Darrell Bosch Professor Resources and Environmental Economics Ph.D. 1984, University of Minnesota Office: 308 Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540) 231-5265 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: bosch@vt.edu

Darrell Bosch grew up on a farm in Minnesota and spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer working in agriculture in Belize, Central America. After receiving his Ph.D., Professor Bosch joined the faculty in 1984. His current research interests include risk analysis, economics of nonpoint source pollution control, drinking water infrastructure management, watershed management, and greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities in agriculture. In 1992-93, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Economic Research Service, USDA in Washington, DC, where he studied the role of information in improving farmers' decisions affecting water quality. He teaches graduate courses in risk analysis, research project planning, and watershed management, and undergraduate courses in sustainable development economics and agricultural management and problem solving.

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Recent Publications:

Pease, James W. and Darrell J. Bosch.  “Reinventing Regulation of Agriculture:  Alternative Performance Standards for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics  36(August 2004):277-286.

Feinerman, Eli, Darrell J. Bosch, and James W. Pease.  “Manure Applications and Nutrient Standards.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(2004):14-25.

R. Dymond, V. Lohani, D. Kibler, D. Bosch, E. J. Rubin, R. Dietz, J. Chanat, C. Speir,  C. A.  Shaffer, N. Ramakrishnan, and L. T. Watson.  2001.  “From Landscapes to Waterscapes:  A PSE for Landuse Change Analysis.”  Engineering with Computers  19(2003):9-25. 

Bosch, Darrell J., Vinod K. Lohani, Randy L. Dymond,  David F. Kibler,  and Kurt Stephenson.  “Hydrological and Fiscal Impacts of Residential Development:   Virginia Case Study.”  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 129:2(March/April 2003):107-114. 

Peng, Wei and Darrell J. Bosch.  “Risk and Site Factors Affecting Potential Nitrogen Delivery in the Virginia Coastal Plain.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics  33:1(April 2001):173-188.

Bosch, Darrell J. and James W. Pease.  “Economic Risk and Water Quality Protection in Agriculture.”  Review of Agricultural Economics.  22:2(Fall/Winter 2000):438-463.

VanDyke, Laura S., James W. Pease, Darrell J. Bosch, and James Baker. “Nutrient Management Planning on Four Virginia Livestock Farms: Impacts on Net Income and Nutrient Losses,” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation  54:2(2nd Quarter 1999):499-505.

VanDyke, Laura S., Darrell J. Bosch, and James W. Pease.  “Impacts of Within-Farm Soil Variability on Nitrogen Pollution Control Costs.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics  31:1(April 1999):149-159.