Catherine Keske
Associate Professor
Office: FC 2025
Email: CKeske@grenfell.mun.ca
Phone: 709-637-2176
Website: Pending
Biography:
Dr. Catherine Keske is an agricultural and forest economist who studies
contemporary resource and policy issues. She is a member of the Environmental
Studies faculty and the Boreal Ecosystem Research Initiative (BERI).
Dr. Keske incorporates a number of different economic methods into her research
program and she frequently engages in interdisciplinary collaboration. Her recent
publications focus on sustainability, soil conservation, nutrient management, forest
recreation and tourism, biomass/bioenergy production, community sense of place,
and ecosystem service valuation.
Several of Dr. Keske’s current projects address food security and food sovereignty,
boreal forest ecosystem services, crop production, land use policies, and
sustainability metrics.
Education:
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics (Colorado State University)
M.Sc., Mineral Economics (Colorado School of Mines)
M.Sc., Hearing and Speech Sciences (Vanderbilt University)
B.Sc., Communication Disorders (Bowling Green State University)
Research:
I am passionate about incorporating methods from applied economics to study
complex natural resource and environmental issues. I also believe that economists
play an important, but many times underutilized, role in trans-disciplinary
collaboration. My long-term research vision is to utilize economic methods and
integrate economic data into a decision support tool to study and manage boreal
ecosystems.
I am part of Memorial University’s newly established Boreal Ecosystem Research
Initiative (BERI). My current research program reflects three research thrusts:
agricultural and forest economics, land use policy, and energy. Most of my research
has been conducted in rural communities that have been reliant on forestry,
agriculture, and extraction. The communities desire economic information that will
help them prepare for future land use decisions.
Please click here for a recent copy of my curriculum vita: (website link)
Projects:
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Food security and food sovereignty
Sustainability metrics
Land use policies
Boreal Ecosystem Research Initiative: website link
Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project: website link
International research: I have recently been involved in international
projects in the U.S., China, West Africa and Costa Rica.
Teaching:
I believe that a successful classroom experience is closely linked to a strong research
program, and I strive to connect the two.
During my first year at Grenfell, I taught Ecological Economics (EVST/ECON 3085)
and Macroeconomics (ECON 2020). In the future I will likely develop and offer
undergraduate and graduate courses in applied economics and policy.
I have been an adjunct professor at the Denver University Sturm School of Law since
2008, where I teach environmental economics and public utility regulation classes
to law students and practicing attorneys.
Supervised Students:
As follows is a list of current EPI advisees
o Nick Mercer
Selected Publications
For more information on publications, please click here to download a copy of a
recent curriculum vita: weblink
Hou, Lingling, D.L. Hoag, and C.M.H. Keske, 2015, Shadow pricing abatement costs
of soil degradation in the Loess Plateau of China. Journal of Environmental
Management 149, pp. 1-8.
Pearson, C.H., Larson, S.R., Keske, C.M.H., Jensen, K.B., 2015, Chapter 12,
Native Grasses for Biomass Production at High Elevations, In Industrial Crops:
Breeding for Bioenergy and Bioproducts (V.M.V. Cruz and D.A. Dierig, Eds.),
Handbook of Plant Breeding Series, Vol. 9, Springer, pp. 101-132. ISBN: 978-14939-1446-3
Keske, C.M.H., and A. Mayer, 2014, Visitor willingness to pay U.S. Forest Service
recreation fees in New West rural mountain economies. Economic Development
Quarterly (EDQ), 28(1), pp. 87-100.
Hou, Lingling, D.L. Hoag, C.M.H. Keske, and Changhe Lu, 2014, Sustainable value of
degraded soils in China's Loess Plateau: An updated approach. Ecological Economics
97, pp. 20-27.
Keske, C.M.H., D.L. Hoag, A. Brandess, and J. Johnson, 2013, Is it economically
feasible for farmers to grow their own fuel? A study of Camelina sativa produced in
the western United States as an on-farm biofuel. Biomass and Bioenergy, 54, pp. 8999.
Keske, C.M.H., G. Lohman, J. Loomis, 2013, Do respondents report willingness to
pay on a per person or per group basis? A mountain recreation example. Tourism
Economics, 19(1), pp. 133-146.
Field, J., C.M.H. Keske, G. Lohman Birch, M. DeFoort, M.F. Cotrufo, 2013, Distributed
bioenergy and biochar co-production: A regionally-specific case study of
environmental benefits and economic impacts. Global Change Biology (GCB)
Bioenergy Special Edition on Bioenergy, 5(1), pp. 177-191.
Keske, C.M.H., S. Evans, T. Iverson, 2012, Total cost electricity pricing: A market
solution for increasingly rigorous environmental standards. The Electricity Journal,
25(2), pp. 7-15.
Loomis, J.B. and C.M.H. Keske, 2012, Did the great recession reduce visitor spending
and willingness to pay for nature-based recreation? Evidence from 2006 and 2009,
Contemporary Economic Policy, 30(2), pp. 238-246.
Hoag, D.L.K., C.M.H. Keske and R.L. Goldbach, 2011, Risk individuality in crisis
planning: The case of gender in American agriculture. Journal of Risk Planning and
Crisis Response, 1(1), pp. 21-28.
Hoag, D.L.K., R. Boone, and C.M.H. Keske, 2011, The cost for agriculture to coexist
with wildlife in Colorado, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 16(5), pp. 319-329.
Keske, C.M.H, 2011, How to value environmental and non-market goods: A guide
for legal professionals, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, 39(3), pp.
423-435.
Cross, J. E., C.M.H. Keske, M.G. Lacy, D.L.K. Hoag, and C.T. Bastian, 2011, Adoption of
conservation easements among agricultural landowners in Colorado and Wyoming:
The role of economic dependence and sense of place, Landscape and Urban Planning,
101(1), pp. 75-83.
Miller, A., C.T. Bastian, D.M. McLeod, C.M. Keske, and D.L. Hoag, 2011, Factors
impacting agricultural landowners’ willingness to enter into conservation
easements: A case study, Society and Natural Resources: An International Journal,
24(1), pp. 65-74.
Laitos, J.G. and C.M. Keske, 2010, The right of non-use, Journal of Environmental Law
and Litigation (JELL), 25(2), pp. 303-384.
Keske, C.M.H. and L.S. Smutko, 2010, Consulting communities: Using audience
response system technology (ARS) to assess community preferences for sustainable
recreation and tourism development, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18(8), pp. 951970.
Loomis, J.B. and C.M. Keske, 2009, Mountain substitutability and peak load pricing
of high alpine peaks as a management tool to reduce environmental damage: A
contingent valuation study, Journal of Environmental Management, 90(5), pp. 1751–
1760.
Keske, C.M. and J.B. Loomis, 2008, Regional economic contribution and net
economic values of opening access to three Colorado Fourteeners, Tourism
Economics, 14(2), pp. 249-262.