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Douglass Shaw Professor Water Resources Policy and Economics PhD, University of Colorado Research Interests: Water Resource Economics, Non-market Valuation, Risk and Uncertainty, Environmental Economics Office Address: 308F Blocker 2124 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2124 Contact Information: (979) 845-3555 (Office) (979) 862-1563 (Fax) Email Address: wdshaw@ag.tamu.edu Personal Website: http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/shaw-douglass/

About Dr. Shaw:
Dr. Shaw has published over 75 papers in a variety of economics, environmental, and science journals, or in books. He currently serves as a member of the steering committee for Oregon's Program for the Economics of Climate Change, and he served terms as Associate Editor for the journals, Water Resources Research (2005-2006) and for the Journal of Leisure Research (2005-2006). He was also a member of the editorial council for the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2003-2006). Dr. Shaw's current research emphasis is on the economics of risk and uncertainty. In particular, he works on valuing environmental amenities and changes in objective and perceived risks associated with contamination of resources or those risks that affect human health. He has recently written about the effects of ozone pollution on asthma patients, the risks from consuming contaminated fish, the perceived risks of nuclear waste transport, risks associated with natural hazards (earthquakes and hurricanes), and responses to the perceived risks of drinking water contaminated with arsenic. He has served as the President of the W-133 working group for U.S.D.A. on cost-benefit analysis in 1999 and previously held academic positions at the University of Nevada, Reno (1995 to 2004), and in the economics departments at Vassar and Williams Colleges (1986 through 1990). He has also held non-academic positions as a senior economist for the consulting firm, RCG/Hagler, Bailly, Inc. (1991 to 1994) and as a part-time consultant to Energy and Resource Consultants in 1980 and 1981.

Selected Publications:
"Risk Perceptions of Arsenic in Tap Water and Bottled Water Consumption" Paul Jakus, W. Douglass Shaw, To Nguyen, and Mark Walker. In press, Water Resources Research, 2009, Vol. 45.

"Option Price Without Expected Utility" Paan Jindapon and W. Douglass Shaw, Economics Letters, 2008, Vol. 100 (September): 408-410.

"Allocating Resources in an Uncertain World: Water Management and Endangered Species." Richard Woodward and W. Douglass Shaw. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008, Vol. 90 (3/August): 593-605.

"On Why Environmental and Resource Economists Should Care about Non-Expected Utility Models" W. D. Shaw and R.T. Woodward. Resource and Energy Economics, 2008 Vol. 30 (1/January): 66-89

"A Theoretically-Consistent Empirical Non-Expected Utility Model of Ambiguity: Nuclear Waste Mortality Risk and Yucca Mountain." M. Riddel and W.D. Shaw. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2006, Vol. 32 (2/March): 131-150.

Water Resource Economics and Policy: An Introduction. W. D. Shaw. 2005. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishers.

Asthma Patients' Activities and Air Pollution: A Semiparametric Censored Regression Analysis." S. Yen, W.D. Shaw and M. Eiswerth. Review of Economics of the Household, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 1: 73-88.