Kent Messer
Applied Economics & Statistics
Phone: (302) 831-1316
Email: messer@udel.edu
Office: Townsend Hall
Journalists: Katy O'Connell (Communications Manager) can assist with interview requests for this expert. 302-831-1355, kvo@udel.edu
- A behavioral economist, Messer specializes in land/environmental conservation and consumer responses to food scares.
- Recent consumer response projects: measuring the impact of media information about Mad Cow Disease on consumers; investigating whether labeling stigmatizes conventional milk; and examining which consumers are most responsive to media-inducted food scares.
- Served as founding director of a Colorado wildlife area. Pioneered efforts to improve conservation effectiveness that have been applied to protecting endangered species, wetlands, and agricultural areas.
- Has investigated Superfund sites' relationship to neighboring property values.
- Can discuss environmental policy, agricultural policy and resource economics.
Curriculum Vitae:
http://ag.udel.edu/frec/faculty/Research%20-%20Messer/vita-messer.pdf
Web Site:
http://ag.udel.edu/frec/faculty/messer.htm
Titles:
Associate Professor, Applied Economics and Statistics
Associate Professor, Economics
UDaily Articles:
UD students plant trees to sequester carbon in Milford Neck
New labels might decrease overall demand for milk
Conservationists model smart shopping, save big
Keywords:
agricultural policy,
economics,
environmental,
food,
land conservation,
mad cow disease
