Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Laband, David"

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Changing Trade Patterns of Forest Products in the United States

Headley, Jeremy (2007-12-15)

In recent years, a trend has emerged in the trade of forest products in the United States. As witnessed in many other industries in the U.S. over the past several decades, forest products exports have steadily dropped off ...

Demand for Urban Forests: A National and Regional Study

Zhu, Pengyu (2006-08-15)

Various public policies have been designed to protect our green spaces and stimulate the demand for urban forests within communities. However, very few studies have been conducted to uncover the factors influencing the ...

Empirical analysis of campaign contributions and Congressional 'greeness'

Tanger, Shaun (2006-08-15)

“Legislators possess political assets that economic interest groups may find valuable in pursuing their goals”. This quote made by Kevin Grier and Michael Munger provides the impetus for my analysis. In the following paper ...

Essays on Forestry Products Industry: Sawmill Productivity and Industrial Timberland Ownership

Li, Yanshu (2006-05-15)

In this dissertation, two topics of forest products industry were investigated: inter-regional productivity comparison of sawmilling industries in the North America, and the relationship between industrial timberland ...

Family Forest Landowner Behavior in the Southeast

Majumdar, Indrajit (2006-12-15)

Forests and forestry have played a significant role in the economic development and psyche of the South. Forests, which pre-settlement occupied nearly all of the land area of the South, now occupy only 55 percent. More ...

The Impacts of Human Spatial Concentration, Economic Freedom, and Corruption on Species Imperilment

Pandit, Ram (2007-08-15)

Advocates of certain public policies believe that alternative spatial distributions of a fixed-size human population have different environmental consequences. Specifically, a more concentrated human population has a ...

Interregional Aspects of Timber Inventory Projections

Polyakov, Maksym (2004-12-15)

The overall goal of this study is to explore interregional aspects of modeling timber supply. Three separate papers are presented in this dissertation. The first paper (Chapter 3) presents an econometric analysis of ...

Legislative Production and Ideology Voter Scores: Three Essays

Tanger, Shaun (2009-12-03)

Legislators possess supply-side characteristics in the production process of public sector outcomes. Constituents demand legislative services and choose those who most closely resemble their preferences. There are several ...

Party Polarization: Congressional Divergence on Environmental Policy from 1970-2008

Tanger, Shaun (2012-04-17)

We investigate empirically the importance of a conjectured linkage between economic conditions and increasing party divergence with respect to national-level environmental policy in the United States. Using data from ...

Valuing Ecosystem Services from Forested Landscapes: How Urbanization Influences Drinking Water Treatment Cost

Elias, Emile (2010-11-12)

For two decades high total organic carbon (TOC) levels in Converse Reservoir, a water source for Mobile, Alabama, have concerned water treatment officials due to the potential for disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation. ...