James Shortle, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Environmental Economics

111D Ferguson Building
University Park, PA 16802

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Iowa State University, 1981

Research Interests

Most of my research addresses the economics of managing complex environmental externalities. I am especially interested in water pollution and other environmental externalities associated with agricultural production and land use. Other areas of interest and research activity include climate change impacts on agriculture and water resources, and integrated assessment models.

Professional Awards and Recognitions

Fulbright Scholar (1990-1991)

“Best Article" published in the Journal of Agricultural Economics (1994)

University Distinguished Professor, Penn State University (2003)

“Outstanding Article" published in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (2004, 2016)

Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico (2005)

Distinguished Service Award, NE Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (2007)

Economic and Social Research Council and the Social Science Research Council (UK) Transatlantic Fellow (2008)

Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Director (1994-1997), President Elect (2002-2003), President (2003-2004), Past President (2004-2005)

Boggess Award for the "Most Outstanding Article" published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (2012)

Outstanding Public Service Through Economics Award, Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (2018)

Publications

Addressing the spatial disconnect between national-scale total maximum daily loads and localized land management decisions
Journal of Environmental Quality, Amin, M. G.Mostofa, Veith, Tamie L., Shortle, James S., Karsten, Heather D., Kleinman, Peter J.A., 2020

Nutrient control in water bodies: A systems approach
Journal of Environmental Quality, Shortle, James S., Mihelcic, James R., Zhang, Qiong, Arabi, Mazdak, 2020

Valuing water quality benefits from adopting best management practices: A spatial approach
Journal of Environmental Quality, Choi, Dong Soon, Ready, Richard C., Shortle, James S., 2020

Shared discovery: A process to coproduce knowledge among scientists, policy makers, and stakeholders for solving nutrient pollution problems
Journal of Environmental Quality, Royer, Matthew B., Brooks, Robert P., Shortle, James S., Yetter, Susan, 2020

Nutrient Pollution
Water Economics and Policy, Shortle, James, Horan, Richard D., 2017

Protecting and Restoring Aquatic Ecosystems in Multiple Stressor Environments
Water Economics and Policy, Ranjan, Ram, Shortle, James, 2017

Endogenous risk and point-nonpoint uncertainty trading ratios
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Horan, Richard D., Shortle, James S., 2017

Information and Auction Performance
Environmental and Resource Economics, Banerjee, Simanti, Kwasnica, Anthony Mark, Shortle, James Samuel, 2015

Agricultural costs of the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load
Environmental Science and Technology, Kaufman, Zach, Abler, David, Shortle, James, Harper, Jayson, Hamlett, James, Feather, Peter, 2014

Using stochastic frontier models to mitigate omitted variable bias in hedonic pricing models
Ecological Economics, Carriazo, Fernando, Ready, Richard, Shortle, James, 2013

Policy instruments for water quality protection
Annual Review of Resource Economics, Shortle, James, Horan, Richard D., 2013

Economics and environmental markets
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Shortle, James, 2013

Water quality trading with asymmetric information, uncertainty and transaction costs
Resource and Energy Economics, Nguyen, N. P., Shortle, J. S., Reed, P. M., Nguyen, T. T., 2013

Agglomeration bonus in small and large local networks
Ecological Economics, Banerjee, Simanti, Kwasnica, Anthony M., Shortle, James S., 2012

Managing manure for sustainable livestock production in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Kleinman, Peter, Blunk, Kristen Saacke, Bryant, Ray, Saporito, Lou, Beegle, Doug, Czymmek, Karl, Ketterings, Quirine, Sims, Tom, Shortle, Jim, McGrath, Josh, Coale, Frank, Dubin, Mark, Dostie, Daniel, Maguire, Rory, Meinen, Robb, Allen, Arthur, O'Neill, Kelly, Garber, Lamonte, Davis, Mark, Clark, Bobby, Sellner, Kevin, Smith, Matt, 2012

Reforming agricultural nonpoint pollution policy in an increasingly budget-constrained environment
Environmental Science and Technology, Shortle, James S., Ribaudo, Marc, Horan, Richard D., Blandford, David, 2012

Baseline requirements can hinder trades in water quality trading programs
Journal of Environmental Management, Ghosh, Gaurav, Ribaudo, Marc, Shortle, James Samuel, 2011

Economic and Ecological Rules for Water Quality Trading
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Horan, Richard D., Shortle, James Samuel, 2011