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

Creator:: Wu, Caiwen
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: U.S. dollars of income each year. At the national economy level, the impacts of tightening

How Does Climate Change Adaptation and Carbon Price Policy Affect Forested Landscapes? An Empirical Analysis of Forest Management under Climate Change on the U.S. West Coast

Creator:: Hashida, Yukiko
Abstract:: Private forest landowners can adapt to climate change by altering their timing and intensity of harvests, by changing thinning or fertilizing activities, and by altering the tree species growing on their land. The well-being of humans is closely tied to the ecosystem services that forests provide as both market and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Analysis of Forest Management under Climate Change on the U.S. West Coast. Abstract approved

Understanding the New Outdoor Recreation Paradigm in the Era of Social Media and Increasing Public Health Advisories

Creator:: Lowe Mackenzie, Ashley
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I examine emerging economic issues which intersect outdoor recreation, environmental quality, public land use, and public health advisories. First, I explore the potential impacts of social media on visitation to public land. Social media, and in particular Instagram, has been suggested by journalist and land managers as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: within the app. At the national scale (U.S. National Parks), there was also a cumulative impact to

Empirical Analyses of Forestry Interactions with Climate Uncertainty and Threatened Species

Creator:: Johnson, Kelsey K.
Abstract:: Forests are highly valuable resources providing both timber as well as many non-use values like habitat for various endangered and threatened species, carbon sequestration, and recreation, to name a few. Given that there are 765 million acres of forestland in the United States, almost 60% of which are privately owned,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: management decisions and land characteristics from the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis

A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

Creator:: Rossi, David J.
Abstract:: This dissertation studies the microeconomics of forest fire suppression programs. It starts with an inquiry into the causes of increasing shares of public land management budgets devoted to wildland fire suppression in lieu of hazardous fuel reduction or other pre-fire risk mitigation programs. The first two chapters consider competing economic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Christiansen, Dr. Jean Daniels, and Dr. Jeff Kline from the U.S. Forest Service; Dr. Greg Latta from the

Essays on ethanol-driven corn demand and crop choice

Creator:: Marshall, Kandice Kleiber
Abstract:: Two essays are focused on crop choice and the growth of corn production in the Corn Belt and surrounding areas. The first essay develops a partially degenerate nested logit model to examine the effect of price islands and local ethanol capacity on corn production and crop mix. The primary data...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report authored by Aqua Terra Consultants and Texas A & M Spatial Sciences

An Empirical Analysis of Climate and Risk on Rural Productive Lands

Creator:: Finer, Cassie R.
Abstract:: Efficient and effective climate policies require cost estimates supported by empirical analysis at multiple spatial scales. Fine-scale spatial analysis of climate impacts for rural land markets represents a gap in the current climate change economics literature. In this dissertation I estimate relationships between climate, risk and parcel-level land values for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: forest management, and the effect of natural and human-caused shoreline change along

How Do Population Growth, Land-use Regulations, and Precipitation Patterns Affect Water Use? A Fine-scale Empirical Analysis of Landscape Change

Creator:: Bigelow, Daniel P.
Abstract:: A growing body of literature exists on how human population growth and changes in climatic factors influence the availability of water (Elliot et al. 2014, Prudhomme et al. 2014). These studies typically conclude that climate change is expected to have negative consequences on water availability, an effect that is magnified...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and forest uses using a novel panel data set on land values for our study area, Oregon’s Willamette

Land use policy and property value

Creator:: Grout, Cyrus A.
Abstract:: A plethora of land use policies are implemented at the local, state, and federal levels to influence the manner in which land is utilized. The distribution of the costs and benefits associated with implementing such land use policies always has been, and will continue to be, a source of contention....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: productivity and quality of agricultural and forest resource lands. As such, a plethora of land use policies

Spatial heterogeneity, meta-analysis and spatial dependence : three essays on environmental valuation and spatial land management decisions

Creator:: Bu, Meidan
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three essays that collectively address the importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity and spatial dependence of environmental assets and natural resources in policy making. The first essay examines the value of different wetland ecosystem services using an expanded meta-dataset of valuation studies in North America. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: population under a budget constraint. The optimization framework uses forest stands in a real heterogeneous

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

How Does Climate Change Adaptation and Carbon Price Policy Affect Forested Landscapes? An Empirical Analysis of Forest Management under Climate Change on the U.S. West Coast

Understanding the New Outdoor Recreation Paradigm in the Era of Social Media and Increasing Public Health Advisories

Empirical Analyses of Forestry Interactions with Climate Uncertainty and Threatened Species

A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

Essays on ethanol-driven corn demand and crop choice

An Empirical Analysis of Climate and Risk on Rural Productive Lands

How Do Population Growth, Land-use Regulations, and Precipitation Patterns Affect Water Use? A Fine-scale Empirical Analysis of Landscape Change

Land use policy and property value

Spatial heterogeneity, meta-analysis and spatial dependence : three essays on environmental valuation and spatial land management decisions

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