Juha Siikamäki's research focuses on valuing the environment and evaluating the benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of different environmental policy options. He is especially interested in understanding the preferences of consumers, households, and landowners for different policy programs and using this information for evaluating and designing environmental policy. Recently, he has scrutinized conservation policy alternatives for Finland; reviewed the status of biodiversity and its conservation in the U.S.; and examined the cost-effectiveness of alternative approaches to the protection of Pacific Salmon. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Davis, and a M.S. from the University of Helsinki. His research is published or accepted for publication in journals such as Land Economics and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Fellow, Resources For the Future, Washington, DC., 2004 to present
Senior Economist, Triangle Economics Research, Durham, NC., 2002 to 2004
Graduate Research Assistant, Assistant Project Manager, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2001 to 2002
Visiting Researcher, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 1998 to 2000
Visiting Lecturer, Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1999 to 2000 (Spring semesters)
Researcher, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 1994 to 1996
Journal Articles
Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Incentive Payment Programs for the Protection of Non-Industrial Private Forests Siikamäki, J. and D. F. Layton Land Economics | November 2007 | Vol. 83 (4) | pp. 539-560 | Related Discussion Paper 06-27
Turning Brownfields into Greenspaces: Examining Incentives and Barriers to Revitalization
Juha Siikamäki and Kris Wernstedt Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Forthcoming
Discrete Choice Survey Experiments: A Comparison Using Flexible Methods. Juha Siikamäki and David Layton Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2007 | Vol. 53 | pp. 127-139
Consumer Attitudes, Underlying Perceptions and Actions Associated with Food Quality and Safety J. Aakkula, J. Peltola, R. Maijala, J. Siikamäki Journal of Food Products Marketing | 2005 | Vol. 11, No. 3
Short Articles, Issue Briefs, and Other Publications
Active Living Through Converting Brownfields to Greenspace Kris Wernstedt and Juha Siikamäki Planning Magazine | February 2007 | Vol.73, No. 2
Valuation of Air Emissions from Livestock Operations and Options for Policy
Shih, Jhih-Shyang, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Juha Siikamaki Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science | Ecological Society of America | Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science | Viney P. Aneja, William H. Schlesinger, Raymond Knighton, Greg Jennings, Dev Niyogi, Wendell Gilliam, and Clifford S. Duke | North Carolina State University | 6/5/06 | 327-340
Voluntary Forest Conservation Programs: A Multivariate Tobit Analysis of Forest Owners' Willingness-to-Participate David F. Layton and Juha Siikamäki Proceedings of Western Regional Project: Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land | F. Lupi (ed.) | 2002
Discrete Choice Experiments for Valuing Biodiversity Conservation in Finland Juha Siikamäki Doctoral Dissertation (unpublished) University of California, Davis, committee: Douglas M. Larson (chair), David F. Layton, James E. Wilen
Optimal Conservation: Estimating Marginal Costs and Benefits of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland Juha Siikamäki and David F. Layton Also presented at the 14th EARE Conference in Bremen, Germany, June 25, 2005.
Cost-Effective Habitat Protection: The Case of Pacific Salmon S. Newbold, Juha Siikamäki, and M. Clark.
Biodiversity in the United States Juha Siikamäki and Jeff Chow
Selected Presentations
Valuing Ecosystem Services Juha Siikamäki Valuing Freshwater Inflows in Texas Workshop | HARC, the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, and the Texas Living Waters project | Austin, Texas | November 16, 2007
Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options Jhih-Shyang Shih, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, and Juha Siikamäki Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY Conference on Applied Infrastructure Modeling and Policy Analysis | College Park, MD | November 2, 2007 The Fourth California Annual Climate Change Research Conference (2007) and Ecological Society of America (2006).
Economic Assessment of the Environmental Effects of NOx and SOx (Chapter 11: Monetary Valuation) Alan Krupnick and Juha Siikamäki Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur (NOx and SOx) Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Workshop to Conduct a Review of Science and Inform Policy-Driven Scientific Needs | U. S. EPA | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | July 19, 2007
Cost-Effectiveness of Biological Conservation: Applications and General Principles Juha Siikamäki RFF Forest Economics and Policy Program Annual Meeting | Resources for the Future | Resources for the Future Washington DC | June 21, 2007
Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Biological Conservation with Two Appplications: Non-Industrial Private Forests and Pacific Salmon. Juha Siikamäki College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle. Invited seminar. | College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, | Seattle, Washington | April 30, 2007
Valuing the Ecological Effects of Acidification: Defining the Commodity and Eliciting Preferences Juha Siikamäki, Shalini Vajjhala, Alan Krupnick, Dallas Burtraw, Spencer Banzhaf, David Evans, and Anna Mische John Valuation of Ecological Benefits: Improving the Science Behind Policy Decisions | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), and National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) | Arlington, Virginia | April 24, 2007
Agriculture, the Environment, and the Farm Bill Juha Siikamäki RFF First Wednesday Seminar | Resources for the Future | Washington DC | February 7, 2007
Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Incentive Payment Programs for the Protection of Non-Industrial Private Forests Juha Siikamaki Third Wold Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists | AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists), EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economistsm), SEEPS | Kyoto, Japan | July 6, 2006
Valuing Surface Water Quality in California: A Mixed Panel Logit Model Using a 2½-Bounded CVM
Juha Siikamaki Third World Conference of Environmental and Resource Economists | AERE, EAERE, SEEPS | Kyoto, Japan | July 6, 2006
Ammonia and Methane Emissions from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options
Shih, Jhih-Shyang, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Juha Siikamaki Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science | Ecological Society of America | Potomac, MD | June 8, 2006
Optimal Conservation: Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland Juha Siikamaki and David Layton May 18, 2006 · Benefit-Cost Analysis Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, May 18, 2006 (presented by D. F. Layton).
· Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 2005 conference, Washington, DC, November 5, 2005 (presented by D. F. Layton).
· 8th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 29, 2005.
· Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar Series, North Carolina State, RTI, Duke University, September 21, 2005.
· European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Annual Conference, Bremen, Germany, June 25, 2005.
Awards
Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship, 1999-2000.
The Academy of Finland, Doctoral Fellowship, 1997-1999.
Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship, 1996.
University of Helsinki, Agricultural Economics and Policy, Best Masters Thesis, December 1995.
Professional Activities
Discussant, Session Chair, Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Bremen, Germany, June 24-26 2005.
Discussant, Association of Environmental and Resources Economists Workshop 2005: Natural Resources at Risk, Grand Teton, Wyoming, June 12-14, 2005.
Discussant, U.S. EPA Valuation of Ecological Benefits: Improving the Science Behind Policy Decisions, a STAR Progress Review Workshop, Washington, DC., October 26-27, 2004.
Discussant, NSF funded bio-complexity workshop "Linking Economic and Ecological Models for Environmental Policy Analysis: Challenges and Research Strategies", Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 17-19, 2005.
Visiting lecturer, George Mason University, April 2005.
Member, Expert Group in Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, Ministry of Environment, Helsinki, Finland, 2000-2001.
Public Service
Manuscript reviews for Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment; Conservation Biology; Ecological Economics; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Forest Science; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Forestry; Journal of Forest Economics; Journal of Soil and Water Conservation; Land Use Policy.
Resource person for the LACEEP (Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program).
