Prior Seminars
2007 Seminar Series
Friday, November 9, 2007
Krzystof Zmarlicki
The Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture
in Poland
"Understanding the Entrepreneurial Activities of Polish Farmers"
Friday, October 19, 2007
Kathleen Bell
Associate Professor, School of Economics,
University of Maine Orono
"Spatial Patterns in Human-Environment Interactions"
Friday, April 27, 2007
Jonathan Clark
"Follow the Phosphorus: Governing Environmental Flows through Hogs and Soils"
and
Jason Gordon
"Community Wildfire Risk Perception: Collective Response to Risk"
Friday, April 20, 2007
M. E. John Lecture
Andy Isserman
"Understanding Rural for Policy and Planning"
Friday, April 13, 2007
Leland Glenna
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
"The Social Relations of Wheat: Distinguishing Characteristics of Wheat Growers and Wheat Varieties"
Friday, April 6, 2007
Simanti Banerjee and Nga Nguyen
"A Spatial Model of Open Space Loss"
and
Lindsay Smith
Topic: Farm Clusters (title TBA)
Friday, March 30, 2007
Julie Guthman
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Community Studies
University of California- Santa Cruz
"Voluntary Food Labelling"
Friday, March 23, 2007
Arie Oskam
Professor
of Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Wageningen
University, The Netherlands
"Risk and Uncertainty in Investments with an Application to the Greenhouse Horticulture Sector of The Netherlands"
Friday, March 9, 2007
Fernando Carriazo
"Valuing Urban Amenities and Disamenities, A Spatial Hedonic Analysis in Bogota, Columbia"
and
Alisha Coleman
"Nonstandard Work as a Predictor of Household Food Insecurity"
Friday, March 2, 2007
Georg Grassmueck
"Governmental Organizational Form and Economic Growth"
and
Xiaohua Yu
"Tobacco Demand in China"
Friday, February 23, 2007
Nick Hanley
Professor of Environmental Economics,
University of Stirling (UK)
"What Drives Long-Term Biodiversity Change? New Insights from Combining Economics, Paleo-Ecology and Environmental History"
Friday, February 9, 2007
Rick Horan,
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
"A Bioeconomic Approach to Managing Multiple-Host Wildlife Diseases"
Friday, February 2, 2007
John Lupine
former head of the
Food and Nutrition Section of FAO, Rome http://www.codexalimentarius.net/
web/index_en.jsp
"Codex Alimentarius and WTO"
Friday, January 26, 2007
Daney Jackson
Director of Penn State Cooperative Extension
and
Bruce McPheron
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Director of
PA Ag Experiment Station
"Discussion of College Research Needs"
Friday, January 19, 2007
John Becker
Professor of Agricultural Economics and Law
"Kelo v. The City of New London: A Study of Property Rights, Separation of Powers, States Rights and the Constitution"