Resource and Environmental Policy
Papers & Presentations
Wendiam Sawadgo, Wendong Zhang, Alejandro Plastina
Hongxing Liu, Wendong Zhang, Elena Irwin, Jeffery Kast, Noel Aloysius, Jay Martin, Margaret Kalcic
Jerome Dumortier, Amani Elobeid
Wendiam Sawadgo and Alejandro Plastina
Annual Agriculture Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Alejandro Plastina
North Raccoon River Wathershed Management Coalition, Lake City, IA
Edward J. Balistreri, Daniel T. Kaffine, Hidemichi Yonezawa
Edward D. Perry, GianCarlo Moschini
Wendong Zhang
State of Iowa Soil Conservation Committee, Des Moines, Iowa
Jingbo Cui, GianCarlo Moschini
Li Gao, Wendong Zhang, Yingdan Mei, Abdoul G Sam, Yu Song, Shuqin Jin
Guilherme DePaula
Gabriel E. Lade
Guilherme DePaula
Wendong Zhang and Alejandro Plastina
ISU Alumni Center
Wendong Zhang, Alejandro Plastina, Wendiam Sawadgo
David A. Keiser
Wendong Zhang
USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum, Arlington, Virginia
Gabe Lade
National Ethanol Conference, San Antonio Texas
Keri Jacobs
University of Minnesota Crop Pest Management Short Course
Keri Jacobs
C-FARE and USDA OCE hosted discussion at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Keri Jacobs
Iowa Chapter of American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers’ Annual Meeting
Wendong Zhang, Brent Sohngen
David A. Keiser, Joseph K. Shapiro
Wendong Zhang
2017 Crop Advantage Series, Okoboji and Davenport, Iowa
Wendong Zhang
Iowa State University Sustainable Agriculture Graduate Program Colloquium, Ames, Iowa
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the Fate of the Earth Symposium 2016
Catherine L. Kling, Raymond W. Arritt, Gray Calhoun, David A. Keiser, et al.
Dermot J. Hayes, Catherine L. Kling, John D. Lawrence
Mainul Hoque, Catherine L. Kling
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the University of Oklahoma
Gaurav Arora, Peter T. Wolter, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at Bowling Green State University
Ruiqing Miao, Hongli Feng, David A. Hennessy, Xiaodong Du
Mark Siemers, Stephen Plotkin, Philip W. Gassman
Catherine L. Kling, Yiannis Panagopoulos, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, Philip W. Gassman, Sergey Rabotyagov, Todd Campbell, Mike White, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Raghavan Srinivasan, Manoj Jha, Jeff Richardson, R. Eugene Turner
Yongjie Ji, Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the Iowa Environmental Council Annual Meeting
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the Water Resources Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the Iowa Water Conference
Ruiqing Miao, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng
Catherine L. Kling
Upper Midwest Stream Restoration Symposium, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Catherine L. Kling
Prepared for: Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine “The Nexus of Biofuels Energy, Climate Change, and Health” Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Sergey Rabotyagov, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman, Nancy N. Rabalais, R. Eugene Turner
Sergey Rabotyagov, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, Catherine L. Kling
Ruiqing Miao, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the Nanyang Technological University and Michigan State University International Conference on the Economics and Policy of Water and the Environment, Mandarin Orchard, Singapore
Catherine L. Kling
Supported by USDA Economic Research Service, the Farm Foundation, and Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
Catherine L. Kling
Presented at the 2012 Agricultural Outlook Forum, sponsored by USDA, Washington, D.C.
Kling, Catherine L., Philip W. Gassman, Keith E. Schilling, Calvin F. Wolter, Manoj K. Jha, and Todd D. Campbell
Presented at the University of Iowa Hydraulics Laboratory, Iowa City, Iowa
Rebecca S. Dodder, Amani Elobeid, Timothy L. Johnson, P. Ozge Kaplan, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi, Simla Tokgoz
Research Projects
Nonmarket Valuation Carbon SequestrationExploring options for reducing carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, particularly using economic incentives in the agricultural sector to sequester carbon.
Climate ChangeImpacts of climate variability and change have far-reaching implications on water resources and aquatic ecosystems with possible effects including increased occurrences of floods and droughts, water quality degradation, and ecosystem impairments. The economic and environmental modeling strength at CARD, which includes integration of watershed models such as SWAT, econometric models, GIS based interfaces, and other supporting software and databases, was coupled with an array of climate models to evaluate the possible impacts of climate change on water resources both in terms of water quantity and quality.
Highlights
Economic Value of Outdoor Recreation Activities in Iowa
Daniel Otto, Kristin Tylka, and Susan Erickson
Department of Economics, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University
Commissioned by the Nature Conservancy with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
September, 2012
Interactive Iowa map with river trips, spending, and activites data
Iowa State Wins $20 million Grant to Research Impacts of Climate on Corn-based Cropping Systems
Catherine Kling and Philip Gassman of CARD to participate in the project.
Fact Sheet: Iowa Rivers and River Corridors Survey 2009
Nearly Half of Iowans Surveyed Visit Iowa’s Rivers and Streams (news release)
NSF Funding Advances Iowa State Team’s Research on Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia
Economic Incentives to Improve Water Quality in Agricultural Landscapes: Some New Variations on Old Ideas
Catherine L. Kling
Fellows Address presented at the 2010 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
New Invited Paper in Transactions of the ASABE
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has published The Agricultural Policy Environmental EXtender (APEX) Model: An Emerging Tool for Landscape and Watershed Environmental Analyses in Transactions of the ASABE as part of the journal’s ongoing invited paper series established by the ASABE Soil and Water Division. CARD researcher Philip Gassman was lead author of the paper; co-authors at other institutions were Jimmy Williams, Xiuying (Susan) Wang, Ali Saleh, Edward Osei, Larry Hauck, César Izaurralde, and Joan Flowers. The paper provides an overview of the APEX structure and describes several innovative applications of the model that have been reported in the scientific literature.
New Research Initiative on Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia and Land Use in the Watershed
The annual extent of the seasonal oxygen-depleted hypoxic (dead) zone that forms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico is about three times the target goal of the Hypoxia Action Plan. The 2007 scientific reassessment of causes and consequences of these hypoxic conditions suggests that both nitrogen and phosphorous loadings from the Upper Mississippi River Basin and Ohio River Basin stream systems are significant contributors to the size and duration of the zone, accounting for about 70% of the total nitrogen and nearly 60% of the phosphorous loading to the Gulf. Read more.
CARD Gets Grants from U.S. EPA to Evaluate Water Quality Trading
Art Spratlin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7, shakes hands with Gerald Miller, ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, after an announcement of $600,000 in grant funding to CARD-ISU from the EPA to evaluate land conservation practices and the effects on three Iowa watersheds.
The Economic Value of Iowa’s Natural Resources
Daniel Otto, Dan Monchuk, Kanlaya Jintanakul, and Catherine Kling
Department of Economics, ISU Extension, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, College of Agriculture, and Iowa State University
Commissioned by the Sustainable Funding for Natural Resources Study Committee, Iowa General Assembly
December, 2007
Conservation Practices in Iowa: Historical Investments, Water Quality, and Gaps
Catherine Kling, Sergey Rabotyagov, Manoj Jha, Hongli Feng, Josh Parcel, Philip Gassman, and Todd Campbell
A Report to the Farm Bureau, Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Soybean Association, and Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, July 22, 2007
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool: Historical Development, Applications, and Future Research Directions
P.W. Gassman, M.R. Reyes, C.H. Green, and J.G. Arnold
Invited Paper Series, Transactions of the ASABE, Vol. 50, Number 4
The Cost of Clean Water: Assessing Agricultural Pollution Reduction at the Watershed Scale
Silvia Secchi, Philip Gassman, Manoj Jha, Lyubov Kurkalova, Hongli Feng, Todd Campbell, and Catherine Kling
Report on research supported by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
July 2005