PRATO, Tony
Title: Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Applied Economics,
        Co-Director Emeritus, Center for Applied Research,
        Environmental Systems (CARES), University of Missouri;
        Affiliate Faculty, College of Forestry and Conservation,
        University of Montana
Address: 12310 Paradise Loop, Marion, MT 59925 USA
Tel: 406-858-2235
Email: pratoa@missouri.edu
Education Background:
    1969  Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of California-Berkeley
    1968  M.A., Applied Statistics, University of California-Berkeley
    1966  M.S., Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
    1964  B.S., Agriculture (with honors), University of Connecticut
Working Experiences:
Professor (teacher and researcher) at four American universities
Economist for U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research Interests:
Adaptive management of natural systems; assessing economic and wildlife impacts of climate and land use changes; conservation and management of national parks and protected areas; decision-making under risk and uncertainty; integrated modeling and analysis of human-environmental systems; multiple attribute decision-making; spatial decision support systems.
Professional Activities：
Currently, I am principal investigator for a multi-disciplinary research and education project. The goals of the project are to enhance the capacity of the community of interest (i.e., land and wildland fire management agencies, homeowners, and community/regional planners) in Flathead County, Montana to assess and manage wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in light of future climate change and future residential expansion into wildland areas, and to improve knowledge and understanding about the nature, benefits, and risks of wildfire in the WUI on the part of the broader community (i.e., middle school students, high school students, persons in youth and adult environmental education courses, and information personnel).