Environmental Economics and Policy

• Lal, P., (co-PI). “US-India Consortium for Sustainable Advanced Biofuels System,” U.S. Department of Energy. 2012-2018.
• Lal, P., (PI). “CAREER: Geographic Suitability, Socioeconomic Uncertainty, and Environmental Consequences: Exploring Place-based Opportunities for Bioenergy Sustainability,” National Science Foundation, 2016-2021.
• Lal, P., (co-PI). “Bridging the Gap Between New Jersey Farmers and Consumers Through Research, Education and Outreach,” U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2017-2018.
• Lal, P., (working group member). “Integrating natural capital into a system of National Accounts: A case study of forestry and wetland landscapes in Rwanda”, Science for Nature and People, 2015-17.
• Lal, P. (PI). “Assessing socioeconomic impacts of forest biomass based biofuel development on rural communities in the southern United States”, United States Department of Agriculture, 2012-16.

* indicates a Montclair State University student author or program alumnus

• *Burli, P., Lal, P., *Wolde, B., Alavalapati, J. Sustainability protocols and certification criteria for switchgrass-based bioenergy (2016) BioResources, 11 (3), pp. 7102-7123.
• *Harclerode, M.A., Lal, P., Vedwan, N., Wolde, B., Miller, M.E. Evaluation of the role of risk perception in stakeholder engagement to prevent lead exposure in an urban setting (2015) Journal of Environmental Management.
• *Harclerode, M., Ridsdale, D.R., Darmendrail, D., Bardos, P., Alexandrescu, F., Nathanail, P., Pizzol, L., Rizzo, E. Integrating the Social Dimension in Remediation Decision-Making: State of the Practice and Way Forward (2015) Remediation, 26 (1), pp. 11-42.
• *Harclerode, M.A., Lal, P., Miller, M.E. Quantifying Global Impacts to Society from the Consumption of Natural Resources during Environmental Remediation Activities (2016) Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20 (3), pp. 410-422.
• *Justus, F. and Yu, D., 2014, Spatial distribution of greenhouse commercial horticulture in Kenya and the role of demographic, infrastructure and topo-edaphic factors. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 3: 274 – 296 DOI: 10.3390/ijgi3010274.
• Lal, P., *Wolde, B., Alavalapati, J., *Burli, P., Munsell, J. Forestland owners’ willingness to plant pine on non-forested land for woody bioenergy in Virginia (2016) Forest Policy and Economics, 73, pp. 52-57.
• *Singh, S.K., Vedwan, N. Mapping composite vulnerability to groundwater arsenic contamination: an analytical framework and a case study in India (2014) Natural Hazards
• *Singh, S., Feldman, C., Wunderlich, S. Disaster issues and management in farm and urban crop production (2014) Perspectives in Public Health, 134 (3), pp. 127-128.
• *Singh, S., Brachfeld, S.,and Taylor, R., Evaluating hydrogeologic and topographic controls on groundwater arsenic contamination in the Middle-Ganga Plan in India: Towards sustainable arsenic mitigation models, in: Fares, A., “Advances in Water Security: Emerging Issues in Groundwater Resources,” Springer, pp. 263-288.
• Wang, Y., McGuire, F.A., Zhou, B. The influence of travel experience on mature travelers’ quality of life (2014) Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 2, pp. 995-1006.
• *Wolde, B., Lal, P., Alavalapati, J., *Burli, P., Munsell, J. Factors affecting forestland owners’ allocation of non-forested land to pine plantation for bioenergy in Virginia (2016) Biomass and Bioenergy, 85, pp. 69-75.
• Wolde, B., Lal, P., Gan, J., Alavalapati, J., Taylor, E., Burli, P. Determinants of enrollment in public incentive programs for forest management and their effect on future programs for woody bioenergy: Evidence from Virginia and Texas (2016) Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 46 (6), pp. 775-782.
• Yu, Danlin, Morton, Cory and Peterson, Andrew N., 2014, Community pharmacies and addictive products: sociodemographic predictors of accessibility from a mixed GWR perspective. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 51(1): 99 – 113.