Madhu Khanna

Professor; Director of iSEE; ACES Distinguished Professor in Environmental Economics
Faculty
Madhu Khanna

Dr. Khanna examines the motivations for producers to adopt innovative technologies in food and fuel production, such as precision farming, biofuels, and conservation. Her work informs stakeholders and policy makers about the cost-effectiveness of various policy approaches to improve environmental quality and their implications for farm profitability, land use and food and fuel production. Madhu is the Director of CEOS. 

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Research Output

Title Publication Year Category
Designing Payments to Induce Low Carbon Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production in US Croplands 2024 EE
High Costs of GHG Abatement with Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet with Heterogeneous Preferences of Vehicle Consumers 2024 EE
Araguaia biodiversity corridor cost benefit analysis: Large scale restoration and sustainable agribusiness in Amazon and Cerrado Land Use Policy 2024 LW
Advancing Agrivoltaics through a Systematic Design Framework: Guidelines for Integration and Informed Decision-Making 2024 EE
Spatially Varying Costs of GHG Abatement with Alternative Cellulosic Feedstocks for Sustainable Aviation Fuels Environmental Science & Technology 2024 EE
Alternatives to Utility-Scale Solar on agricultural lands: Adoption potential and impacts of utility-scale and agrivoltaic solar on permanent and marginal cropland 2024 EE
Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Nutrient Loss Reduction under Uncertainty in the Racoon River Basin 2024 LW
A roadmap toward scalably quantifying field-level agricultural carbon outcome EarthArXiv 2022 FA
An agent-based modeling tool supporting bioenergy and bio-product community communication regarding cellulosic bioeconomy development Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2022 EE
Repeal of the clean power plan: Social cost and distributional implications American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2021 EE
Assessing the returns to land and greenhouse gas savings from producing energy crops on conservation reserve program land Environmental Science & Technology 2021 EE
The economic and environmental costs and benefits of the renewable fuel standard Environmental Research Letters 2021 EE
Water quality effects of economically viable land use change in the Mississippi River Basin under the renewable fuel standard Environmental Science & Technology 2020 LW
Assessing the additional carbon savings with biofuel Bioenergy Research 2020 EE
Repeal of the Clean Power Plan: Social Cost And Distributional Implications American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2020 EE
Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands Nature 2020 EE
Adopting energy crops: Does farmers' attitude toward loss matter? Agricultural Economics 2019 FA, EE
Is wood pellet-based electricity less carbon-intensive than coal-based electricity? It depends on perspectives, baselines, feedstocks, and forest management practices Environmental Research Letters 2019 EE
Multi-objective optimization for sustainable renewable jet fuel production: A case study of corn stover based supply chain system in Midwestern U.S. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 2019 EE
Effect of corn ethanol production on conservation reserve program acres in the US Applied Energy 2018 LW, EE
Multicriterion optimal electric drive vehicle selection based on lifecycle emission and lifecycle cost Energy Economics 2018 EE
Spatial distribution of welfare costs of renewable portfolio standards in the United States electricity sector Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 2018 EE
Demand for Biomass to meet renewable energy targets in the US: Implications for land use Global Change Biology Bioenergy 2017 EE
Effectiveness of the biomass crop assistance program: Roles of behavioral factors, credit constraint, and program design Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2017 FA, EE
The social inefficiency of regulating indirect land use change due to biofuels Nature Communications 2017 EE
What is the cost of a renewable energy-based approach to greenhouse gas mitigation? Land Economics 2017 EE
Costs of Meeting a Cellulosic biofuel mandate with perennial energy crops: Implications for policy Energy Economics 2017 FA, EE
Efficacy of carbon and bioenergy markets in mitigating carbon emissions on reforested lands: A case study from southern United States Forest Policy and Economics 2016 EE
Impacts of a 32 billion gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US Nature Energy 2016 EE
Who pays and who gains from fuel policies in Brazil? Energy Economics 2016 EE
Carbon savings with transatlantic trade in pellets: Accounting for market-driven effects Environmental Research Letters 2015 EE
Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol Environmental Science and Technology 2015 EE
Managing multiple mandates: A system of systems model to analyze strategies for producing cellulosic ethanol and reducing riverine nitrate loads in the upper Mississippi River basin Environmental Science and Technology 2015 EE
Mix of first and second generation biofuels to meet multiple environmental objectives: Implications for policy at a watershed scale Water Policy Economics 2015 EE
Optimal mix of vertical integration and contracting for energy crops effect of risk preferences and land quality Applied Economic Policy and Perspectives 2015 FA, EE