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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Designing Payments to Induce Low Carbon Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production in US Croplands | Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| High Costs of GHG Abatement with Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet with Heterogeneous Preferences of Vehicle Consumers | Madhu Khanna, Jia Zhong, Kalai Ramea | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Araguaia biodiversity corridor cost benefit analysis: Large scale restoration and sustainable agribusiness in Amazon and Cerrado | Land Use Policy | Andrea Lucchesi, Madhu Khanna, Paula C Pereda, Keyi A Ussami, Patricia GC Ruggiero, Victor S Dornelas, Tess Lallement | 2024 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Measuring the Estimation Bias of Yield Response to N Using Combined On-Farm Experiment Data | Qianqian Du, Taro Mieno, David S Bullock | 2024 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies | Environments | Gal Hochman, Vijay Appasamy | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Processing of On-Farm Precision Experiment Data in the DIFM Project | Center for Open Science | Brittani Edge, Taro Mieno, David S Bullock | 2024 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper |
| Bias in economic evaluation of variable rate application based on geographically weighted regression models with misspecified functional form | Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | Taro Mieno, Xiaofei Li, David S Bullock | 2024 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper |
| Can machine learning models provide accurate fertilizer recommendations? | Precision Agriculture | Takashi ST Tanaka, Gerard BM Heuvelink, Taro Mieno, David S Bullock | 2024 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Advancing Agrivoltaics through a Systematic Design Framework: Guidelines for Integration and Informed Decision-Making | Nenad Miljkovic, Xuzhi Du, Alexandra Solecki, Vivek S Garimella, Mengqi Jia, Bin Peng, Paul Mwebaze, James McCall, Fahd Majeed, Alson Time, Jinwook Kim, Matthew Sturchio, Kaiyu Guan, Madhu Khanna, Carl J Bernacchi, DoKyoung Lee, Alan Knapp, Greg Barron-Gafford, Bruce Branham | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Spatially Varying Costs of GHG Abatement with Alternative Cellulosic Feedstocks for Sustainable Aviation Fuels | Environmental Science & Technology | Xinxin Fan, Madhu Khanna, Yuanyao Lee, Jeffrey Kent, Rui Shi, Jeremy S Guest, DoKyoung Lee | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Alternatives to Utility-Scale Solar on agricultural lands: Adoption potential and impacts of utility-scale and agrivoltaic solar on permanent and marginal cropland | Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Paul Mwebaze, James McCall, Katy Waechter, Mengqi Jia, Bin Peng, Ruiqing Miao, Guan Kaiyu, Jordan Macknick | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Nutrient Loss Reduction under Uncertainty in the Racoon River Basin | Yu-Kai Huang, Madhu Khanna, Madelynn Wuestenberg, Andy VanLoocke | 2024 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Factors driving aggregate service sector energy intensities in Asia and Eastern Europe: A LMDI analysis | Energy Policy | Jianda Wanga, Kangyin Dong, Gal Hochman, & Govinda R. Timilsina | 2023 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (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 |
| The Economics of Aquatic Plants: The Case of Algae and Duckweed | Annual Review of Resource Economics | Hochman, Gal & Ruslana Rachel Palatnik | 2022 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics | Science Advances | Bernstein, A.S., Ando, A.W., and authors | 2022 | O | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| A roadmap toward scalably quantifying field-level agricultural carbon outcome | EarthArXiv | Guan, K., Jin, Z., DeLucia, E.H., West, P., Peng, B., Tang, J., Jiang, C., Wang, S., Kim, T., Zhou, W., Griffis, T., Liu, L., Qin, Z., Margenot, A.J., Kumar, V., Bernacchi, C.J., Yang, W.H., Lee, D., Coppess, J.W., Gerber, J., Jahn, M., Khanna, M., & Yang, S. | 2022 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper |
| The economic and environmental costs and benefits of the renewable fuel standard | Environmental Research Letters | Chen, L., Debnath, D., Zhong, J., Ferin, K., VanLoocke, A., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Repeal of the clean power plan: Social cost and distributional implications | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M., Chen, X., Wang, W., & Oliver, A. | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Assessing the returns to land and greenhouse gas savings from producing energy crops on conservation reserve program land | Environmental Science & Technology | Chen, L., Blanc-Betes, E., Hudiburg, T.W., Hellerstein, D., Wallander, S., DeLucia, E.H., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Economic viability and carbon footprint of switchgrass for cellulosic biofuels: Insights from a spatial multi‐feedstock procurement landscape analysis | GCB Bioenergy | Sesmero, J.P., Trull, N.U, & Gramig, B.M | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling, (OM) Other | |
| Optimal monitoring and controlling of invasive species: The case of spotted wing drosophila in the United States | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Fan, X., Gómez, M. I., Atallah, S. S., & Conrad, J. M. |
2020 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Agent-based modeling of moose-winter tick relationships in Northern New Hampshire | Ecological Complexity | Healy, C., Pekins, P. J., Atallah, S. S., & Congalton, R. |
2020 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | He, X., Estes, L., Konar, M., Tian, D., Anghileri, D., Baylis, K., ... & Sheffield, J. |
2020 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Agricultural impacts of climate change in Indiana and potential adaptations | Climatic Change | Bowling, L.C., Cherkauer, K., Lee, C., Beckerman, J., Brouder, S., Buzan, J., Doering, O., Dukes, J., Ebner, P., Frankenberger, J., Gramig, B.M., Kladivko, E., Volenec, J. | 2020 | FA, LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Can insurance alter poverty dynamics and reduce the cost of social protection in developing countries? | Journal of Risk and Insurance | Janzen, S. A., Carter, M. R., & Ikegami, M. | 2020 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands | Nature | Beerling, D.J., Kantzas, E.P., Lomas, M.R., Wade, P., Eufrasio, R.M., Renforth, P., Sarkar, B., Andrews, M.G., James, R.H., Pearce, C.R., Mercure, J.F., Pollitt, H., Holden, P.B., Edwards, N.R., Khanna, M., Koh, L., Quegan, S., Pidgeon, N.F., Janssens, I.A., Hansen, J., & Banwart, S.A. | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The value of conducting on-farm field trials using precision agriculture technology: A theory and simulations | Precision Agriculture | Bullock, D. S., Mieno, T., & Hwang, J. | 2020 | FA | (SM) System Modeling, (OM) Other | |
| The Potential Economic Feasibility of Direct Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction as a Route to Ammonia | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering | Hochman, Gal; Goldman, Alan; Felder, Frank; Mayer, James; Miller, Alexander; Holland, Patrick; Goldman, Leo; Manocha, Patricia; Song, Ze; Aleti, Saketh | 2020 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Water quality effects of economically viable land use change in the Mississippi River Basin under the renewable fuel standard | Environmental Science & Technology | Ferin, K.M., Chen, L., Zhong, J., Acquah, S., Heaton, E.A., Khanna, M., & VanLoocke, A. (2020). | 2020 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Market structure and the effect of ethanol expansion on Land allocation: A spatially explicit analysis | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Wang, Y., Delgado, M. S., Sesmero, J. P., Gramig, B. M. |
2020 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Biofuels and Their Potential in South Korea | Sustainability | Hochman, Gal & Tabakis, Chrysostomos | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Assessing the additional carbon savings with biofuel | Bioenergy Research | Khanna, M., Wang, W. & Wang, M. | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Repeal of the Clean Power Plan: Social Cost And Distributional Implications | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | X. chen, W. Wang and A. Oliver | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The Potential Implications of the Introduction of Bioelectricity in South Korea | Sustainability | Hochman, Gal & Tabakis, Chrysostomos | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Non-Constant Elasticity of Substitution and Intermittent Renewable Energy | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering | Aleti, S. & G. Hochman | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Worshipping the tiger: Modeling non-use existence values of wildlife spiritual services | Environmental and Resource Economics | Lopes, A. A., & Atallah, S. S. | 2020 | LW, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Total cost of carbon capture and storage implemented at a regional scale: northeastern and midwestern United States | Interface Focus | William J. Schmelz, Gal Hochman, & Kenneth G. Miller | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Poverty traps and the social protection paradox | The Economics of Poverty Traps (book) | Ikegami, M., Carter, M. R., & Barrett, C. B. | 2019 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Phytosanitary Regulation of Washington Apple Producers under an Apple Maggot Quarantine Program. | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics | Hong, Y., Gallardo, K., Fan, X., Atallah, S. S., Gómez, M. |
2019 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The origins, consequences, and implications of Stanford's 1.2 Rule for nitrogen fertilizer application | Agronomy Journal | Rodriguez, D.G.P., & Bullock, D. S. | 2019 | FA | (SM) System Modeling, (OM) Other | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | Dwivedi, P., M. Khanna and M. Fuller | 2019 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| 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 | Huang, E., Zhang, X., Rodriguez, L., Khanna, M., de jong, S., Ting, K.C., Ying, Y. |
2019 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| A bioeconomic model of ecosystem service provision: Coffee berry borer and shade-grown coffee | Ecological Economics | Atallah, S. S., Gómez, M. I., & Jaramillo, J. |
2018 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effect of corn ethanol production on conservation reserve program acres in the US | Applied Energy | Chen, X., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | LW, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Multicriterion optimal electric drive vehicle selection based on lifecycle emission and lifecycle cost | Energy Economics | Ahmadi, P., Cai, X.M., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Spatial distribution of welfare costs of renewable portfolio standards in the United States electricity sector | Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences | Oliver, A.C. , & Khanna, M. |
2018 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Modeling uncertainty in climate change: A multi-model comparison | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics | Gillingham, K., Nordhaus, W., Blanford, G., Bosetti, V., Christensen, P., McJeon, H., Reilly, J., and Sztorc, P. |
2018 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Social protection in the face of climate change: Targeting principles and transfer mechanisms | Environment and Development Economics | Carter, M. R. | 2018 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Can insurance help manage climate risk and food insecurity? Evidence from the pastoral regions of East Africa | Climate Smart Agriculture - Building Resilience to Climate Change | Carter, M. R., A., & Stoeffler, Q. | 2018 | SC | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Influence of neighbor experience and exit on small farmer market participation | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2017 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Costs of Meeting a Cellulosic biofuel mandate with perennial energy crops: Implications for policy | Energy Economics | Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | FA, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Demand for Biomass to meet renewable energy targets in the US: Implications for land use | Global Change Biology Bioenergy | Oliver, A.C., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Towards a theoretical construct for modelling smallholders’ forestland-use decisions: What can we learn from agriculture and forest economics? | Forests | Baker, K., Bull, G. Q., Baylis, K., & Barichello, R. |
2017 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effectiveness of the biomass crop assistance program: Roles of behavioral factors, credit constraint, and program design | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | FA, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The social inefficiency of regulating indirect land use change due to biofuels | Nature Communications | Khanna, M., Wang, W., Hudiburg, T., & DeLucia, E. |
2017 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Spatially explicit return on investment to private forest conservation for water purification in Indiana, USA | Ecosystem Services | Wang, Y., Atallah, S. S., & Shao, G. |
2017 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| What is the cost of a renewable energy-based approach to greenhouse gas mitigation? | Land Economics | Oliver, A.C., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Specification of spatial dynamic externalities and implications for strategic behavior in disease control | Land Economics | Atallah, S. S., Gómez, M. I., & Conrad, J. M. |
2017 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| A note on modeling household food waste behavior | Applied Economics Letters | Lusk, J.L., & Ellison, B. |
2017 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Integrated economic and environmental assessment of cellulosic biofuel production in an agricultural watershed | BioEnergy Research | Song, J., Gramig, B. M., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. |
2017 | FA, LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Days suitable for fieldwork in the US corn belt: Climate, soils and spatial heterogeneity | Working Paper | Gramig, B. M., & Yun, S. D |
2016 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Can peers improve agricultural revenue? | World Development | Songsermsawas, T., Baylis, K., Chhatre, A., & Michelson, H. | 2016 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (SM) System Modeling | |
| 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 | |
| The effects of oil price on regional trade in the united states | Journal of Economic Geography | Szewerniak, W., Xu, Y., & Dall'erba, S. | 2016 | O | (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 | |
| Simulating the value of information generated by on-farm field trials using precision agriculture technology | Working paper | Bullock, D. S. & Mieno, T. |
2016 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Efficacy of carbon and bioenergy markets in mitigating carbon emissions on reforested lands: A case study from southern United States | Forest Policy and Economics | Dwivedi, P., Khanna, M., Sharma, A., & Susaeta, A. |
2016 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Impacts of a 32 billion gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US | Nature Energy | Hudiburg, T.W., Wang, W., Khanna, M., Long, S. P., Dwivedi, P., Parton, W. J., Hartmann, M., & DeLucia, E.H. |
2016 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Who pays and who gains from fuel policies in Brazil? | Energy Economics | Khanna, M., Nunez, H., & Zilberman, D. |
2016 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Carbon savings with transatlantic trade in pellets: Accounting for market-driven effects | Environmental Research Letters | Wang, W., Dwivedi, P. Abt, R., & Khanna, M. |
2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol | Environmental Science and Technology | Dwividi, P., Wang, W., Hudiburg, T., Jaiswal, D., Parton, W., Long, S., DeLucia, E., & Khanna, M. |
2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| 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 | Housh, M., Yaeger, M., Cai, X., McIsaac, G., Khanna, M., Sivapalan, M., Ouyang, Y., Al-Qadi, I., & Jain, A. | 2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| A plant-level, spatial, bioeconomic model of plant disease diffusion and control: grapevine leafroll disease | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Atallah, S. S., Gómez, M. I., Conrad, J. M., & Nyrop, J. P. |
2015 | FA | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Mix of first and second generation biofuels to meet multiple environmental objectives: Implications for policy at a watershed scale | Water Policy Economics | Housh, M., Khanna, M., & Cai, X. |
2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Optimal mix of vertical integration and contracting for energy crops effect of risk preferences and land quality | Applied Economic Policy and Perspectives | Yang, X., Paulson, N. D., & Khanna, M. |
2015 | FA, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The economics of post-harvest loss: A case study of the new large soybean-maize producers in tropical Brazil | Food Security | Goldsmith, P.D., Martins, A.G., & Moura, A.D. | 2015 | SC | (SM) System Modeling |