Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
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| Telephone: |
(608) 262-9494 |
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(608) 262-4376 |
| Office Address: |
519 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI 53706 |
| Interests: |
Environmental and resource economics, with particular emphasis on the demand side management of energy, the valuation of ecoysystem services, socio-ecological interactions, and the dynamic allocation of resources. |
| Office Hours: |
By appointment |
Provencher’s current research program focuses on the development of discrete choice models of the consumption of nonmarket goods and services, such as the Lake Michigan salmon fishery, with particular emphasis on the dynamic aspects of choice behavior; the interaction between socioeconomic and ecological systems, with an emphasis on the effect of ecological degradation on economic value and development patterns; and dynamic issues in resource allocation.
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of California-Davis, 1984.
M.S., Environmental Studies, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Duke University, 1985.
B.S., Natural Resources, Cornell University, 1981.
Recent Publications
- Baerenklau, Kenneth A. and Bill Provencher. November 2005. "Static Modeling of Dynamic Recreation Behavior: Implications for Prediction and Welfare Estimation
" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 50(3):617-636
- Moore, Rebecca., Bill Provencher, and Richard C. Bishop. 2011. "“Valuing a Spatially-Variable Environmental Resource: Reducing Nonpoint Source Pollution in Green Bay, WI”" Land Economics (87)(1):45-59
- Moore, Rebecca., Richard C. Bishop, Bill Provencher, and Patricia Champ. 2010. "“Accounting for Respondent Uncertainty to Improve Willingness-to-Pay Estimates”" Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 58(3):381-401
- Lewis, David, Bill Provencher, and Van Butsic. 2009. "“The Dynamic Effects of Open-Space Conservation Policies Residential Development Density”" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57:239-252
- Provencher, Bill, Helen Sarakinos, and Tanya Meyer. 2008. "“Does Small Dam Removal Affect Local Property Values? An Empirical Analysis”" Contemporary Economic Policy 26(2):187-197
- Liu, Jianguo, Thomas Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marina Alberti, Carl Folke, Emilio Moran, Alice N. Pell, Peter Deadman, Timothy Kratz, Jane Lubchenco, Elinor Ostrom, Zhiyun Ouyang, William Provencher, Charles L. Redman, Stephen H. Schneider, William W. . 2007. "“Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems”" Science 317(Sept. 14):1513-1516
- Carpenter, S.R., B.J. Benson, R. Biggs, J.W. Chipman, J.A. Foley, S.A. Golding, R.B. Hammer, P.C. Hanson, P.T.J. Johnson, A.M. Kamarainen, T.K. Kratz, R.C. Lathrop, K.D. McMahon, B. Provencher, J.A. Rusak, C.T. Solomon, E.H. Stanley, M.G. Turner, M.J. Van. 2007. "Understanding regional change: Comparison of two lake districts" Bioscience 157(4):323-335
- Provencher, Bill, and Rebecca Moore. 2006. "“A Discussion of ‘Using Angler Characteristics and Attitudinal Data to Identify Environmental Preference Classes: A Latent-Class Model’”" Environmental and Resource Economics 34:117-124
- McGough, Bruce, Andrew Plantinga and Bill Provencher.. 2004. "The Dynamic Behavior of Efficient Timber Prices" Land Economics 80(1):95-108.
- Moore, Rebecca, Alex Macpherson and Bill Provencher. "A Dymamic Principal-Agent Model of Human-Mediated Aquatic Species Invasions." Dept. of Ag & App Econ. AAE Staff Paper Series University of Wisconsin-Madison