We use a variety of well-tested and novel approaches to understanding how to balance economic, social and environmental objectives. From cost-benefit analysis to machine learning, CEOS members use and advance methods to model complex social-environmental systems, estimate impact of interventions and design optimal policy solutions to enable us to build a more sustainable society.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cattle supply chain fidelity in the Brazilian Amazon: Key considerations for deforestation monitoring | Environmental Research Letters | Marin Skidmore, Marcos Barrozo, Lisa Rausch, Holly K Gibbs | 2024 | FA | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Bottom-Up Approaches and Decentralized Extension Structures for Improving Access to and Quality of Extension Services and Technology Adoption: Multi-level Analysis from Malawi | The European Journal of Development Research | Catherine Ragasa, Cristina Alvarez-Mingote, Paul McNamara | 2024 | FA | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| If You Build It, Will They Compost? The Effects of Municipal Composting Services on Household Waste Disposal and Landfill Emissions | Environmental and Resource Economics | De Silva, L., Taylor, R.L.C. | 2024 | FA | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The role of Unidroit and the development of legal structures to support contract farming | Edward Elgar Publishing | A Bryan Endres, Jessica Guarino | 2024 | SC | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Water affordability in the United States | Water Resources Research | Diego S. Cardoso and Casey J. Wichman | 2022 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Inducing the adoption of emerging technologies for sustainable intensification of food and renewable energy production: insights from applied economics | Aust. J Agric Resource Econ. | Khanna, M. and Miao, R. | 2022 | FA | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| An agent-based modeling tool supporting bioenergy and bio-product community communication regarding cellulosic bioeconomy development | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | Yang, P., Cai, X., Hu, X., Zhao, Q., Lee, Y., Khanna, M... | 2022 | EE | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Impact of changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill on the acreage and environmental benefits of Conservation Reserve Program | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Cornish, B., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2022 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Are renewable energy policies effective to promote technological change? The role of induced technological risk | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Ye, F., Paulson, N., & Khanna, M. |
2022 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Optimal environmental taxation in response to an environmentally-unfriendly political challenger | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Hochman, Gal & David Zilberman | 2021 | EE | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| How do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Maertens, A., Michelson, H., & Nourani, V. | 2021 | FA, LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Public good provision and democracy: Evidence from an experiment with farmer groups in Malawi | World Development | Nourania, V., Maertens, A., & Michelson, H. | 2021 | FA, SC | (PD) Policy Design, (FE) Field Experiment | |
| Reduced river discharge under climate change impairs electricity generation and the economic feasibility of future Amazon hydropower | Global Environmental Change | Rafael M. Almeida, Ayan S. Fleischmann, João P.F. Brêda, Diego S. Cardoso, Hector Angarita, Walter Collischonn, Bruce Forsberg, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Stephen K. Hamilton, Phillip M. Hannam, Rodrigo Paiva, N. LeRoy Poff, Suresh A. Sethi, Qinru Shi, Carla P. Gomes, Alexander S. Flecker | 2021 | EE | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Households’ preferences for hydrological services in Veracruz, Mexico: The importance of outcomes vs. program design | Journal of Environmental Management | McGinnis, I., Atallah, S.S., & Huang, J. | 2021 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Are Farmers Made Whole by Trade Aid? | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Janzen, J.P., & Hendricks, N.P. | 2020 | FA | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Diversifying to reduce conservation outcome uncertainty in multiple environmental objectives | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review | Ando, A.W., Howlader, A. & Mallory, M. | 2020 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Incentives for corporate social responsibility in India: Mandate, peer pressure and crowding-out effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Sangeeta Bansal, S., Khanna, M., & J. Sydlowski | 2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi | Food Policy | Amadu, F.O., McNamara, P.E., & Miller, D.C. (2020). | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture: A farm-level typology with empirical evidence from southern Malawi | World Development | Amadu, F.O., McNamara, P.E., & Miller, D.C. | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Assessing the role of stakeholder platforms as drivers of resilient communities: the case of Malawi | Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension | Álvarez-Mingote, C., Moore, A.C., & McNamara, P.E. | 2020 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Agroforestry as a pathway to agricultural yield impacts in climate-smart agriculture investments: Evidence from southern Malawi | Ecological Economics | Amadu, F.O, Miller, D.C., & McNamara, P.E. | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Heterogeneous (mis-) perceptions of energy costs: Implications for measurement and policy design | National Bureau of Economic Research | Houde, S., & Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (PD) Policy Design, (VA) Valuation | |
| Adopting energy crops: Does farmers' attitude toward loss matter? | Agricultural Economics | Anand, M., Miao, R. & Khanna, M. | 2019 | FA, EE | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | |
| When portfolio theory can help environmental investment planning to reduce climate risk to future environmental outcomes – and when it cannot | Conservation Letters | Ando, A.W., Fraterrigo, J., Guntenspergen, G., Howlader, A., Mallory, M., Olkers, J., & Stickley, S. | 2018 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Fine-resolution conservation planning with limited climate-change information | Conservation Biology | Shah, P.S., Mallory, M.L., Ando, A.W. & Guntenspergen, G. | 2017 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| The importance of animal source foods for nutrient sufficiency in the developing world: The Zambia scenario | Food and Nutrition Bulletin | Zhang, Z., Goldsmith, P. D., & Winter-Nelson, A. | 2016 | SC | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Balancing public goods in agriculture through safe minimum standards | European Review of Agricultural Economics | Bullock, D.S., Mittenzwei, K. & Wangsness, P.B. |
2016 | FA | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Permanent and temporary policy incentives for conservation under stochastic returns from competing land uses | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Shah, P.S. & Ando, A. W. | 2016 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Spatially-correlated risk in nature reserve site selection | PlosONE | Albers, H.J., Busby, G., Hamaide, B., Ando, A. W. & Polasky, S. | 2016 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Renewable energy policies for eco-innovation | Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact | Dombrovski, R. (eds) Assimakopoulos, D., Oshri, I., & Pandza, K. | 2015 | EE, SC | (PD) Policy Design | |
| A conservation planning approach to mitigating the impacts of leakage from protected area networks | Conservation Biology | Bode, M., Tulloch, A., Mills, M., Venter, O., & Ando, A. | 2015 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Effectiveness of financial and fiscal instruments for promoting sustainable renewable energy technologies | Economic and Business Review | 2015 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | ||
| Simple-but-sound methods for estimating the value of changes in biodiversity for biological pest control in agriculture | Ecological Economics | Letourneau, D., Ando, A.W., Narwani, A., Jedlicka, J., & Barbier, E. | 2015 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Downside vs. symmetric measures of uncertainty in natural resource portfolio design to manage climate-change uncertainty | Land Economics | Shah, P.S. & Ando, A. W. | 2015 | LW | (PD) Policy Design |