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 5(1): 125-142

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Jessoe, Katrina, Dale T. Manning and J. Edward Taylor (2017). “Climate change and labor allocation in Mexico: Evidence from annual fluctuations in weather.” Economic Journal.

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CA, CO

Keiser, D.A. and N.Z. Muller. 2017. “Air and Water: Integrated Assessment Models for Multiple Media.” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 9: 165-184.

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Kim, T., J. Opaluch, D.S. Moon, and D.R. Petrolia. 2017. “Developing a Natural Resource Damage Assessment Procedure for Oil Spill Pollution in Korea using Habitat Equivalency Analysis.” Marine Pollution Bulletin 121(1-2): 183-91.

 

 

 

MS, RI

Knoche, S., F. Lupi. 2016. Demand for fishery regulations: Effects of angler heterogeneity and catch improvements on preferences for gear and harvest restrictions. Fisheries Research. 181: 163-171.

 

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MD, MI

Kochi, I., P. Champ, J. Loomis and G. Donovan. 2016. Valuing Morbidity Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure from 2007 Southern California Wildfires. Journal of Forest Economics 25: 29-54.

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Kovacs, K., A. Durand-Morat. 2017. “The influence of on- and off-farm surface water investment on groundwater extraction from an agricultural landscape.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, forthcoming.

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Kovacs, K., G. West, Y. Xu. 2017. “The use of efficiency frontiers to evaluate the optimal land cover and irrigation practices for economic returns and ecosystem services.” Journal of Hydrology, 547: 474-488.

 

 

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Kovacs, K., M. Mancini. 2017. “Conjunctive water management to sustain agricultural economic returns and a shallow aquifer at the landscape level.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 72 (2): 158-167.

 

 

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Kovacs, K., G. West. 2016. “The influence of groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture on the tradeoffs between ecosystem services and economic returns” PLoS One, 11(12), e0168681.

 

 

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Kovacs, K., Y. Xu, G. West, M. Popp. 2016. "The Tradeoffs between Market Returns from Agricultural Crops and Non-Market Ecosystem Service Benefits on an Irrigated Agricultural Landscape in the Presence of Groundwater Overdraft." Water 8 (11): 501.

 

 

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Krah, K., D.R. Petrolia, A. Williams, K.H. Coble, A. Harri, and R. Rejesus. “Producer Preferences for Contracts on a Risky Bioenergy Crop.” Forthcoming, Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy.

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IL, MS, NC

Landry, Craig E. 2017. “Experimental Methods in Economic Valuation” Chapter 10 in A Primer on Non-Market Valuation, 2nd Edition, Champ, P., K. Boyle, and T. Brown (Eds), Springer: New York, NY.

 

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Landry, Craig E., Mona Ahmadiani, and Gregory Colson. 2017. “Structural Empirical Analysis of Decisions under Natural Hazard Risk” in The Future of Risk Management, University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, PA.

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Liu, Tingting, James Opaluch, Emi Uchida. The impact of water quality improvement in Narragansett Bay on housing prices. Water Resources Research, Forthcoming

 

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OH, RI

Lynne Lewis and Craig E. Landry. 2017. “River Restoration and Hedonic Property Value Analyses: Guidance for Effective Benefit Transfer” Water Resources and Economics 17 (January): 20-31. 3)

 

 

 

GA,
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Maas, Alexander, Dale T. Manning, Christopher Goemans, and Andre Dozier (2016). “Water storage in a changing environment: The impact of allocation institutions on value.” Water Resources Research 52. doi:10.1002/2016WR019239

 

 

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Maas, A.S., Goemans, C.G., Manning, D., Kroll, S., Brown, T. (2017). “Dilemmas, Coordination and Defection: How Uncertain Tipping Points Induce Common Pool Resource Destruction.” Games and Economic Behavior, 104, 760-774.

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Maas, Alexander, Christopher Goemans, Dale Manning, Stephan Kroll, Mazdak Arabi and Mariana Rodriguez-McGoffina (2017). Evaluating the Effect of Conservation Motivations on Residential Water Demand. Journal of Environmental Management 196 (July): 394-401.

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Magzamen, Sheryl, Jennifer Cross, Jordan Suter, Adam Mayer, Stephanie Barr, Lenora Bohren, Brian Dunbar, Joshua Schaeffer, Dale T. Manning, and Stephen Reynolds (2017). “A multidisciplinary research framework on school environment, occupant health and performance.” Journal of School Health 87/5: 376-387.

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Maniloff, Peter and Dale T. Manning (forthcoming). “State Severance Tax Competition and the Division of Natural Resource Rents.” Environmental and Resource Economics.

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Manning, Dale T., Christopher Goemans, and Alexander Maas (forthcoming). “Producer responses to surface water availability and implications for climate change adaptation.” Land Economics.

 

 

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Manning, Dale T. and John B. Loomis (2016). “Consumer preferences for fixed versus variable quantities of electricity: Joint estimation of contingent quantity and valuation methods.” Environment and Development Economics 21/6: 789-811.

 

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Manning, Dale T., and Hirotsugu Uchida (2016). “Are two rents better than none? When monopolies correct ill-defined property rights.” Marine Resource Economics 31/2: 141-164.

 

 

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Manning, Dale T., J. Edward Taylor and James Wilen (2016). “General equilibrium tragedy of the commons.” Environmental and Resource Economics. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-016-0066-7.

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CO, CA

Markowski-Lindsay, M., Catanzaro, P., Bell, K., Kittredge, D., Leahy, J., Butler, B., Markowitz, E., Milman, A., Zimmerer, R., Allred, S. and Sisock, M. 2017. Estate planning as a forest stewardship tool: A study of family land ownerships in the northeastern US, Forest Policy and Economics 83:36-44, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.06.004.

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MA, ME,
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AS Mase, BM Gramig, LS Prokopy. "Climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and adaptation behavior among Midwestern U.S. crop farmers". Climate Risk Management 15:8-17, 2017

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IN, WI

Miao, Haoran, Jacob Fooks, Todd Guilfoos, Kent Messer, Soni M. Pradhanang, Jordan Suter, Simona Trandafir, Emi Uchida. 2016. The impact of information on behavior under an ambient-based policy for regulating non-point source pollution. Water Resources Research 52 (5), 3294-3308.

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CO, DE, RI

Monger, Randall, Jordan Suter, Dale T. Manning, and Joel Schneekloth. (forthcoming). “Retiring Land to Save Water: Participation in Colorado's Republican River Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.” Land Economics.

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Morzillo, Anita, B Kreakie, Noelwah R. Netusil, J. Alan Yeakley, Connie Ozawa, and Sally Duncan. 2016. Resident Perceptions of Natural Resources Between Cities and Across Scales in the Pacific Northwest. Ecology and Society 21(3): 14-28.

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Mueller, Julie M., Lima, Ryan, E., and Springer Abraham E. (2017) “Can Environmental Attributes Influence Protected Area Designation? A Case Study Valuing Preferences for Springs in Grand Canyon National Park.” Land Use Policy 60:196-205.

 

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Palm-Forster, L., F. Lupi, M. Chen, 2016. Valuing Lake Erie beaches using value and function transfers.  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. 45(2): 270-292.

 

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DE, MI

Palm-Forster, L., S. Swinton, F. Lupi, R. Shupp, 2016. Too Burdensome to Bid: Transaction Costs and Pay-for-Performance Conservation. American J. of Agricultural Economics. 98: 1334-1359.

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DE, MI

Petrolia, D.R., W.C. Walton, and L. Yehouenou. 2017. “Is There a Market for Branded Gulf of Mexico Oysters?” Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics 49(1): 45-65.

 

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AL, FL, MS

Petrolia, D.R., M.G. Interis, and J. Hwang. 2017. “Single-Choice, Repeated-Choice, and Best-Worst Scaling Elicitation Formats: Do Results Differ and by How Much?” Environmental & Resource Economics, dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-016-0083-6.

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FL, MS

Ranjan, R., & J. Shortle (2017). Protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems in multiple stressor Environments. Water Economics and Policy, 3(02), 1650011.

 

 

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Scofield, A., B. Rashford, D. McLeod, S. Lieske, R. Coupal, and S. Albeke. 2016. "The Impact of Residential Development Pattern on Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures." Land Economics. 92(4):656-678.

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Shah, P.S., M.L. Mallory, A.W. Ando, and G. Guntenspergen. 2017. “Fine-resolution conservation planning with limited climate-change information.” Conservation Biology 31(2):278-289. doi:10.1111/cobi.12793.

 

 

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Shah, P. and A.W. Ando. 2016. “Permanent and temporary policy incentives for conservation under stochastic returns from competing land uses.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 98(4): 1074-1094. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aaw032.

 

 

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Shortle, J. (2017).  Policy Nook: Economic Incentives for Water Quality Protection, Water Economics and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2017) 1771004

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Shortle, J., & R.D. Horan (2017). Nutrient pollution: A wicked challenge for economic instruments. Water Economics and Policy, 3(02), 1650033.

 

 

 

MI, PA

Shortle, J., D. Abler, Z. Kaufman, and K.Y. Zipp (2016) “Simple vs. Complex: Implications of Lags in Pollution Delivery for Efficient Load Allocation and Design of Water Quality Trading Programs” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 45(2):367-393.

 

 

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Skevas, T., N. Hayden, S. Swinton, F. Lupi. 2016. Landowner willingness to supply marginal land for bioenergy production. Land Use Policy, 50, 507-517.

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MI, MO

J Song, BM Gramig, R Cibin, I Chaubey. "Integrated economic and environmental assessment of cellulosic biofuel production in an agricultural watershed" BioEnergy Research 10(2):509-524, 2017.

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Steinman, A., B. Cardinale, W. Munns, M. Ogdahl, J. Allan, T. Angadi, S. Bartlett, K. Braumang, M. Byappanahalli, M. Doss, D. Dupont, A. Johns, D. Kashian, F. Lupi, P. McIntyren, T. Miller, M. Moore, R. Logsdon Muenich, R. Poudel, J. Price, B. Provencher, A. Rea, J. Read, S. Renzetti, B. Sohngen, E. Washburn. 2017. Ecosystem services in the Great Lakes, J. Great Lakes Res. 43:161-168

 

 

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MI, OH, WI

Swallow, S, C Anderson, Emi Uchida. The Bobolink Project: Selling Public Goods From Ecosystem Services Using Provision Point Mechanisms. Ecological Economics, Forthcoming.

 

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CT, RI, WA

West, G., K. Kovacs. 2017. “Addressing Groundwater Declines with Precision Agriculture: An Economic Comparison of Monitoring Methods for Variable-Rate Irrigation.” Water 9 (1): 28.

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Yang, W., D. Hyndman, J. Winkler, A. Viña, J. Deines, F. Lupi, L. Luo, Y. Li, B. Basso, C. Zheng, D. Ma, S., X. Liu, H. Zheng, G. Cao, Q. Meng, Z. Ouyang, J. Liu. 2016. Urban Water Sustainability: Framework and Application. Ecology and Society. 21(40):4

 

 

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Yoder, Jonathan, Jennifer Adam, Michael Brady, Joseph Cook, Stephen Katz, Shane Johnston, Keyvan Malek, John McMillan, and Qingqing Yang. 2017. Benefit-Cost Analysis of Integrated Water Resource Management: Accounting for interdependence in the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1-22. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12507.

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Zipp, K.Y., D. J. Lewis, B. Provencher (2017) “Does the conservation of land reduce development? An econometric-based landscape simulation with land market feedbacks” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 81: 19-37

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