SILVIA SECCHI/h3>
Silvia Secchi is a natural resource economist by training, and her work typically combines methodologies from the social sciences, the natural sciences and engineering. She has published on the environmental impacts of agricultural land use change in the Corn Belt, particularly water quality and carbon, and the interplay between agricultural, conservation and energy policies in the region. She has also researched farmers’ attitudes towards conservation, multifunctional floodplain management and targeted reconnection, invasive species management, and mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the agricultural sector. Her current work is broadly focused on the effectiveness of conservation policy in the United States, in particular the approaches used to address agricultural climate change mitigation in the Inflation Reduction Act and the Climate Smart Partnerships, and effects of interactions between federal policy and California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard on the ethanol industry and confined livestock production.
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