Research:
- Dynamic Reserve Design
- Preferences for and Opportunity Costs of REDD+ Contracts and Community Managed Forestry
- Understanding Public Peferences for Ecosystem Restoration Grasslands in Illinois
- Coral Reefs in Okinawa
- Riparian Tree Shade Program in Oregon
- Spatal Considerations and Multiple Land Use in Reserve Design
- Optimal Taxation of Inter-related Environmental Externalities
- Using STELLA Simulation Models to Teach Natural Resource Economics
- Preferences for underutilized seafood and socially sustainable seafood
- Energy Economics - Economics Impact of Fracking
I am also currently working on research topics in energy economics looking at subsidies for renewable energy and economic impacts from unconventional gas and oil, marine economics looking at preferenes for sustainable seafood.
Areas of Expertise: Environmental and resource economics, non-market valuation, integer programming and optimization
My main research is focused on studying the intersection of land use, ecosystem services, and conservation. I use choice experiment surveys to analyse public preferences for ecosystem services and environmental policy, and dynamic and spatial resource allocation models to study optimal land use.
My research applications focus on
- grasslands in Illinois
- riparian ecosystem services in Oregon
- REDD+ payments in Nepal and Ethiopia
- coral reefs in Okinawa, Japan
- improved stove adoption in Ethiopia
- conservation within military installations
In addition, I am also currently working on
- preferences for sustainable seafood labels
- spatially explicit subsidies for renewable energy generation
- general equiblirium models of environmental taxation
- dynamic models of economic systems using Stella
- optimal school districting using integer programming methods
