James Shortle

• Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
• Director, Environment and Natural Resources Institute
• 112C Armsby Building
• University Park
• Telephone: (814) 865-7657
• FAX: (814) 865-3746
• E-mail: jshortle@psu.edu
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• Department faculty webpage
• Personal webpage
• Environment and Natural Resources Institute

Keywords:

• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Planning or Policy
• Modeling/Simulation
• Natural Resource Economics
• Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Water Resources
• Water Resources Environmental Impacts
• Watershed Management

Active Research Projects:

• Analysis of BMP implementation performance and maintenance in Spring Creek, an agriculturally-influenced watershed in PA
• Development of a habitat conservation plan for the bog turtle - Year IV
• Global Change Research Program (GCRP)
• Hydrologic Forecasting for Characterization of Non-linear Response of Freshwater Wetlands to Climatic and Land Use Change in the Susquehanna River Basin

Completed Research Projects:

• 2004 NAREA Workshop on Trade and the Environment
• Development of a habitat conservation plan for the bog turtle - Year I
• Development of a Habitat Conservation Plan for the Bog Turtle - Year II
• Development of a Habitat Conservation Plan for the Bog Turtle - Year III
• Ecological and Socioeconomic Indicators for Integrated Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystems of the Atlantic Slope
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment (MARA Phase III)
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment (MARA) Phase II