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Molly K. Macauley
Research Director and Senior Fellow
202-328-5043
macauley@rff.org
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Molly Macauley's research interests include space economics and policy, the economics of new technologies, recycling and solid waste management, climate policy, and the use of economic incentives in environmental regulation. She also serves as an RFF research director.
  
Featured Publications
Climate Adaptation Policy: The Role and Value of Information
Molly K. Macauley
Issue Brief 10-10 | May 2010
 
Waste Not, Want Not: Economic and Legal Challenges of Regulation-Induced Innovation in Waste Technology and Management
Molly K Macauley
Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management | Forthcoming | Related Discussion Paper 09-11
 
Forests in Climate Policy: Technical, Institutional and Economic Issues in Measurement and Monitoring
Molly Macauley
Issues in Modeling Greenhouse Gas Management | National Research Council/Energy Information Administration | Issues in Modeling Greenhouse Gas Management | National Research Council
 
Why We Need Accurate Maps of the World’s Forests
Daniel Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Roger A. Sedjo
Resources | Winter 2010 (174)
 
Assessing Investment in Future Landsat Instruments: The Example of Forest Carbon Offsets
Molly K. Macauley, Jhih-Shyang Shih
RFF Discussion Paper 10-14 | March 2010
 
Public-Private Co-Production of Risk: Government Indemnification of the Commercial Space Launch Industry
Tim Brennan, Carolyn Kousky, and Molly Macauley
Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy | 2010 | Vol. 1, Issue 1 | Article 7 | Related Discussion Paper 09-38
 
Spectrum Management for Science in the 21st Century
Committee on Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum, National Research Council
March 2010
 
The Value of Space Weather Information
Molly K. Macauley
48th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium | American Astronautical Society and NASA | Greenbelt, MD | March 10, 2010
 
Forest Measurement and Monitoring: Technical Capacity and “How Good Is Good Enough?”
Molly K. Macauley, Daniel Morris, Roger A. Sedjo, Kate Farley, Brent L. Sohngen
RFF Report | December 2009
 
Forest Carbon Index: The Geography of Forests in Climate Solutions
Adrian Deveny, Janet Nackoney, Nigel Purvis, Mykola Gusti, Raymond J. Kopp, Erin Myers Madeira, Andrew R Stevenson, Georg Kindermann, Molly K. Macauley, Michael Obersteiner
RFF Report | December 2009
 
Climate Change and Policy Considerations: New Roles for Earth Science
Molly K. Macauley
Issue Brief 09-02 | January 2009
 
The Elusive Challenge of Estimating Costs
Molly Macauley and Prabirendra Chatterjee
Space News | Vol. 18 No. 30 | pp. 18-19
 
From Science to Applications: Determinants of Diffusion in the Use of Earth Observations
Molly K. Macauley, Joe Maher, Jhih-Shyang Shih
Journal of Terrestrial Observations | Forthcoming
 
Climate Policy: Carbon Offsets and Earth Observations, Economics, and Measurement
Molly Macauley
Climate Change, Global Change | NASA | Washington, DC | November 23, 2009
 
Calibrating the Science and Economics of Climate Policy
Molly K. Macauley
Space News | Vol. 20 Issue 42 | pp. 21-22
 
More Than a Wing and a Prayer: Government Indemnification of the Commercial Space Launch Industry
Timothy J. Brennan, Carolyn Kousky, Molly K. Macauley
RFF Discussion Paper 09-38 | September 2009
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Economics and Earth Observations: Issues in Measuring Global Forests
Molly K. Macauley
California as Seen From Space | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | September 14, 2009
 
Towards a World Forest Virtual Observatory
Molly K. Macauley
Environmental Decision Making | Cal Tech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory | UCSB | July 8, 2009
 
Earth Observations in Social Science Research for Management of Natural Resources and the Environment: Identifying the Landsat Contribution
Molly K. Macauley
Journal of Terrestrial Observation | Spring 2009 | Vol. 1, No. 2 | pp. 31-53 | Related Discussion Paper 09-01
 
The Policy Relevance of Science
Molly K Macauley and Daniel F. Morris
Space News | Vol. 12, No. 2 | p. 19
 
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