Otto is a public policy specialist on economic issues affecting agriculture, natural resources, and energy. His many interests have led him to involvement in the economic assessment of hypoxia of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, studies on water implications of biofuels production in the United States, effects of climate change and variability on agricultural production systems, and rationale for U.S. agricultural policy, on integrating biomass energy into existing energy systems, and on the political economy of public goods

Selected Publications

Doering, Otto and Joe Outlaw, The evolution of the rationale for government involvement in Agriculture (2006), Choices, 21(4) 221-224.

Doering III, Otto C., Energy systems integration: Fitting biomass energy from agriculture into U.S. energy systems, Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, Edit. Outlaw, Collins & Duffield, CABI Publishing, Cambridge, MA, pp. 112-130, 2005.

Doering III, Otto C., J.C. Randolph, Jane Southworth, and Rebecca A. Pfeifer. Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems. Klewer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2002.

Doering, Otto C., Economic linkages driving the potential response to nitrogen over-enrichment (2002), Estuaries, 25(4b) 809-818.