Existing peatland development and future uses for peat are described and evaluated in this report. Scenarios for future development of the study area peat industry are described in terms of employment, earnings, capital investment, and value of production. Forecasts of the potential impacts of...

This report focuses on the regional economy of Northeast Minnesota and, also, a portion of Northwest Wisconsin. It covers past trends, current directions of change, and future prospects under varying assumptions. Projected economic impacts of these changes are presented as a basis for discussion...

A Regional forecast system for employment, earnings, income and population is presented in this report. Employment is related to earnings in a 25-industry breakdown of the economy and total employment is related for Minnesota and its 13 Substate development regions in the forecast system. The...

The energy-economic impact forecasting system presented here is a modular approach to both economic modeling and information systems development. A set of eleven modules--market, investment, demand, production, (input-output), employment, value added, labor force, population, household, fiscal,...