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Dr.
Roger Sedjo - Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, Inc. – to
be ELE Scholar in Residence
Roger
Sedjo,
Ph.D., will be the first ELE (Economics, Law, and the Environment)
Scholar in Residence this semester and teach a seminar
course “ELE
Seminar on Climate, Forestry and Land Use” available to graduate
and law students.
Dr. Sedjo is a senior fellow and the director of Resources
for the Future’s forest economics and policy program. Sedjo
is also adjunct professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics
and faculty affiliate of the Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment
at the University of Arizona. His research interests include forests
and global environmental problems; climate change and biodiversity;
public lands issues; long-term sustainability of forests; industrial
forestry and demand; timber supply modeling; international forestry;
global forest trade; forest biotechnology; and land use change.
The
Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment (ELE) is a
research and education collaboration between the Department of Agricultural
and Resource Economics and the James Rogers College of Law.
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Direct
Farm Marketing Conference Set for Monday, March 3
This
year's Direct
Farm Marketing and Sustainable Agriculture Conference will
be held on Monday, March 3, 2008, from 9 until 4, beginning at
the Arizona Farm Bureau in Gilbert, AZ. Conference participants
will also tour Agritopia and Mother Nature's Farm. Cost to attend
is free. Please see the brochure for
location, maps, agenda, and speaker biographies.
Positive
Externalities—New Newsletter for Alumni and Friends
AREC is pleased to tell you about our brand new newsletter
for all our alumni, departmental friends, faculty, and staff. Called
Positive Externalities, the premiere issue is now available for onscreen
reading or for downloading and printing out! Positive Externalities.
2007
Arizona Agribusiness Forum
This year's Agribusiness Forum will take place on
November 15 at Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino Resort in Maricopa, Arizona.
The overall topic for the forum is Labor, Energy, and Agriculture.
Registration materials (including paying with a credit card), conference
agenda, driving directions, and other information are available
on the Arizona Agribusiness
Forum webpage.
Bonnie
Colby Named Distinguished Scholar
AREC's Professor Bonnie
Colby has been named a Distinguished
Scholar by the Western Agricultural Economics Association.
Dr. Colby has developed a nationally recognized program of teaching,
research, and outreach focusing on natural resource and environmental
economics. Congratulations!
Rob
Innes Receives AAEA Award
Dr.
Rob Innes, professor in the Department, has
received the American Agricultural Economics Association
2007 Award for Publication of Enduring Quality for his work
“Limited Liability and Incentive Contracting with Ex-Ante
Action Choices.” The article was published in the Journal
of Economic Theory [52(1):45-67, 1990].
Russ
Tronstad Honored by AAEA
Dr. Russell
Tronstad, professor and extension specialist, is a recipient
of the American Agricultural Economics Association's prestigious Distinguished
Extension/Outreach Program Group Award for 2007 for his contributions
to the extension project, “U. S. Livestock Identification Systems:
Risk Management and Market Opportunities.”
New
Book from Bruce R. Beattie
On Doing More with Less and Other Messages for
University Administrators is a collection of papers penned by Dr. Bruce Beattie
over a twenty-year span of his career. Copies of the book are available
for purchase or may be downloaded and printed out for reading.
AREC
559 (Advanced Applied Econometrics) touted in
the Arizona Daily Wildcat.
Read
what columninst Lori Foley has to
say about Prof. Gary Thompson's
innovative econometrics class.
New
Book on Certification and Labeling
The
Western Extension Marketing Committee has published a book of interest
to agricultural producers looking to differentiate their products to
receive higher prices and better market access. Certifiction
and Labeling Considerations for Agricultural Producers can be purchased
in printed form or downloaded in pdf format. Please visit http://ag.arizona.edu/arec/wemc/certification.html for
more information.