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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
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Creator:: Mihiar, Christopher
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: implications for land-use policy. c©Copyright by Christopher Mihiar June 13, 2018 All Rights Reserved An

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

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
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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

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