Biography
Shih's research interests lie in quantitative analysis of environmental and resource policy and decisionmaking. He has extensive experience with modeling to study air quality, risk, surface water and solid waste management, and has studied the costs of environmental protection, technology adoption, and renewable energy. Shih's recent research has focused on ozone and PM control, recycling, small water systems and space solar power. His articles have appeared in such publications as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Hazardous Materials, the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, and the European Journal of Operational Research.
Shih has received fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Ph.D. in system analysis and economics for public decision making, The Johns Hopkins University, 1991. M.S. in environmental engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, 1983. B.S. in environmental engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, 1981.
Professional Experience
Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1998 - present.
Research Consultant, Resources for the Future, Quality of the Environment Division, 1995 - 1997.
Instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, 1997.
Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, 1991 - 1995.
AAAS-EPA Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 1995.
Consultant, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Assessment and Information Sciences Division, 1995.
Consultant, World Bank and Resource for the Future, "Economic Development, Environmental Conditions, and Policy Design in Eastern Europe over next 20 years," 1992.
Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University, Electric Power Research Institute, 1991 - 1992.
Researcher, The Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Navy, Applied Physics Laboratory, 1987 - 1989.
Researcher, Information systems, Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission, "The Spatial Effects of the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Law," 1987 - 1988.
Researcher, Independent Study, "Incubating Biomass in a High Salinity Environment (simulating estuary)," 1981.
Researcher, Water Resources Planning Commission, Taiwan, R.O.C., Ministry of Economic Affairs, "Water Quality Investigation on Kao-Ping River Basin," 1978 - 1980.
Journal Articles
Regional Air Quality: Local and Interstate Impacts of
NOx and SO2 Emissions on Ozone and Fine Particulate
Matter in the Eastern United States Michelle S. Bergin, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Alan J. Krupnick, James W. Boylan, James G. Wilkinson, M., Talat Odman, Armistead G. Russell Environmental Science and Technology | 2007 | Vol. 41, No. 13. | pp. 4677-4689
Satellite Solar Power: Renewed Interest in an Era of Climate Change? Molly K. Macauley and Jhih-Shyang Shih Space Policy | May 2007 | Vol. 23, No. 2 | pp. 108-120
A Flexible Inventory Model for Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Garrick Louis and Jhih-Shyang Shih Socio-Economic Planning Science | March 2007 | Vol. 41, Issue 1 | pp.61-89
Economies of Scale in Community Water Systems Jhih-Shyang Shih, Winston Harrington, William Pizer, and Kenneth Gillingham Journal of the American Water Works Association | September 2006 | Vol. 98, No.9. | 100-108 | Related Discussion Paper 04-15 (2007 American Water Works Association Small Systems Division Best Paper)
The Benefits and Costs of Informal Sector Pollution Control: Mexican Brick Kilns Allen Blackman, Stephen Newbold, Jhih-Shyang Shih, David Evans, Joseph Cook and Michael Batz Environment and Development Economics | October 2006 | Vol. 11, No. 5 | pp. 603-627 | Related Discussion Paper 00-46
The Benefits and Costs of Reducing Emissions from the Electricity Sector Karen Palmer, Dallas Burtraw and Jhih-Shyang Shih Journal of Environmental Management | April 2007 | Vol. 83, No. 1. | pp. 115-130 Related Discussion Paper: 05-23
The near-term impacts of carbon mitigation policies on manufacturing industries Richard D. Morgenstern, Mun Ho, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Xuehua Zhang
Energy Policy | Novermber 2004 | Vol. 32, N0. 16 | pp. 1825-1841 | Related Discussion Paper 02-06
Dealing with Electronic Waste: Modeling the Costs and Environmental Benefits of Computer Monitor Disposal Molly Macauley, Karen Palmer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih Journal of Environmental Management | May 2003 | Related Discussion Paper 01-27 (One of the top 25 most downloaded articles, October 2002 - October 2003 in Journal of Environmental Management, published by Elsevier)
Jobs Versus the Environment: An Industry-Level Perspective Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | May 2002 | Vol. 43, no. 3 | pp. 412-436
Anticoverage Models for Obnoxious Material Transportation V. Marianov, C. ReVelle and S. Shih Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design | January 2002 | Vol. 29, No. 1 | pp. 141-150
The Cost of Environmental Protection William A. Pizer, Richard Morgenstern, and Jhih-Shyang Shih Review of Economics and Statistics | November 2001 | Vol. 83, No. 4 | pp. 732-738 | Related Discussion Paper 98-36
Comparative Risk Assessment: An International Comparison of Methodologies and Results Richard D. Morgenstern, Jhih-Shyang Shih, and Stuart Sessions Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2000 | Vol. 78 | pp. 19-39
An Optimization Model for Photochemical Air Pollution Control J.-S. Shih, A.G. Russell and G.J. McRae European Journal of Operational Research | 1998 | Vol. 106, No. 1 | pp. 1-14
Coal Blending Optimization Under Uncertainty J.-S. Shih and C. Frey European Journal of Operational Research | 1995 | Vol. 83 | pp. 452-465
Water Supply Operations during Drought: A Discrete Hedging Rule J.-S. Shih and C. ReVelle European Journal of Operational Research | 1995 | Vol. 82 | pp. 163-175
Water Supply Operations during Drought: A Continuous Hedging Rule J.-S. Shih and C. ReVelle Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE | 1994 | Vol. 120, No. 5 | pp. 613-629
Books, Chapters, and Reports
Economies of Scale in Community Water Systems Jhih-Shyang Shih, Winston Harrington, William Pizer, and Kenneth Gillingham The Business of Water: A Concise Overview of Challenges and Opportunities in the Water Market | Steve Maxwell | Denver, CO: American Water Works Association | 2008
The Prospective Value of Space Solar Power as Rnewable ENergy: Implications for the Biosphere and Electricity Reliabilty
Molly K. Macauley and Jhih-Shyang Shih NSF/NASA/EPRI | August 31, 2006
Benefits and Costs of Controlling Small Firm Pollution: Informal Brickmaking in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Blackman, Allen, Steve Newbold, Jhih-Shyang Shih, David Evans, Joe Cook and Mike Batz Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collective Action | Allen Blackman, editor | RFF Press | February 2006 | Chapter 2 Related Discussion Paper 00-46
The Interstate Transport of Air Pollution: A Regulatory Dilemma Alan Krupnick and Jhih-Shyang Shih The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy, 2nd Edition | Wallace E. Oates, ed. | RFF Press | December 2005
A New Approach to Air Quality Management Alan J. Krupnick and Jhih-Shyang Shih New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President | Richard D. Morgenstern and Paul R. Portney, eds. | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 13
Recycling Jhih-Shyang Shih, Garrick Louis, and Karen L. Palmer Encyclopedia of Global Change | Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press | November/December 2000
Short Articles, Issue Briefs, and Other Publications
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
Economies of Scale and Technical Efficiency in Community Water Systems Jhih-Shyang Shih, Winston Harrington, William A. Pizer and Kenny Gillingham Final project report | Fall 2003
Source-Receptor Matrices and Cost-benefit Analysis With Meteorological Variability for Ambient Ozone and Fine Particulates: Development and Demonstration of an Integrated Model and Framework
Jhih-Shyang Shih, Michelle S. Bergin, Alan J. Krupnick, and Armistead G. Russell Final Project Report for an EPA STAR Grant | January 2003
An Air Quality Management Model: Considering Uncertainty and Spatial Distribution of Pollutants Jhih-Shyang Shih Report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | 1995
Coal Blending Optimization Under Uncertainty Jhih-Shyang Shih and H. Christopher Frey Tenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference | University of Pittsburgh | Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference | Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press | 1993 | p. 1110-1115
Water Supply Operations During Drought Jhih-Shyang Shih and C. ReVelle Water Forum '92 | American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | Water Resource Planning and Management, Proceedings of the Water Resources Sessions at Water Forum '92 | M. Karamouz, ed., | Baltimore, MD: ASCE | 1992 | pp. 310-315
Are We Overstating the Real Economic Costs of Environmental Protection? Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih RFF Discussion Paper 97-36-REV | May 1997; Revised June 1997 | Abstract An electronic version of this report is not available.
Selected Presentations
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).
Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options Jhih-Shyang Shih, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, and Juha Siikamäki The Fourth California Annual Climate Change Research Conference | The California Energy Commission and the California Environmental Protection Agency | Sacramento | September 10, 2007 (Poster presentation)
The Development of Clean Coal Technology in the US Jhih-Shyang Shih 2007 CTCI Foundation Environmental & Energy Convention | CTCI Foundation | Taipei | January 16, 2007
Sustainable Groundwater Management Using Economic Incentive Approach
Tingting Yan, Jhih-Shyang Shih, and James N. Sanchirico AGU Fall Meeting | AGU | San Francisco, CA | December 11, 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
Emission Reduction Strategies for the Electricity Sector and Their Impact Karen Palmer Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection in New York: Linking Science and Policy | New York State Energy Research and DEvelopment Authority | Albany, New York | October 26, 2005
Economies of Scale in Community Water Systems Jhih-Shyang Shih, Winston Harrington, William A. Pizer, and Kenneth T. Gillingham. Invited Speaker, 36th Annual Regulatory Policy Conference | Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University | Charleston, South Carolina. | December 7, 2004
Controlling Ozone and Fine Particulates with Meteorological Variability: Development of an Integrated Framework Shih, Jhih-Shyang, Michelle Bergin, Alan Krupnick and Ted Russell. INFORMS Annual Meeting | Denver, Colorado. | October 27, 2004
Controlling Ozone and Fine Particulates: Cost Benefit Analysis with Meteorological Variability
Jhih-Shyang Shih, Michelle S. Bergin, Alan J. Krupnick, and Armistead G. Russell Department Seminar, DOGEE, The Johns Hopkins University | DOGEE, The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | December 2, 2003
Source-Receptor Matrices and Cost-Benefit Analysis With Meteorological Variability for Ambient Ozone and Fine Particulates: Development and Demonstration of an Integrated Model and Framework Shih, Jhih-Shyang, Bergin, S. Michelle, Krupnick, Alan J., and Russell, Armistead G. Air & Waste Management Association Annual Conference | Air & Waste Management Association | San Diego, CA | June 23, 2003
Ozone and PM Air Pollution Control: An Integrated Approach Alan J. Krupnick, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Michelle Bergin and Armistead G. Russell Second World Congress of Environmental Economists | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists/European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Monterey, CA | June 23, 2002
The Near-Term Impacts of Carbon Mitigation Policies on Manufacturing Industries
Richard D. Morgenstern, Mun Ho, Jhih-Shyang Shih, and Xuehua Zhang Second World Congress of Environmental Economists | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists/European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Monterey, CA | June 23, 2002
An Optimization Model for Municipal Solid Waste Recycling J.-S. Shih, G.E. Louis and F.C. McMichael Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Spring 2000 Meeting | INFORMS | Salt Lake City, UT | May 7, 2000
Benefits and Costs of Alternative Pollution Control Strategies for Traditional Brick Kilns in Cd. Juárez, Mexico Allen Blackman 13th Meeting of the Joint Advisory Committee for the Improvement of Air Quality in the Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas/Dona Ańa County, NM Air Basin | El Paso, TX | December 1, 1999 Also Presented at the 2nd Annual Border Air Emissions Trading Conference, Cd. Juárez, Mexico; American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings, Tampa, FL, August 2000; and Technical Conference of the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), Las Cruces, NM, November 1999.
A Flexible Inventory System for Municipal Solid Waste Recycling J.-S. Shih, G.E. Louis, F.C. McMichael and L.B. Lave Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Spring 1999 Meeting | INFORMS | Cincinnati, OH | May 2, 1999 CAAPS, New York, NY, September 19, 1999.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Solid Waste, Washington, D.C., October 6, 1999.
The Diffusion of New Technologies: A Microeconomic Analysis of Firm Decision Making at the Plant Level Raymond J. Kopp, Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute | Cambridge, MA | August 3, 1998 NBER Summer Institute Workshop on Public Policy and the Environment, August 1998.
Anticoverage Model for Hazardous Material Transportation V. Marianov, C. ReVelle and J.-S. Shih Joint Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)/Tel Aviv University (TAU)/Operational Research Society of Israel (ORSIS) Meeting | INFORMS/TAU/ORSIS | Tel Aviv, Israel | June 28, 1998
Optimal Photochemical Air Pollution Control J.-S. Shih, A.G. Russell, and G.J. McRae (Invited workshop presentation) | Southeast University | Nanjing, P.R.C. | May 25, 1998 The 5th MTETS Conference, Southeast University, Nanjing, P.R.C., May 26-30, 1998.
Risk and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Decision Making Jhih-Shyang Shih Workshop for Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency (Taiwan EPA) | Taiwan EPA | Taipei, R.O.C. | May 20, 1998
Labor and Environmental Regulations Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih U.S. Bureau of Census, Center for Economic Studies | Washington, D.C. | February 5, 1998
An Optimization Model for Photochemical Air Pollution Control Jhih-Shyang Shih Chinese-American Academic Professional Society Conference | Chinese-American Academic Professional Society | New York, NY | September 13, 1997 Systems Group, DOGEE, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, November 17, 1998 (invited speaker).
Are We Overstating the Economic Costs of Environmental Protection? Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Washington, D.C. | May 20, 1997
Impact of Environmental Regulations on the Steel Industry L. Lave, F. McMichael, S. Joshi and J.-S. Shih Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Research Conference | APPAM | Pittsburgh, PA | October 31, 1996
An Air Quality Management Model: Considering Uncertainty and Spatial Distribution of Pollutants J.-S. Shih, A.G. Russell, and L. McNair Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) National Meeting | INFORMS | Washington, D.C. | May 5, 1996 Invited speaker, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, September 29, 1998.
Photochemical Pollution Control: Considering Uncertainty and Spatial Distribution of Pollutants Jhih-Shyang Shih Department of Civil Engineering Seminar | The Catholic University of America, Department of Civil Engineering | Washington, D.C. | April 18, 1996
An Optimization Model for Urban Air Pollution Control: A Los Angeles Case J.-S. Shih and G. J. McRae Operations Research Society of America (ORSA)/The Institute of Management Science (TIMS) Joint National Meeting | ORSA/TIMS | Boston, MA | April 24, 1994
Coal Blending Optimization Under Uncertainty J.-S. Shih and C. Frey Tenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference | Pittsburgh, PA | September 20, 1993 Center for Transportation Analysis, hosted by David Greene, Oak Ridge, TN, December 6, 1993.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, Baltimore, MD, December 4-7, 1994.
Water Supply Operations During Drought J.-S. Shih and C. ReVelle Water Forum '92 | Baltimore, MD | August 2, 1992 NATO Advanced Study Institute, Engineering Risk and Reliability in a Changing Physical Environment: New Developments in Water Resources Management with Application to Non-Steady Conditions, Deauville, France, May 24 - June 3, 1993.
Hedging Rules for the Single Water Supply Reservoir J.-S. Shih and C. ReVelle The Third International Association of Hydrological Science (IAHS) Assembly | IAHS | Baltimore, MD | May 10, 1989 Available as Operations Research Group Report #89-10, The Johns Hopkins University, 1989.
Awards
American Water Works Association (AWWA) Small Systems Division Best Paper Award, 2007.
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 4th-Ed., Marquis Who's Who, 1998.
Director, Oversea Chinese Environmental Engineering and Scientist Association, 1997 - 1998.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fellow of 1995.
Junior Scientist Award, NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Engineering Risk and Reliability in a Changing Physical Environment (with special reference to climate uncertainty)," May 24 - June 4, 1993, Deauville, France.
Research Assistant fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, 1987 - 1990.
Tuition fellowship from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1985 - 1990.
Chairman of Chinese Graduate Student Association, The Johns Hopkins University, 1986.
Graduate Scholarship, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1981 - 1983.
Professional Activities
Committee Memberships: Director, Oversea Chinese Environmental Engineering and Scientist Association, 1997 - 1998. Lecturer: Mathematical Foundation for Public Decision Making, Part-Time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science, Whiting School of Engineering, The JohnsHopkinsUniversity, 1997. CarnegieMellonUniversity, "Mathematical Modeling of Environmental Quality Systems," March 13, 1991. Topic: Decision Models for Environmental Management.
Professional Associations: Association of Environmental and Resource Economics American Association for the Advancement of Science Institution for Operations Research and Management Science Oversea Chinese Environmental Engineering and Scientist Association
Reviewer: American Association for the Advancement of Science Annals of Regional Science Automatica Environment and Development Economics Growth and Change International Transactions in Operational Research Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal of Hazardous Materials Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Swarthmore College, Honors Program examiner (Operations Research and Environmental Systems Engineering) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Workshop Participant: USEPA, SPARROW Surface Water Quality Modeling Workshop, Crystal City, VA, May 21-24, 2007. USGS, SPARROW Surface Water Quality Workshop, Reston, VA, October 29 - 31, 2002. NASA/NSF, Space Solar Power Concept & Technology Maturation (SCTM) Program Technical Interchange Meeting, Cleveland, OH, September 10 - 12, 2002. NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Engineering Risk and Reliability in a Changing Physical Environment (with special reference to climate uncertainty)," Deauville, France. May 24 - June 4, 1993. Supercomputing Techniques Workshop, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, April 29 - May 3, 1991.
Public Service
Workshops: Organizer, Pollution Abatement Control Expenditure (PACE) Survey Workshop, 2000.
