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Use of wood fuels from boreal forests will create a biofuel carbon debt with a long payback time

Holtsmark, Bjart - 2010

Owing to the extensive critique of food-crop-based biofuels, attention and hopes have turned toward second-generation wood-based biofuels. An important question is therefore whether wood from boreal forests could serve as a source for biofuels. However, in a typical boreal forest, it takes...

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Faustmann and the Climate

Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

This paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest in the presence of a social cost of carbon emissions. A contribution of the paper is to do this within theoretical and numerical frameworks that take account of the dynamics and interactions of the forest's multiple...

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Optimal harvest age considering multiple carbon pools - a comment

Holtsmark, Bjart; Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Katinka - 2012

In two recent papers, Asante and Armstrong (2012) and Asante et al. (2011) considered the question of optimal harvest ages. They found that the larger are the initial pools of dead organic matter (DOM) and wood products, the shorter is the optimal rotation period. In this note, it is found that...

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Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act

Sedjo, Roger - 2004

unacceptable risks to the environment. Although APHIS has considerable experience with crop plants, it has only limited experience …

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Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks

Stavins, Robert; Plantinga, Andrew; Lubowski, Ruben - 2005

When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies — such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation — should be part of the domestic portfolio of compliance...

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Biotechnology's Potential Contribution to Global Wood Supply and Forest Conservation

Sedjo, Roger - 2001

environmental restrictions related to logging. Forestry today is on the threshold of the widespread introduction of biotechnology … being utilized in agriculture, such as herbicide-tolerant genes. However, biotechnology in forestry also is developing … applications unique to forestry, including genes for fiber modification, lignin reduction and extraction, and for the promotion of …

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The Equilibrium Price Path of Timber in the Absence of Replanting

Salant, Stephen - 2012

The forestry literature has sought to describe competitive equilibria by first solving social planning problems. This … Hotelling literature extend to forestry economics: if differing in age, older trees are harvested first; if different in site …

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The relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to cancer risk and cancer mortality in Norway

Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte - 2014

common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) component …. Regardless the source of sibling variation, our findings indicate that genes dominate over shared environment in explaining …

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Trade Liberalisation and Effects on Pollutive Emissions and Waste A General Equilibrium Assessment for Norway

Fæhn, Taran; Holmøy, Erling - 2001

This paper assesses effects of the last decade's multinational liberalisation of foreign trade, in terms of economic gains and in terms of pollution. By means of a disaggregated intertemporal CGE model for Norway two scenarios with and without the trade reforms are compared. Despite a slight...

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Are the Dixit-Pindyck and the Arrow-Fisher-Henry-Hanemann Option Values Equivalent?

Aslaksen, Iulie; Synnestvedt, Terje - 2004

The relationship between the concept of option value in the literature on environmental preservation and the financial theory of option value is discussed by Fisher (2000), suggesting an equivalence between the two concepts. In a recent paper, Mensink and Requate (2004) argue that Fisher's claim...

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