Prof Ada Wossink

Ada Wossink joined the School of Social Sciences in January 2007. Prof. Wossink comes to the University of Manchester from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA where she was Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Prior to NC State, she held positions at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.  She also worked as a researcher at Statistics Netherlands.

Her research has been published in leading journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Land Economics; Ecological Economics; European Review of Agricultural Economics; Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; Journal of Environmental Management and Agricultural Systems. She currently serves on the editorial board of Agricultural Systems and the Review of Agricultural Economics.

She is the recipient of a 1994/95 J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship and an External Fellow of the Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences at Wageningen University. She has also held a visiting research position at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim in Germany.

At NC State University (1998-2006), she secured over US$4.4 million in grants and contracts working with colleagues in the science departments. In recognition of the quality of interdisciplinary knowledge transfer activities she was awarded the 2004 North Carolina Extension Education Team Award on Outstanding Subject Matter.

Main research interest is in bio-economic complexity, multiple objectives of land use,  environmental policy, technology adoption and sustainability. Recent work focuses on ecosystem services, environmental efficiency and policy uncertainty. More detailed information is available from my c.v.

I have supervised nine Ph.D. students to completion and am happy to take on doctoral students. More information and funding sources.

I currently coordinate the workshop series Environmental & Resource Economics.

Research is largely supported by externally sponsored grants and currently involved in several externally funded projects.

• ECON30112 Applied Environmental Economics & Policy Analysis (3rd year undergraduate )
• ECON60782 Economics of Environmental Policy (postgraduate)

Publications Database

 

Representative Publications

• Ada Wossink and Scott Swinton (2007) Jointness in Production and Farmers’ Willingness to Supply Non-Marketed Ecosystem Services, Ecological Economics 64: 297-303
• Wossink, A. and C. Gardebroek (2006) Environmental Policy Uncertainty and Marketable Permit Systems, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88 (1): 16-27.
• Zhengfei, Guan, A. Oude Lansink, M. van Ittersum and A. Wossink (2006) The Integration of Agronomic Principles in Production Function Estimation: Dichotomy of Growth Inputs and Facilitating Inputs, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(1): 203-214.
• Wossink, Ada and Zulal Denaux (2006) Environmental and Cost Efficiency of Pesticide Use in Transgenic and Conventional Cotton Production, Agricultural Systems 90: 312-328.
• Van Wenum, J.H., G.A.A. Wossink and J.A. Renkema (2004) Location specific modelling for optimising wildlife management on crop farms, Ecological Economics 48: 395-407.
• Wossink, G.A.A. and J.H. van Wenum (2003) Biodiversity conservation by farmers: analysis of actual and contingent participation, Eur. Review of Agricultural Economics 30(4): 461-485.
• Pacini, C., A. Wossink, G. Giesen, C, Vazzana, R, Huirne (2003) Evaluation of sustainability of organic, integrated and conventional farming systems: a farm and detailed spatial scale analysis, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 95(1): 273-288.
• De Koeijer, T.J., Wossink, G.A.A., Struik, P.C. and Renkema, J.A. (2002) Measuring Sustainability in Terms of Efficiency, Journal of Environmental Management 66: 9-17.
• Wossink, G.A.A., A.G.J.M. Oude Lansink and P.C. Struik (2001) Non-separability and heterogeneity in integrated agronomic-economic analysis, Ecological Economics 38: 345-357.
• Vukina, Tomislav and Ada Wossink (2000) Environmental Policies and Land Values, Land Economics 76(3): 413-429.
• Wossink, G.A.A. and T.A. Feitshans (2000) Pesticide Policies in the European Union, Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 5(1): 223-249.
• Wossink, G.A.A. and W.A.H. Rossing, (1998) On increasing returns and discrete choice: integrating production ecological principles in economic analysis of crop management, Journal of Environmental Management 54 (3): 233-247.