Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Faculty

Boadu, Fred Professor Law and International Trade Phone: (979) 845-4410 Fax: (979) 862-1563 352B Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) f-boadu@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Focuses on applying tools in law and economics to address issues in international trade law and economics, economic development, resource economics, international environment policy, and constitutional economics. Classes Taught: AGEC 314 - Marketing Agricultural Products AGEC 344 - Ag Law Diana M. Burton Associate Professor (joint appointment in Forest Science) Economics and Policy Phone: (979) 845-2577 Fax: na Hort-Forestry, TAMU West Campus d-burton@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Utilization of statistical methods and econometric models to better understand the economics and political-economics of forestry and resource markets. Current projects examine market structure in forest products trade, use of directed graphs, statistical causation and cointegration techniques to examine forestry sector markets, economic analyses in forest health and application of political-economic models to better understand market structure and regulation. Classes Taught: FRSC 314 Forest Economics and Valuation FRSC 406 Forest Policy FRSC 614 Economic Analysis for Forest Resource Decisions Conner, J. Richard Professor Management, Range Economics, Ecological Economics Phone: (979) 845-7456 Fax: (979) 862-1563 308E Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) jrc@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Dr. Conner’s research emphasizes the integration of economics withecology in the management of grazing lands and related resources. His work has dealt with such issues as how to select the optimal combination of wildlife/livestock enterprises while considering both biological diversity and relative levels and variation in enterprise costs and prices. Much of hiswork has been devoted to development of integrated biophysical and economic models for analyzing the ecological and economic impacts of alternative technologies and/or policies on agricultural firms and regions. Classes Taught: AGEC 325 - Farm and Ranch Management RENR/AGEC 659 - Ecological Economics RLEM 415 - Range Analysis and Management Planning Griffin, Ronald Professor Resource and Welfare Economics Phone: (979) 845-7049 Fax: (979) 845-4261 308C Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) ron-griffin@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Water resource issues such as demand estimation, efficient pricing, cost-benefit analysis, market design, management decisions confronting water suppliers and purveyors, and policy choices for the state or national governments. Classes Taught: AGEC 350 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics AGEC 636 - Agribusiness Markets and Applied Welfare Economics AGEC 689 - Water Resource Economics Griffin, Wade L. Professor Production and Resource Economics, Aquaculture Phone: (979) 845-4291 Fax: (979) 862-1563 302C Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) wgriffin@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent research: Includes developing management simulation models to evaluate policy alternatives proposed by fisheries management bodies. In addition his research is concerned with economic feasibility of aquaculture. Classes Taught: AGEC 317 - Quantitative Analysis Jin, Yanhong Assistant Professor Applied Microeconomics, Marketing, Industrial Organization, Agricultural Biosecurity, and Environmental Economics Phone: (979) 458-13555 Fax: (979) 862-1563 342B Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) yjin@ag.tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Concerned with economic development and the environment in developing countries; and informal and formal mechanisms of pollution control. Classes Taught: AGEC 317 - Quantitative Analysis in Agricultural Economics Lacewell, Ronald D. Professor Resources, Production Economics, and Farm Management Phone: (979) 845-8476 Fax: (979) 862-1563 306B Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) r-lacewell@tamu.edu Recent Research: Centers on the areas of irrigation, integrated pest management, dairy waste management, farming systems, water quality and new crops. McCarl, Bruce A. Regents Professor Climate Change, Climate Change Mitigation, Water economics, Policy, and Mathematical Programming Phone: (979) 845-1706 Fax: (979) 862-8679 340D Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) mccarl@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research Dr. McCarl works principally on national level appraisal of environmental issues largely focusing on the appraisal of global climate change, greenhouse gas emission mitigation, El Nino/Southern Oscillation forecast value, air pollution, , agricultural and natural resource conservation policies efforts. He also works on regional analyses within Texas of water use tradeoff issues and on homeland security issues. Methodologically he works on the use of mathematical programming and risk analysis tools in these settings.Here is a more detailed description of Dr. McCarl's work areas. Classes Taught: AGEC 622 - Agribusiness Analysis and Forecasting (co-taught) AGEC 641 - Applied Mathematical Programming AGEC 695 - Frontiers in Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics - Resources section GAMS Short Courses Mjelde, James Professor Production and Resource Economics Phone: (979) 845-1492 Fax: (979) 862-1563 318D Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) j-mjelde@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Focuses on production and resource economics and the economics of information, with particular emphasis on modeling of dynamic processes. Classes Taught: AGEC 604 - Natural Resource Economics Newburn, David Assistant Professor Resource and Environmental Economics, Regional and Urban Economics, Spatial Modeling and Econometrics Phone: (979) 862-2894 Fax: (979) 862-1563 352B Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) danewburn@ag.tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Focuses on land-use regulations and housing development; optimal allocation of conservation funds for protecting open space and habitat; and linkages between agricultural water management and salmon recovery. Classes Taught: AGEC 603 - Land Economics Shaw, W. Douglass Professor Water Resources Policy and Economics Phone: (979) 845-3555 Fax: (979) 862-1563 308F Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) wdshaw@ag.tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: Environmental economics, risk/uncertainty, water resource economics. Classes Taught: Woodward, Richard Associate Professor Environmental and Resource Economics Phone: (979) 845-5864 Fax: (979) 862-1563 308D Blocker, 2124 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2124 (TAMU main campus) r-woodward@tamu.edu@tamu.edu Personal Website Recent Research: The issues of sustainability, fisheries economics, and market based approaches to environmental policy. Classes Taught: AGEC 350 - Environmental & Natural Resource Economics (Fall Semesters) AGEC 637 - Dynamic Analysis in Ag Economics (Summer session) AGEC 673 - Fundamentals of Natural Resource & Environmental Economics (Fall Semesters)