Jonathan Kaplan | Sacramento State

Contact Information

Name: Jonathan Kaplan

Title: Professor

Office Location: Tahoe Hall Room 3017

Email: kaplanj@csus.edu

Office Phone: 916-278-4367

Mailing Address: Sacramento State 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6043

Office Hours: Please check with Economics Department

Current Research Projects

Economic Analysis of Citrus Huanglongbing Control and Management
Biochar and Bokashi use in Citrus Nursery Production as a Nature-Based Solution for Climate Resilience
The Potential Net Returns to Citrus Nurseries from the Production of Virus-Stunted Citrus Trees
E-Commerce Challenges for Pest Exclusion in California
Economics of Grapevine Trunk Diseases
Developing Strategies for Increasing Marketable Yield in California and Florida Pomegranate Orchards
State of California Wastewater Needs Assessment

Publications

Lavagi, V.; Kaplan, J.; Vidalakis, G.; Ortiz, M.; Rodriguez, M.V.; Amador, M.; Hopkins, F.; Ying, S.; Pagliaccia, D. 2024. Recycling Agricultural Waste to Enhance Sustainable Greenhouse Agriculture: Analyzing the Cost-Effectiveness and Agronomic Benefits of Bokashi and Biochar Byproducts as Soil Amendments in Citrus Nursery Production. Sustainability 2024. 16, 6070. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16146070.

Pagliaccia, D., Ortiz, M., Rodriguez, M.V., Abbott, S., De Francesco, A., Amador, M., Lavagi, V., Maki, B., Hopkins, F., Kaplan, J. and Ying, S., 2024. Enhancing soil health and nutrient availability for Carrizo citrange (X Citroncirus sp.) through bokashi and biochar amendments: An exploration into indoor sustainable soil ecosystem management. Scientia Horticulturae, 2024. 326, p.112661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2023.112661.

Erik Porse, Caitlyn Leo, Erick Eschker, Harold Leverenz, Jonathan D. Kaplan, John Johnston, Dakota Keene & David Babchanik. Adapting wastewater management systems in California for water conservation and climate change, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2023.2180251.

Porse, Erik, Maureen Kerner, Joel Shinneman, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Samuel Stone, and Mary L. Cadenasso. "Stormwater utility fees and household affordability of urban water services." Water Policy 2022. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.024.

Dongyue Li, Ruth A. Engel, Xiaoyu Ma, Erik Porse, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Steven A. Margulis, and Dennis P. Lettenmaier, “Stay-at-Home Orders during the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduced Urban Water Use.” Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2021. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00979?ref=pdf.

Gispert, Carmen, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Elizabeth Deyett, and Philippe E. Rolshausen. "Long-Term Benefits of Protecting Table Grape Vineyards against Trunk Diseases in the California Desert." Agronomy 10, no. 12 (2020): 1895. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10121895.

Baumgartner, Kendra, Vicken Hillis, Mark Lubell, Max Norton, and Jonathan D. Kaplan. "Managing grapevine trunk diseases in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley." American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 70, no. 3 (2019): 267-276. https://doi.org/10.5344/ajev.2019.18075.

Hillis, Vicken, Mark Lubell, Jonathan D. Kaplan, and Kendra Baumgartner. "Preventative disease management and grower decision making: a case study of California wine-grape growers." Phytopathology 107, no. 6 (2017): 704-710. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-07-16-0274-R.

Kaplan, Jonathan D., Renaud Travadon, Monica Cooper, Vicken Hillis, Mark Lubell, and Kendra Baumgartner. "Identifying economic hurdles to early adoption of preventative practices: the case of trunk diseases in California winegrape vineyards." Wine Economics and Policy 5, no. 2 (2016): 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wep.2016.11.001.

Hillis, Vicken, Mark Lubell, Jonathan D. Kaplan, David Doll, and Kendra Baumgartner. "The role of pest control advisers in preventative management of grapevine trunk diseases." Phytopathology 106, no. 4 (2016): 339-347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-15-0250-R. Phytopathology Editor’s Pick for April 2016 Issue.

Alston, Julian M., Kate B. Fuller, Jonathan D. Kaplan, and Kabir P. Tumber. "Assessing the returns to R&D on perennial crops: the costs and benefits of Pierce's disease research in the California winegrape industry." Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 59, no. 1 (2015): 95-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12045.

Hansen, Kristiana, Jonathan D. Kaplan, and Stephan Kroll. "Valuing options in water markets: a laboratory investigation." Environmental and Resource Economics 57, no. 1 (2014): 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-013-9659-6.

Alston, Julian M., Kate B. Fuller, Jonathan D. Kaplan, and Kabir P. Tumber. "Economic consequences of Pierce's Disease and related policy in the California winegrape industry." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2013): 269-297. http://www.waeaonline.org/jareonline/archives/38.2%20-%20August%202013/JAREAug20139Alstonp269.pdf.

Key, Nigel D., and Jonathan D. Kaplan. "Multiple environmental externalities and manure management policy." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2007): 115-134. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40987354.

Giannakas, Konstantinos, and Jonathan D. Kaplan. "Policy design and conservation compliance on highly erodible lands." Land Economics 81, no. 1 (2005): 20-33.

Farzin, Y. Hossein, and Jonathan D. Kaplan. "Nonpoint source pollution control under incomplete and costly information." Environmental and Resource Economics 28, no. 4 (2004): 489-506. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:EARE.0000036775.79214.a4.

Kaplan, Jonathan D., Robert C. Johansson, and Mark Peters. "The manure hits the land: economic and environmental implications when land application of nutrients is constrained." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86, no. 3 (2004): 688-700. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3697809?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents.

Johansson, Robert C., and Jonathan D. Kaplan. "A carrot-and-stick approach to environmental improvement: marrying agri-environmental payments and water quality regulations." (2004): 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1068280500005669.

Kaplan, Jonathan D., Richard E. Howitt, and Y. Hossein Farzin. "An information-theoretical analysis of budget-constrained nonpoint source pollution control." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46, no. 1 (2003): 106-130. doi:10.1016/S0095-0696(02)00035-9.

Kaplan, Jonathan D., and Richard E. Howitt. "Estimating nonpoint source pollution: An application of a sequential entropy filter." Water Resources Research 38, no. 3 (2002): 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000WR000088.

Reports

Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment (SRIA): Proposed Regulations for Manufacturers of Adult-Use and Medical Cannabis (with E. Eschker, J. Zender, F. Krissman, J. Meisel, and A. Silvaggio) Report prepared by the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary, Humboldt State University and submitted to the California Department of Public Health, April 2018.

The Economic Impacts of Central Valley Salinity, (with R.E. Howitt, D. Larson, D. MacEwan, J. Medellín-Azuara, G. Horner, and N.S. Lee) Final Report to the State Water Resources Control Board Contract 05-417-150-0, March 20, 2009 retrieved from ftp://swrcb2a.waterboards.ca.gov/pub/swrcb/cvsp.

An Economic Evaluation of a Rigs-to-Reefs Program for California Coastal Waters Kaplan, (with S. Kroll), Center for Strategic Economic Research, Sacramento, CA, June 2007

The Monetary Value of Wetland Benefits in the Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta, (with B. Currier) Office of Water Programs, California State University Sacramento, December 2006.

“Water-Air Tradeoffs at the Farm Level” (with N. Key) in Managing Manure to Improve Air and Water Quality Economic Research Report No. 9 (ERR9), Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 65 pp, September 2005 https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46351.

“National Analysis: Industry Effects of Manure Management,” (with R. Johansson and M. Peters) in Manure Management for Water Quality: Cost of Land Applying Nutrients from Animal Feeding Operations,” Agricultural Economic Report, Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, July 2003. https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=41587.

"Maine's Household Garbage," (with G. Criner, S. Juric, and N. Houtman), Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station, University of Maine, Bulletin 841, February 1994. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=aes_bulletin

Research Notes

Research Note 2024-3 "Preliminary results on the potential long-term cost-effectiveness of spraying insecticides for Asian citrus psyllids and rogueing huanglongbing-infected citrus trees in California" (with K. Jewell, N. Yelshetty, and A. Singh), August 2024.

Research Note 2024-2 "The Potential Long-term Cost-effectiveness of ACP Insecticide Spraying of HLB-Infected Citrus Trees in California: Preliminary Results" (with K. Jewell, N. Yelshetty, and A. Singh), May 2024.

Research Note 2024-1 "The Potential Long-term Cost-effectiveness of Rogueing HLB-Infected Citrus Trees in California: Preliminary Results" (with K. Jewell, E. Johnston, N. Yelshetty, and A. Singh), February 2024.

"Potential economic consequences from Huanglongbing (aka citrus greening disease) in California commercial citrus: Results for Valencia orange production" (with E. Johnston and A. Singh), Research Note 2023-4, September 2023.

"Potential economic consequences from Huanglongbing (aka citrus greening disease) in California commercial citrus: Results for Navel orange production" (with E. Johnston and A. Singh), Research Note 2023-3, August 2023.

"Potential economic consequences from Huanglongbing (aka citrus greening disease) in California commercial citrus: Results for tangerine & mandarin production" (with E. Johnston and A. Singh) Research Note 2023-2, August 2023.

"Potential economic consequences from Huanglongbing (aka citrus greening disease) in California commercial citrus: Results for lemon production" (with E. Johnston and A. Singh) Research Note 2023-1, July 2023.

"An Agent Based Model of ACP/HLB in California Citrus - Preliminary Results on the Effects of Insecticide and Coordination on the Spread of HLB" (with A. Flowers and A. Singh), Research Note 2021-2, December 2021.

"California Citrus Greening Survey - Preliminary Results on ACP/HLB Risk Perception and Information Confidence" (with A. Flowers and A. Singh), Research Note 2021-1, September 2021.

Past Research Projects

Economic Consequences of Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project
Economic Hurdles to Adoption of Wood Canker Disease Controls in California Grape Production
Quantifying the Cost of Regulation for California’s Manufactured Cannabis Industry
Testing Financial and Environmental Governance Institutions in the Economics Laboratory
Financing Stormwater Control in Economically Disadvantaged Communities
An Experiment on Alternative Water Market Structures and Organizations
A Laboratory Investigation of a Congestion Externality: Commuter Parking and Responsive Pricing
Adaptive Water Quality Management of a Heterogeneous Watershed
Economic Effects of Central Valley Salinity on California Animal Feeding Operations
Water Salinity Control and Household Labor Productivity in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Economic Valuation of Wetlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary
Compliance with Environmental Policy when Enforcement is Costly
The Effect of Manure Nutrient Constraints on Water and Air Quality Improvements
Non-Point Source Pollution Control under Incomplete and Costly Information