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)
• Investing in US forests to mitigate climate change , CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT (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)
• Global-to-Local Dependencies in Phosphorus Mass Flows and Markets: Pathways to Improving System Resiliency in Response to Exogenous Shocks , ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LETTERS (2024)
• Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage , CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT (2024)
• Rethinking Productivity Evaluation in Precision Forestry through Dominant Height and Site Index Measurements Using Aerial Laser Scanning LiDAR Data , FORESTS (2024)
• US land sector mitigation investments and emissions implications , NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (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)