Browsing by Author "Zhang, Daowei"

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Economic Analysis of Habitat Conservation Banking in the United States

Poudel, Jagdish (2017-07-28)

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is probably the most powerful environmental law ever enacted in the United States and is often portrayed as one of the most extreme forms of government intervention. Private landowners often ...

Economic Analysis of Institutional Timberland Ownership in the United States

Sun, Xing (2011-12-05)

The rise of institutional timberland ownership has led to a significant change in the structure and conduct of timber industry and forest management in the country. Understanding how industrial timberland sales affect the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Essays on GCC Energy Economics and Saudi Arabia’s Economic Growth

Al Mahish, Mohammed (2016-12-12)

The first chapter analyzes the impact of energy subsidies on a select sample of nitrogen fertilizer producers in the Arabian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region that disclose their financial statements. The paper estimates ...

Essays on International Timber Products Trade

Lin, Ying (2017-04-27)

During the last decade, the production and trade of timber products have gone through rapid change due to the implementation of several new policies and regulations. Specifically, one of the world’s largest exporters of ...

Essays on Production Efficiency, Tariffs and Trade, and Oil Price and US Macroeconomic

Zouhair, Fatima (2014-05-01)

The dissertation explores three different subjects. The first chapter investigates the source and trend of agricultural productivity growth in African countries with a translog production function. The second chapter ...

Essays on US Forest Products Markets

Assogba, Noel Perceval (2021-07-20) ETD File Embargoed

International trade of forest products plays a critical role in the economy of many countries around the world. Knowledge of market curves elasticities and the effect of currency exchange rates on goods trade are instrumental ...

Factors Influencing Tropical Forest Conservation: Evidence from the W Reserve

Assogba, Noel Perceval (2018-04-23)

We analyzed the factors that influence tropical forest resource conservation using the W Reserve in West Africa as the case study. Specifically, we first characterized the forms of pressure faced by the Reserve from the ...

Fine Tuning the Environmental Benefits Index to Achieve Cost Savings for the Conservation Reserve Program

Dooley, Eric (2018-04-24)

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest conservation program in the United States and was established in 1985. Over time, the conservation objectives of the program have broadened to include wildlife habitat, ...

From Trees to Lumber: Essays on Forest Management, Logging and Lumber Price

He, Mingtao (2021-12-06)

The forestry sector includes silviculture, forest management, logging, and wood utilization. Forestry has been experiencing dramatic transformation due to technological advances, changing markets of labor, capital, and ...

Land-use Changes, Forest Type Changes, and Related Environmental Concerns in the Southern U.S.

Meng, Li (2011-05-06)

The U.S. South covers roughly 24 percent of the total land area and 30 percent of the unreserved forest area of the United States. During the past few decades, the region has experienced dramatic land use as well as forest ...

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 ...

Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water Quality

Bhattarai, Gandhi (2006-05-15)

Studies in natural resources economics apply different models ranging from a simple linear regression models to much more complex models requiring advance skills in Geographic Information Systems, statistics and computer ...

Three Essays on Wildland Fire Economics

Godwin, Joseph (2012-05-07)

This dissertation consists of three manuscripts examining different aspects of wildland fire economics, with a specific focus on prescribed burning and expenditures made by the USDA Forest Service on wildland fire suppression. ...