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How Do the Location, Size and Budget of Open Space Conservation Affect Land Values?
In this article we present a model to examine the optimal location, size, and budget of open space conservation and the resulting impact on land values and local fiscal conditions in an urban area. Results ind...
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Methods for Projecting Areas of Private Timberland and Forest Cover Types
We summarize methods used to project area changes in land uses and forest cover types in the national RPA Timber Assessments over the last 20 years, since area projection modeling systems replaced expert opini...
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The Role of Private Management Investment in Long-Term Supply
The base case projection described in Chapter 9 envisions significant future expansion in private timber harvest based in part on growing investment in timber management, primarily in the South. Is this a reas...
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Long-Term Views of the US Land Base
This chapter examines the impacts of exogenous assumptions (e.g. policy) on projected shifts among major land uses, including private timberland area, and on timberland composition by land cover type. A base c...
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Forest Carbon Dynamics in the Pacific Northwest (USA) and the St. Petersburg Region of Russia: Comparisons and Policy Implications
Forests of the United States and Russia can play a positive role in reducing the extent of global warming caused by greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide. To determine the extent of carbon sequestration,...
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Projecting Large-Scale Area Changes in Land Use and Land Cover for Terrestrial Carbon Analyses
One of the largest changes in US forest type areas over the last half-century has involved pine types in the South. The area of planted pine has increased more than 10-fold since 1950, mostly on private lands....
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Characterizing 23 Years (1972–95) of Stand Replacement Disturbance in Western Oregon Forests with Landsat Imagery
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Integrating Urbanization into Landscape-level Ecological Assessments
Economists and ecologists are often asked to collaborate on landscape-level analyses designed to jointly assess economic and ecological conditions resulting from environmental policy scenarios. This trend towa...
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Competitiveness of biomass‐fueled electrical power plants
One way countries like the United States can comply with suggested rollbacks in greenhouse gas emissions is by employing power plants fueled with biomass. We examine the competitiveness of biomass‐based fuel f...
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Private forest investment and long-run sustainable harvest volumes
Private timberlands in the United States have the biological potential to provide larger quantities of timber on a sustainable basis than they do today. Most opportunities for increasing growth and harvest lie...
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Private forest investment and long-run sustainable harvest volumes
Private timberlands in the United States have the biological potential to provide larger quantities of timber on a sustainable basis than they do today. Most opportunities for increasing growth and harvest lie...
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Economic Dimensions of Climate Change Impacts on Southern Forests
Global climate change is apt to impact forests and forestry in the United States. Regions in the United States may be differentially affected. Forecasts of climatic change and of the biological response to cli...
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Evaluation of Effects of Forestry and Agricultural Policies on Forest Carbon and Markets
Possible global warming has prompted examination of alternative policy measures for reducing excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere caused by emissions. These measures include forestry-based strategies ...
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Regional multiresource models in a national framework
The design and integration of models projecting the effects of management on environmental systems is one step in the environmental planning process. Interactions between resources produced on the same unit of...
