David A. Newburn

David Newburn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland. His research focuses on two main areas: (1) land-use regulations for forest and farmland preservation; and (2) water quality. He has worked extensively on spatial models of land-use change for managing urban sprawl and has examined the effectiveness of land-use policies to protect forest and farmland. Dr. Newburn’s work on water quality evaluates the effectiveness of voluntary incentive-based programs, like subsidies for adopting agricultural conservation practices and household urban stormwater management practices, as well as water quality trading.