Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Teeter, Lawrence D."

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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 ...

Coal and Renewable Energy: History, Impacts, and Future in Alabama

Singh, Brajesh (2010-01-08)

Coal and renewable energy have differential impacts on human society. Coal is the most abundant, cheap, and yet environmentally detrimental source of energy. Renewable sources are environmentally benign but constrained by ...

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 of Forestry Investments in the US and Stumpage Market in the US South

Liao, Xianchun (2007-05-15)

In 2005, nearly $30 billion of American forest land in the hands of institutional investors may suggest that timberland is a good portfolio diversifier. However, this statement may be overstated because forestry investments ...

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 ...

Pinning Down the Change: A Community-Level Study of Timberland Ownership Change

Randle, Anne (2014-05-13)

Over the last twenty years, the forest products industry has sold much of its land base throughout the U.S. The majority of that land is being transferred from corporations in what was a traditional vertically-integrated ...

Population Pressure, Land Tenure, Deforestation, and Farming Systems in Haiti: The Case of Foret Des Pins Reserve

Dolisca, Frito (2005-08-15)

Forêt des Pins Reserve, a state-owned natural forest in Haiti, has suffered severe degradation due to a land tenure system that does not guarantee security for farmers, illegal harvesting of trees for the production of ...

Private Forest Owners in Alabama: Profiles and Holding Size Distribution

Pan, Yi (2006-05-15)

A large portion of forestland in Alabama is privately owned. Thus private forest owners in Alabama play an important role in producing timber, providing forest recreation, protecting biodiversity, etc. Two topics regarding ...