EXPERIENCE:
August 1999 - Associate Professor (Resource Economics) & Graduate Program Director
present            Departments of Environmental Studies and Economics, Florida International University, Miami.

August 1994 - Assistant Professor (Resource/Environmental Economics)
July 1999        Departments of Environmental Studies and Economics, Florida International University, Miami.

February 1992 - Postdoctoral Research Associate
August 1994      Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

August 1988 - Graduate Research Assistant
December 1991 Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

December 1983 - Finance Officer
August 1988         Rural Development Department, Dena Bank, Bangalore (India).
 

AREAS OF    Natural resource economics and policy, resource modeling, biodiversity patenting,
STUDY:         sustainable coastal resource management, and agriculture and the environment.
 

EDUCATION: Ph.D. Agricultural Economics (natural resource economics concentration), The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1991.

      · Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1990.

      · Gama Sigma Delta Honor Society, 1989.

      · Karnataka State Government’s State Award for the first rank in M.Sc., 1984.

      · Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Prize for an outstanding university student, 1981.

      · BS and MS first rank gold medals, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, 1981 and 1983.

 

Refereed Journal:

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta, "A Regional Economic Welfare Analysis of Limited Entry Fishery Management" Environment and Development Economics, 2004 (under review)

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. “Mechanization and Technical Interactions in Multi-species Indian Fisheries: Implications for Economic and Biological Sustainability.” Marine Policy, 2004 (under review).

B T Sreenivas, A Rajendra, Mahadev Bhat and M. G. Chandrakanth. "Sustainable Groundwater Extraction for Irrigation in Hard Rock Areas of India: Application of Control Theory" Environment and Development Economics, 2004 (under review).

Taylor, L., M. G. Bhat, Daniel Dustin, and Kenneth Lipartito. “An Evaluation of People's Participation in Environmental Restoration: The Case of the Florida Everglades.” Journal of Environmental Management, 2004 (under review).

Chandrakanth, M. G., M. G. Bhat, and M. S. Accavva. "Socio-economic Changes and Sacred Groves in South India: Protecting a Community-based Resource Management Institution" Natural Resource Forum, 28(2): 000-000, 2004.

Chandrakanth, M. G., B. Alemu, and M. G. Bhat. "Combating Negative Externalities of Drought: A Study of Groundwater Recharge through Watershed." Economics and Political Weekly, 2004.

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. "Considering Aquacultural Externality in Coastal Land Allocation Decisions in India," Environmental and Resource Economics, 00, 1-20, 2003.

Bhat, M. G. and A. Stamatiades. “Institutions, Incentives and Resource Use Conflicts: The Case of Biscayne Bay, Florida.” Population and Environment, Vol. 26(4), 2003.

Bhat, M. G. “Application of Non-Market Valuation to the Florida Keys Marine Reserve Management.” Journal Environmental Management, 67(4): 315-325, 2003.

Bhat, M. G. "On Biodiversity Access, Intellectual Property Rights, and Conservation." Ecological Economics, 29(3): 391-403, 1999.

Bhat, M. G., K. R. Fister and S. M. Lenhart. "An Optimal Control Model for the Surface Runoff Contamination of a Large River Basin." Natural Resource Modeling, Vol. 12(2): 175-195, 1998.

Bhat, M. G., R. R. Alexander, and B. C. English. "Toward Controlling Nonpoint Source Pollution of Groundwater: A Hierarchical Policy Formulation Game." Natural Resource Modeling, Vol. 11(4): 1-25, 1998.

Bhatta, R. and M. G. Bhat. "Impacts of Aquaculture on the Management of Estuaries in India." Environmental Conservation, 25(2): 109-121, 1998. (equal contribution by both the authors)

Bhat, M. G., R. G. Huffaker, and S. M. Lenhart. "Controlling Transboundary Wildlife Damage: Modeling under Alternative Management Scenarios." Ecological Modeling, 92:215-224, 1996.

Bhat, M. G. "Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights to Biological Resources: Socioeconomic Implications for Developing Countries." Ecological Economics, 19: 205-217, 1996.

Bhat, M. G., D. E. Ray and B. C. English. "The Flexible Planting Program: Divergent National and Regional Economic Impacts." International Journal of Public Administration, 18(1): 149-165, 1995.

Bhat, M.G. "Troubled Fur Trade and Implications for Wildlife Damage Management." Choices (The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues of the American Agricultural Economic Association), Fourth Quarter, 1994, p. 37-38.

Bhat, M. G., R. G. Huffaker and S. M. Lenhart. "Controlling Forest Damage by Dispersive Beaver Populations: Centralized Optimal Management Strategy." Ecological Applications. 3(3):518-530, 1993.

Bhat, M. G., K. C. Hiremath and H. Basavaraj. "An Economic Enquiry into the Adoption of High-Yielding Cereal Varieties in Karnataka." Prajnan: Journal of Social and Management Sciences, 22(1):37- 48, April-June 1993.

Bhat, M. G. and R. G. Huffaker. "Private Property Rights and Forest Preservation in Karnataka Western Ghats, India: Reply" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75(2): 496-498, May 1993. (equal contribution by both the authors)

Huffaker, R. G., M. G. Bhat, and S. M. Lenhart. "Optimal Trapping Strategies for Diffusing Nuisance-Beaver Populations." Natural Resources Modeling, Vol. 6(1): 71-97, 1992.

Lenhart S. M. and M. G. Bhat. "Application of Distributed Parameter Control Model in Wildlife Damage Control Management." Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 4(2): 423-439, 1992.

Bhat, M. G. and R. G. Huffaker. "Private Property Rights and Forest Preservation in Karnataka Western Ghats, India." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(2): 375-87, May 1991. (equal contribution by both the authors)
 

Book Chapters

Alemu, Bisrat, M. G. Chandrakanth, and Mahadev G. Bhat. “Impact of Watershed Development Programme in Augmenting Groundwater Resource in Drought Situation.” In Watershed Management: Issues and Policies for 21st Century K. Palanisami, D. Suresh Kumar and B. Chandrasekaran (Editors). 1st ed. New Delhi: Associated Publishing Company. 2002. pp. 341.

Book Reviews

Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics by C. Gopalakrishnan. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000, 348 pp., for American Journal of Agricultural Economics, January 2001.
 

Press Conference:
"The Environmental Impacts of Commercial Aquaculture on Coastal Ecosystem in Karnataka." Mangalore, Karnataka, India, July 1997.

"Forest Preservation in Uttara Kannada District." Sirsi, Karnataka, India, March 1993.
 
 

Conference Proceedings:

Bhat, M. G. "Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights for Genetic Resources: Implications for Developing Countries." in G. H. Peters and D. D. Hedley (eds.), Agricultural Competitiveness, Market Forces and Policy Choice, Proceedings of the XXII International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Brookfield: Darthmouth, 1995, pp. 485-495.

Bhat, M. G. and B. C. English. "An Optimal Staggered Harvesting and Distribution Strategy for Herbaceous Biomass Energy Crops." Proceedings of the First Biomass Conference of The Americas: Energy, Environment, Agriculture, and Industry, Vol. 1, NREL/CP-200-5768, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, August 1993, p. 265-271.

Alexander, R. R., B. C. English, M. G. Bhat and R. L. Graham. "Evaluating the Economics of Biomass Energy Production in the Watts Bar Region." Proceedings of the First Biomass Conference of The Americas: Energy, Environment, Agriculture, and Industry, Vol. 1, NREL/CP-200-5768, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, August 1993, p. 272-277.

Bhat, Mahadev G. and Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte. "Economic Analysis for Tennessee Agriculture." U.S. and Tennessee Agriculture in the 1990s, Proceedings of the 1993 Agricultural Policy Conference, The Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1993.

Bhat, Mahadev. G., Robert Gotie and Luther Keller. "The Impact of European Community's Humane Trapping Resolution on the US Wildlife Damage Control Program." The Proceedings of 11th Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop, Kansas City, MO, April 1993.

Bhat, M. G., B. C. English, M. Ojo. "Regional Cost of Transporting Biomass Feedstocks." Liquid Fuels from Renewable Resources, Ed. J. S. Cundiff, Proceedings of an Alternative Energy Conference, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, MI, December 1992, pp.50-57.

Ray, D. E., B. English, R. White, R. Pendergrass and M. G. Bhat. "Economic Impacts of Sustainability on Southern Farms." Sustainable Agriculture: Enhancing the Environmental Quality of the Tennessee Valley Region Through Alternative Farming Practices - Symposium and satellite teleconference Proceedings, Knoxville, TN, March 1992, pp. 51-67.

English, B. C, T. Robertson, Mahadev Bhat, and Gary Bullen. "On-farm Economic and Environmental Impacts of Cover on Corn Silage Ground on a Limited-Resource-Based Tennessee Dairy Farm." Cover Crops for Clean Water, ed. W. L. Hargrove, pp. 193-196, 1991.
 
 

Research Reports/Theses:

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. An Economic Analysis of Sustainability of Marine Fish Production tion in Karnataka, India, Submitted to Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai Under World Bank Aided India: Environmental Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project, October 2001.

Bhatta, R.,  M. G. Bhat, A. P. Nazareth, Devika Rani, K. Shilpakala and S. Komar. An Economic Analysis of Sustainability of Marine Fish Production in Karnataka. Research Report Submitted to Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai, University of Agricultural Sciences, College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India, February 2001.

Bhatta, R., K. Aruna Rao, M. G. Bhat, G. Sagarad, and K. Shilpakala. Alternative Fishery Regulations and its Impacts on Employment Generation and Demographic Transition in the Maritime State of Karnataka. Research Report Submitted to Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, August 2000.

Alexander, R.R. and M.G. Bhat. Agricultural Policy and Social Welfare: A Game-Theoretic Rationalisation. Discussion Paper No. 98.04, Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, March 1998.

Bhat, M.G. US-India Planning Visit: Research on Multi-tier Conflict Resolution to the Case of Biodiversity Patenting. Final Trip Report Submitted to the National Science Foundation, September 1997.

Bhat, M. G. "Economic Development." in Ecotourism Feasibility Checklist, FIU Ecotourism Council, 1996.

Bhat, M. G., D. M. Chembezi, D. G. De La Torre Ugarte, and D. E. Ray. Economic Impacts of a Federal Cigarette Tax Increase on U.S. Tobacco Industry. Final Report Prepared for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, March 1995.

Bhat, Mahadev, Burton English, Anthony Turhollow, and Hezron Nyangito. Energyin Synthetic Fertilizers and Pesticides: Revisited. Research Report # ORNL/Sub/90-99732/2, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, January 1995.

Bhat, Mahadev, Burton English, and Anthony Turhollow. Environmental Impacts of Producing Biomass Energy Crops on Iowa Farms. Research Report # ORNL/Sub/90-?/?, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, January 1995.

Bhat, Mahadev, Burton English, Mathew Ojo, and Anthony Turhollow. Regional Costs of Transporting Biomass Feedstocks. Research Report # ORNL/Sub/90-?/?, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, August 1994.

M.G. Bhat, D.E. Ray, D.M. Chembezi, and D.G. Ugarte, The National Tobacco Simulation Model (TOBSIM), An unpublished document on the FORTRAN codes of the TOBSIM model, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, August 1994.

Bell Caroline, Mahadev Bhat, Jorge Huarachi, Paul Jakus, Paul Seigel, and Burton English. Economic and Environmental Regional Impacts of Agricultural Conservation Efforts: Case Study - Region 12 and the Conservation Reserve Program. Research Grant Report to Soil Conservation Service, The Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1994.

Bell Caroline, Burton English, Paul Seigel, Paul Jakus, and Mahadev Bhat. Economic and Environmental Regional Impacts of Agricultural Conservation Efforts: Methodological Approach for Evaluating Local Benefits of Conservation Efforts. Research Grant Report to Soil Conservation Service, The Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1994.

Bhat, M. G., D. M. Chembezi, D. G. Ugarte, and D. E. Ray. Regional Impacts of the 1993 Flood Disaster: The Case of Tennessee Agriculture. APAC Staff Paper No. 2-94, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, May 1994.

D. M. Chembezi, D. G. Ugarte, D. E. Ray and M. G. Bhat. Economic Impacts of the 1993 Midwest Flood Disaster on U.S. Agricultural Sector. APAC Staff Paper No. 1-94, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, Knoxville, March 1994.

Bhat, M. G., D. E. Ray and B. C. English. Regional Economic Impacts of Farm Commodity and Environmental Regulations: An Integrated Modeling Approach. Research Report # E11-1216-00-001-93, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 1992.

English, B.C., R.R. Alexander, Robin Graham and M.G. Bhat. Supply of Short Rotation Woody Crop Biomass to the Wattsbar Power Facility. Research Report # 92-?? Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 1992.

Bhat, M. G. Controlling Wildlife Damage by Diffusing Beaver Population: A Bioeconomic Application of the Distributed Parameter Control Model. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, December 1991.

Bhat, M. G. "Corn Production in Tennessee." A Statistical Description of Agriculture in Tennessee, 1960-1990, ed. K. H. Loewen, et.al., Research Report # 91-17, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The University of Tennessee, August 1991.

Bhat, M. G. and K. C. Hiremath. An Economic Enquiry into Constraints of Adoption of High Yielding Cereal Varieties in Karnataka (India). Agricultural Economics Bulletin No. 14, College of Agriculture, Dharwad, 1985.

Bhat, M. G. An Economic Enquiry into Constraints of Adoption of High Yielding Cereal Varieties in Karnataka. Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 1983.
 

Refereed Conference Presentations (Selection Based on Full-length articles): §

Bhat, M. G., R. R. Alexander and B. C. English. "Toward Controlling Nonpoint Source Pollution of Groundwater: A Hierarchical Policy Formulation Game." Contributed paper presented at the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, January 22, 1999.

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. "Irreversible Environmental Development and the Survival of Subsistence Agriculture in Coastal India." Presented at the XXIII International Conference of Agricultural Economics, Sacramento, California, August 1997.

Bhat, M. G. "Intellectual Property Rights in Biological Resources and Optimal Extinction." Selected paper presentation at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Meetings, January 1995.

Bhat, M. G., D. M. Chembezi, D. G. De La Torre Ugarte, and D. E. Ray. "Economic Impacts of a Cigarette Tax Increase on U.S. Tobacco Industry." Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economists Association, New Orleans, January-February 1995, abstract published, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 27(1995):315-316.

Bhat, M. G. and R. G. Huffaker. "Optimal Control of Nuisance Wildlife Populations on a Shared Animal Habitat: Some Game-theoretic Considerations." Selected paper presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 1993; Abstract published, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75(1993): 1309.

Refereed Conference Presentations (Selection Based on Abstracts):§

§Names in bold represent the presenters.
 

Taylor, L. and M. G. Bhat. “An Assessment of Public Engagement in the Everglades Restoration Projects.” Accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference of the Science and Restoration of the Greater Everglades and Florida Bay Ecosystem, Palm Harbor, Florida, April 2003.

Rivera, C. and M. G. Bhat. “Water Pricing as a Conservation Tool: An Economic Analysis of the Lower East Coast of South Florida Water Utilities.” Accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference of the Science and Restoration of the Greater Everglades and Florida Bay Ecosystem, Palm Harbor, Florida, April 2003.

M. G. Bhat. “Exclusivity and Expropriation in Bioprospecting: Endogenous Rent Determination for Biodiversity Conservation.” Presented at the 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists Monterey, California, June 24 - 27 2002.

Chandrakanth, M. G. and M. G. Bhat. “Institutions, Markets and the Management of Common Property Sacred Groves in India.” Presented at the 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists Monterey, California, June 24 - 27 2002.

M. G. Bhat, Marino Sebastian, Ken Lipartito, and Irma Alanso. "Land-use Changes and Flood Protection Policies in South Florida." Presented at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Conference, Naples, Florida, December 11-15, 2000.

M. G. Bhat. "Protecting Indigenous Knowledge under the New International Intellectual Property Rights Regime." Presented at the International Society for Ecological Economics Conference at Canberra, Australia, July 5-9, 2000.

M. G. Bhat and R. Bhatta. "Aquaculture and Sustainable Coastal Land Management: An Ecological Economic Model of Resource Interactions." Presented at the International Society for Ecological Economics Conference at Canberra, Australia, July 5-9, 2000.

M. G. Bhat and R. Bhatta. "Optimal Coastal Land Allocation Decisions: A Model of Interactive Renewable and Non-renewable Resources" Paper presented at the 1999 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling, Halifax, Canada, June 1999.

Alexander, R. and M. G. Bhat. "Modeling Natural Resource Policy as a Hierarchical Stackelberg Game." Paper presented at the 41^st Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, January 1997.

Chembezi, D. M., R. M. Pendergrass, M. G. Bhat, S. Bush, J. Huarachi and D. E. Ray. "State, Community, and Farm-Level Impacts of Increasing Cigarette Excise Tax: The Case of Tennessee, Virginia and Ohio." Poster Presentatioin at the American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting; abstract published, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 60(1995): 1353.

Alexander, R., M. G. Bhat and B. C. English. "Considering Environmental Impacts in Target Price Policy." Selected poster presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Orlando, Fl, August 1993.

Bhat, M. G. "The Success and Failures of Property Right Systems; Mutual Lessons for Developing and Developed Countries." Selected paper presentation at the Soil and Water Conservation Society Meeting, August 1993; abstract published.

Bhat, M. G., B. C. English and A. Turhollow. "Biomass Energy Crops: A New Option for Improving Water Quality in Intensive Agricultural Production System." Selected paper presentation at the Soil and Water Conservation Society Meeting, August 1993; abstract published.

Bhat, M. G. "Management of Transboundary Wildlife Populations: A Differential Game-theoretic Planning." Paper presentation at the Twelfth Pacific Coast Resource Modeling Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 1993.

Bhat, M. G., and L. H. Keller. "Centralized Community Approach for Managing Wildlife Damage." Poster Presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, August 1992; abstract published American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74(1992): 1310.

Pendergrass, Robert, Mahadev Bhat and Daryll Ray. "Community Level Impact of Limited Input Sustainable Agriculture on a Small Tennessee Watershed." Poster presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting Baltimore, MD, August 1992; abstract published, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74(1992): 1311.

Alexander, R.R., B.C. English, M.G. Bhat, M.A. Ojo and R.G. Bowling. "The Economic Impacts of Biomass Energy Production in the Watts Bar Region." Poster presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, August 1992; Abstract published, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74(1992): 1309.

Graham, Robin, M Downing, B.C. English, R.R. Alexander and M.G. Bhat. "Projecting the Environmental Effects of Energy Crop-Development in the TVA Region." Presented at the SAMAB Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, November 1992.

Graham, R., B.C. English, R.R. Alexander and M.G. Bhat. "The Production of Biomass Feedstock for a Proposed Power Facility: Projecting Regional Land Use Changes and Their Environmental Consequences." Presented at the Seventh Annual U.S. Landscape Ecology Symposium, Corvallis, OR, April 1992.

Graham, Robin, B.C. English, R.R. Alexander and M.G. Bhat. "Production of Biomass for an Energy Facility: Projecting Regional Land Use Changes and Their Environmental Consequences." Paper presented at the Walker Branch Watershed Symposium, Oak Ridge, TN, March 1992.

Bhat, M. G., B. C. English, and A. Turhollow. "Biofuels from Energy Crops: Economics and Environmental Impacts." Poster presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Manhattan, Kansas, August 1991; Abstract published, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(1991): 1557.

Bhat, M. G., S. M. Lenhart, and L. H. Keller. "Optimizing Wildlife Damage by Diffusing Furbearer Population on the Southern Forests: A Bioeconomic Model." Poster presentation at the Fifth Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference, Ithaca, New York, October 1991.

English, Burton C., and Mahadev G. Bhat. "Economic and Environmental Aspects of Producing Selected Energy Crops." Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Manhattan, Kansas, August 1991.
 
 

Invited Conference Presentations:

"Management Applications of Bioeconomic Models for Migratory Wildlife Species." Paper presented at the Sixteenth Vertebrate Pest Conference, Santa Clara, California, March 1994.

"Regional Costs of Biofuel Production." Poster presented at the Biofuels Feedstock Development Program's (BFDP) Annual Workshop, Davis, California, September 1991.
 
 

Panel Discussion:

"Agriculture and Water Resource Problems in Developing Countries." Panel Discussion, Earth Day Celebration, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1994.

"Soil and Water Conservation: Is a New Balance between Private Property Rights and Responsibilities Needed?" 1992 Berg Fellowship - Public Conservation Policy Forum, Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, August 1992.
 
 

Popular Magazines, Newsletters, and Reports:

M. G. Bhat, K. Lipartito, and T. Rice. "FIU Research Group To Address Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Restoration." FIU-SERC NewsLetter, July 2000.

M. G. Bhat and K. Lipartito. "Integration of Behavioral Sciences into the South Florida Environmental Restoration: Portfolio for Research and Outreach." A Marketing Document Prepared for the FIU Human Dimensions of the South Florida Environment Group, August 1999.

Bhat, M. G. "Short-Term Forecast for Tennessee Agriculture." in W. F. Fox and P. A. Price (eds.), An Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee: On the State’s Economic Outlook. Center for Business and Economic Research, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, January 1994.

Bhat, M. G. and R. White. "EEC's Wild Fur Regulations and Wildlife Damage Implications." The Probe. Issue 122, June 1992.
 
 

Invited Papers/Seminars:

"Behavioral Sciences of the Everglades Restoration: A Missing Piece from the Puzzle." A Statement Presented to the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem of the National Research Council, Hollywood, Florida, December 2-3, 1999.

"Socioeconomic Study of Reefs in South East Florida" Proposal Presentation to the Department of Planning and Management, Environmental Division, Broward County Government, Fort Lauderdale, November 1999.

"FIU Human Dimensions of the South Florida Environment Group And Behavioral Science Research." Presented to the Science Coordination Team of the South Florida Ecosystem Task Force, Davie City, October 1999.

"Integration of Behavioral Sciences in to the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Efforts." Presented to Miami-Dade Brown Field Redevelopment Plan Implementation Committee, Miami, August 1999.

"Economics and the Environment." Guest lecture to FIU Liberal Studies Students, October 1998.

"Legal and Economic Instruments for the Protection of the Environment." An invited speech at the Dakshina Kannada Parisarasaktha Okkoota, Mangalore, July 1997.

"Coastal Aquaculture: A Model for Sustainable Coastal Resource Development in India." Fourth Annual Dr. V. G. Jhingran Memorial Lecture, Asian Fisheries Society, Mangalore, July 1997.

"An Ecological Economic Model for Estuary Management." Graduate Seminar Series, Environmental Studies Department, FIU, March 1997.

"Controlling Migratory Nuisance-beaver Populations on a Shared Habitat: Some Game-theoretic Considerations." Presented at the FIU Economics Department, November 1996.

"Environmental Planning and Sustainable Community." presented to the students of Sustainable Community Development" FIU School of Design, October 1996.

"Bio-socio-economic Aspects of Fisheries Management." Fisheries College, University of Agricultural Sciences, Mangalore, India, July 1995.

"Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Biodiversity." Mangalore University, Mangalore, India, July 1995.

"Mathematical and Statistical Models for the Management of Natural Resources." Statistics Department, Mangalore University, Mangalore, India, July 1995.

"Is Sustained Development without Environmental Protection Possible?" Rotary Club's Weekly Seminar, Sirsi, India, March 1993.

"An Integrated National, State and Farm Level Modeling System for Agricultural Policy Impact Analysis." Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India, March 1993.

"Developing Biomass Production Systems." Paper presented to the USDA Soil Conservation Service, Washington, D.C., November 1992.

"From My Research Experiences in Mathematical Modeling in Natural Resource Economics." Lecture presented in the Undergraduate Summer Program, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, July 1992.

"Sustainable Agriculture in a Tricounty Area of Northwestern Tennessee." Presented at the Meeting of East Tennessee Chapter of Soil and Water Conservation Society, Knoxville, March 1992.

"Controlling Wildlife Damage by Diffusing Beaver Population: A Bioeconomic Application of the Distributed Parameter Control Model". Paper presented at Control Seminar, Department of Mathematics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, September 1991.

"Optimal Trapping Strategy for Diffusing Beaver Populations." Paper presented at Systems Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, March 27, 1991.

"Project Lending for Development of Coconut Plantation in Puri District of Orissa State, India: A Cost-Benefit Analysis." A Group Project Presented at College of Agricultural Banking, Pune, India, April 1985.
 
 

Working Papers:

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. "The Optimal Coastal Land Allocation Strategies for a Sustainable Aquaculture in India."

Bhatta, R. and M.G. Bhat. "Impacts of Fishery Mechanization on Community Resource Management in Coastal Karnataka."

Bhat, M.G., and R.G. Huffaker. "Migratory Wildlife Resources: Externality and Bargaining Agreements." to be submitted to Land Economics, after some revision.

Bhat, M. G. "Integrated Management of Aquacultural Pollution in Coastal Zones: A Spatio-temporal Optimal Control Model."
 
 

COURSES              Introduction to Natural Resource Economics
TAUGHT &            Introduction to Environmental Economics
PLANNED              Environmental Sciences
                                    Sustainable Resource Development
                                    Environmental Seminar
                                    Methods in Sustainable Resource Management
                                    Environmental Resource Policy
                                    Advanced Environmental Economics
                                    Asian Environmental Issues
                                    Global Environmental Issues

Search Committee (member): 1995-96.
 
 

University Committees & Programs
 
 

Coordinator, the FIU Human Dimensions of the South Florida Environment Group.

Member, the Coordinating Committee for the Certificate in Environmental Studies.

Served as acting department chair several times in the absence of a chairperson.
 
 
 
 
 
 

PROFESSION: Association Memberships

Asson. of Environ. & Resource Economists

International Society for Ecol. Economists

American Economic Association

International Association of Agricultural Economists

American Agricultural Economics Asson.
 
 
 
 

Referee/Reviewer

Conferences:

American Agricultural Economics Association meetings, 1993, 1994.
 
 

Served as a moderator at the American Agricultural Economics Association meetings,

1993.
 
 

COMMUNITY Advisory Boards/Councils