Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Winners

2002-2003

Zuhre Aksoy, Dept. of Political Science, University of Massachusetts. Aksoy is writing on "The Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity in Turkey: An Analysis of the Linkages Between Local, National, and International Levels," a study of how farmers adapt to changing pest, pathogen, and environmental conditions under different national and international institutional regimes.

Diji Chandrasekharan Behr, Dept. of Natural Resources, Cornell University. Behr’s dissertation is titled "Conservation of Biodiversity in Agroforestry Systems: Institutional and Economic Dimensions of Medicinal Plant Cultivation in Kerala, India" and is a study of the role of commercialization initiatives in promoting cultivation of non-wood forest products in order to advance forest conservation.

Seung-Rae Kim, University of Texas-Austin, whose thesis focuses on the development and application of theoretical/empirical general equilibrium modeling to evaluate policy interactions affecting environmental quality, economic growth and welfare in a world of other existing policy distortions.

Fumie Yokata, Dept. of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Harvard University. Yokata’s research is titled "The Value of Toxicological Information in Improving Children’s Health" and develops a value-of-information model to understand and measure the usefulness of various toxicological testing requirements of the U.S. EPA under the pilot phase of the Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program.

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