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
Economics of the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence–Based Digital Technologies in Agriculture Annual Review of Resource Economics 2024 FA
Heterogeneous and long-term effects of a changing climate on bird biodiversity Global Environmental Change Advances 2024 FA
Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivations and Effectiveness in Developing Countries International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2024 O
Conservation agrivoltaics for sustainable food‐energy production Plants, People, Planet 2024 O
Breakthroughs at the disciplinary nexus: Rewards and challenges for applied economists American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2022 O
Responsiveness of miscanthus and switchgrass yields to stand age and nitrogen fertilization: A meta-regression analysis GCB-Energy 2022 FA, EE
Digital transformation of the agricultural sector: pathways, drivers and policy implications Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2021 FA
Assessing marginal land availability based on land use change information in the contiguous United States Environmental Science & Technology 2021 LW
Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots Environmental Research Letters 2021 FA
Lessons learned from US experience with biofuels: Comparing the hype with the evidence Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 2021 EE
Farmers' heterogeneous perceptions of marginal land for biofuel crops in US Midwestern states considering biophysical and socioeconomic factors GCB Bioenergy 2021 LW
Growing green business investments in Asia and the Pacific: Trends and opportunities Asian Development Bank 2020 SC
COVID‐19: A cloud with a silver lining for renewable energy? Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2020 EE
Harnessing advances in agricultural technologies to optimize resource utilization in the food-energy-water nexus Annual Review of Resource Economics 2019 FA, EE
Sustaining our natural resources in the face of increasing societal demands on agriculture: Directions for future research Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 2018 FA
Water impacts of U.S. biofuels: Insights from an assessment combining economic and biophysical models Plos One 2018 O
The evolution towards peer-reviewed invited papers in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2018 O
Harnessing emerging technologies to address the Hypoxia challenge Nature Sustainability 2018 FA
Is forest bioenergy carbon neutral or worse than coal? Implications of carbon accounting methods International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2017 EE
Nexus between food, energy and ecosystem services in the Mississippi River basin: Policy implications and challenges Choices 2017 FA, EE
Bioenergy economics and policy in US and Brazil: Effects on land use and greenhouse gas emissions Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Volume II) 2017 LW, EE
Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Volume II) 2017 EE