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Sauer, Johannes - 2011

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

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Publics, risk communication and the social amplification of risk

In: The social contours of risk. 2005

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Nonindustrial private forestland owners: Estimating responses to economic and demographic changes

Snider, Anthony Glenn - 2002

This research endeavor consisted of two distinct efforts. First, following a literature review of the characteristics, objectives, and incentive programs available to nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners, the potential effects of wood chip mill harvests on forest management practices...

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15.021J / 11.433J Real Estate Economics, Spring 2004

Wheaton, William C. - 2004

This course, offered by the MIT Center for Real Estate, focuses on developing an understanding of the macroeconomic factors that shape and influence markets for real property. We will develop the theory of land markets and locational choice. The material covered includes studies of changing...

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Comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) - Description and instruction manual

Makundi, Willy; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008

In order to prepare policies and plans to reduce GHG emissions, national policy-makers need information on the costs and benefits of different mitigation options in addition to their carbon implications. Policy-makers must weigh the costs, benefits, and impacts of climate change mitigation and...

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Class I cultural resource overview for oil shale and tar sands areas in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

O'Rourke, D.; Kullen, D.; Gierek, L.; Wescott, K.; Greby, M. - Environmental Science Division - 2008

In August 2005, the U.S. Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109-58. In Section 369 of this Act, also known as the 'Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005', Congress declared that oil shale and tar sands (and other unconventional fuels)...

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Development Of Regional Climate Mitigation Baseline For A DominantAgro-Ecological Zone Of Karnataka, India

Sudha, P.; Shubhashree, D.; Khan, H.; Hedge, G.T.; … - 2009

Setting a baseline for carbon stock changes in forest andland use sector mitigation projects is an essential step for assessingadditionality of the project. There are two approaches for settingbaselines namely, project-specific and regional baseline. This paperpresents the methodology adopted...

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Mitigation potential and cost in tropical forestry - relative role for agroforestry

Makundi, Willy R.; Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009

This paper summarizes studies of carbon mitigation potential (MP) and costs of forestry options in seven developing countries with a focus on the role of agroforestry. A common methodological approach known as comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) was used in each study to estimate...

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Estimating Carbon Supply Curves for Global Forests and Other Land Uses April 2001, Discussion Paper 01-19

Sedjo, Roger; Sohngen, Brent; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2009

This study develops cumulative carbon ''supply curves'' for global forests utilizing a dynamic timber supply model for sequestration of forest carbon. Because the period of concern is the next century, and particular time points within that century, the curves are not traditional Marshallian...

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Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function

Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2009

Increased attention by policy makers to the threat of global climate change has brought with it considerable interest in the possibility of encouraging the expansion of forest area as a means of sequestering carbon dioxide. The marginal costs of carbon sequestration or, equivalently, the carbon...

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