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An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on Forest Land Value and Broad Land-use Change

Creator:

Mihiar, Christopher

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Climate change affects the choice of land-use not only through its direct effect on the productive potential of land, but also through human actions that alter the landscape. In this dissertation, I estimate current climate's effect on the economic net returns to alternative land-use systems in the United States. Then...

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Dissertation

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Christopher Mihiar for
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,...

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Dissertation

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of these changes in ES in order to inform policymaking (Guo and Costello 2013). In the United