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theme. She has a Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics from
Michigan State University (Chap. 9).
Yongli Zhang is a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Wayne State University. Currently, she serves as the co-Director of
Graduate Certificate Program in Sustainable Engineering. Her research focuses on
the water-environment-energy nexus through system modeling/optimization and
technology development (Chap. 18).
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