Keith C. Knapp

Professor of Resource Economics

Office: 424B Geology
Phone: (951) 827-4195
Email: keith.knapp@ucr.edu

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University, 1980

Specialization:

Teaching

Natural resource and environmental economics

Research

Water resource economics
Natural resource and environmental aspects of agricultural production
Economic growth, natural resources, and sustainability
Computational economics of the environment

Courses Taught:

ENSC/ECON 6: Introduction to Environmental Economics (Spring quarter)
ENSC/ECON 143a: Environmental Economics (Fall quarter)
ECON 207: Environmental Economics (Winter quarter, alternate years)
ECON 258E: Environmental Macroeconomics and Ecological
Economics (Seminar, Spring quarter, alternate years)

Research Interests:

Honors and Awards:

Selected Publications:

Knapp, K.C. and L.J. Olson. 1995.The economics of conjunctive groundwater management with stochastic surface supplies. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 28(3):340-356. May.

Letey, J. and K.C. Knapp. 1995. Simulating saline water management strategies with application to arid-region agroforestry. Journal of Environmental Quality. 24(5):934-940. September-October.

Knapp, K.C., and L.J. Olson. 1996. Dynamic resource management: intertemporal substitution and risk aversion. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 78(4):1004-1014. November.

Posnikoff, J.F., and K.C. Knapp. 1996. Regional drainwater management: source control, agroforestry, and evaporation ponds. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 21(2): 277-293. December.

Olson, L.J., and K.C. Knapp. 1997. Exhaustible resource allocation in an overlapping generations economy. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 32(3):277-292. March.

Knapp, K.C. and P. A. Sadorsky. 2000. Economics of agroforestry production in irrigated agriculture. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 25(1):286-306. July.

Peltola, J., and K.C. Knapp. 2001. Recursive preferences in forest management. Forest Science. 47(4):455-465. November.

Address:

Department of Environmental Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

Fax: (951) 827-3993