Justin Baker

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

• Advancing forest carbon projections requires improved convergence between ecological and economic models , CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT (2025)
• Carbon implications of wood harvesting and forest management , (2025)
• Globally Informed and Locally Refined: Market, Management, and Carbon Projections for the Southeastern United States Forest Sector , (2025)
• Impacts of unprecedented wood demand for bioenergy in the Southeastern US , Research Square (2025)
• Investing in US forests to mitigate climate change , CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT (2025)
• Management, Markets, and Mesophication: An Empirical Exploration of Oak Forests in the Southeastern Us , Ssrn (2025)
• Physical Presence, Practical Absence: Accessibility of Timber Inventory in the Eastern Us , Ssrn (2025)
• The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern US , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2025)
• Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural Systems , GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (2025)
• Development path for China's mega-large urban agglomerations based on the water-energy-food nexus , JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION (2024)