Assistant Professor
Phone:  973-596-5357
Email: zeyuan.qiu@njit.edu
Dept: Chemistry and Environmental Science
Room: 228, York Center for Environmental Engineering and Science
Website:  http://web.njit.edu/~qiuz

Education

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, 1996, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
M.S., Land Management, 1989, People's University of China, Beijing, China
B.S., Land Use Planning, 1986, Central China Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Research Interest  

Natural resources and environmental economics. Conducts research in non-market evaluation of natural resources, environmental policy analysis, integrated watershed management, environmental risk analysis and integration of biophysical simulation, economic modeling and geographic information systems for resource management. Recent research focuses on the close land-water connections and evaluates the technical, social, economic and institutional factors that affect protection and preservation of hydrologically sensitive areas in landscapes and their policy implications for watershed management, stormwater management and smart growth in environmentally fragile rural-urban interfaces.

Select Publications

Qiu, Zeyuan. May 2005. Using Multi-Criteria Decision Models to Assess the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Farming Decisions In an Agricultural Watershed. Review of Agricultural Economics Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 229-244.

Qiu, Zeyuan. September 2003. A VSA-based Strategy for Placing Conservation Buffers in Agricultural Watersheds. Environmental Management Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 299-311.

Qiu, Zeyuan. September - December 2002. Information Systems for Integrated Watershed Management. Annals of Arid Zone Vol. 41, No. 3/4, pp. 305-320.

Qiu, Zeyuan, Tony Prato, Larry Godsey and Verel Benson. October 2002. Integrated Assessment of Uses of Woody Draws in Agricultural Landscapes. The Journal of American Water Resources Association Vol. 38, No. 5, pp.1255-1269.

Wang, Dechun, Tony Prato, Zeyuan Qiu, Newell R. Kitchen, and Ken A.

Sudduth. March 2002. Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Variable Rate Nitrogen and Lime Application in Claypan Soils. Precision

Agriculture: An International Journal on Advances in Precision Agriculture Vol. 4, No, pp. 35-52.

Qiu, Zeyuan, Tony Prato and Francis McCamley. May 2001. Evaluating environmental risks using safety-first constraints. The American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 402-413.

Qiu, Zeyuan and Tony Prato. April 1999. Accounting for Spatial Characteristics of Watershed in Evaluating Water Pollution Abatement Policies. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Vol. 31, No.1, pp. 161-175.