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Brown, Roger McCain.

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Essays in natural resource economics: Endangered species, paper supply, and sustainable forestry.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in natural resource economics: Endangered species, paper supply, and sustainable forestry./
Author:	Brown, Roger McCain.
Description:	64 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: B, page: 0498.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02B.
Subject:	Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3124259
ISBN:	0496715674

Essays in natural resource economics: Endangered species, paper supply, and sustainable forestry.
Brown, Roger McCain.

Essays in natural resource economics: Endangered species, paper supply, and sustainable forestry. - 64 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: B, page: 0498.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2004.

Human choices about how earth's natural resources are used determine more than ever the quality and richness of all life on this planet. In this dissertation, three relevant areas of natural resource management and economics are presented and evaluated. First, the common perception that human beings are "crowding out" and consequently endangering other species is evaluated. State-level regression analyses suggest that species fragility is due, in part, to the level---but generally not the distribution---of human activity. Our models consistently show that a one percent increase in human activity across states---as measured by the number of people and households, incidence of roads, or the intensity of nighttime lights---is associated with about a quarter percent increase in the number of plant and animal species considered at risk by The Nature Conservancy.

ISBN: 0496715674Subjects--Topical Terms:

783690
Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.

Essays in natural resource economics: Endangered species, paper supply, and sustainable forestry.
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520 $a Human choices about how earth's natural resources are used determine more than ever the quality and richness of all life on this planet. In this dissertation, three relevant areas of natural resource management and economics are presented and evaluated. First, the common perception that human beings are "crowding out" and consequently endangering other species is evaluated. State-level regression analyses suggest that species fragility is due, in part, to the level---but generally not the distribution---of human activity. Our models consistently show that a one percent increase in human activity across states---as measured by the number of people and households, incidence of roads, or the intensity of nighttime lights---is associated with about a quarter percent increase in the number of plant and animal species considered at risk by The Nature Conservancy.
520 $a Second, independent product-level econometric models of newsprint paper (NP), printing/writing paper (PWP), tissue paper (TP), and packaging paper (PP) supply in the U.S. are presented and evaluated. Sample periods vary from 14 years for PP (1987--2001) to 20 years for NP and PRP (1981--2001). For comparison, each paper type is specified using a two stage least squares geometric distributed lag model in log-log form using monthly data. This model has the advantage of returning both short- and long-run elasticity estimates for output and the usual mix of inputs. Estimated long-run output price elasticities (and p-values) are 2.75 (<1%) for NP, 2.60 (<1%) for PWP, 1.33 (<1%) for TP, and 0.33 (10%) for PP. All estimated short-run elasticities are significant beyond the 1% level except for PP (10%) and are 0.69 for NP, 0.95 for PWP, 1.33 for TP, and 0.18 for PP. Input elasticities for capital, labor, fiber, wastepaper, and electricity are also estimated for each paper type.
520 $a Finally, using survey data and an equilibrium displacement model (EDM), we estimate the economic impacts of the American Forest and Paper Association's Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) on U.S. South stumpage markets. Our analysis is apparently the first to couple these two research techniques, demonstrating further the flexibility of the EDM approach. Four timber product markets are examined: softwood pulpwood, softwood sawtimber, hardwood pulpwood, and hardwood sawtimber. In each market, changes in producer and consumer welfare are calculated using an equilibrium displacement model that accounts for industrial timber inventory reductions caused by SFI compliance. We find that SFI compliance costs the U.S. South's economy about $5 9 million annually. Industrial stumpage producers give up nearly $4 7 million each year in lost profit as a result of SFI compliance while consumers pay about $1 9 million annually in the form of higher product prices. These costs are offset by gains to non-industrial private forest producers who collectively benefit about $7 .5 million annually as a result of higher stumpage prices.
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