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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