Agricultural and Resource Economics - Emeritus Faculty

Paul Wilson

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University Distinguished Professor

Paul Wilson

pwilson@ag.arizona.edu

Dr. Wilson's teaching and research interests included the economics of agribusiness organization and management, the economics of irrigation, and the economic dimensions of institutional change. These emphases evolved from his rural background and work with the Peace Corps and the Agency for International Development.

Dr. Wilson's research focuses on the economics of irrigated agriculture, trust as a business asset, strategic investment decisions by agribusiness firms, and transboundary conflicts (e.g., water, dust) along the interface between rural and urban areas. These projects involved varying degrees of collaboration with agricultural engineers, biologists, agronomists, and animal scientists. Dr. Wilson has received several awards at the College and University levels for outstanding teaching and advising including being named a University Distinguished Professor.

Degrees

Professor; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1982; Economics of Organization, Management, and Technical Change

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Faculty & Staff Emeritus Faculty Peace Corps Alumni Country of Service: Dominican Republic, Costa Rica Service Years: 1970-1972 Service Sector: Cooperative Development/Business Advisor and Accountant

How did the AREC program connect your service and help you prepare for your professional experiences?

The AREC program enabled me to acquire the writing, research, analytical and teaching skills to be offered jobs in the private, consulting, and public sectors. My wife and I chose to pursue the opportunity with the U.S. Agency for International Development where I served as a loan officer and a rural development officer in Washington, D.C. and Nicaragua. This overseas experience led us to pursue a Ph.D. after 2+ years of service.

Why would you recommend that an RPCV join our M.S. program?

Students will participate in a student-centered academic environment that prepares the student for analytical and managerial positions in the private and public sectors.

Roger Dahlgran

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Associate Professor

Roger Dahlgran

dahlgran@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Dahlgran joined the faculty at The University of Arizona in 1985. His fields of major interest include econometric modeling of agricultural markets, the detection of structural change in these markets, and modeling interrelationships between cash and futures markets. He currently teaches courses on applied econometrics and the economics of futures markets and has received awards and recognition for his development and use of futures trading simulation software and multimedia-based presentation materials. He has taught economic forecasting short courses in Jamaica and Sudan. He is currently active in faculty governance at the university level.

Recent research has focused on measuring market interconnectedness for commodity and futures markets, methods of valuing contractually supplied inputs, the dynamics of futures-market price behavior, and evaluating the effectiveness of innovations used in teaching agricultural economics concepts.

Degrees

Associate Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1980; Applied Econometrics and Agricultural Markets

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Faculty & Staff Emeritus Faculty

Dennis Cory

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Professor

Dennis Cory

dcory@ag.arizona.edu

Dr. Cory joined the faculty at The University of Arizona in 1977. In addition to his teaching and research activities in the Department, he also has been a visiting scholar at the University of Portici in Naples, Italy, the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, the University of Reading in England, and La Sapienza College of Law at the University of Rome. For the past five years he has been conducting research on environmental justice issues in Arizona. Recently completed projects on environmental justice have involved the documentation of disparate-impact discrimination in the context of siting potentially polluting activities, enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and remediation of CERCLA/WQARF sites in Arizona.

Dr. Cory has received the Best Published Research Award from the Western Agricultural Economics Association, the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of The University of Arizona, the Superior Teaching Recognition from the Arizona Associated Students Association, and has served as Head of the Department (1996-2001) and President of the Western Agricultural Economics Administrators Association (2000). Current field of research interest is environmental law and economics, an academic field within economics concerned with the control of environmental risk

Degrees

Professor; Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1977; Environmental Law and Economics

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Faculty & Staff Emeritus Faculty

Bonnie Colby

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Professor

Bonnie Colby

McLelland Park 301L

(520) 621-4775

bcolby@arizona.edu

Natural Resource & Environmental Economics

Dr. Colby focuses on the neuroeconomics* of collaborative problem-solving processes and incentive-based agreements to address natural resource conflicts. Her research, teaching and outreach emphasize climate change adaptation, water supply reliability and negotiated agreements to resolve environmental disputes. Colby has provided invited testimony to state legislatures, tribal councils, federal courts and the U.S. Congress. She works with public agencies, private firms and NGOs to develop and implement economic strategies to address regional resource challenges, and provides trainings for attorneys, engineers, public officials and resource user groups.

Dr. Colby has authored over one hundred journal articles and eight books, including Braving the Currents: Resolving Conflicts Over the Waters of the American West; and Risk & Resilience: The Economics of Climate, Water, and Energy in the Arid Southwest.

* Neuroeconomics studies human choices and processing of multiple alternatives, incorporating neuroscientific discoveries to guide models of individual and collective behavior and design of effective collaborative problem-solving processes.

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

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Awards & Honors

Distinguished Scholar Award, Western Agricultural Economics Assoc.
Outstanding Research Scientist Award, University of Arizona
Outstanding Publication Award, National Academy of Sciences
Lead Economist, Kinship Conservation Leadership Training Program
Warren Hall Medal, Universities Council on Water Resources
Founding Member, Colorado River Research Group, Blue Ribbon Expert Panel
Women of Impact Award, University of Arizona, 2023

Classes Taught

AREC 479/579, Economic Analysis of Water, Food & Environ. Policies
AREC 575, Incentive-Based Resource Policies & Environmental Markets

Recent Publications

B. Colby, Teaching Water Resource Economics for Policy Analysis, Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 2023.

McGreal*, B. and B. Colby, Effects of Economics and Climatic Factors on Arid Agricultural Water Use, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2023.

Colby, Bonnie G. and H. Hansen*, Colorado Basin Incentive-Based Urban Water Policies: Review and Evaluation, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol 55: 1098-1115, 2022.

Colby, B. 2020. Acquiring Environmental Flows: Ecological Economics of Policy Development in Western U.S. Ecological Economics 173: 106655.

Isaaks*, R., & Colby, B. 2020 Empirical Application of Rubinstein Bargaining Model In Western U.S. Water Transactions. Water Economics and Policy 6 (1): 1950010

Young*, R., Colby, B. and Thompson, G. 2019. Tribal Water Rights, Community Economies, and Adaptive Water Institutions in the Western United States. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 9 (1): 74-102.

Colby, B. and R. Isaaks*. 2019. Water Trading: Adaptation, Innovations and Modeling. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 165 (1): 76-88.

Kendy,E., Aylward, B., Ziemer, L., Richter, B., Colby, B. 2018. Water Transactions for Streamflow Restoration, Water Supply Reliability, and Rural Economic Vitality in the Western United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 54 (2): 487-504.

Deol*, S. and Colby, B.G. 2018. Economies of Tribal Nations: Water Rights, Agriculture and Gaming. Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 163 (1): 45-63.

*indicates co-author is Colby Graduate Student

Faculty & Staff Emeritus Faculty

Bruce Beattie

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Professor

Bruce Beattie

beattie@email.arizona.edu

Bruce Beattie joined the faculty in 1990 as professor and head of department. He has held faculty positions at the University of Kentucky, Iowa State, Texas A&M, and Montana State University (including head of department). Teaching interests include production economics, intermediate microeconomics, and principles of microeconomics. Research interest area is production and agricultural economics. Current research/writing projects include “Stone-Geary Technology and Crop Response toApplied Nitrogen and Irrigation Water” (with Aradhyula) and a possible 3rd edition of The Economics of Production (with Taylor and Watts).

Degrees

Professor; Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1970; Production Economics

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Faculty & Staff Emeritus Faculty