Researchers in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at Penn State working in the area of Agriculture and Food Systems.

  • Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Public Policy;
  • Director, Program on Coupled Human and Earth Systems (PCHES);
  • President, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)

Areas of Expertise

  • Economy-wide modeling
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
  • Integrated assessment
  • Department Head, Ag Economics, Sociology, and Education
  • Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture
  • Global food and agricultural markets
  • Natural resource economics
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation
  • Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Public Health Sciences
  • Social Science Research Institute Co-funded Faculty Member

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental demography
  • Socio-Environmental Systems
  • Population-infrastructure dynamics
  • Spatiotemporal modeling
  • Data intensive social sciences
  • Professor emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography

Areas of Expertise

  • rural poverty and livelihoods
  • spatial inequality
  • gender and development
  • gender, disaster, and climate change
  • Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental Economics
  • Urban and Land Use Economics
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Nonmarket Valuation
  • Policy Analysis