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PingSun Leung is a researcher affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their work predominantly spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specialized focus on Economics and Econometrics, Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Insect Science.

Their research topics center largely on Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth, Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Organic Food and Agriculture, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, and Green IT and Sustainability.

They have published extensively in several key venues, with frequent contributions to the Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Aquaculture, Aquaculture Economics & Management, Global Food Security, and Economic Systems Research.

The following are some of their recent published papers:

  • Unlocking the potential of aquatic foods in global food security and nutrition: A missing piece under the lens of seafood liking index, 2022, Global Food Security
  • A global assessment of species diversification in aquaculture, 2023, Aquaculture
  • Energy Efficiency of Training Neural Network Architectures: An Empirical Study, 2023, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Aquaculture production and diversification: What causes what?, 2024, Aquaculture
  • A note on linkage between gross value added and final use at the industry level, 2020, Economic Systems Research

PingSun Leung has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Junning Cai
  • Omar El-Gayar
  • Arno Scharl
  • Hing Ling Chan
  • Abdullah Wahbeh

Best Publications

  • Technical, allocative and economic efficiencies in swine production in Hawaii: a comparison of parametric and nonparametric approaches

    Khem R. Sharma;PingSun Leung;Halina M. Zaleski

  • Estimating economic impacts from tourism

    Deying Zhou;John F. Yanagida;Ujjayant Chakravorty;PingSun Leung

  • The normalized revealed comparative advantage index

    Run Yu;Junning Cai;PingSun Leung

  • Linkage Measures: a Revisit and a Suggested Alternative

    Junning Cai;Pingsun Leung

  • Technical Efficiency of the Longline Fishery in Hawaii: An Application of a Stochastic Production Frontier

    Khem R. Sharma;Pingsun Leung

  • Productive Efficiency of the Swine Industry in Hawaii: Stochastic Frontier vs. Data Envelopment Analysis

    Khem R. Sharma;Pingsun Leung;Halina M. Zaleski

  • Social networks and environmental outcomes

    Michele L. Barnes;John Lynham;Kolter Kalberg;PingSun Leung

  • Evaluating fisheries management options in Hawaii using analytic hierarchy process (AHP)

    PingSun Leung;Jill Muraoka;Stuart T Nakamoto;Sam Pooley

  • Comparative economics of shrimp farming in Asia

    Yung C. Shang;Pingsun Leung;Bith-Hong Ling

  • Tourism’s Forward and Backward Linkages

    Junning Cai;PingSun Leung;James Mak

  • Economics of Small‐scale Commercial Aquaponics in Hawai‘i

    Kanae Tokunaga;Clyde Tamaru;Harry Ako;PingSun Leung

  • Economic efficiency and optimum stocking densities in fish polyculture: an application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to Chinese fish farms.

    Khem R. Sharma;PingSun Leung;Hailiang Chen;Aaron Peterson

  • Energy and tourism in Hawaii

    Natalia Tabatchnaia-Tamirisa;Matthew K. Loke;PingSun Leung;Ken A. Tucker

  • Regional Economic Impacts of Reductions in Fisheries Production: A Supply-Driven Approach

    Pingsun Leung;Sam Pooley

  • The influence of ethnic diversity on social network structure in a common-pool resource system: implications for collaborative management

    Michele Barnes-Mauthe;Shawn Arita;Stewart D. Allen;Steven A. Gray

  • What Determines Social Capital in a Social–Ecological System? Insights from a Network Perspective

    Michele Barnes-Mauthe;Steven Allen Gray;Shawn Arita;John Lynham

  • Technical efficiency of carp pond culture in South Asia: An application of a stochastic meta‐production frontier model

    Khem R. Sharma;Pingsun Leung

  • A review of production frontier analysis for aquaculture management

    Khem R. Sharma;Pingsun Leung

  • Technical efficiency of carp production in India: a stochastic frontier production function analysis

    K R Sharma;P S Leung

  • Technical efficiency of carp pond culture in peninsula Malaysia: an application of stochastic production frontier and technical inefficiency model

    Mitsuo Iinuma;Khem R Sharma;PingSun Leung

  • Productive Efficiency of the Swine Industry in Hawaii

    Khem R. Sharma;PingSun Leung;Halina M. Zaleski

Frequent Co-Authors

Cédric Bacher
Cédric Bacher French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jon Grant
Jon Grant Dalhousie University

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