Education

• Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2006.
• Master of Environmental Management, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, 2001.
• Diploma in International Development, Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School, 1999.
• Bachelor of Law, Keio University, 1995.

Research Areas

Dr. Uchida’s research interest is in understanding how people respond to institutions and policies for rural development and natural resource management. She studies supply and demand for multiple ecosystem services from agriculture, forests, and coastal ecosystems and the potential tradeoffs among the ecosystem services. She conducts her research in Asia, Africa, and the U.S., and utilizes household surveys, spatial data, econometric and numerical methods. Dr. Uchida currently serves as Associate Editor of Environment and Development Economics.

Selected Publications

• Deng, Xiangzheng Jikun Huang, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, and John Gibson. (2011) “Pressure Cookers or Pressure Valves: Do Roads Lead to Deforestation in China?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 61(1): 79-94.
• Uchida, Emi, Hirotsugu Uchida, Jung-Sam Lee, Jeong-Gon Ryu, Dae-Young Kim. “TURFs and clubs: Empirical evidence of the effect of self-governance on profitability in South Korea’s inshore (Maul) fisheries.” Environment and Development Economics, forthcoming.
• Zhao, Huixia, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, Xiangzheng Deng. “Economic growth and forest resources in China: A spatial analysis of determinants of forest cover change in Sichuan.” Environmental and Resource Economics, Forthcoming.
• Uchida, Hirotsugu, Emi Uchida, Jung-Sam Lee, Jeong-Gon Ryu, and Dae-Young Kim. (2010) “Does self management in fisheries enhance profitability? Examination of Korea’s coastal fisheries.” Marine Resource Economics 25(1): 37-59.
• Deng, Xiangzheng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2010) “Economic Growth and the Expansion of Urban Land in China.” Urban Studies 47(4): 813-843.
• Gauvin, Crystal, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, Jintao Xu, and Jinyan Zhan. (2010) “Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services with Dual Goals of Environment and Poverty Alleviation.” Environmental Management 45(3): 488-501.
• Uchida, Emi, Scott Rozelle and Jintao Xu. (2009) “Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(1): 70-86.
• Swallow, S, E.C. Smith, E Uchida and C.M. Anderson. (2008) “Ecosystem Services beyond Valuation, Regulation, and Philanthropy: Integrating Consumer Values into the Economy.”Choices 23(2): 47-52.
• Deng, Xiangzheng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2008) “Growth, Population, and Industrialization and Urban Land Expansion of China.” Journal of Urban Economics 63(1): 96-115.
• Uchida, Emi, Jintao Xu, Zhigang Xu, and Scott Rozelle. (2007) “Are the Poor Benefiting from China’s Land Conservation Program?” Environmental and Development Economics 12: 593-620.
• Zhigang Xu, Jintao Xu, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Emi Uchida. (2006) “Grain for Green and Grain: A Case Study of the Conflict between Food Security and the Environment in China.” World Development, 34(1): 130-48.
• Deng, Xiangzheng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2006) “Cultivated Land Conversion and Bioproductivity in China.” Journal of Land Use Policy, 23: 372–384.
• Xiangzheng Deng, Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2005) “Cultivated Land Conversion and Bio-productivity in China,” In China’s Agricultural and Rural Development in the Early 21st Century. Sonntag, Bernard H. et al. eds. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Canberra, Australia. Pp.453-468.
• Uchida, Emi, Jintao Xu, and Scott Rozelle. (2005) “Grain for Green: Assessing the Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability of China’s Conservation Set-aside Program.” Land Economics, 81(2): 247-264.
• Uchida, Emi, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, and Xiangzheng Deng. (2004) “Changes in Cultivated Land Due to Urbanization: China in an International Perspective.” Policy report presented at the Second Expert Meeting of Agricultural and Rural Development, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
• Yoda, Emi. (2001) Economic Benefits of Coral Reefs to Small-scale Fishers: A Case Study in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Unpublished Master’s Project, Duke University, Durham, NC. Randall Kramer, Advisor.