Faculty
James S. Shortle
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Director, Environment and Natural Resources Institute
(Ph.D., Economics, Iowa State University, 1981)
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Email address: jshortle@psu.edu Fax: 1-814-865-3746 Office address: 112C Armsby Building University Park, PA 16802 |
Research Interests
My research focuses on markets and incentives for ecosystem services. My goals are to advance theory and practice. A second interest is integrated assessment for environmental decision making. My goals are to improve capacity to predict, manage, and adapt to environmental change. Much, though not all, of my work addresses agri-environmental policy and climate change.
Current/Recent Courses
- AEREC 519, Environmental and Resources Economics I
Recent Selected Publications
Shortle, J.S. and R.D. Horan. 2008. The Economics of Water Quality Trading. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics. 2(2):101-133. http:/dx.doi.org/10.1561/101.00000014.
Ranjan, R., E. Marshall, and J. Shortle. 2008. Optimal Renewable Resource Management in the Presence of Endogenous Risk of Invasion. Journal of Environmental Management. 89(4):273-83.
Ranjan, R., and J.S. Shortle. 2007. The Environmental Kuznets Curve When the Environment Exhibits Hysteresis. Ecological Economics. 64(15): 204-215
Horan, R.D., and J.S. Shortle. 2005. When Two Wrongs Make a Right: Second Best Point Nonpoint Trading. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87(2):340-352.
Horan, R., J. Shortle, and D. Abler. 2002. Nutrient Point-Nonpoint Trading in the Susquehanna River Basin. Water Resources Research. 38(5):8-1 - 8-13, 10.1029/2001WR000853.
Horan, R., J. Shortle, and D. Abler. 2002. Ambient Taxes Under m-Dimensional Choice Sets, Heterogeneous Expectations, and Risk-version. Environmental and Resource Economics. 21:189-2002.