Faculty
Charles A. Abdalla
Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
(Ph.D., Resource Economics, Michigan State University, 1985)
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Email address: cabdalla@psu.edu Telephone: 1-814-865-2562 Fax: 1-814-865-3746 Office address: 201B Armsby Building University Park, PA 16802 |
Research Interests
I conduct applied studies on a variety of natural resource development and environmental issues and policies in Pennsylvania, the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region, and the U.S. These topics include: land use conflicts, water quantity and quality management, air/water impacts from animal agricultural operations, evaluation of watershed scale and market-like approaches to environmental management, and impacts of development and use of traditional (fossil fuel-based) and renewable/alternative energy sources.
Outreach/Extension Interests
My current extension teaching is focused on existing and alternative policies and institutions to address the significant environmental, social and other impacts resulting from development and use of non-renewable energy sources, including shale gas from the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania and several surrounding states) and renewable energy sources. Also, I teach programs that help audiences understand proposals for market-like approaches to environmental management (e.g., water quality credit trading, ecosystem service markets) and ways that such proposals can be evaluated.
Recent Selected Publications
Ready, R.C. and C.W. Abdalla. The Amenity and Disamenity Impacts of Agriculture: Estimates from a Hedonic Pricing Model. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87(2): 314-326. (May 2005).
Lanyon, L.E., Arrington, K.R., Abdalla, C.W. and D.B. Beegle. Phosphorus Budgets for Pennsylvania Cropland: 1939 to 2002. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 61(2): 51-58. (March/April 2006).
Ishler, V., Dodd, A., Abdalla, C., Martin, G., Meinen, R.J., Mikesell, R.E. and J.L. Weld. Agricultural Environmental Programming in Pennsylvania: Increasing Visibility and Relevancy of Extension. Journal of Extension. 44(4). (Aug. 2006). http://www.joe.org/
Abdalla, C.W. Environmental Issues. The Future of Animal Agriculture in North America. Farm Foundation. (April 2006). http://www.farmfoundation.org/projects/documents/EnvironmentalIssues.pdf
Saacke Blunk, K., Borisova, T., Abdalla C. and D. Parker. A Primer on Water Quality Credit Trading in the Mid-Atlantic Region. University Park, PA. 6 pp. (Nov. 2006, revised April 2009). http://www.nutrientwaterpolicy.aers.psu.edu/
Abdalla, C., Borisova, T., Parker, D. and K. Saacke Blunk. Water Quality Credit Trading and Agriculture: Recognizing the Challenges and Policy Issues Ahead. Choices. Second Quarter, (June 2007). http://www.choicesmagazine.org/
Abdalla, C. Land Use Policy: Lessons from Water Quality Markets. Choices (23(4):22-28, Fourth Quarter (2008) http://www.choicesmagazine.org/