Dr. Cory joined the faculty at The University of Arizona in 1977. In addition to his teaching and research activities in the Department, he also has been a visiting scholar at the University of Portici in Naples, Italy, the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, and the University of Reading in England. For the past five years he has been conducting research on water quality issues in the area of environmental law and economics, an academic field within economics concerned with the control of environmental risk. Recently completed projects include an assessment of regulatory programs to control lake eutrophication threats, farmer exemption legislation and groundwater contamination risks, safe drinking water requirements, and the optimal combination of regulatory and liability controls on public water companies, and the use of criminal sanctions for violations of the Clean Water Act.

Dr. Cory has received the Best Published Research Award from the Western Agricultural Economics Association, the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of The University of Arizona, the Superior Teaching Recognition from the Arizona Associated Students Association, and has served as Head of the Department (1996-2001) and President of the Western Agricultural Economics Administrators Association (2000). Current fields of interest include environmental law and economics, and resource issues in developing countries.

Selected Publications

Babbit, Charles J., Dennis C. Cory, and Beth L. Kruchek. “Discretion and the Criminalization of Environmental Law,” Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 15(Fall 2004):1–64.

Cory, Dennis C., and Anna Rita Germani. “Criminal Sanctions for Agricultural Violations of the Clean Water Act,” Water Policy Journal 4(2002):491–574.

Innes, Robert, and Dennis Cory. “The Economics of Safe Drinking Water.” Land Economics 77(Feb. 2001):94–117.

Colby, Bonnie G., and Dennis C. Cory. “Valuing Amenity Resources Under Uncertainty: Does the Existence of Fair Contingent Claims Markets Matter?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 16(1989):149–155.

Cory, Dennis C., and Bonnie Colby Saliba. “Requiem for Option Value,” Land Economics 63(1987):1–10.

Cory, Dennis C., Russel L. Gum, William E. Martin, and Ray Brokken. “Measuring Consumer Welfare Change: A Simplified Procedure,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 63(Nov. 1981):715–717.

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