Bio

Jingjing Wang is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of New Mexico, specializing in environmental and natural resource economics. At present, her research program is broadly focused on empirical analyses of policy-related questions, mainly in the context of water resources management, nutrient pollution, and renewable energy. Representative projects include urban water conservation, water trading across different sectors, livestock manure management coupled with bioenergy production, and nitrogen management in arid-land ecosystems. The methodologies she has applied include integrated modeling, dynamic optimal control, and reduced form empirical models. Dr. Wang received her B.E. in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University (China), her M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of California – Riverside, and her Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University of California – Riverside.