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Dana Bauer

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Dana Bauer

Assistant Director, George Perkins Marsh Institute
Research Scientist

Dr. Dana Bauer is an interdisciplinary researcher with particular interests in conservation and sustainability. She applies economic and ecological theory towards the assessment of ecosystem services and the analysis of policies and programs that aim to protect them. Her current research focuses on: (1) the willingness of farmers to participate in habitat and water conservation programs, (2) the valuation of pollination and pest control services provided by insects and other mobile organisms, (3) the conservation and management of vernal pools and other small natural features that provide large ecosystem functions, and (4) the valuation of benefits provided by riparian and estuarine buffers. Her research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Science Foundation. She has been at Clark since 2015.

Courses Taught:

ECON 152 Economics of Climate Change
ECON 253 Natural Resource Economics
ECON 254 Environmental Economics
ECON 256 Modeling Ecological-Economic Systems

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, 2005
  • M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy, Tufts University, 1999
  • M.S. in Information Systems, Northeastern University, 1985
  • B.S. in Industrial Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1983

Affiliated Department

Economics

Scholarly and creative works

  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Socioecological factors and farmer perceptions impacting pesticide use and pollinator conservation on cucurbit farms

    Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
    2021
    Issue #5
    Elias H. Bloom, Dana M. Bauer, Abigail Kaminski, Ian Kaplan, Zsofia Szendrei
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient

    Published in Landscape Ecology
    2021
    Vol. 36
    Issue #10
    Abigail R. Kaminski, Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Cynthia S. Loftin, Erik J. Nelson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Using meta-analysis for large-scale ecosystem service valuation: Progress, prospects and challenges

    Published in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
    2020
    Vol. 49
    Issue #1
    Robert Johnston, Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    Farmer tradeoffs between pest control and pollinator health

    virtual Annual Meeting of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
    2020
    L Wu, Dana M. Bauer, S Atallah, Abigail R. Kaminski
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Classifying private landowners to improve understanding of management decisions and conservation opportunities in urbanizing forested landscapes

    Published in Journal of Environmental Management
    2019
    Vol. 232
    Jessica Balkus, Kathleen P. Bell, Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    How do social and economic factors influence vernal pool management?

    Translating Vernal Pool Research into Desired Management Outcomes
    Ashland, Massachusetts
    2018
    Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen Bell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Managing small natural features: A synthesis of economic issues and emergent opportunities

    Published in Biological Conservation
    2017
    Vol. 211
    Issue #B
    Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Erik J. Nelson, Aram J.K. Calhoun
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Conserving small natural features with large ecological roles: A synthetic overview

    Published in Biological Conservation
    2017
    Vol. 211
    Issue #B
    Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., Vicenc Acuna, Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Aram J.K. Calhoun, María R. Felipe-Lucia, James A. Fitzsimons, Eduardo González, Michael Kinnison, David Lindenmayer, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Erik J. Nelson, Peter Poschlod
  • Presentations

    Measuring the co-benefits of nature-based adaptation: the value of riparian buffers

    Economics of Natural and Nature-Based Coastal Adaptation – Separating Fact from Fiction for Resilience Decision Making
    Greenland, NH
    2017
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Do exurban communities want more development?

    Published in Journal of Land Use Science
    2017
    Vol. 12
    Issue #5
    Dana M. Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow, Pengfei Liu, Robert Johnston
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Marginal land and the global land rush: A spatial exploration of contested lands and state-directed development in contemporary Ethiopia

    Published in Geoforum
    2017
    Vol. 82
    Rachel A. Nalepa, Anne G. Short Gianotti, Dana M. Bauer
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Buffer Options for the Bay: Exploring the Trends, the Science, and the Options of Buffer Management in the Great Bay Watershed: Key Findings from Economic Literature. Report to Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

    Dana M. Bauer
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Buffer Options for the Bay: Economic Valuation of Water Quality Ecosystem Services in New Hampshire’s Great Bay Watershed.  Report to Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

    Dana M. Bauer, Robert Johnston
  • Presentations

    Managing spatially distributed small natural features that provide large-scale ecosystem services

    ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services: Linking Science, Practice, and Decision Making) 2016 Conference
    Jacksonville, FL
    2016
    Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Erik J. Nelson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The macroeconomic cost of catastrophic pollinator declines

    Published in Ecological Economics
    2016
    Vol. 126
    Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
  • Presentations

    Landowner decision-making in response to vernal pool regulations

    Conserving small natural features in urbanizing landscapes at the Northeast Natural History Conference
    Springfield, MA
    2016
    Dana M. Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Jessica Balukas, B Holland, Erik J. Nelson
  • Presentations

    Birds, bats, and bees: ecosystem services provided by mobile organisms

    SUNY Plattsburgh
    Plattsburgh, NY
    2015
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    Conserving small natural features with large ecosystem functions

    SUNY Plattsburgh
    Plattsburgh, NY
    2015
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    Using a hybrid regulatory approach to conserve small natural features: Lessons from Maine, USA

    Joint Annual Meetings of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association and the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society
    Newport, RI
    2015
    Kathleen P. Bell, Aram J. Calhoun, Dana M. Bauer, R Freeman, V Levesque, Jessica Balukas
  • Chapters In Books

    The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics
    Chapter: Connecting ecosystem services to land use: implications for valuation and policy

    Published by Oxford University Press
    2014
    Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow, Dana M. Bauer, Emi Uchida, Christopher M. Anderson
  • Presentations

    Macroeconomic consequences of lost pollination services

    ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services: Linking Science, Practice, and Decision Making) 2014 Conference
    Washington, DC
    2014
    Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
  • Presentations

    Pollination services and grower decision making

    ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services: Linking Science, Practice, and Decision Making) 2014 Conference
    Washington, DC
    2014
    Dana M. Bauer, J R. Smith
  • Chapters In Books

    Valuing Ecosystem Services: Methodological Issues and Case Studies
    Chapter: Valuation of pollination services: a comparison of approaches

    Published by Edward Elgar Publishing
    2014
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Pasture conversion and competitive land rents in the Amazon

    Published in Ecological Economics
    2014
    Vol. 97
    Michael L. Mann, Robert K. Kaufmann, Dana M. Bauer, Sucharita Gopal, Mallory Nomack, Jesse Y. Womack, Kerry Sullivan, Britaldo S. Soares-Filho
  • Presentations

    Of pools and people: application of vernal pool amphibian landscape genetics in a socio-environmental coupled-systems model

    Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference
    Portland, ME
    2014
    Jared J. Homola, Michael T. Kinnison, Cynthia S. Loftin, Aram J. Calhoun, Kathleen P. Bell, Krista A. Capps, Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr, Dana M. Bauer, Erik J. Nelson
  • Presentations

    Community-scale innovations to conserve natural resources: assessing patterns in interactions among state and local government policies

    Annual Meeting of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
    Morgantown, WV
    2014
    Kathleen P. Bell, Dana M. Bauer, Erik J. Nelson, Jessica Balukas
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Conserving metapopulations in human-altered landscapes at the urban-rural fringe

    Published in Ecological Economics
    2013
    Vol. 95
    Dana M. Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow
  • Presentations

    Economic consequences of pollinator declines

    ACES/EM/ESP (A Community on Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Markets, and the Ecosystem Partnership) 2012 Conference
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    2012
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Ecosystem service value and agricultural conversion in the Amazon: implications for policy intervention

    Published in Environmental and Resource Economics
    2012
    Vol. 53
    Michael L. Mann, Robert K. Kaufmann, Dana M. Bauer, Sucharita Gopal, James G. Baldwin, Maria Del Carmen Vera-Diaz
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Marginal lands: the role of remote sensing in constructing landscapes for agrofuel development

    Published in Journal of Peasant Studies
    2012
    Vol. 39
    Issue #2
    Rachel A. Nalepa, Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    Direct and indirect welfare effects of global pollinator declines

    University of Maine
    Orono, ME
    2011
    Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
  • Presentations

    Are wetland buffers cost-effective for species protection? 

    Wetland Buffers Symposium: Theory, Science, Policy and Implementation.
    Baraboo, WI
    2011
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    Agricultural and economy-wide effects of pollinator declines

    AAEA/NAREA Joint Annual Meeting
    Pittsburg, PA
    2011
    Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Ecosystem services provided by bats

    Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
    2011
    Thomas H. Kunz, Elizabeth Braun de Torrez, Dana M. Bauer, Tatyana Lobova, Theodore H. Fleming
  • Presentations

    Economic consequences of pollinator declines: A synthesis

    University of New Hampshire
    Durham, NH
    2010
    Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The economics of cropland conversion in Amazonia: the importance of agricultural rent

    Published in Ecological Economics
    2010
    Vol. 69
    Michael L. Mann, Robert K. Kaufmann, Dana M. Bauer, Sucharita Gopal, Maria Del Carmen Vera-Diaz, Daniel Nepstad, Frank Merry, Jennifer Kallay, Gregory S. Amacher
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Economic consequences of pollinator declines: A synthesis. 

    Published in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
    2010
    Vol. 39
    Dana M. Bauer, Ian Sue Wing
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Are wetland regulations cost-effective for species protection? A case study of amphibian metapopulations

    Published in Ecological Applications
    2010
    Vol. 20
    Issue #3
    Dana M. Bauer, Peter W.C. Paton, Stephen K. Swallow
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Cost-effective species conservation in exurban communities: A spatial analysis

    Published in Resource and Energy Economics
    2010
    Vol. 32
    Dana M. Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow, Peter W.C. Paton
  • Presentations

    Pollination services and agriculture: a world without vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry? 

    2010 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA) Annual Meeting
    Atlantic City, NJ
    2010
    Dana M. Bauer
  • Presentations

    Valuing local carbon sequestration along an urban-to-rural gradient

    Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
    Lowell, MA
    2010
    Dana M. Bauer, Lucy R. Hutyra, Steve M. Raciti

Awards and grants

  • Conservation Incentives and the Socio-spatial Dynamics of Water Sustainability

    National Science Foundation (DISES Program)

    clock icon Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2026

  • Informing Conservation Program Targeting for Cost-Effective Integrated Pollinator-Pest Management

    US Department of Agriculture (AFRI Program)

    clock icon Jun. 1, 2019 – Nov. 30, 2024

  • Navigating the Trade-off between Pest Management and Pollinator Conservation in Cucurbits

    US Department of Agriculture (SCRI Program)

    clock icon Sep. 1, 2016 – Aug. 22, 2022

  • Of Pools and People: Small natural features with large ecosystem functions in urbanizing landscapes

    National Science Foundation (CNH Program)

    clock icon Jan. 1, 2014 – Sep. 30, 2019

  • Exploring the Trends, the Science, and the Options of Buffer Management in the Great Bay Watershed

    National Estuarine Research Reserve

    clock icon Feb. 1, 2016 – Jan. 31, 2018

  • Integrated Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability

    US Department of Agriculture (AFRI Program)

    clock icon Sep. 1, 2011 – Aug. 31, 2012
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