Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee

  Seong-Hoon Cho

Assistant Professor

                         Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

       

       Curriculum Vitae

 

      

  

Research Interests

I am Assistant Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee. My research is primarily in the area of spatial modeling of land use change and its ecological impacts and analysis of issues on the rural-urban fringe and causes of spatial variations in economic development. My recent projects include interactions between land development and value; dynamic interactions between urban development and land use regulations; valuation of open space; policy and practice of land conservation, urban sprawl, real estate submarket structure, housing price and land development forecasting, and farmland fragmentation. I frequently collaborate with researchers outside of economics such as geography, forestry, and industrial engineering.

 

 

        Mailing Address:
        The University of Tennessee
        314D Morgan Hall
        Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4518

Office Location: 314D Morgan Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

Phone: (865) 974-7408
Fax: (865) 974-9492
Email: scho9@utk.edu

 

   Professional Involvement

  • Topic Leader: Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Selected Paper Committee, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2007–2008.

  •  Organizer: American Agricultural Economics Association Invited Paper Session at the 2007 Allied Social Science Association Meetings. January 5–7, 2007. Chicago, IL, Invited Paper Session, 2006 Annual Meetings of Southern Agricultural Economics Association. February 5–8, 2006. Orlando, FL.

  • Journal Reviewer: The Annals of Regional Science, Society & Natural Resources, Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management, Environmental Management, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, Forest Ecology and Management, Landscape and Urban Planning, Ecological Economics, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Environmental Management, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Housing Studies, Ecosystems, Forest Policy and Economics, Journal of Urban Affairs, The Professional Geographer, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Leisure Sciences.

  • Selected Paper Reviewer: Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, 2002–2008.

  • External Reviewer: New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute Final Report, 2008, Korea Environment Institute Final Report, 2008.

  • Judge: Chinese Economists Society-Chow Best Paper Award, 2008.

   Teaching Philosophy

  • My teaching philosophy focuses on three keypoints: being a caring human being as a teacher, presenting high expectations with adequate motivations to the students, and teaching how to learn without supervision. I believe the first and the most important attribute of being a good teacher is being a caring human being. If I genuinely feel and show that I want students to learn and to achieve at a high level, they will respond and work hard for the class. True learning takes much personal effort which usually includes 1) formal and informal problem sessions, 2) one-on-one tutoring sessions, and 3) email between students and teacher. In addition to my formal classroom responsibilities, I have been active in graduate supervision. I firmly believe that the explicit supervisory arrangements are particularly important during the initial phase of dissertation (or thesis) work. I make my best efforts to share a set of clear expectations about all aspects of supervision, e.g., frequency of contact, preferred communication method, timeline for each stage of the work, frequency of submission of work, type of feedback expected, where the graduate students work in what time, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting progress. I also try to give additional motivation to the students as much as possible. For example, I offer co-authorships to all the graduate students under my supervision for any project they have been associated with.

 

Graduate Student Advisees

Alexander W. Young

Alexander Young earned his master degree in 2006 and is currently farming full-time in Herndon, Kentucky.  He is the sixth generation on the family farm, and is combining Agricultural Economics, Statistics, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into the corn, wheat, and soybean farming operation.  In addition to searching for additional acreage to manage in his farm, Alexander is consulting off-farm in the Precision Agriculture and GIS fields. He also teaches a precision agriculture at Murray State University in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Seung Gyu Kim

Seung-Gyu earned his master degree in 2007. He is currently working on PhD in Natural Resources, Natural Resource Economics Concentration. He expects to earn his PhD in the near future. His research products have appeared in 11 different peer reviewed journals including Land Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, and Agricultural and Resource Economics Review.

SuHyun Jung

Su-Hyun earned his master degree in 2009. He is currently working on PhD in the department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research products have appeared in 3 different peer reviewed journals, i.e., Ecological Economics, Environmental Management, and GIScience & Remote Sensing.

 

JiYoung Kim

Ji-Young earned her master degree in 2009. Her research was presented at the 47th Southern Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, March 26–30, 2008, VA-Washington, DC.

 

 

 

 

Matthew Chadourne

Matthew earned his bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Washington. He is currently working on master degree in Natural Resource Economics.

 

 

 

 

  

   Courses Taught

Number

Title

AGEC 670

Advanced Topics in Natural Resource Economics (Fall Semester: 2007)

AGEC 320

Agricultural Microeconomics (Fall Semester: 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006)

   Publications

  Articles Published in Refereed Journals

1.      Cho, S., S.G. Kim, and R.K. Roberts. 2010. “Measuring the Effects of a Land Value Tax on Land Development.” Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 3, available online.

2.      Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, and R.K. Roberts. 2010. “Forecasting Open Space with a Two-Rate Property Tax.” Land Economics 86, in press.

3.      Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, R.K. Roberts, and S.G. Kim. 2009. “Moderating Urban Sprawl: Is there a Balance between Shared Open Space and Housing Parcel Size?” Journal of Economic Geography 10, available online.

4.      Lambert, D.M. and S. Cho. 2009. “Forecasting Input Demand Shocks on China’s Gross Value of Agricultural Output.” Review of Regional Studies 39, in press.

5.      Cho, S., Z. Chen, and S.T. Yen. 2009. “Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices: the Case of Knox County, Tennessee.” Review of Regional Studies 39, in press.

6.      Kim, S., S. Cho, D.M. Lambert, and R.K. Roberts. 2009. “Measuring the Value of Air Quality: Application of the Spatial-Hedonic Model.” Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health 2, available online.

7.      Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, and Z. Chen. 2009. “Geographically Weighted Regression Bandwidth Selection and Spatial Autocorrelation: An Empirical Example Using Chinese Agriculture Data.” Applied Economics Letters 18, available online.

8.      Cho, S., Z. Chen, and N.C. Poudyal. 2009. “Spatial Structure of Agricultural Production in China.” Applied Economics 41, available online. 

9.      Cho, S., S.G. Kim, and D.M. Lambert. 2009. “Spatially-Varying Effects of Rezoning on Housing Price.” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 21:72-91.

10.  Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, S.G. Kim, and S. Jung. 2009. “Extreme Coefficients in Geographically Weighted Regression and Their Effects on Mapping.” GIScience & Remote Sensing 46:273-288. 

11.  Cho, S. and S.G. Kim. 2009. “Market Equilibrium and Spatial Variability in the Value of Housing Attributes.” Environmental and Resource Economics Review 18:311-344.

12.  Cho, S., S.G. Kim, R.K. Roberts, and S. Jung. 2009. “Amenity Values of Spatial Configurations of Forest Landscapes over Space and Time in the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Ecological Economics 68:2646-2657.

13.  Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, H. Kim, and S.G. Kim. 2009. “Overweight Korean Adolescents and Academic Achievement.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 30:126-136.

14.  Cho, S., C.D. Clark, W.M. Park, and S.G. Kim. 2009. “Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Housing Market Values of Lot Size and Open Space.” Land Economics 85:51-73.

15.  Chen, Z., S. Cho, N.C. Poudyal, and R.K. Roberts. 2009. “Forecasting Housing Prices under Different Market Segmentation Assumptions.” Urban Studies46:167-187.

16.  Poudyal, N.C., D.G. Hodges, B.E. Tonn, and S. Cho. 2009.  “Valuing Diversity and Spatial Pattern of Open Space Plots in Urban Neighborhoods.” Forest Policy and Economics 11: 194-201.

17.  Cho, S. S. Jung, and S.G. Kim. 2009. “Valuation of Spatial Configurations and Forest Types in the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Environmental Management 43:628-644.

18.  Poudyal, N.S., S. Cho, and D.G. Hodges. 2008. “Effects of Urban Sprawl on Hunting Participation in the Southeastern United States.” Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 32:134-138.

19.  Poudyal, N.S., S. Cho, and J.M. Bowker. 2008. “Demand for Resident Hunting in the Southeastern United States.” Human Dimensions of Wildlife 13:158-174.

20.  Cho, S., N.C. Poudyal, and D.M. Lambert. 2008. “Estimating Spatially Varying Effects of Urban Growth Boundaries on Land Development and Land Value.” Land Use Policy 25:320-329.

21.  Cho, S., S.T. Yen, J.M. Bowker, and D.H. Newman. 2008. “Modeling Willingness to Pay for Land Conservation Easements: Treatment of Zero and Protest Bids and Application and Policy Implications.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40:267-285.

22.  Poudyal, N.C., S. Cho, J.D. Strickland, and D.G. Hodges. 2008. “Socio-Demographic and Market Forces of Forest Land Use Change on the Northern Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee.” International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics 10:53-62.

23.  Cho, S., N.C. Poudyal, and R.K. Roberts. 2008. “Spatial Analysis of the Amenity Value of Green Open Space.” Ecological Economics 66:403-416.

24.  Cho, S., O.A. Omitaomu, N.C. Poudyal, and D.B. Eastwood. 2007. “The Impact of an Urban Growth Boundary on Land Development in Knox County, Tennessee: A Comparison of Two-Stage Probit Least Squares and Multilayer Neural Network Models.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 39:701-717.

25.  Cho, S. and R.K. Roberts. 2007. “Cure for Urban Sprawl: Measuring the Ratio of Marginal Implicit Prices of Density-to-Lot-Size.” Review of Agricultural Economics 29:572-579.

26.  Cho, S., S.G. Kim, C.D. Clark, and W.M. Park. 2007. “Spatial Analysis of Rural Economic Development Using a Locally Weighted Regression Model.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 36:24-38.

27.  Cho, S., Z. Chen, S.T. Yen, and B.C. English. 2007. “Spatial Variation of Output-Input Elasticities: Evidence from Chinese County-Level Agricultural Production Data.” Papers in Regional Science 86:139-157.

28.  Wu, J. and S. Cho. 2007. “The Effect of Local Land Use Regulations on Urban Development in the Western United States.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 37:69-86.

29.  Cho, S., J.M. Bowker, and W.M. Park. 2006. “Measuring the Contribution of Water and Green Space Amenities to Housing Values: An Application and Comparison of Spatially Weighted Hedonic Models.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 31:485-507.

30.  Cho, S., C.D. Clark, and W.M. Park. 2006. “Two Dimensions of the Spatial Distribution of Housing: Dependency and Heterogeneity across Tennessee’s Six Metropolitan Statistical Areas.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38:299-316.

31.  Cho, S., Z. Chen, S.T. Yen, and D.B. Eastwood. 2006. “Estimating Effects of an Urban Growth Boundary on Land Development.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38: 287-298.

32.  Cho, S., Z. Chen, S.T. Yen, and D.B. Eastwood. 2006. “The Effects of Urban Sprawl on Body Mass Index: Where People Live Does Matter?” Consumer Interests Annual 52:159-169.

33.  Cho, S., B.C. English, and R.K. Roberts. 2005. “A Spatial Analysis of Housing Growth.” Review of Regional Studies 35:311-335.

34.  Cho, S. and D.H. Newman. 2005. “Spatial Analysis of Rural Land Development.” Forest Policy and Economics 7:732-744. 

35.  Cho, S., D.H. Newman, and J.M. Bowker. 2005. “Measuring Rural Homeowners’ Willingness to Pay for Land Conservation Easements.” Forest Policy and Economics 7:757-770.

36.  Cho, S., D.H. Newman, and D.N. Wear. 2005. “Community Choices and Housing Demands: A Spatial Analysis of the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Housing Studies 20:549-569.

37.  Cho, S., J. Wu, and R. Alig. 2005. “Land Development under Regulation: Comparison between the East and West Sides of the Cascade Range in Oregon, Washington, and California.” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 17:1-17.

38.  Cho, S., J. Wu, and W.G. Boggess. 2003. “Measuring Interactions among Urbanization, Land Use Regulations, and Public Finance.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85:988-999.

39.  Cho, S., D.H. Newman, and D.N. Wear. 2003. “Impacts of Second Home Development on Housing Prices in the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 15:208-225.

40.  Wu, J. and S. Cho. 2003. “Estimating Households’ Preferences for Environmental Amenities Using Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions.” Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50:189-206.

41.  Adams, R.M. and S. Cho. 1998. “Agriculture and Endangered Species: An Analysis of Trade-Offs in the Klamath Basin, Oregon.” Water Resources Research 34:2741-2749.

  Book Chapters

1.      Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, R.K. Roberts, and S.G. Kim. 2009. “Demand for Open Space and Urban Sprawl: The Case of Knox County, Tennessee.” in Progress in Spatial Analysis: Theory and Computation, and Thematic Applications (Eds) A. Páez, J. Le Gallo, R. Buliung, S. Dall’Erba, pp. 205-231. Springer, Berlin.

2.      Poudyal, N.C., S. Cho, J. Strickland, and D.G. Hodges. 2009. “Understanding the Factors of Forest Conversion into Farming and Low-Density Residential Development.”  in Global Change and Forestry: Economic and Policy Impacts and Responses (Eds) J. Gan, S. Grado, and I. Munn, pp. 1-13. Nova Science, NY.