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Difei Zhang
Assistant Professor

Education
PhD: University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2007, Natural Resource Economics and Environmental Science (Specialize in Forest Economics and Forest Management)
MS: University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2001, Resource Economics
BS: Zhejiang University, China, 1999, Economics ( International Trade and Finance)

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Research Interests:
  • Natural Resource Economics and Finance especially Forest Economics
  • Ecosystem and Ecosystem Service Valuation
  • Regional forest economics and forest accountancy network
  • Economics of forest management to mitigate global climate change and Economics of Biocarbon
  • Small-holder agro-forestry development and Carbon Financial Markets
  • Quantitative decision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management
  • Mathematical models that can quantify and visualize the resource trade-offs and production possibilities between conflicting management objectives
  • Forest management planning: spatially explicit harvest scheduling models, multiple-criteria forest planning
  • Operations research: forest accountancy network, AHP, Tree Growth and Yield Simulator programming, linear programming, multiple-criteria optimization, multiple-criteria decision support systems

Recent Publications (since 2005)

Difei Zhang, 2010. Utilization and Modification of Point Sampling and Line Sampling in the Forestry Survey. American Journal of Biostatistics 1(1): 67-74, 2010, ISSN 1948-9889

Difei Zhang and Salim Hiziroglu, 2010. Impact Assessment and Utilization of Eastern Redcedar. American Journal of Applied Sciences 7 (8): 1032-1037, 2010, ISSN 1546-9239

Difei Zhang, 2010. Forest Sector Modeling and Green Accounting in New Hampshire. Freiburger Forstliche Forschung, Heft 84:159-172, 2010, ISSN: 1436-1566. 

Difei Zhang, Michael M. Huebschmann, Thomas B. Lynch, and James M. Guldin, 2010. Forest Policy Impact Assessment in the Ouachita National Forest and the Valuation of Conserving Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers. American Journal of Applied Sciences. (in press)

Difei Zhang, 2007. Sustainability of New Hampshire’s Sawmill Industry and Its Forest Resource Base. PhD Dissertation May, 2007. University of New Hampshire. 278 pages.

Theodore Howard and Difei Zhang. 2006 Sustaining Forest Management and Industry in a Changing Landscape: Developing a Practical Policy Model, IUFRO 8.01.03. Landscape Ecology, Pages 213-218.
Office: 008G Ag Hall
Address: 008C Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74077
Phone: (405) 744-1965
Fax: (405) 744-3530
Email:  
difei.zhang@okstate.edu

 

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