Silvia Secchi

Research Interests:

• Environmental impacts of agriculture, Water sustainability. Floodplain policy, Conservation policy, Adaptation and mitigation to climate change, Land use science, Integrated modeling

Broadly speaking, I am interested in the nexus between humans and the environment, the tools and methodologies we use to understand it, the policies we adopt to change it, and the pedagogy of teaching it.

Specifically, most of my work focuses on the Mississippi River Basin I have done research on land based energy production, water quality, adaptation to climate change, floodplain management, invasive species and farmers’ attitudes in the watershed. I believe in place-based education.

I am trained as a natural resource economist, and I identify as an economist, a geographer and a transdisciplinary scholar. My research typically involves many collaborators from other disciplines, and it integrates economic, geographical, and environmental models.

Keywords

• natural resource economics
• land use change
• conservation policy
• biofuels

I am an applied natural resource economist by training, and my work typically integrates economic, geographical, and environmental modeling. Most of my work focuses on the environmental policies and impacts of land use on floodplains, water quality and carbon emissions.

Keywords

• Conservation policy, Land use change, biofuels, water quality, carbon sequestration

Keywords: land use change; conservation policy; mitigation and adaptation to climate change in agriculture; biofuels and alternative energy; environmental impacts of agriculture.