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On Nonparametric Estimation: With a Focus on Agriculture

Creator:: Färe, Rolf, Grosskopf, Shawna, Pasurka, Carl, and Martins-Filho, Carlos
Abstract:: We review nonparametric estimation of efficiency and productivity, by which we mainly mean activity analysis, or data envelopment analysis (DEA). The review covers topics that we hope will be of special interest to those doing research in the realm of agriculture. We also include a brief appendix addressing nonparametric estimation...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Pasurka, and Carlos Martins-Filho . . . 93 Methodological Issues in Environmental Economics Policy

Property values and Oregon measure 37 : exposing the false premise of regulation's harm to landowners

Creator:: The Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute
Abstract:: Executive Summary This report analyzes how land use regulations – and government programs generally – have affected the value of private real property in Oregon. Its objective is to inform discussion of the issues surrounding the current debate over Measure 37. Measure 37 was passed in 2004 in response to...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Environmental Law & Policy Institute conducts research and education on legal and policy issues relating to

The Use and Role of Predictive Systems in Disease Management

Creator:: Gent, David H., Mahaffee, Walter F., McRoberts, Neil, and Pfender, William F.
Abstract:: Disease predictive systems are intended to be management aids. With a few exceptions, these systems typically do not have direct sustained use by growers. Rather, their impact is mostly pedagogic and indirect, improving recommendations from farm advisers and shaping management concepts. The degree to which a system is consulted depends...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: and environmental factors interact to drive disease outbreaks and crop damage, predictions of system

Socio-Economic Measures for Intensively Monitoring Watersheds: The Middle Fork John Day Effectiveness Monitoring Project: Year 2 Report

Creator:: Hibbard, Michael, Lurie, Susan, Institute for Natural Resources, and Institute for Policy Research and Innovation
Abstract:: This report describes the accomplishments in the second and final year of a project to develop a set of measures to monitor the socio-economic effects on the local community of the stream restoration efforts on the upper Middle Fork John Day River. A panel of Grant County residents helped develop...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: ://www.westgov.org/wga/policy/09/restoration.pdf) points to a variety of tribal and state-level environmental

Economics Department Journal Review

Creator:: Faculty Senate Library Committee
Abstract:: Spreadsheet created to provide Economics Department faculty at Oregon State University with cost comparison information for the journals in which they most often published in 2003-2006. Includes journal titles, cost, impact factor (2004), publisher, and information about whether the journal is published by a non-profit or commercial publisher.
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: Indian Economic Review $50.00 n/a Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University 1 1

Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

Creator:: Doney, Scott C., Ruckelshaus, Mary, Duffy, J. Emmett, Barry, James P., Chan, Francis, English, Chad A., Galindo, Heather M., Grebmeier, Jacqueline M., Hollowed, Anne B., Knowlton, Nancy, Polovina, Jeffrey, Rabalais, Nancy N., Sydeman, William J., and Talley, Lynne D.
Abstract:: In marine ecosystems, rising atmospheric CO2 and climate change are associated with concurrent shifts in temperature, circulation, stratification, nutrient input, oxygen content, and ocean acidification, with potentially wideranging biological effects. Population-level shifts are occurring because of physiological intolerance to new environments, altered dispersal patterns, and changes in species interactions. Together...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: performance and thus creating the “losers” of environmental change. For such individuals, more stressful

The Political Economy of Fisheries Policy Reform: A Review of Key Issues

Creator:: Cox, Anthony
Abstract:: Why are fisheries policies so hard to reform? While there are many examples of successful policy reform in the sector, these tend to be restricted to a few countries or individual fisheries. There remains significant scope for further reform to address pressing economic, environmental and social issues in the sector....
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: address pressing economic, environmental and social issues in the sector. The fisheries economics

Environmental Impacts on Optimal Trade Policies

Creator:: Chao, Chi-Chur and Yu, Eden S.H.
Abstract:: This paper examines the impacts of tightening environmental regulations on optimal trade and investment policies. We find that for a small open two-sector economy with an importable sector relying on foreign capital while emitting pollution, a more stringent environmental measure leads to a higher optimal tariff and possibly a higher...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: Environmental Economics and Management, 26, 44-65. Copeland, B. R. and M. S. Taylor, 1997, "A Simple Model of

Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

Creator:: Maher, Anna T.
Abstract:: Resilience-based management in rangelands implies maintaining desirable ecological states and avoiding thresholds to less desirable ones; however, the efficacy of resilience-based management depends upon several driving forces. These forces include management by those who depend upon rangelands for their livelihoods, the current state of ecological health of rangelands, and changing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: linear programming models to quantify economic impacts as the result of public policy changes and

Analyzing and Understanding the Latvian Environmental Movement

Creator:: Berzins, Mikelis I.
Abstract:: Several distinctive environmental movements of the past century have had major influence on public policies in the United States. More generally, social movements that push environmental issues into the limelight have the potential for significantly altering public perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs, thus driving big policy changes. This thesis examines the...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: dominated environmental politics and policy choices for the first half of the 20th century, and the top

ScholarsArchive@OSU

On Nonparametric Estimation: With a Focus on Agriculture

Property values and Oregon measure 37 : exposing the false premise of regulation's harm to landowners

The Use and Role of Predictive Systems in Disease Management

Socio-Economic Measures for Intensively Monitoring Watersheds: The Middle Fork John Day Effectiveness Monitoring Project: Year 2 Report

Economics Department Journal Review

Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

The Political Economy of Fisheries Policy Reform: A Review of Key Issues

Environmental Impacts on Optimal Trade Policies

Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

Analyzing and Understanding the Latvian Environmental Movement

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