Department of Ecosystem Science & Management

Dr. Gan is a professor in Forest Economics and Management, jointly appointed in the Departments of Ecosystem Science and Management and Agricultural Economics. His current research centers on the economics of bioenergy and natural and human disturbances including climate change, wildfire, pest infestation, and invasion of alien species as related to forest resource management/conservation. He is also keen in issues related to forest product trade and socially or economically disadvantaged forestland owners. In addition, he has some research experience in sustainable forest management in Africa and Asia. He teaches four undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. Before joining Texas A&M University, he taught forestry and agricultural economics and served as coordinator of the Forest Resources Program at Tuskegee University. Dr. Gan received both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University.

Courses

FRSC 302 -- Fundamentals of Environmental Decision-Making

FRSC 404 -- Forest Management

FRSC 405 -- Integrated Forest Resource Analysis and Planning

FRSC 606 -- The Research Process

Current Projects

Cost-benefit analysis of invasive plants, USDA Forest Service, 2006-2008 (with J.H. Miller and V. Rudis)

Southern critical forestlands assessment, Southern Group of State Foresters, 2006-2007 (with R. Srinivasan, J. Jacobs, and M. Messina)

Landowner response to wildfire mitigation policy, Joint Fire Science Program, 2005-2007 (with C.Y. Johnson, H.K. Cordell, and J.M. Bowker)

Sustainable forestry for bioenergy and bio-based products, USDOE and USDA Biomass Research and Development Initiative, 2004-2007 (with L. Biles, C.T. Smith, C.D. Foster, B.D. Jackson, H.M. Rauscher, and W.G. Hubbard)

Effects of climate change, forest certification, biotechnology, and industrial concentration on the US forest products industry and trade, USDA National Research Initiative, 2003-2006 (with B.A. McCarl and J.W. Mjelde)

Recent Publications

Bioenergy

Gan, J. 2007. Supply of biomass, bioenergy, and carbon mitigation: method and application. Energy Policy 35:6003-6009.

Gan, J., and C.T. Smith. 2007. Co-benefits of utilizing logging residues for bioenergy production: The case for East Texas, USA. Biomass and Bioenergy 31:623-630.

Mayfield, C. A., Foster, C. D., C. T. Smith, J. Gan, and S. Fox. 2007. Opportunities, barriers, and strategies for forest bioenergy and bio-based product development in the Southern United States Biomass and Bioenergy 31:631-637.

Mayfield, C., and J. Gan. 2006. Economics (of forest bioenergy). In: Encyclopedia of Southern Bioenergy.

Gan, J., and C.T. Smith. 2006. Availability of logging residues and their potential for electricity production and carbon displacement in the U.S. Biomass and Bioenergy 30:1011-1020.

Gan, J., and C.T. Smith. 2006. A comparative analysis of woody biomass and coal for electricity generation under various CO2 emission reductions and taxes. Biomass and Bioenergy 30:296-303.

Gan, J., and C.T. Smith. 2003. Carbon tax, energy security, and biomass energy production in the United States. Pages 25-58 in: Proceedings of IEA Bioenergy Task 29 Workshop, V. Segon and J. Domac (eds.). Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Disturbances

Gan, J., and B.A. McCarl. 2007. Measuring transnational leakage of forest conservation. Ecological Economics 64:423-432.

Gan, J. 2005. Causality among wildfire, ENSO, timber harvest, and urban sprawl: The vector autoregression approach. Ecological Modelling 191:304-314.

Gan, J. 2005. Incorporating human and natural adaptations in assessing climate change impacts on wildfire occurrence. Chapter 4 (pp. 61-73) in: New Research on Forest Ecosystems, A.R. Burk (ed.). Nova Science, Hauppauge, NY.

Gan, J. 2004. Risk and damage of southern pine beetle outbreaks under global climate change. Forest Ecology and Management 191:61-71.

Kebede, E., J. Gan, and Z. Gebeyehu. 2003. Non-point source pollution and land use pattern linkage: A watershed approach. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Sciences 74(3/4):197-209.

Trade

Zhang, J., and J. Gan. 2007. Who will meet China's demand for imported forest products? World Development 35:2150-2160.

Gan, J. 2006. Consequences of neglecting national product differentiation in assessing the impact of U.S.-Canada softwood lumber disputes. Forest Science 52(4):401-410.

Gan, J. 2006. Substitutability between US domestic and imported forest products: The Armington approach. Forest Science 52(1):1-9.

Gan, J. 2005. Forest certification costs and global forest product markets and trade: A general equilibrium analysis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35(7):1731-1743.

Gan, J. 2004. Effects of China's WTO accession on global forest product trade. Forest Policy and Economics 6(6):509-519.

Gan, J., and S. Ganguli. 2003. General equilibrium analysis of impacts of NAFTA and WTO on U.S. forest products industries. Pages 305-314 in: System Analysis in Forest Resources, G.J. Arthaud and T.M. Barrett (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Gan, J., and S. Ganguli. 2003. Global trade liberalization and forest product trade patterns. Pages 219-228 in: Forest Policy for Private Forestry: Global and Regional Challenges, L. Teeter, B. Cashore, and D. Zhang (eds.). CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.

Gan, J., and S. Ganguli. 2003. Effects of global trade liberalization on U.S. forest products industries and trade: A computable general equilibrium analysis. Forest Products Journal 53(4):29-35.

Landowners

Gan, J., and E. Kebede. 2005. Multivariate probit modeling of decisions on timber harvesting and request for assistance by African-American forestland owners. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 29(3):135-142.

Gan. J., O. Onianwa, J. Schelhas, G. Wheelock, and M. Dubois. 2005. Does race matter in landowners' participation in conservation incentive programs? Society and Natural Resources 18(5):431-445.

Onianwa, O., G. Wheelock, B. Gyawali, J. Gan, M. Dubois, and J. Schelhas. 2004. An analysis of factors affecting participation behavior of limited resource farmers in agricultural cost-share programs in Alabama. Journal of Agribusiness 22(1):17-29.

Gan, J., S.H. Kolison, and N.O. Tackie. 2003. African-American forestland owners in Alabama's Black Belt. Journal of Forestry 101(3):38-43.