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    • Social Implications of Agricultural AI platform
    • Farm Financial Programs and Conservation Practice Adoption in Oregon
    • Social Network Analysis of Oregon Agricultural and Natural Resource Organizations
    • Enhancing Risk Management Capacity Through Crop Insurance Education for Oregon Tree Fruit Trainers and Producers
    • Farm Financial Programs, Land Practices, Climate and Market RIsks
    • Social Network Analysis in Food-Energy-Water-Ecosystem Nexus
    • Wisconsin Dairy Farmers' Perspectives on Water Quality and Labor Policy
    • ​Social and Ecological Impacts of Household Credit on Pastoral Areas and Policy Implications
    • Reform Trends and a Policy Roadmap for Conserving Natural Resources
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Selected Research Products

Peer-Reviewed Articles

8. Fochesatto, Ana, Yu Lu, Adena R. Rissman.  "Good farmers" as employers and conservationists: predictors of dairy farmer support for labor and conservation policy. [Under review]        

7. Lu, Yu, Christopher Kucharik, Mark Lubell, Eleanor Powell, Adena R. Rissman. Private sponsorship of conferences is prevalent but negatively associated with climate change topics. [Under review]     

6. Lu, Yu, Chloe Wardropper, Adena R. Rissman. Farmer Identity, Financial Programs, and Professional Consultation in Cropland Conservation Practice Adoption. [Under review]         

​5. Lu, Yu, Siyuan Qiu, and Lu Yu. Agricultural Insurance, Credit, and Rural Livelihoods under Climate Risk: Evidence from Pastoral and Crop Systems. [Under review]           
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Lu, Yu, Yanbo Li, Wenjun Li, and Lu Yu. From Embeddedness to Disembeddedness: How Market Expansion Disembeds Social Systems from Ecological Feedback. [Under review]   

​3. Rissman, Adena R., Ana Fochesatto, Erin Lowe, Yu Lu, Regina M. Hirsch, Randall D. Jackson, 2023. “Grasslands and managed grazing policy review”. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1010441.

2. Lu, Yu, Lu Yu, Wenjun Li, and Mariya Aleksandrova. 2022. “Impacts and Synergies of Weather Index Insurance and Microcredit in Rural Areas: a Systematic Review” Environmental Research Letters, 17, 103002​.

1. Lu, Yu, Lynn Huntsinger, and Wenjun Li. 2022. “​​​​Microcredit programs may increase risk to pastoralist livelihoods in Inner Mongolia”. Ambio, 51, 1063–1077.

Selected Research and Publications in Progress

9. Lu, Yu, Mark Lubell, ​Adena R. Rissman. Navigating Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsor Networks in Food-Forestry-Energy- Water-Ecosystems Nexus.                                                                            
 
10. Lu, Yu, Adena R. Rissman. Comparing Farm Financial Support Between Croplands and Grasslands in the Upper Midwest, USA.          
11. Lu, Yu, Lilian Herling, Adena R. Rissman, Maddie Olson. Conservation, Intensification, and Identity: Land Advisors’ Cropland and Grassland Experiences in the Upper Midwest, USA.                                                                                                                                                     ​

Book and Book Chapters

Li, Wenjun, Xu Jianhua, and Lu, Yu. 2018. “​​A Vision for Reform: Roadmap and Trends for China's Conservation of Natural Resources.” National Park System Construction Research Series. China Environment Publishing Group. (in Chinese) 

Lu, Yu.  2023 “Protected Area Management.” In Forest and Rangeland Resources Management. China Dadi Publishing House. (in Chinese)

Research and Policy Briefs

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Lu, Yu, Scott Lukas, 2025. "North Willamette Research and Extension Center Economic Impact Report Berry Industry"
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Lu, Yu, Adena R. Rissman, Lilian Herling, Maddie Olson, Eliza Alexandra Eyman. 2024. "Midwest Farmer and Advisor Perspectives on Farm Financial Support".
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Lu, Yu, Adena R. Rissman, Lilian Herling, Maddie Olson, Eliza Alexandra Eyman. 2024. "Midwest Farmer and Advisor Perspectives on Conservation".
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Felch, K., Fochesatto, A., Green, E., Lu, Y., Rissman, A., 2024.
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Managed Grazing and Grassland: Policy Trends and
​Opportunities in Minnesota
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Felch, K., Fochesatto, A., Green, E., Lu Y., Rissman, A., 2024. "​​Managed Grazing and Grassland: Policy Trends and Opportunities in Missouri".
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Felch, K., Fochesatto, A., Green, E., Lu Y., Rissman, A., 2024. "​Managed Grazing and Grassland: Policy Trends and Opportunities in Illinois".
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Fochesatto, A., Rissman, A., Lu Y., 2023. “Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Perspectives on Labor and Social Policy”. ​
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Rissman, A., Fochesatto, A., Lu Y., 2023. “​Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Perspectives on Water Quality”. ​
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Dr. Yu Lu
Assistant Professor, Practice, Human Dimensions of Agricultural Water Management
RISE Lab (Resilience, Institutions, Society, and Ecosystems) 
Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering (BEE) 
​College of Agricultural Sciences
Oregon State University



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  • HOME
  • Yu Lu
  • People
  • PROJECTS
    • Social Implications of Agricultural AI platform
    • Farm Financial Programs and Conservation Practice Adoption in Oregon
    • Social Network Analysis of Oregon Agricultural and Natural Resource Organizations
    • Enhancing Risk Management Capacity Through Crop Insurance Education for Oregon Tree Fruit Trainers and Producers
    • Farm Financial Programs, Land Practices, Climate and Market RIsks
    • Social Network Analysis in Food-Energy-Water-Ecosystem Nexus
    • Wisconsin Dairy Farmers' Perspectives on Water Quality and Labor Policy
    • ​Social and Ecological Impacts of Household Credit on Pastoral Areas and Policy Implications
    • Reform Trends and a Policy Roadmap for Conserving Natural Resources
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • TEACHING
  • Impact
  • PHOTOS
  • Join the Lab