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C: Program Participants
Pages 269-272

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From page 269...
... JULIE CASWELL is a professor at the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Her research areas include food quality and safety, strategic decision making, industrial organization, risk assessment and benef~t/cost analysis.
From page 270...
... Josling's research interests center on industrial country agricultural policies, international trade in agricultural products, and the process of economic integration. He is currently involved in studies of the reform of the agricultural trading system and agriculture trade policies in the World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, and MERCOSUR, countries of the Caribbean Basin, and the European Union (EU)
From page 271...
... He has participated in more than a dozen National Research Council studies on environmental risk, most recently Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society (1996~. He has carried out a variety of applications of decision analysis and risk analysis, from quarantine policy for the exploration of Mars to management of toxic substances and nuclear waste.
From page 272...
... His current research interests include the conceptual and empirical issues in valuing nonmarket environmental resources such as clean air and water, the use of computable general equilibrium models to understand how environment policies influence international trade, and public policies involving environmental risks. Smith received his Ph.D.


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