Funded by USDA-NIFA [Award No. 2019-67024-29677]
"Sustainable Bioenergy Production and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services"
Project period: 06/01/2019 - 05/31/2023
Inquiries, question, or requests to:
Dr. Seong Yun
Project Director and Principal Investigator
Increasing bioenergy demand and energy security concerns have driven policy and research on bioenergy production and its link to sustainable agro-ecosystem management. Coupled agricultural production and agro-ecological systems models analyze multi-dimensional and complex processes: bioenergy production changes land use and thus reallocates ecosystem services. This project, funded by USDA-NIFA AFRI Foundational Program, aims to model spatially-explicit optimal bioenergy production systems given existing renewable fuel standards (RFS2) and emerging future demand for bioenergy as a jet fuel. We propose to extend modern portfolio theory (MPT) for use in sustainable agro-ecosystem management, agro-ecosystems are modeled as an ecosystem portfolio, landuse changes are investments, and bioenergy production and other ecosystem services are returns from these investment.This project is a collaborative teamwork with the Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Agricultural Economics
Project Director and Principal Investigator
Department of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
Co-Principal Investigator
Colleage of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
Clemson University
Co-Principal Investigator
Department of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
Ecology
Co-Pricipal Investigator
Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquacuture
Mississippi State University
POLYSYS
Co-Principal Investigator
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Co-Principal Investigator
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Student Researcher
MS student
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MS student
Department of Agricultural Economics
Mississippi State University
Graduate Researcher
Department of Wildlife, Fishereis & Aquaculture
Mississippi State University
Project Outputs
POLYSYS Simulation Outputs
R packages
acdcR: Agro-Climatic Data by County
R-package 'acdcR' designed to provide the functions to calculate the most widely-used county-level variables in agricultural production or agro-climatic and weather analyses. The recent version is directly available from the R-repository. For the developing or testing version, see: https://github.com/ysd2004/acdcR.
portn: Portolio Analysis for Nature
R-package 'portn' is designed to provide the functions to find the efficient mean-variance frontier or portfolio weights for static portfolio (called Markowitz portfolio) analysis in resource economics or nature conservation. The recent version is directly available from the R-repository. For the developing or testing version, see: https://github.com/ysd2004/portn.