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M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Teaching
ACE 455: International Trade in Food and Agriculture
ACE 411: Environment and Development

Research
Technology adoption and voluntary approaches to pollution control; welfare analysis of alternative policy instruments for environmental protection; economic, land use and environmental implications of biofuels; policies for carbon sequestration.

Recent Honors and Awards

• Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, UIUC Research Board, 2002
• Hughes Teaching Enhancement Award, ACE, UIUC, 2003
• Member, Academy of Teaching Excellence, College of ACES, UIUC, since 2003
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Recent Service

Review Panels

Water Quality Strategic Research Initiative Peer Review Panel, Illinois CFAR, 2000.

USEPA Review Panel for the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program Graduate Fellowships in the area of Social Sciences -- Economics/Urban & Regional Planning, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006.

Peer Review Panel, NSF/EPA, Decision-Making & Valuation for Environmental Policy program, 2001.

Outreach Publications

Khanna, M., Effectiveness of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in Illinois, Chapt. 9, in Herring, C. (ed.), The State of the State of Illinois, 2006. Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign, 127-139.

Selected Refereed Publications

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Electricity Generation in India,” The Energy Journal, 20(1): 25-41, January 1999.

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Freer Markets and the Abatement of Carbon Emissions: The Electricity-Generating Sector in India,” Resource and Energy Economics, 21:125-152, 1999.

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies and Carbon Abatement: The Electricity Generating Sector in India,” Energy Economics, 23 (6): 637-658, 2001.

In the media

"A minute with Madhu Khanna"

"Six Urbana Faculty Named University Scholars"

Presentations:

"The Sustainability of cellulosic biofuels."

"Bioenergy crops in illinois: competitiveness and non-market benefits"

Video:

Madhu interview

Student interviews

Recorded presentations