Home | Support RFF | Join E-mail List | Contact
 
RFF Logo Skip navigation links
FOCUS AREAS
RESEARCH TOPICS
PUBLICATIONS
NEWS
EVENTS
RESEARCHERS
ABOUT RFF

 

Join E-mail List
Please provide your e-mail address to receive periodic newsletters and invitations to public events
Leonard A. Shabman
Resident Scholar
202-328-5139
shabman@rff.org
Research Topics
 
Profile
 
After three decades on the faculty at Virginia Tech, Leonard Shabman joined RFF in 2002 as a resident scholar. His special interest is in expanding the contributions of economic analysis to the formation of water and related land resource policy. Shabman’s present research is focused on development of evaluation protocols for large-scale ecosystem restoration projects, with special focus on the Everglades and Coastal Louisiana. 
Featured Publications
Rising to the Challenge: Integrating Social Science into NSF Environmental Observatories
Shalini Vajjhala, Alan J. Krupnick, Eleanor B McCormick, Morgan Grove, Patricia McDowell, Charles Redman, Leonard A. Shabman, Mitchell Small
RFF Report | September 2007
 
Making Tough Choices: Hurricane Protection Planning after Katrina and Rita
G. Edward Dickey, Leonard A. Shabman
Resources | Winter 2006 (160)
 
Taxonomy of Trading Programs: Concepts and Applications to TMDLs
Kurt Stephenson, Leonard Shabman, and James Boyd
Total Maximum Daily Load: Approaches and Challenges | Tamim Younos, ed. | Tulsa, OK: PennWell Press | 2005
 
Lessons Learned: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of a National Technical Review Committee for Oversight of the Plan for the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta
Kenneth Orth , John W. Day, Donald F. Boesch, Ellis J. Clairain, William J. Mitsch, Leonard Shabman, Charles Simenstad , Bill Streever, Chester Watson, John Wells, Dennis Whigham
Ecological Engineering | 2005 | Vol. 25 | pp. 153–167
 
The Role of Nonmarket Valuation in Hydropower Relicensing: An Application of a Pattern Modeling Approach
K. Stephenson and L. Shabman
Journal of Economic Issues | Forthcoming
 
Reforesting Frequently Flooded Agricultural Land: Will a Market for Carbon Sequestration Credits Be Enough?
L. Shabman, L. Zepp, D. King and L. Wainger
American Journal of Alternative Agriculture | Forthcoming
 
Effluent and Emission Trading Programs: Reflections on the Air and Water Experiences
L. Shabman, L.K. Stephenson and W. Shobe
Environmental Practice | Forthcoming
 
Trading as a U.S. Water Quality Management Tool: Prospects for a Market Alternative
James Boyd, Leonard Shabman and Kurt Stephenson
Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management | Jon Erickson, Frank Messner, and Irene Ring, eds. | Elsevier | 2007
 
Past, Present, and Future of Wetlands Credit Sales
Leonard A. Shabman, Paul Scodari
RFF Discussion Paper 04-48 | December 2004
 
Combatting Ignorance About U.S. Water Quality
James Boyd and Leonard Shabman
New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President | Richard D. Morgenstern and Paul R. Portney, editors | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 22
 
View All Related Publications
NEWS
Investigators Urge Larger Federal Risk-Reduction Role
Monday, September 15, 2008
Engineering News-Record
Gaps in Aging Levees Leave DC Landmarks Exposed
Friday, July 25, 2008
Associated Press
 
RFF Home | Weathervane | Extending the Cure | RFF Press Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Notice
1616 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 · (202) 328-5000 Site Map | Feedback | Contact Us