Academic Programs

Doug Lipton: Cooperatives in Aquaculture, Northeast Regional Aquaculture Center, 2010

Lori Lynch: Economic Research Service, USDA, 1989-1991; Maryland Biomass Harvesting and Market Analysis Steering Committee, 2009-2010; BAYSTAT Program Scientific Advisory Panel, 2008-present

PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP OF FACULTY

The faculty of the Department are the leaders of learned societies in the Department's primary fields.

30. Officers of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

President

Maureen Cropper (Affiliate): 1995-1996

Ted McConnell: 1991-1992

Board of Directors

Anna Alberini: 2000-2002

Lori Lynch: 2010 - 2012

31. Leadership of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

President-elect, President, Past President

Richard Just 2007-2010

Director

Lori Lynch 2010 

Director of the Northeast Extension Section

Jim Hanson 2010

Chair, Foundation Endowment Committee

Richard Just 2009-2010

Chair, Nominating Committee

Richard Just 2009-2010

Fellows Selection Committee

Richard Just 2009-2010

Secretary-Treasurer, Senior Section

Wesley Musser 2009-2011

32. Officer of Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

President-elect, President, Past President

Lori Lynch, 2007-2009  

33. President of the Econometric Society

Marc Nerlove 1981

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE OF THE FACULTY

The faculty of the Department have served as editors and on editorial boards of the major scholarly journals of the Department's primary fields.

34. Board of Editors of the American Economic Review

Marc Nerlove 1970-1972

John List (Adjunct) 2004-present

35. Editing of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE)

Editor

Erik Lichtenberg 2007-2011

Richard Just 1984-1986

Associate Editor

Bob Chambers 1984-1986

Erik Lichtenberg 1998-2002

Editorial Council

Richard Just 1978-1980

36. Editing of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management(JEEM)

Co-editor

Anna Alberini 2001-2004

John List (Adjunct) 2004-present

Ted McConnell 1985-1987

Rob Williams 2007-present

Associate Editor

Anna Alberini 2000

Ramon Lopez 1998-1999 

Lars Olson 1996-1999

Editorial Board

Anna Alberini 1998-2001

Ted McConnell 1992-1996

Lars Olson 1994-1995, 2001-2004

Rob Williams 2005-2007

John List (Adjunct) 2001-2003

37. Editing of the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE)

Rob Williams

38. Editorial Board Members of Environmental and Resource Economics(ERE)

Anna Alberini, Science Advisory Board

Ted McConnell, Science Advisory Board

39. Editorial Board Members of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review(ARER)

Howard Leathers  1999-2005

Ken Leonard 2005-2008 

Erik Lichtenberg  1994-1995

Doug Lipton 2005-2008

40. Editorial roles with other professional journals

Anna Alberini Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Editorial Board 2006-present

Bob Chambers Journal of Productivity Analysis Associate Editor 2009-present

Jim Hanson Agronomy Journal Editorial Board 2008-present

Richard Just Western Journal of Agricultural Economics Editorial Council 1982-1984; Journal of Development Planning Literature Editorial Board 1985-1991; Economics Research International Editorial Board 2010-present

Howard Leathers Food Security Editorial Board 2010-present

Doug Lipton International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture Editorial Board 1999-2003

Ramon Lopez Environmental and Development Economics Associate Editor 1995-2003 Journal of Policy Reform Editorial Board 1994-present

Lori Lynch Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 2003-present

Ted McConnell Journal of Marine Resource Economics Editorial Council 1981-present; Land Economics Editorial Council 1985-1997; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Editorial Council 1992-1996

Marc Nerlove Journal of the American Statistical Association Associate Editor 1960-1962; Journal of Economic Literature Editorial Board 1969-1971

John List (Adjunct) Experimental Economics Editorial Board 2004-present; Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy Editorial Board 2004-present; Journal of Regional Science Associate Editor 2001-present; Environmental and Resource Economics Co-editor 2001-2004, Editorial Board 2001-present; Editorial Board 2004-present; American Economic Review Editorial Board 2004-present; Journal of Economic Literature Board of Editors 2006-present; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Co-editor 2004-present, Editorial Council 2001-present; Letters in Spatial and Resource Economics Editorial Board 2006-present

EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT OF RECENT GRADUATES

 Students receiving recent graduate degrees from the Department have found employment in choice academic positions and the best international organizations.

41. Placement of graduate students in U.S. academic positions

Glenn Sheriff, Columbia University

Charles Towe, University of Maryland

Gregmar Galinato, Washington State University

Xiangping Liu, North Carolina State University

Constant Tra, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Sarah Adelman, Mount Holyoke College

Timothy Fitzgerald, Montana State University

Craig Landry, East Carolina State University

Shaikh Mahfuz Rahman, Texas Tech University

42. Placement of graduate students in international academic positions

Sumeet Gulati, University of British Columbia, Canada

Michele Baggio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Beat Hintermann. ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Marcella Veronesi, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Chad Lawley, University of Manitoba, Canada

Angelo Zago, University of Verona, Italy

Anmol Ratan, Monash University, Australia

Oscar Cristi, Universidad del Desarrolla, Santiago, Chile

Oscar Melo, Ponticia Universidad Catalica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Ravissa Suchato, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Mohammed Helal Uddin, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

43. Placement of graduate students in U.S. government agencies in Washington

Nathaniel Higgins, USDA Economic Research Service, Washington DC

Conrad Choiniere, Food and Drug Administration

Andrew Stocking, Congressional Budget Office, Washington DC

Roger Claassen, USDA Economic Research Service, Washington DC

Heather Klemick, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC

44. Placement of graduate students in major international organizations

Yabei Zhang, World Bank, Washington DC

Lopamudra Chakraborti, World Bank, Washington DC

Jotsyna Puri, United Nations, New York, NY

Irina Klytchnikova, World Bank, Washington DC

Daniel Gilligan, IFPRI, Washington DC

Gustavo Anriquez, FAO, Rome, Italy

Hernan Gonzalez, United Nations Development Programme, Santiago, Chile

Ekaterina Krivonos, Economic Commission for Latin American and Carribbean, Santiago, Chile

45. Placement of graduate students in other positions

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Resources for the Future

Paramita Sinha, RTI International, Research Triangle, North Carolina

Tulika Narayan, ABT Associates Inc.

QUALITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE 

The Department strives to offer the highest quality educational experience in agricultural & resource economics.

46. A major emphasis is on engaging students in publishable research starting in their first year.

The Department offers annual awards for graduate student performance:

a. The Rhona Lantin Award for the best paper written by a first-year graduate student.

b. The Bessie H. Duvault Award for the best paper written by a second-year graduate student.

c. The Billy V. and Mary Lessley Award for the best dissertation. 

These awards are accompanied by a substantial cash reward. They encourage students to think about writing publishable research papers, the bread-and-butter of future careers, starting on the very first day of graduate school.

47. Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Outstanding PhD Dissertation Awards won by students

Beat Hinterman Honorable mention 2010

Constant Tra 2008

Ricardo Smith-Ramirez 2006

Dan Gilligan Honorable mention 2005

Timothy Haab 1996

Madhur Gautam Honorable mention 1994

Rodney Smith 1993

Douglas Larson 1989

To get the real inside scoop on this topic, we invite prospective students to visit the campus and talk with faculty and graduate students.

PROXIMITY OF MAJOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS 

The Department offers close proximity to an incomparable array of government agencies, international institutions, and non-governmental organizations devoted to environmental issues, agricultural policy, natural resource management, and international development. Opportunities for attending stimulating seminars abound. Many students find useful work experience, access to data, and cutting-edge thesis topics as well as future employment through these organizations. 

48. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is located only 9.7 miles away.

49. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is located only 10.6 miles away.

50. The U.S. Economic Research Service (ERS) is located only 9.4 miles away.

51. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is located only 1.5 miles away.

52. Resources for the Future (RFF) is located only 9.0 miles away.

53. The Joint Institute for Food Science and Nutrition (JIFSAN) is located on the University of Maryland campus.

54. The Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) is located adjacent to the University of Maryland campus.

55. The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education is located on the University of Maryland campus.

56. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is located only 9.9 miles away.

57. The World Bank is located only 10.0 miles away.

58. The Inter-American Development Bank is located only 9.8 miles away.

59. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is located only 9.8 miles away.

60. The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) with its National Agricultural Library is located only 3.1 miles away.

61. The U.S. Capitol, Senate, and House of Representatives, which enacts all federal law, is enacted is located only 9.5 miles away.

THE EXPERTISE OF FACULTY

The Department faculty's expertise provides an extremely broad and deep coverage of agricultural, environmental, and natural resource economics. A list of major topical areas of departmental expertise (a partial list in no particular order) follows. In addition, students can count on instruction grounded in frontier-level economic theory and econometrics, the two pillars of economics.

62. Major areas of faculty expertise include:

63. Recent books by faculty of the Department. Titles published just since 2000

Alberini, Anna, Paolo Rosato and Margherita Turvani (eds) (2006), Valuing Complex Natural Resource Systems: The Case of the Lagoon of Venice, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Alberini, Anna, and James R. Kahn (eds) (2006), Handbook on Contingent Valuation, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (February 2006)

Bockstael, NE and KE McConnell, Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences, Springer, 360 pages, December 2006*.

Chambers, RG & J Quiggin - Uncertainty, Production Choice and Agency: The State-Contingent Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Haab, TC and KE McConnell - Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: Econometrics for Non-Market Valuation, Edward Elgar Publishers, hardback 2002, paperback 2003.

Just, RE and RD Pope, Eds - A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in US Agriculture, Kluwer Publishing, 2002.

Just, RE, DL Hueth and A Schmitz - The Welfare Economics of Public Policy: A Practical Approach to Project and Policy Evaluation, Edwin Elgar Press, hardback 2004, paperback 2005.

Just, RE, JM Alston, and D. Zilberman. Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy, Springer Publishers, 2006.

Just, RE, DL Hueth, and A. Schmitz. Applied Welfare Economics, Edward Elgar, 2008.

Leathers, HD and P Foster - The World Food Problem, 4th Edition, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

López, R and JC Jordan - Sustainable Development in Latin America: Financing and Policies Working in Synergy, Organization of American States Press, 2000.

López, R and A Valdes - Rural Poverty in Latin America, MacMillan Press, 2001.

Dhareshwar, A, Y Wang, R. López, and N Kishor- The Quality of Growth, Oxford University Press, 2000.

López, R and M. Toman (2006). Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Nerlove, ML - Essays on Panel Data Econometrics, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Scarpa, Riccardo, and Anna Alberini (eds) (2005), Applications of Simulation Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

64. International Visibility

Countries that the faculty of the Department have visited recently in a professional capacity include the following:

International awards received by faculty of the Department include:

Bob Chambers, SCOR/IDEI Award for best paper published in Geneva Review of Insurance and Risk, 2010

James Hanson, Fulbright Fellowship, 1983

Richard Just, International Fellow, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010

Erik Lichtenberg, Fulbright Fellowship, 1998

Erik Lichtenberg, University of Helsinki Bronze Medal, 2002

Ramon Lopez, von Humboldt Research Award, 2002

Marc Nerlove, Fulbright Fellowship, 1962-1963, 1987

Marc Nerlove, Docteur Honors Causa de l'Universite de Geneve, 2000

Marc Nerlove, Honorary Fellow, Argentine Association of Political Economy, 2000

Marc Nerlove, Dr. Rerung Politik from University of Mannheim, 1982

65. The University of Maryland has a long tradition of environmental scholarship in related disciplines

The University of Maryland has a long tradition of environmental scholarship throughout the University and on all sides of the issues. Past and present faculty across campus have included:

Thomas Schelling (Nobel laureate and author of The Strategy of Conflict  and Arms and Influence, Department of Economics, School of Public Policy)

Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring, her early career was in the Department of Zoology)

Robert Costanza (founder of Ecological Economics, formerly Director of the UM Institute for Ecological Economics,)

Herman Daly (author of Toward a Steady-State Economy  and co-author of For the Common Good, School of Public Policy)

Wallace Oates (author of Theory of Environmental Policy with W. Baumol, Department of Economics)

John Quiggin (current contributor to CrookedTimber.org, former visiting and adjunct faculty of the Department)

Mark Sagoff (author of The Economy of the Earth  and Do We Consume Too Much?, School of Public Policy)

Julian Simon (author of The Ultimate Resource  and Population Matters, College of Business and Management)

What other University can boast of a history that includes the likes of Rachel Carson and Julian Simon and Herman Daly and Thomas Schelling?

For further information about the faculty of the Department, potentialstudents are invited to explore the websites of faculty found at http://www.arec.umd.edu/People/Faculty/

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