Leadership in Water Use, Planning, and Conservation in
Agricultural, Natural, and Urban Landscapes
Agricultural and Applied Economics
The Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAEC) Department has 15 faculty members, 7 of whom are active in water research. Research centers on efficient water allocation over time and among competing uses and on the economic and social outcomes of water policy and its use at the local, state, regional, and national levels. The department is in its fifth decade of water research and maintains expertise to translate the technical realities of production agriculture, water engineering, hydrology and ecology into the economic realities of private and public sector activities. Faculty expertise that relates to water includes:
- Economic impacts of water policies by economic sector.
- Impacts of agricultural policies on water use and quality.
- Impacts of water planning at the urban-rural interface.
- Economic sustainability in regions with exhaustible water.
- Policy incentives in achieving social objectives for water use.
- Distributional impacts of water allocations across economic sectors, regions, income groups, or types of community.
AAEC Faculty Involved in Water Research
| Aaron Benson | |
| Michael Farmer | |
| Jeff Johnson | |
| Phillip Johnson | |
| Eduardo Segarra | |
| Chenggang Wang |
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