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James S. Shortle is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research centers on environmental science with significant contributions across economics, econometrics, finance, and engineering. The scientist's work involves diverse subfields including economics and econometrics, environmental chemistry, ocean engineering, water science and technology, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their main research topics include climate change policy and economics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, economic and environmental valuation, water resources management and optimization, urban stormwater management solutions, hydrology and watershed management studies, and fish ecology and management studies.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by James S. Shortle include:

  • Nutrient control in water bodies: A systems approach, 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Addressing the spatial disconnect between national-scale total maximum daily loads and localized land management decisions, 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Confronting our Agricultural Nonpoint Source Control Policy Problem, 2022, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
  • Temporal inequality of nutrient and sediment transport: a decision-making framework for temporal targeting of load reduction goals, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Valuing water quality benefits from adopting best management practices: A spatial approach, 2020, Journal of Environmental Quality

James S. Shortle collaborates frequently with several co-authors including Markku Ollikainen, Antti Iho, Tamie L. Veith, Richard D. Horan, and James R. Mihelcic.

Their research has appeared predominantly in the Journal of Environmental Quality, along with publications in JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics, and The Science of The Total Environment.

In addition to journal articles, James S. Shortle has contributed to book literature, notably with a publication titled "Water Quality and Agriculture" in 2021 by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • The Relative Efficiency of Agricultural Source Water Pollution Control Policies

    James S. Shortle;James W. Dunn

  • The Economics of Nonpoint Pollution Control

    James S. Shortle;Richard D. Horan

  • Reforming Agricultural Nonpoint Pollution Policy in an Increasingly Budget-Constrained Environment

    James S. Shortle;Marc Ribaudo;Richard D. Horan;David Blandford

  • Research issues in nonpoint pollution control

    James S. Shortle;Richard D. Horan;David G. Abler

  • Ambient taxes when polluters have multiple choices

    Richard D. Horan;James Samuel Shortle;David Gerard Abler

  • Economic Instruments and Environmental Policy in Agriculture

    Alfons Weersink;John Livernois;Jason F. Shogren;James S. Shortle

  • Economics and Environmental Markets: Lessons from Water-Quality Trading

    James Shortle

  • Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control

    J. S. Shortle;D. G. Abler

  • Social science in a water observing system

    John B. Braden;Daniel G. Brown;Jeff Dozier;Patricia Gober

  • Parameter Uncertainty in CGE Modeling of the Environmental Impacts of Economic Policies

    David G. Abler;Adrián G. Rodríguez;James S. Shortle

  • Advancing the sustainability of US agriculture through long-term research

    P. J. A. Kleinman;S. Spiegal;J. R. Rigby;S. C. Goslee

  • Do baseline requirements hinder trades in water quality trading programs

    Marc Ribaudo;Gaurav S. Ghosh;James S. Shortle

  • When Two Wrongs Make a Right: Second-Best Point-Nonpoint Trading Ratios

    Richard D. Horan;James S. Shortle

  • Environmental and farm commodity policy linkages in the US and the EC

    David G. Abler;James S. Shortle

  • The allocative efficiency implications of water pollution abatement cost comparisons

    James S. Shortle

  • Water Quality Trading when Nonpoint Pollution Loads are Stochastic

    Gaurav Ghosh;James Shortle

  • Policy Instruments for Water Quality Protection

    James Shortle;Richard D. Horan

  • Construct validity of averting cost measures of environmental benefits

    Andrew S. Laughland;Wesley N. Musser;Wesley N. Musser;James S. Shortle;Lynn M. Musser

  • Economic and Ecological Rules for Water Quality Trading

    Richard D. Horan;James Samuel Shortle

  • Agglomeration bonus in small and large local networks: A laboratory examination of spatial coordination

    Simanti Banerjee;Anthony M. Kwasnica;James S. Shortle

  • Water quality trading with asymmetric information, uncertainty and transaction costs: A stochastic agent-based simulation

    N.P. Nguyen;J.S. Shortle;P.M. Reed;T.T. Nguyen

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Horan
Richard D. Horan Michigan State University
Peter J. A. Kleinman
Peter J. A. Kleinman Agricultural Research Service
P. Wesley Schultz
P. Wesley Schultz Claremont Graduate University
John M. Baker
John M. Baker United States Department of Agriculture
Justin D. Derner
Justin D. Derner Agricultural Research Service
David R. Huggins
David R. Huggins Washington State University
Mark A. Liebig
Mark A. Liebig Agricultural Research Service
Michel A. Cavigelli
Michel A. Cavigelli Agricultural Research Service
Steven B. Mirsky
Steven B. Mirsky Agricultural Research Service
Quirine M. Ketterings
Quirine M. Ketterings Cornell University

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