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Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management under Uncertainty : Forest Mortality, Policy Design, and the Value of Information

Creator:

Sloggy, Matthew R.

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Advancing the understanding of natural resource management is an important step in mitigating the effects of human activity on the environment, and ensuring efficient outcomes for many sectors of the economy. As humanity’s role in the natural world becomes better understood, the importance of interdisciplinary modeling has grown in leaps...

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role in determining the ecological impacts of harvest (Van Kooten et al., 1995). The forest sector
Three essays on the economics of climate change, land use and carbon sequestration

Creator:

Haim, David

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This dissertation's three essays explore the effects of climate change on land use changes in the U.S., how future land areas in all major land uses change by projecting land use at the regional scale under two IPCC climate change scenarios. Investigate how and what role should carbon sequestration plays...

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Dissertation
Managing the spatial configuration of land : the economics of land use and habitat fragmentation

Creator:

Lewis, David James

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Habitat fragmentation has been widely studied in the biological literature and is considered a primary threat to biodiversity. However, there has been little research on land-use policies to reduce fragmentation. This dissertation focuses on two major research issues related to fragmentation policies. First, I develop an analytical model to analyze...

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Dissertation

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Cary 1988; Van Horn et al. 1995). Since there is generally more biological knowledge about how