CEnREP Associate Director awarded U.S. EPA funding to study the economic value of improving water quality in the Southeast United States.
Roger von Haefen, CEnREP Associate Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State, is the lead Principal Investigator on a recently $800,000 EPA grant. Dr. von Haefen, along with his project team, will work with local communities in order to better understand the economic value of improving water quality in the North Carolina as well as other southeastern states. The multi-disciplinary research team also includes Laura Taylor, CEnREP Director, and Daniel Obenour, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, as well as economists and natural scientists from RTI International and University of Maryland.
Read more in the following EPA news release here.