Man Li
Applied Economics (APEC)
Assistant Professor | Resource Economics

Teaching Interests
Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Economics
Research Interests
Land-use Based Sustainable Development, Water Resource Management, Rural Migration, and Climate Change, Mitigation, and Adaptation
Awards
2019 AARES-Wiley Blackwell Award for Best Paper in AJARE, 2020
Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Limited
2015 EAERE Award for Outstanding Publication in ERE, Honorable Mention, 2016
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
D. Barton DeLoach Distinguished Scholarship, 2009
Oregon State University
Robert Johnson Fellowship, 2006
Oregon State University
University-President's Award, 1999
China Agricultural University
- Wu, J., Oueslati, W., Li, M., (2019). Policy Options for Efficient Agricultural Land Management: Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies . World Scientific Publishing
- Rosegrant, M., Li, M., Xu, W., (2017). Beyond Water Markets: Second-best Water Allocation Policy?: Agriculture and Rural Development in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Li, M., (2023). Adaptation to Expected and Unexpected Weather Fluctuations: Evidence from Bangladeshi Smallholder Farmers. World Development, 161:106066
- Li, M., Guo, Z., Zhang, W., (2022). A Novel Seasonal-spatial Integrated Model for Improving the Economic-environmental Performance of Crop Production. MethodsX, 9:101906
- Li, M., Zhang, W., Guo, Z., Bhandary, P., (2022). Deforestation and Smallholder Income: Evidence from Remittances to Nepal. Land Economics, 98:2, 376-398.
- Li, M., Guo, Z., Zhang, W., (2021). Balancing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability by Optimizing Seasonal-Spatial Crop Production in Bangladesh. Environmental Research Letters, 16:7, 074046.
- Li, M., (2019). The Effect of Land Use Regulations on Farmland Protection and Nonagricultural Land Conversions in China. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 63, 643‒67.
- Li, M., Xu, W., Zhu, T., (2019). Agricultural Water Allocation under Uncertainty: Redistribution of Water Shortage Risk. American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 101:1, 134-53.
- Xu, W., Li, M., Bell, A., (2019). Water Security and Irrigation Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan. Applied Economics, 51:7, 711‒21.
- Zhou, S., Zhou, W., Lin, G., Chen, J., Jiang, T., Li, M., (2017). Adapting to Climate Change: Scenario Analysis of Grain Production in China. China Agricultural Economic Review, 9:4, 643‒59.
- Li, M., Xu, W., Rosegrant, M., (2017). Irrigation, Risk Aversion, and Water Rights Priority under Water Supply Uncertainty. Water Resources Research , 53:9, 7885‒7903.
- Li, M., Wu, J., Deng, X., (2016). Land Use Change and Soil Carbon Sequestration in China: Where Does It Pays to Conserve?. Regional Environmental Change, 16:8, 2429–41.
- De Pinto, A., Li, M., Haruna, A., Hyman, G., Martinez, M., Creamer, B., Kwon, H., Garcia, J., Tapasco, J., Martinez, J., (2016). Low Emission Development Strategies in Agriculture. An Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) Perspective. World Development, 87, 180–203.
- Xu, W., Li, M., (2016). Water Supply and Water Allocation Strategy in the Arid U.S. West: Evidence from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. Regional Environmental Change , 16:3, 893–906.
- Li, M., De Pinto, A., Ulimwengu, J., You, L., Robertson, R., (2015). Impacts of Road Expansion on Deforestation and Biological Carbon Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Environmental and Resource Economics, 60:3, 433–69.
- Li, M., Wu, J., Deng, X., (2013). Identifying Drivers of Land Use Change in China: A Spatial Multinomial Logit Model Analysis. Land Economics, 89:4, 632–54.
- Li, M., (2010). Decomposing the Change of CO2 Emissions in China: A Distance Function Approach. Ecological Economics, 70:1, 77–85.
- Reimer, J., Li, M., (2010). Trade Costs and the Gains from Trade in Crop Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 92:4, 1024–39.
- Reimer, J., Li, M., (2009). Yield Variability and Agricultural Trade. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 38:2, 258–70.
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Technical Reports
Research Reports
- Wiebe, K., Sulser, T., Pacheco, P., De Pinto, A., D'Croz, D., Dermawan, A., Thomas, T., Li, M., Robinson, S., Dunston, S., (2019). The palm oil dilemma: Policy tensions among higher productivity, rising demand, and deforestation: IFPRI Policy Brief.
- Li, M., (2014). An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Farmland Protection Policy in China. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01348 *
- De Pinto, A., Li, M., Thomas, T., Haruna, A., (2014). Low Emission Strategies for LULUCF Sector: Case Studies for the Country of Vietnam. Scientific Report prepared for the USAID-Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) project *
- Wu, J., Li, M., (2013). Land Use Change and Agricultural Intensification: Key Research Questions and Innovative Modeling Approaches. Research Report prepared for CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets *
- Li, M., Wu, J., Deng, X., (2011). Unintended Effects of Urbanization in China: Land Use Spillovers and Soil Carbon Loss. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01138 *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
Newsletter
- Li, M., Guo, Z., Zhang, W., (2021). Optimizing seasonal-spatial crop production to improve its economic-environmental performance in Bangladesh. IFPRI Blog : Research Post *
- Li, M., (2018). Climate change to adversely impact grain production in China by 2030. Opposite the editorial page, Thomson Reuters Foundation News *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.