• Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2006.
• Master of Environmental Management, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, 2001.
• Diploma in International Development, Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School, 1999.
• Bachelor of Law, Keio University, 1995.
  

Dr. Uchida’s research interest is in understanding the microeconomic behavior under institutions and policies to achieve both rural development and sustainable natural resource management. She also studies supply and demand for ecosystem services and how producers and consumers respond to incentive mechanisms to provide ecosystem services. She is conducting research in developing and developed countries and utilizes household surveys, spatial data, econometric and numerical methods. Her recent work includes 1) analyzing of how institutional reform in China and Korea is affecting resource management decisions and resource users' welfare; 2) understanding demand for farmland and forest ecosystem services and designing a market for ecosystem services; 3) examining designs for Payments for Environmental Services to achieve both environmental and development goals; and 4) analyzing forest and urban land use change in China.

• Fry, Crystal, Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, Jintao Xu, and Jinyan Zhan. “Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services with Dual Goals of Environment and Poverty Alleviation.” Environmental Management, forthcoming.
• Deng, Xiangzheng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. “Economic Growth and the Expansion of Urban Land in China.” Urban Studies, forthcoming.
• Uchida, Emi, Scott Rozelle and Jintao Xu. (2009) “Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(1): 70-86.
• Deng, Xiangzheng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2008) “Growth, Population, and Industrialization and Urban Land Expansion of China.” Journal of Urban Economics 63(1): 96-115.
• Uchida, Emi, Jintao Xu, Zhigang Xu, and Scott Rozelle. (2007) “Are the Poor Benefiting from China's Land Conservation Program?” Environmental and Development Economics 12: 593-620.
• Deng, Xiangzheng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2006) “Cultivated Land Conversion and Bioproductivity in China.” Journal of Land Use Policy, 23: 372–384.
• Zhigang Xu, Jintao Xu, Xiangzheng Deng, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Emi Uchida. (2006) “Grain for Green and Grain: A Case Study of the Conflict between Food Security and the Environment in China.” World Development, 34(1): 130-48.
• Uchida, Emi, Jintao Xu, and Scott Rozelle. (2005) “Grain for Green: Assessing the Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability of China's Conservation Set-aside Program.” Land Economics, 81(2): 247-264.
• Xiangzheng Deng, Huang, Jikun, Scott Rozelle, and Emi Uchida. (2005) “Cultivated Land Conversion and Bio-productivity in China,” In China's Agricultural and Rural Development in the Early 21st Century. Sonntag, Bernard H. et al. eds. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. Canberra, Australia. Pp.453-468.
• Uchida, Emi, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, and Xiangzheng Deng. (2004) “Changes in Cultivated Land Due to Urbanization: China in an International Perspective.” Policy report presented at the Second Expert Meeting of Agricultural and Rural Development, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).
• Yoda, Emi. (2001) Economic Benefits of Coral Reefs to Small-scale Fishers: A Case Study in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Unpublished Master's Project, Duke University, Durham, NC. Randall Kramer, Advisor.

• EEC345: Sustainable Development, Trade, and the Environment (Fall)
• EEC595: Environment and Development Economics (Fall)
• EEC534: Resource Economics (Spring)