Joshua Duke

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1998
• M.S., University of Rochester, 1994
• B.A., University of Vermont, 1992

• APEC/ECON343 Environmental Economics
• APEC/LEST450 Environmental Law

• Land Use, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Property Rights

• Associate Editor, Water Resources Research
• President, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
• Editor (with JunJie Wu), The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics
• Water Science and Policy, Program Committee
• Advisory Panel on Nutrient Trading, Chesapeake Bay Commission
• Council of Fellows, Delaware Environmental Institute
• Distinguished Member, Northeastern Agric. and Res. Econ. Assoc.
• Editorial Board, Land Economics

• 2015 – 2016
• Public Acceptability and Land Value Taxation: An Experimental Economics Investigation, $23,000
• J. Duke (PD)

• AFRI, 2016 – 2019
• Targeted Conservation Contracts to Enhance Agricultural Best Management Practices: Incorporating Heterogeneity and Predicting Additionality, $498,434
• J. Duke (PD), A. Shober, R. Johnston (Co-PDs)

• Agricultural Marketing Service, FSMIP, Sept 30, 2015 – Sept 29, 2017
• The Effect of Preservation Labeling on Local Food Marketing Premiums, $87,261 (with additional 1:1 match)
• J. Duke (PD), J. Bernard (Co-PD)

• Advising graduate students in Agricultural and Resource Economics and Water Science and Policy.

Recent Publications

Duke, Joshua M., Brian J. Schilling, Kevin P. Sullivan, J. Dixon Esseks, Paul D. Gottlieb, and Lori Lynch. 2016. Illiquid Capital: Are Conservation Easement Payments Reinvested in Farms? Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy. doi:10.1093/aepp/ppw016

Duke, Joshua M., Jules Bruck, Susan Barton, Megan Murray, Shreeram Inamdar, and Douglas W. Tallamy. 2016. Public preferences for ecosystem services on exurban landscapes: A case study from the mid-Atlantic, USA. Heliyon 2(7): e00127 (pp1-27). Open access available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2016.e00127.

Duke, Joshua M., and Ben Attia. 2015. Negotiated solar rights conflict resolution: A comparative institutional analysis of public and private processes. Journal of Environmental & Sustainability Law. 22(1):1-52.

Bachman, Matthew, Shreeram Inamdar, Sue Barton, Joshua M. Duke, Doug Tallamy, Jules Bruck. A watershed scale assessment of the impacts of suburban turf management on runoff water quality. Journal of American Water Resources Association, 52(2):397-408.

Fooks, Jacob, Nathaniel Higgins, Kent D. Messer, Joshua M. Duke, Daniel Hellerstein, and Lori Lynch. Forthcoming. Conserving spatially explicit benefits in ecosystem service markets: Lab and artefactual field tests of network bonuses and spatial targeting. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  98(2):468-88.

Duke, Joshua M., Steven J. Dundas, Robert J. Johnston, and Kent D. Messer. 2015. The effect of spatial interdependencies on prioritization and payments for environmental services. Land Use Policy. 48:341-350.

Egan, Jennifer M., and Joshua M. Duke. 2015. Water quality conflict resolution and agricultural discharges: Lessons from Waterkeeper v. Hudson. William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 39(3):533-574.

Schilling, Brian J., J. Dixon Esseks, Joshua M. Duke, Paul D. Gottlieb, and Lori Lynch. 2015. The future of preserved farmland: Ownership succession in three mid-Atlantic states. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 5(2):129-153.

Gottlieb, Paul D., Brian J. Schilling, Kevin Sullivan, J. Dixon Esseks, Lori Lynch, Joshua M Duke. 2015. Are preserved farms actively engaged in agriculture and conservation? Land Use Policy. 45:103-116.

Fooks, Jacob R., Kent D. Messer, Joshua M. Duke. 2015. Dynamic entry, reverse auctions, and the purchase of ecosystem services. Land Economics 91(1):57-75.

Liu, Zhuo, Jordan F. Suter, Kent D. Messer, Joshua M. Duke, and Holly A. Michael. 2014. Strategic entry and externalities in groundwater resources: Evidence from the lab. Resource and Energy Economics 38:181-197.

Li, Jingyuan, Holly A. Michael, Joshua M. Duke, Kent D. Messer, Jordan F. Suter. 2014. Behavioral response to contamination risk information in a spatially explicit groundwater environment: Experimental evidence. Water Resources Research 50(8):6390–6405.

Duke, Joshua M., Steven J. Dundas, Robert J. Johnston, and Kent D. Messer. 2014. Prioritizing Payment for Environmental Services:  Using Nonmarket Benefits for Cost Effective Selection. Ecological Economics 105:319-329.