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Department of Agricultural Economics
Dr. William Park, Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator

Department of Agricultural Economics
University of Tennessee
321 Morgan Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4519
(865) 974-7231
(865) 974-7484 (FAX)
wpark@utk.edu

Areas of Professional Interest:

  • Natural resource conservation and environmental policy issues relating to agriculture and rural communities

Education:

  • Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, 1980, Virginia Tech
  • M. S., Agricultural Economics, 1976, Purdue University
  • B. A., Economics, 1974, DePauw University

Teaching:

  • AGEC 110 - Opportunities in Agricultural Economics and Business
  • AGEC 212 - The Agribusiness Firm
  • AGEC 330 - Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology
  • AGEC 410 - Senior Seminar in Agricultural Economics and Business
  • AGEC 470 - Natural Resource Economics (available by correspondence)

Selected Recent Publications:

Jakus, P. M., K. H. Tiller and W. M. Park, 1997 (July). “Explaining Rural Household Participation in Recycling,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 29(1):141-148.

Tiller, K. H., P. M. Jakus and W. M. Park, 1997 (December). “Household Willingness to Pay for Drop-Off Recycling,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 22(2):310-320.

Park, W. M., 2001 (Summer). “The Growing Role of Land Trusts in Protection of Agricultural and Open Space Land at the Rural-Urban Interface,” in Southern Perspectives Newsletter, 5:1, Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University.

Park, W. M., 2001 (August). “Searching for the Heart of Agricultural Economics with 20/20 Vision,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 33:2:229-243.

Park, W. M., K. Lamons and R. Roberts, 2002 (October). “Factors Associated with Backyard Composting Behavior at the Household Level,” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 31:2:147-156.

Park, W. M., and K. Stephenson, 2003 (April 3-6). “Use of games and Simulations for Teaching Economic Principles in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Policy Analysis,” Proceedings of the 2003 National Conference on Student Writing and Critical Thinking in Agriculture, Jackson, Wyoming.

Clark, C. D., W. M. Park and E. F. Bazen, 2004 (March 31-April 2). “Water Quality Trading: A Cost-Effective Way to Improve Water Quality in Tennessee?”, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Tennessee Water Resources Symposium, Burns, Tennessee, 2C-21-26.

Cho, S., J. M. Bowker and W. M. Park, 2006. “Measuring the Contribution of Water and Green Space to Housing Values: An Application and Comparison of Spatially-Weighted Hedonic Models.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 31:485-507.

Cho, S., C. D. Clark and W. M. Park, 2006. “Two Dimensions of the Spatial Distribution of Housing: Dependency and Heterogeneity Across Tennessee’s Six Metropolitan Statistical Areas.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 38:299-316.

Clark, C. D., W. M. Park and J. Howell, 2006. “Tracking Farmland Conversion and Fragmentation Using Tax Parcel Data.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 61(5):243-249.


Other Information:

Dr. Park, a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, also serves as Undergraduate Program Coordinator. He represents the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources on the UT Undergraduate Council and chairs The Appeals Committee.

His primary research emphasis is on the role of market-based or economic-incentive mechanisms in environmental policy, along with other aspects of institutional design that improve the equity and political acceptability of economically efficient policy measures. He also collaborates with colleagues on research addressing issues associated with land use change on the rural-urban fringe and natural amenity-based rural development.

Dr. Park teaches an upper-division course in Natural Resource Economics (Agricultural Economics 470) that is available online through UT's Department of Distance Education and Independent Study.

Dr. Park is a member of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Association of Christian Economists.

His hobbies include hiking and fly fishing, and he is enjoying his recently acquired status as an empty-nester and "Papa" to two grandchildren.

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