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“Reduce, Reuse, Redeem: Deposit-Refund Recycling Programs in the Presence of Alternatives”

Fall 2021 - Session 1: The everyday politics of food, place, people, and research

Wenying Li Auburn University Wenying Li is an assistant professor of quantitative methods in Auburn University’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. His areas of focus include consumer demand estimation, computational economics, and economics of food, health, and nutrition. Li received his bachelor’s degree from the Renmin University of China, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE), and a doctoral degree from the University of Georgia.

Author Bio: Julio Ramos Pastrana is an applied economist with research interests in political economy, health economics, and resource and environmental economics. He is interested in the effect of political institutions on economic and environmental outcomes, as well as the role of public programs on people’s health and resource use. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University, an M.A. in economics from El Colegio de México, and a B.A. in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Rebecca Cleary Colorado State University Rebecca Cleary is an assistant professor of agricultural economics at Colorado State University. She holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin. Her work focuses on health economics, consumer behavior, and food policy. She is interested in understanding the relationship between at-risk households and lower health outcomes and how policies may be able to contribute to better health outcomes.

Dr. Richard Mbih is an Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies and Rural Sociology at Penn State University. He is a Geographer by training and holds a PhD in Geography and Social Sciences from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research interests focus on agro-pastoral sustainability, environmental conflicts and development studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Northwest Cameroon. Currently, Professor Mbih is engaged in two human-environmental security related research projects. The first examines the effects of climate change on agro-pastoral conflicts between indigenous farming and Fulani pastoral communities in Northwest Cameroon. The study also explores the adaptation and mitigation strategies adopted by vulnerable African communities in the face of environmental change. The second project investigates the effects of the current Anglophone crisis in Cameroon on livelihood security and human displacement, leading to the marginalization of the English-speaking minority in Cameroon who are now refugees in neighboring Nigeria, the United States and Mexico.