Justin Baker
Associate Professor
Forestry and Environmental Resources
Jordan Hall 3126
Bio
Justin uses geospatial analytics and structural economic models to capture spatial and temporal dependencies between markets, natural resource systems, infrastructure and policy constraints. He develops research questions covering a wide range of modeling topics, including forestry and agricultural sector projections, food-energy-water nexus sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation policy, interactions between trade policy and the environment, and energy policy. He also is the Director of the Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium (SOFAC), directs the Resource Economics and Sustainability Lab, is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy (CEnREP), a research theme lead for the NSF STC Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, and holds a guest researcher affiliation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Publications
- Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage , CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT (2024)
- A decentralized approach to model national and global food and land use systems , ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2023)
- Critical Market Tipping Points for High-Grade White Oak Inventory Decline in the Central Hardwood Region of the United States , JOURNAL OF FORESTRY (2023)
- Economic factors influence net carbon emissions of forest bioenergy expansion , COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT (2023)
- Forested watersheds provide the highest water quality among all land cover types, but the benefit of this ecosystem service depends on landscape context , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2023)
- Projecting US forest management, market, and carbon sequestration responses to a high-impact climate scenario , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2023)
- Quantifying additionality thresholds for forest carbon offsets in Mississippi pine pulpwood markets , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2023)
- TEMPERATURE AND ENERGY SECURITY: WILL FOREST BIOMASS HELP IN THE FUTURE? , CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS (2023)
- A system-wide assessment of forest biomass production, markets, and carbon , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY (2022)
- Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States , SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE (2022)