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  • Essays on the interactions between land use, natural amenity and wildfire risk

    Creator:
    Xu, Wenchao
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    It is essential to study the relationship between environmental features and human land-use activities that can provide a better understanding of human-environment interactions. In a response, this dissertation addresses the human-environment issues from different perspectives in three essays. The first essay conducts an integrated analysis to investigate the impacts of...
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    : _____________________________________________ JunJie Wu It is essential to study the relationship between environmental features and

  • 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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    Conservation. Abstract approved: JunJie Wu This study investigates the share of open space that maximizes

  • 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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    :--------------~--~~- JunJie Wu This dissertation consists of three papers on land use economics and regulation. The first

  • 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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    approved: JunJie Wu This study determines the optimal allocation of watershed conservation funds in the

  • 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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    Designs in the Walnut Creek Watershed of Iowa Abstract approved: / x[ f^l ^ JunJie Wu In recent

  • Welfare Effects of the Federal Crop Insurance Program : The Sufficient Statistics Approach

    Creator:
    Yu, Jialing
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    The publicly subsidized Federal Crop Insurance Program has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the United States. With the reform in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Federal Crop Insurance Program has become the most important component of U.S. farm policies. The primary goal of the program is to provide risk...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ JunJie Wu The

  • 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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    Dissertation
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    JunJie Wu Environmental quality and the spatial distribution of economic activities affect each

  • Irrigation choices for major West Coast crops : water scarcity and climatic determinants

    Creator:
    Olen, Beau
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    Recent climate change forecasts have aroused growing interest in the influence of water scarcity and climate on agricultural production and irrigation practice. However, it is common in the economic literature to aggregate disparate crops when modeling irrigation choices. That approach confounds the crop-specific effects of climate and water scarcity that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : _________________________________________________________ JunJie Wu Recent climate change forecasts have aroused growing interest in the influence

  • Business decisions for voluntary environmental management : Motivations, actions, and outcomes

    Creator:
    Hall, Teresa M.
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    This study develops theoretical and empirical models to analyze the motivations and outcomes of Oregon business decisions for voluntary environmental management. More specifically, the following issues are explored in this study: What motivates a facility to over-comply with environmental regulations? Why does a facility adopt an environmental management plan (EMP)?...
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    Masters Thesis
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    their crops, decreasing the overall level of nitrogen pollution. Wu and Babcock (1998) go one step

  • Urbanization under uncertainty and land use regulations : theory and estimation

    Creator:
    Cho, Seong-Hoon
    Abstract:
    This dissertation consists of three papers on land use economics and policies. The first two papers focus primarily on local land use policies and urban development. The third paper addresses the question how environmental amenities affect households' residential choices in a metropolitan area. In the first paper, an option value...
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    Dissertation