People
CEnREP Administration
Laura O. Taylor - Director |
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| Dr. Taylor is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. Her research focuses on the nexus between urban land-use and environmental quality, the valuation of natural resources and the environment, the use of experimental economics to improve the conduct of non-market valuation, and improving benefit/cost tools for examining policies designed to reduce human mortality. Her research has received funding from a variety of sources including the USDA, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NC Legislative Research Commission Advisory Subcommittee on Offshore Energy Exploration, the Science and Technical Advisory Board for the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program, and is the current Vice President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and natural resource economics. |  |
Daniel J. Phaneuf - Associate Director |
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| Dr. Phaneuf is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. His research and teaching interests include non-market valuation and applied econometrics, with applications to recreation demand, land use, and water quality valuation. Dr. Phaneuf is currently serving as a co-editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and previously sat on the journal’s editorial council. His research has been funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and the NC Water Resources Research Institute. Dr. Phaneuf's service work includes membership on the North Carolina Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change, as well as other activities. He teaches undergraduate and graduate environmental and natural resource economics courses and a graduate course on topics in econometrics. |  |
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Roger von Haefen - Associate Director
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| Dr. von Haefen’s is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. His research focuses on environmental economics and policy. Most of his work has developed methodological tools for the non-market valuation of environmental resources with revealed preference data. He has applied these tools to measure the benefits associated with nonpoint source pollution abatement, outdoor recreation, and transportation services. His more recent research focuses on the effects of gasoline prices on fleet fuel economy as well as the demand for water and biofuels. Dr. von Haefen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and natural resource economics and graduate courses in applied econometrics. |  |
Jack Crawley - CEnREP Administrative Assistant |
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| Mr. Crawley has been with CEnREP since shortly after it was founded in 1999. He supports the Director in environmental economics research and professional activities; monitors new developments; develops budgets and coordinates preparation and submission of proposals for external grants; maintains the Center's web site; and makes arrangements for conferences and workshops. He can be reached at (919) 513-3763 or jack_crawley@ncsu.edu. |  |
CEnREP Affiliated Faculty
| Dr. Bosworth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration at NCSU. His research in environmental economics focuses on valuing the human health benefits of environmental regulation and has been supported by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Canada, and Resources for the Future. Dr. Bosworth teaches graduate courses in applied political economy, policy analysis, and environmental policy in the Masters of Public Administration program. |  |
| Dr. Fackler is a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. His research has focused on agricultural price analysis,futures and options markets, risk assessment and management, and computational economics. Dr. Fackler has published a widely cited book, Applied Computational Economics and Finance, with Mario Miranda which presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. Recently he has shifted his focus to the application of dynamic optimization theory to problems in environmental and resource economics including land use and conservation, control of greenhouse gases and optimal resource extraction and harvesting. Dr. Fackler teaches graduate courses in derivatives and computational methods in economics. |  |
Xiangping Liu - Post-Doctoral Researcher |
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Dr. Liu joined CEnREP in August 2008, after receiving her Ph.D. from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. Dr. Liu’s area of expertise is in land-use economics, program evaluation, and econometrics. Her dissertation research examined the effectiveness of agricultural land-preservation programs, and developed a model that considers the effectiveness of land-development restriction policies in a framework that allows for pre-emptive behavior by landowners. She has additional research in progress that extends her dissertation analysis of land-preservation programs into a general-equilibrium framework, and is investigating the impact of “down-zoning” on land market values. Dr. Liu has also served as a consultant to the World Bank from 2006 to 2008. |
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| Dr. Palmquist is a Professor in the Department of Economics and specializes in measuring the benefits of environmental improvements using hedonic techniques and travel cost methods. His research has dealt with the economics of air pollution, water pollution, the marine environment, recreation, forestry economics, noise, odor, hazardous wastes, and agricultural land values. He has also done considerable research in urban economics. Dr. Palmquist teaches microtheory and environmental and natural resource economics courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. |  |
| Dr. Renkow is a Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics. His research and teaching interests are in international development and regional economics. Dr. Renkow’s international work focuses on poverty alleviation, infrastructure planning, and agricultural technology adoption, with special emphasis on the problems of agricultural development in less-favored agroecological zones. Domestic policy research focuses on community and rural development, rural-urban land use issues, solid waste management and local public finance. Dr. Renkow is currently an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and has served on the editorial boards of Review of Agricultural Economics and Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He is a Fellow of the Rural Development Research Consortium, and regularly serves as a consultant for the World Bank and various international agricultural research centers. Dr. Renkow teaches graduate level courses in economic development. |  |
| Dr. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics. His research and teaching interests are in agricultural and natural resource economics, with recent applications on the evaluation of land conservation policy effectiveness, climate change impacts on agriculture, the effects of agricultural policies on farm sizes and structure. Dr. Roberts has previously held positions as an economist at the US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, as an Adjunct Professor in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and has been a Director of Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association. He teaches undergraduate courses in general economics and graduate courses in microeconometric theory. |  |
| Dr. Smutko is an extension specialist who provides technical assistance to government officials, organizations, and individuals on issues related to natural resource and environmental policy and decision making. His area of expertise is decision making and negotiation, and public policy education. Dr. Smutko is director of the Natural Resources Leadership Institute, a training program for professionals in environmental and natural resources policy and management. |  |
| Dr. Thurman is a William Neal Reynolds Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics. His research and teaching interests are in agricultural and natural resource economics. Recent research at the nexus of agricultural and natural resource economics includes the evaluation of land conservation policy effectiveness, analysis of market coordination of pollination services by honeybees, the potential costs of honeybee disease (Colony Collapse Disorder), and analysis of forestry and fishery markets. Dr. Thurman is an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. He teaches undergraduate courses in agricultural markets and graduate cources in econometrics. |  |
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Lori. S Bennear - CEnREP Visiting Scholar (Fall 2008)
Dr. Bennear is an Assistant Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Dr. Bennear’s research focuses on estimating the effect of different regulatory innovations on measures of facility-level environmental performance, such as pollution levels, chemical use, and technology choice. Recent work has focused on measuring the effectiveness of management-based regulations, which require each regulated entity to develop its own internal rules and initiatives to achieve reductions in pollution, as well as the effectiveness of regulations that mandate public reporting of toxic emissions. Dr. Bennear is a visiting scholar with CEnREP through December, 2008. 
CEnREP Research Affiliates
- Jared Carbone, Associate Professor, University of
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Mary Evans, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
- Upton Hatch, Research Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU; Emeritus Professor, Auburn University.
- Ikuho Kochi, Post-doctoral Researcher, Colorado State University
- Carol Mansfield, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
- Cristine Poulos, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
- Carol Scotton, Assistant Professor, Knox College, Illinois
- V. Kerry Smith, W. P. Carey Professor of Economics, Arizona State University, Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU, and Founding Director, CEnREP.
- George Van Houtven, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
CEnREP Student Affiliates
Current CEnREP Student Affiliates are listed below. Information about their research and links to their personal webpages may be found here.
- Jake Brimlow, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
- Dissertation title: Landowner Decisions to Provide Conservation through Voluntary Land Use Restrictions.
- Robert Darwin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
- Project title: Pricing Weather Derivatives.
- Brooks Depro, Ph.D., December 2009, Department of Economics
- Dissertation title: Residential Mobility and Ozone Exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Adam Domanski, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
- Essays in Nonmarket Valuation: Nonmarket Effects of the 2006 Apex Chemical Fire; Estimating Mixed Logit Recreational Demand Models with Large Choice Sets;
and Latent Class Discrete Choice Property Value Modeling.
- Essays in Nonmarket Valuation: Nonmarket Effects of the 2006 Apex Chemical Fire; Estimating Mixed Logit Recreational Demand Models with Large Choice Sets;
- Timothy Hamilton, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Economics
- Dissertation Title: Estimating Quality Adjusted Income in Residential Sorting Models
- Dissertation Title: Estimating Quality Adjusted Income in Residential Sorting Models
- Alex Marten, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
- Project title: Applications of Real Option Theory in Environmental Economics
- Keri Perez,
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
- Dissertation title: The Conservation Reserve Program: Determinants of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Enrollment and Landowners’ Supply of Conservation Services
- Nam Ahn Tran, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
- Project Title: Land Use Changes in North Carolina
- Su Xingyi, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Economics
- Project title:
Measuring Nutrient Reduction Benefits for Policy Analysis Using Non-market valuation and Environmental Assessment Models
- Project title:
Measuring Nutrient Reduction Benefits for Policy Analysis Using Non-market valuation and Environmental Assessment Models
CEnREP Advisory Board
Dr. Jon Brandt
Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
Mr. Kevin Brice
President and CEO, Triangle Land Conservancy
Ms. Anne Coan
Environmental Affairs Director, North Carolina Farm Bureau
Dr. Robert K. Koger, PE
President and Executive Director, Advanced Energy
President, NC GreenPower
Dr. Allen K. Miedema (retired)
Vice President of the Health, Social and Economics Research Unit
and Director of the Center for Economics Research, RTI International
Mr. Richard Rogers
Executive Director, North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund
Ms. Robin Smith
Assistant Secretary for the Environment, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Dr. Jean Spooner
Extension Specialist/Water Quality, Water Quality Group (WQG)
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NCSU
State Representative Jennifer Weiss
House of Representatives, North Carolina General Assemly
Dr. William E. Winner
Professor, Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University
