Dr. Mahadev Bhat's PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Publications:

Bhat, M. G., A. Rajendra, and M. G. Chandrakanth, "Optimal Management of Small Confined Groundwater Aquifers." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008 (under review).

Reid-Grant, K. and M. Bhat, "Financing Marine Protected Areas in Jamaica: An Exploratory Study." Marine Policy, 2008 (in press).

Stone, K., M. Bhat, R. Bhatta, A. Mathews, “Factors Influencing Community Participation in Mangroves Restoration: A Contingent Valuation Study.” Ocean & Coastal Management, 51: 476-484, 2008.

Baral, N., R. Gautam, N. Timilsina, M. G. Bhat, "A Contingent Valuation of Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis in South Asia." International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management, 3 (2007): 1-12.

Bhat, M. G. and R. G. Huffaker, "Management of a Transboundary Wildlife Population: A Self-Enforcing Cooperative Agreement with Renegotiation and Variable Transfer Payments." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53 (2007): 54-67.

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta, "Regional Economic Impacts of Limited Entry Fishery Management: An Application of Dynamic Input-Output Model" Environment and Development Economics, 11: 709-728, 2006.

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. “Mechanization and Technical Interactions in Multi-species Indian Fisheries: Implications for Economic and Biological Sustainability.” Marine Policy, 30: 237-248, 2006..

Bhat, M. G. and R. Bhatta. "Considering Aquacultural Externality in Coastal Land Allocation Decisions in India," Environmental and Resource Economics, 29(1): 1-20, 2004.

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): 102-111, 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, March 13, 2004: 1164-1170.

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.

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.

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)

Technical and Project Reports:

Bhat, M. G. and M. McClain, "Exploring the Role of Payment for Environmental Services in River Basin Management: The case of the Mara River Basin of East Africa," Basins and Coast News, 2(2): 2-7, May 2008.

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.