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  • Essays on land-use change, carbon sequestration and emissions in China

    Creator:
    Li, Man
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    China has experienced rapid economic growth in the last twenty years, accompanied by large-scale land conversion, severe environmental degradation, and rising carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Designing policies for sustainable development requires a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between economic growth, land-use change, carbon sequestration and emissions in China. This dissertation...
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    approved: JunJie Wu Jeffrey J. Reimer China has experienced rapid economic

  • Essays on environment and the spatial distribution of economic activities

    Creator:
    Wang, Chunhua
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    Environmental quality and the spatial distribution of economic activities affect each other in many ways. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to understanding the complex interrelationship and its policy implications. This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay examines the roles that locational amenities and increasing...
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    Economic Activities. Abstract approved:_____________________________________________________

  • The optimal allocation of watershed conservation funding : a case study of the John Day River Basin, Oregon

    Creator:
    Skelton, Katharine
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    This study determines the optimal allocation of watershed conservation funds in the John Day River Basin, Oregon. Fund managers can use a variety of targeting schemes to allocate their limited resources. Depending on which targeting criteria is used, they may or may not be achieving the maximum environmental benefits per...
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    Masters Thesis
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    estimate economic valuation. Site characteristics were used to quantify the potential impact of limiting

  • Essays on natural endowments, conservation policy, and community characteristics

    Creator:
    Lin, Haixia
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    To protect and restore environmental quality, efficient and effective conservation policies are needed. Designing policies require a sound understanding of the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of conservation programs. This dissertation consists of three essays, and addresses several issues relevant to these two...
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    the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of

  • Crop choice and conservation : implications of increased biofuel demand

    Creator:
    Sechrist, B.
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    Regression analysis was used to examine the effect of a change in agricultural prices on land use and conservation. The planted acreage for each of three crops – corn, soybeans, and spring wheat – was regressed on the expected prices of the three crops, the input prices, and past land...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ). The fundamental economic principles of supply and demand posit that the increased demand for corn

  • Maximizing urban property values through open space conservation

    Creator:
    Oakley, Winston
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    This study investigates the share of open space that maximizes total private property values in urban areas. Open space poses a number of trade-offs to city managers. On the one hand, previous studies have shown that certain kinds of open space can increase property values, which tends to increase tax...
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    Masters Thesis
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    subject to the same economic forces that influence nearby residential values. To investigate this

  • Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

    Creator:
    Wu, Caiwen
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    Location is a critical component of business decisions. A firm's location decision may be influenced not only by market forces, such as the location of input suppliers, output processors and competitors, but also by government policies if such policies impact their expected profits and are applied non-uniformly across space. Likewise,...
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    mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs). Incorporating environmental risk into economic assessments of

  • Economic and environmental implications of alternative landscape designs in the Walnut Creek Watershed of Iowa

    Creator:
    Coiner, Colette
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    Masters Thesis
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    on February 22, 2000. Title: Economic and Environmental Implications of Alternative Landscape

  • Essays on land use regulation

    Creator:
    Hascic, Ivan
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    This dissertation consists of three papers on land use economics and regulation. The first paper focuses on the environmental impacts of land use and their implications for the design on water quality trading policies. The second and third papers address local land use regulations and their impact on land values...
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    Dissertation

  • Essays on conservation policies and agricultural nonpoint source pollution control

    Creator:
    Tanaka, Katsuya
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    This dissertation consists of three papers on agricultural nonpoint source pollution and control. The first paper focuses primarily on agricultural land use changes under alternative conservation policies. The second and third papers address environmental implications of these policies and their cost effectiveness. In the first paper, the effect of alternative...
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    Dissertation