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  • Modeling Oregon’s biodiesel subsidies and their potential effects on the Willamette Valley agricultural landscape

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    Siegel, Ryan W.
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    The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge in petroleum prices and an increased concern over greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, the interest in biodiesel production has heightened. Policy at the Federal level, such as the blender’s tax credit which provides $1 for every gallon of biodiesel blended with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ___________________________ William K. Jaeger The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge in petroleum

  • Drivers of Deconstruction: An Analysis of Dam Removal in the United States

    Creator:
    Marshall, Laura W.
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    The goal of this thesis is to identify the factors which have most significantly contributed to historical dam removals in the United States. The trend of increased dam removals over time is specifically analyzed for evidence that increased scarcity of environmental goods and services is motivating dam removals. A theoretical...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Laura W. Marshall for

  • An exploration of water quality in the United States using an Environmental Kuznets Curve framework

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    Latané, Annah M.
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    This study seeks to explore the determinants of the relationship of economic growth and water quality in the United States using an Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. Specifically this study seeks to determine whether there is evidence of improvement in water quality since passage of the 1972 amendments to the Clean...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ William K. Jaeger This

  • Animal Farming, Pollution, and Community Health

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    Weinerman, Michael A.
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    Health effects stemming from animal feeding operations pollution in the contiguous United States are analyzed using a 20-year, county-level data set. Several quasi-experimental, potential outcome models are used to estimate the impact of high concentrations of animal units on mortality rates and other health and economic outcomes over a 20-year...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ William K. Jaeger Health effects stemming from animal feeding operations pollution in

  • Estimating the value of irrigation water transferred to instream flow : A case study of Umatilla County, Oregon

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    Ugrinska, Monika P.
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    Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to elevated demands from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals as a result of the establishment of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, and potential climatic changes. Since many rural communities in the West...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Umatilla County, Oregon William K. Jieger Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain

  • Using country-level forest coverage to analyze the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve

    Creator:
    Gulpen, Sam Franciscus Johannes
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    This thesis seeks to analyze the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality, in this case measured by forest cover, and analyzes whether this relationship is consistent with an Environmental Kuznets Curve. Additionally the relationship between population density and forest cover was analyzed. A simple theoretical model is derived that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    William K. Jaeger This thesis seeks to analyze the relationship between economic growth and

  • Sustainability of a forest preservation project in India : the case of the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve

    Creator:
    Balasubramanian, Maniselvan
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    Numerous development projects are implemented in developing countries to attain economic and ecological development. However, in most cases, the encouraging results observed during the implementation phase terminated with the project period, raising concerns on these projects' sustainability after the project period has ended. This study focuses on this sustainability issue...
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    Masters Thesis
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    William K. Jaeger Numerous development projects are implemented in developing countries to attain

  • Comment on “Landing Fees versus Harvest Quotas with Uncertain Fish Stocks”

    Creator:
    Jaeger, William K.
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    In “Landing fees vs. harvest quotas with uncertain fish stocks”, Martin Weitzman maintains that the conventional view among both fisheries economists and fisheries managers is that “prices” are inferior to “quantities” as instruments for regulating the fishing industry. Weitzman takes the opposite position, appealing to two well-established ideas in economics:...
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    Conference Proceeding
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    Stocks.” William K. Jaeger Department of Economics Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267

  • Determinants of Urban Land Market Outcomes: Evidence from California

    Creator:
    Jaeger, William K.
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    Our understanding of the effects of land use regulations and other aspects of urban form has been hindered by limited aggregate data and gradual temporal changes in policies. More widely available GIS data on land use and land economics presents opportunities to overcome these obstacles. This study was undertaken to...
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    Article
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    spatial sizes of cities, Review of Economics and Statistics, 65 (1983) 479-482. Grout, C., W. K. Jaeger

  • The Welfare Effects of Environmental Taxation

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    Jaeger, William K.
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    Recent literature has investigated whether the welfare gains from environmental taxation are larger or smaller in a second-best setting than in a first-best setting. This question has mainly been addressed indirectly, by asking whether the second-best optimal environmental tax is higher or lower than the first-best Pigouvian rate. Even this...
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    Article
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    Welfare Effects of Environmental Taxation William K. Jaeger Abstract Recent