About

Damian Adams is a professor and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences at the University of Florida. He holds a joint appointment in the Food and Resource Economics Department. Adams is a natural resource economist whose research primarily focuses on understanding how people value ecosystem goods and services, the impact of attitudes and preferences on those values, and translating that information to inform policy decisions. Methodologically, he employs survey-based data collection methods, non-market valuation techniques, econometric methods, bioeconomic modeling, and legal analysis. He currently serves as the Director of ProForest, an organization that unites experts in forest management and policy to sustain forest systems and their benefits to society. Additionally, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Forests. Adams joined UF/IFAS Administration as Interim Assistant Dean for Research in June 2019 and was promoted to Interim Associate Dean for Research in May 2020.

Research topics

• Geography
• Biology
• Economics
• Ecology
• Environmental science
• Agroforestry
• Forestry
• Political Science
• Botany
• Environmental resource management
• Public relations
• Environmental planning
• Business

Selected publications

• Valuing the Upper Floridan Aquifer: Exploring Public Preferences for Ecosystem Service Values and Problem Framing to Support Aquifer Conservation

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

  preprintOpen accessSenior author
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• Valuing the Upper Floridan Aquifer: Exploring public preferences for ecosystem service values and problem framing to support aquifer conservation

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2025-11-20 · 1 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  The Upper Floridan Aquifer (UFA) provides critical water resources and ecosystem services across Florida and Georgia but faces mounting threats from over-extraction, pollution, and climate variability. To address these challenges, this study assesses public willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical Best Management Practices (BMP) incentive program designed to conserve the UFA by improving water quality, ecosystem health, and water availability for future generations. Using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) and latent class analysis, we measure preferences for key ecosystem services and explore the influence of socio-demographic characteristics and moral framing (fairness and loyalty) on WTP. Results indicate strong public support for human-centered benefits of the BMP program, particularly positive economic impacts for producers and water quantity improvements, with mean WTP values of $129.65 and $104.75, respectively. Latent class analysis reveals three distinct preference groups, highlighting the importance of tailored policy communication strategies to address cost sensitivity, ecological priorities, and socio-demographic variations. Moral framing significantly increased engagement, with fairness and loyalty frames reducing opt-out rates, but reduced the WTP for all program attributes. These findings provide critical insights for policymakers and water managers to design socially supported BMP programs that cater to the appropriate audiences. • Public support for BMP programs in the UFA includes strong WTP for water quantity and producer economic benefits. • Moral framing (fairness and loyalty) reduced opt-out rates but decreased WTP for all program attributes. • Strongest WTP found for producer economic impacts, with a focus on sustainable aquifer conservation. • Results highlight the importance of tailored communication strategies to engage diverse stakeholder groups.

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• The informal economy of wiregrass production for longleaf pine restoration in Florida

  Trees Forests and People · 2024-07-09 · 5 citations

  articleOpen access

  Wiregrass (Aristida beyrichiana/stricta) is an understory grass most often associated with the ecosystem health, function, and biodiversity over a substantial part of the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) range, especially in Florida. Wiregrass is frequently the primary herbaceous plant species seeded into restoration projects because it is known to carry the frequent, low intensity fires essential for maintaining open canopy savannas. A limitation to restoration of longleaf pine savannas is the availability of a sufficient amount of viable wiregrass seed or plugs (plants that have been grown in small trays and are installed individually). Here, we examine qualitative data to identify and contextualize the economic, logistical, and ecological barriers to the availability of wiregrass for restoration. We conducted semi-structured interviews of private landowners, public land managers, and conservation organization staff members which revealed the presence of an informal economy. These findings should help landowners and land managers address and overcome restoration challenges in longleaf pine ecosystems and inform policy decisions and program design to promote successful longleaf pine restoration.

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• Building bipartisan support for pro-environmental water policy in a competitive communication environment: The effect of competing moral frames and political communicators

  Journal of Hydrology · 2023-10-21 · 5 citations

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• Urban Food Deserts: Improving the USDA Identification Methodology Through Inclusion of Neighborhood Racial Attributes

  Journal of Economics Race and Policy · 2023-10-14 · 1 citations

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• The Global Forest Health Crisis: A Public-Good Social Dilemma in Need of International Collective Action

  Annual Review of Phytopathology · 2023 · 27 citations

  • Political Science
  • Environmental resource management
  • Political Science

  Society is confronted by interconnected threats to ecological sustainability. Among these is the devastation of forests by destructive non-native pathogens and insects introduced through global trade, leading to the loss of critical ecosystem services and a global forest health crisis. We argue that the forest health crisis is a public-good social dilemma and propose a response framework that incorporates principles of collective action. This framework enables scientists to better engage policymakers and empowers the public to advocate for proactive biosecurity and forest health management. Collective action in forest health features broadly inclusive stakeholder engagement to build trust and set goals; accountability for destructive pest introductions; pooled support for weakest-link partners; and inclusion of intrinsic and nonmarket values of forest ecosystems in risk assessment. We provide short-term and longer-term measures that incorporate the above principles to shift the societal and ecological forest health paradigm to a more resilient state.

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• Recreation Area Characteristics and Their Impact on Property Values within Florida’s Wekiva River System

  Society & Natural Resources · 2023-09-22 · 4 citations

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  AbstractWater-based recreation areas provide many benefits to society and the ecosystem services they provide are increasingly being considered in land planning and conservation decisions. We examine the value of the Wekiva River in central Florida using a hedonic valuation model of residential property values. We analyze how structural characteristics of single-family homes and recreation area characteristics, such as fee systems, size of the area, and activities provided, impact property values. We find that publicly owned recreation areas with both land and water-based recreation activities increased property values within 5 miles of the Wekiva River. Proximity to recreation areas marginally increased housing values, and the size of the recreation areas and ecosystem type had no impact on property values. We recommend that recreation managers and land use planners focus efforts on conserving more publicly owned conservation lands that increase recreation access to residents to promote contiguous natural areas.Keywords: Conservationdevelopmenteconomic impacthedonic price modelrecreation management Author contributionsKotryna Klizentyte: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Writing-Original Draft. Andres Susaeta: Methodology, Validation, Formal Analysis, Writing-Review & Editing. Damian C. Adams: Validation, Writing-Review & Editing. Taylor V. Stein: Writing-Review & Editing.

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• Refining the Rent Dissipation Model in Land Use: Application to Agricultural Insurance in China

  Land · 2023-01-18 · 1 citations

  articleOpen accessCorresponding

  Despite apparent efficiency concerns, the use of agricultural insurance as a policy tool has surged in rural China. Its use offers a natural experiment to assess both economic theory of property rights and agricultural policy effectiveness, and to revisit the rent dissipation model that was originally developed to explain the role of property rights in unsustainable fisheries harvest decisions. We focus on evidence of resource overpricing behavior in the context of subsidized agricultural insurance, including evidence of a theoretically-expected increasing rent pattern. Our results reinforce the importance of transactions costs as a driver of economic inefficiency and highlight the role of social costs as an important factor to explicitly consider when designing agricultural policy. In particular, when employing the formal policy mechanism of rural agricultural insurance, we suggest that informal risk-bearing arrangements can be leveraged to reduce social costs behind apparent overpricing behavior and increase land users’ welfare consistent with intended policy goals.

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  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022-01-15

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• The Global Forest Health Crisis: A Public Good Social Dilemma in Need of International Collective Action

  2022-03-10 · 1 citations

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  Society is confronted by interconnected threats to ecological sustainability. Among these is the devastation of forests by destructive non-native pathogens and insects introduced through global trade, leading to the loss of critical ecosystem services and a global forest health crisis. We argue that the forest health crisis is a public good social dilemma and propose a response framework that incorporates principles of collective action. This framework will enable scientists to better engage policymakers and empower the public to advocate for proactive biosecurity and forest health management. Collective action in forest health will feature broadly inclusive stakeholder engagement to build trust and set goals; accountability for destructive pest introductions; pooled support for weakest-link partners; and inclusion of intrinsic and non-market values of forest ecosystems in risk assessment. We provide short-term and longer-term measures that incorporate the above principles to shift the societal and ecological forest health paradigm to a more resilient state.

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Tatiana Borisova

  United States Department of Agriculture

  46 shared

• Michael Smolen

  Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City

  37 shared

• José R. Soto

  31 shared

• Jon Calabria

  University of Georgia

  29 shared

• Jason M. Evans

  Stetson University

  27 shared

• Michael T. Olexa

  University of Florida

  27 shared

• Melissa M. Kreye

  Pennsylvania State University

  27 shared

• Andres Susaeta

  Oregon State University

  23 shared