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Earth Observations in Social Science Research for Management of Natural Resources and the Environment: Identifying the Contribution of the U.S. Land Remote Sensing (Landsat) Progra...
Macauley, Molly K. - 2009
This paper surveys and describes the peer-reviewed social science literature in which data from the U.S. land remote sensing program, Landsat, inform public policy in managing natural resources and the environment. The Landsat program has provided the longest collection of observations of Earth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442460
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Affluence and emission trade-offs: Evidence from Indonesian household carbon footprint
Irfany, M. Iqbal - 2014
The objectives of this study are to analyze the household carbon footprint pattern in Indonesia and to analyze the … determinants of the growing carbon footprint in this emerging economy. To measure the household emissions, we combine national … of national expenditure surveys from 2005 and 2009. We then use this household CO2 emission for investigating the drivers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392367
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From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development
Alfsen, Knut H.; Greaker, Mads - 2006
Norway has a long history in trying to develop management tools for sustainable development. From the early development of natural resources accounts in the 1980's, through discussions of the usefulness of indices like "green GDP" to efforts of developing sustainable development indicators,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968248
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Measuring Ecosystem Service Benefits: The Use of Landscape Analysis to Evaluate Environmental Trades and Compensation
Boyd, James; Wainger, Lisa - 2003
Ecosystem compensation and exchange programs require benefit analysis in order to guarantee that compensation or trades preserve the social benefits lost when ecosystems are destroyed or degraded. This study derives, applies, and critiques a set of ecosystem benefits indicators (EBIs). Organized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442609
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Alternative Climate Policies and Intertemporal Emissions Leakage: Quantifying the Green Paradox
Fischer, Carolyn; Salant, Stephen - 2012
Efforts to limit cumulative emissions over the next century may be partially thwarted by the responses of fossil fuel suppliers. Current price-cost margins for major reserves are ample, leaving scope for significant price reductions if climate policies reduce demand for fossil fuels through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010554811
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Assessing Investment in Future Landsat Instruments: The Example of Forest Carbon Offsets
Macauley, Molly K.; Shih, Jhih-Shyang - 2010
We extend the theory of quality-adjusted expenditure indices to estimate benefits from public investment. In particular, we model the selection of new instruments (in the form of remote-sensing devices) to enhance the longest-operating U.S. satellite-based land-observing program, Landsat. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602820
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Modeling the Costs and Environmental Benefits of Disposal Options for End-of-Life Electronic Equipment: The Case of Used Computer Monitors
Palmer, Karen; Macauley, Molly; Shih, Jhih-Shyang; … - 2001
Managing the growing quantity of used electronic equipment poses challenges for waste management officials. In this paper, we focus on a large component of the electronic waste stream—computer monitors—and the disposal concerns associated with the lead embodied in cathode ray tubes (CRTs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442441
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Marine Protected Areas: Economic and Social Implications
Sanchirico, James; Cochran, Kathryn; Emerson, Peter - 2002
This paper is a guide for citizens, scientists, resource managers, and policy makers, who are interested in understanding the economic and social value of marine protected areas (MPAs). We discuss the potential benefits and costs associated with MPAs as a means of illustrating the economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005399487
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Carbon Neutrality and Bioenergy: A Zero-Sum Game?
Sedjo, Roger A. - 2011
Biomass, a renewable energy source, has been viewed as “carbon neutral”—that is, its use as energy is presumed not to release net carbon dioxide. However, this assumption of carbon neutrality has recently been challenged. In 2010 two letters were sent to the Congress by eminent scientists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914180
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The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP): Some Implications for the Forest Industry
Sedjo, Roger A. - 2010
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) of the Department of Agriculture has proposed regulations to implement the new Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Authorized in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, BCAP is designed to ensure that a sufficiently large base of new nonfood,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502874