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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Natural Resource Economics"”.
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Computational Methods in Natural Resource Economics: Agent-Based Modeling and Hotelling's Rule
… expected behavior of a market for a nonrenewable resource. The statement is simple - marginal profit will increase at the prevailing rate of interest - but the implications are far-reaching and not broadly understood. Agent-based modeling is a computer modeling and simulation methodology. It has …
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Nature's contributions to people: socio-economic assessments of strategies to conserve natural capital and guide the sustainable provision and equitable distribution of ecosystem services in developing countries
Natural resources continue to be unsustainably used and their benefits inequitably shared. In many instances economic incentives and resource management approaches have not led to the sustainable use or equitable distribution of the benefits of natural resources such as fisheries and forests. This …
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Examining the Influence of Landscape on Natural Resource Management in the American West: A Geospatial Approach
Landscapes can influence natural resource values and management in a variety of ways. These diverse influences can be generated by biophysical or social systems, or interactions between systems. This dissertation examines the landscape determinants of natural resource values and management. Chapter …
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Evaluating Nuclear Energy as a Component of U.S. Energy Innovation Systems
<p>Nuclear energy is contentious in policy discussions that evaluate its role in the current U.S. clean energy innovation system. OECD nations, on average, have begun to reduce their dependence on nuclear energy. However, the United States has remained invested in its nuclear energy infrastructure …
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Global and regional assessments of unsustainable groundwater use in irrigated agriculture
… a process-based model designed to simulate both natural and human-impacted water systems.</p> <p>Irrigation can significantly increase crop production. Chapter 1 combines a hydrology model (WBM) with a crop model to quantify current crop production that is directly attributed to groundwater …
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ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA
… and historical data of the major economic resources that are present and mining that has gone on in the San Bernardino Mountains. It is estimated that historical mining of the Holcomb Valley recovered $457,660,000 of gold or about 350,000 troy ounces based on samples collected for this …
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The Economic Impacts of Soil Remediation Efforts at Lead Arsenate Contaminated Sites in Yakima County: A Hedonic Approach
<p>Area-wide lead-arsenate contamination stemming from the widespread use of pesticides in the early 1900s poses a serious health risk to the residents of Yakima, Washington. Soil testing for contaminants resulted in the Department of Ecology funding the remediation of 6 elementary schools in …
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Comparison of gold extraction yields by cyanide treatment vs. bioleaching procedure
<p>Samples from the tailings of the Picacho mine in California were leached using NaCN and native bacteria, <em>Alcaligenes faecalis,</em> in column experiments to compare the gold recovery yields in the effluents. Four columns were treated with a different liquid: water, bacteria, NaCN and a …
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Properties of natural systems and the efficiency of market-based solutions to environmental externalities
… how the interaction between economic and natural systems affects the efficiency of policy instruments to regulate environmental externalities. In the first study, I use a population data set of irrigation wells in Nebraska's Republican River Basin to analyze whether adopting spatially …
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Characterization of Environmentally Friendly Polymers: Amylopectin and Its Blends
<p>Biodegradable polymers are desirable for a variety of applications, such as in packaging, agriculture, and medicine. Its biological degradation by microorganisms accelerated the interest in biodegradable polymers during the last decades. Within this group of innovative environmentally friendly …
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Process design, dynamics, and techno-economic analysis of a sustainable coal, wind, and small modular nuclear reactor hybrid energy system
<p>"The availability of cheap electricity is one of the biggest factors for improving quality of life. With the debate on the effects of carbon dioxide emissions continuing, several countries have either implemented or are considering the reduction of emissions through various economic means. The …
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Tackling Tax Evasion: Transfer Price Manipulation, Extractive Natural Resources and a Strategy for the Southern African Customs Union
… human development. Pervasive corruption in the natural resource sector supports an environment where TPM can flourish. This paper develops a strategy for combating TPM within the countries of the Southern African Customs Union. It does this by 1) defining the terrain of illicit flows, both …
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Determining the Mobility of Metals Through Coal Combustion Byproducts in Surface Impoundments by Analyzing Leachate From Modified Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Tests
… facilities. Following combustion, the metals, naturally contained within coal at low concentrations, may become highly concentrated within the ash. These combustion byproducts are then piped out in a water-ash slurry to the surface impoundments where the ash weathers to- a clay- like substance …
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Environmental NGO-Private Sector Partnerships: A Tool to Generate Business Value and Protect the Natural World
… leverage their unique expertise, while blending resources to achieve more comprehensive and sustainable solutions to existing environmental problems. This project examines the use of partnerships between environmental NGOs and the private sector to manage complex environmental problems, providing …
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Economics of Managing Loblolly Pine Plantations for Increased Wildlife Biodiversity
<p>The goal of this thesis was to identify the differences between the costs incurred and revenues gained from managing loblolly pine (<em>Pinus taeda</em>) plantations in East Texas for strictly timber production or a combination of timber production and wildlife biodiversity. Management regimes …
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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse
<p>Using the Marine Aquarium Fish Trade as a case study, I propose an integrated theoretical framework in green criminology that strengthens the political economic "treadmill of production" theory (see Lynch et al., 2013) by incorporating an analysis of the "cultural grease" that ensures the …
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We All Want to Change the World: How Behavioral Insights Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
… Incorporating these biases into mainstream economics presents policy makers with a number of novel, cost-effective tools to curb carbon emissions, and compels a reevaluation of what it means to act rationally.</p>
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