Linda Fernandez

Associate Professor

Dr. Fernandez’ research explores public and private economic incentives for pollution control and natural resource protection on international and local scales. Environmental protection along international borders is one focus of Fernandez’ research to develop and empirically test game theory models to study the potential for neighboring countries such Canada, U.S., and Mexico to solve border water and air pollution problems. Funding from NSF, Commission on Environmental Cooperation, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation has led to several publications, some listed below.
Research also includes analysis of economic incentives to address invasive species in a coordinated manner between importing and exporting countries hoping to protect biodiversity and trade, noting different aspects of uncertainty of costs and damages in terrestrial and marine environments.

Fernandez, Linda. 1997. Estimation of Wastewater Treatment Objectives Through Maximum Entropy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 32:293-308.
Fernandez, Linda and Larry Karp. 1998. Restoring Wetlands Through Wetlands Mitigation Banks, Environmental and Resource Economics, 12:323-344.
Fernandez, Linda. 2002. Trade’s Dynamic Solutions to Transboundary Pollution, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 43:386-411.
Fernandez, Linda. 2003. A Diversified Portfolio: Joint Management of Nonrenewable and Renewable Resources Offshore, Resource and Energy Economics, Vol.27, No.1.
Fernandez, Linda. 2003. The Case for Cross Media Environmental Policy, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol.23, No.4.
Fernandez, Linda. 2004. Revealed Preferences of an International Trade and Environment Institution, Land Economics, Vol. 80(2):224-238.
Fernandez, Linda. 2006. Natural Resources, Agriculture and Property Rights, Ecological Economics, 57(3):359-373.
Fernandez, Linda. 2007. Maritime Trade and Migratory Species Management to Protect Biodiversity, Environmental and Resource Economics, 38(2):165-188.
Fernandez, Linda. 2007, Wastewater Pollution Abatement across an International Border, Environment and Development Economics, forthcoming.