Kurt Stephenson Professor Resources and Environmental Economics Ph.D. 1994, University of Nebraska Office: 320A Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540) 231-5381 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: kurts@vt.edu

Kurt Stephenson joined the faculty in the fall of 1995. Kurt's research interests include water resource issues, the use of economic incentives in environmental policy, the role of economic analysis in environmental policy, and institutional economics. He is also interested in the development and use of innovative approaches to teaching economics.

Kurt's primary teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate courses in natural resource and environmental economics and principles of economics.

He grew up in Southwest Virginia and enjoys fishing, canoeing, basketball, and spending time with the family (wife Lisa, daughter Brooke, and son Ty).

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Selected Projects:

Nutrient Assimilative Credits: Exploring the Potential of Oyster Aquaculture to Improve Water Quality.

Selected Publications:

Kurt Stephenson and Leonard Shabman. 2008. “Overview of Computer Aided Dispute Resolution: Approach and Evaluation” in Computer Aided Dispute Resolution: Proceedings from the CADRe Workshop, eds. Stephenson et al. IWR Report 07-R-6.  Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Leonard Shabman and Kurt Stephenson "Achieving Nutrient Water Quality Goals: Bringing Market-like Principles to Water Quality Management" Journal of American Water Resources Association. 2007 forthcoming.

Charles Gowan, Kurt Stephenson, and Leonard Shabman “The Role of Ecosystem Valuation in Environmental Decision Making: Hydropower Relicensing and Dam Removal on the Elwha River.” Ecological Economics. 56 (April 2006): 508-523.

Kurt Stephenson, Anya McGuirk, Tricia Crouse, and Dixie Watts Reaves. “Comparisons of the Educational Value of Distance versus Traditional Classroom Instruction in Introductory Agricultural Economics” Review of Agricultural Economics. (Winter 2005): 605-620.

Kurt Stephenson, Leonard Shabman, and James Boyd. “Taxonomy of Trading Programs: Concepts and Applications to TMDLs.” In TMDLs: Approaches and Challenges. Ed, Tamim Younos, pp. 253-280.  Tulsa OK: PennWell Press, 2005.

Kurt Stephenson and Leonard Shabman. “Mitigation Associations: A Cooperative Option to Meet Section 404 Mitigation Requirements” Virginia Mining Journal 17(2004) 2: 4-11.

Kurt Stephenson. “The What and Why of Share Vision Planning for Water Supply” Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers, http://www.svp.iwr.usace.army.mil/tmeWhatWhy.cfm. December 2003.

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

Leonard Shabman, Kurt Stephenson and William Shobe. "Trading Programs for Environmental Management: Reflections on the Air and Water Experiences." Environmental Practice 4 (September 2002) 3: 153-162. Reprinted by the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Reprint Series Number 166.

Kurt Stephenson, "An Institutionalist Approach to Environmental Goal Setting" in Institutional Analysis and Economic Policy. Eds. Marc Tool and Paul Dale Bush. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, December 2002.

Cameron Speir* and Kurt Stephenson. "Does Sprawl Cost Us All? Isolating the Effects of Residential Settlement Forms on Public Water and Sewer Costs." Journal of the American Planning Association 68 (Winter 2002) 1:56-70.
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*denotes a current or former student.

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