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| Are Forests Making a Comeback? |
| RFF Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo and colleagues Pekka E. Kauppi and Jesse H. Ausubel talk to Resources about their paper (recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), which offers evidence that the world's forests are gaining ground. |
| RFF President Briefs Senate Agriculture Committee on Energy, Oil Dependency |
| RFF President Phil Sharp testifies that strong, persistent policies are needed to ensure that benefits from research and technological developments in the field of energy are realized. |
| What Drives Telecommuting? |
| RFF researchers Margaret Walls, Elena Safirova and Yi Jiang find significant differences between individuals who telecommute and those who do not. |
| RFF Scholars Awarded Prize for Economics of Climate Change |
| Richard Newell and William Pizer have been awarded the Petry Research Prize for the Economics of Climate Change by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. |
| Hans Landsberg Memorial Lecture |
| On December 6, RFF welcomed Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling to discuss global warming and the related science, risks, and policy options. |
| New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President |
| Thought-provoking and targeted suggestions intended to refocus public attention on the key energy and environmental issues confronting the U.S. today. |
| Genetically Engineered Trees: Promise and Concerns |
| Transgenic trees offer potential solutions to a number of forestry problems, yet the regulatory history for these trees in the United States is very short, explains senior fellow Roger Sedjo in a new RFF Report. |
| Energy Independence: Fantasies, Facts, Options |
| Although energy independence has long been a political rallying cry, Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter argues that independence from oil -- foreign or domestic -- is the more viable policy goal.
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| Assessing China's Economic, Energy, and Resource Environment |
| This RFF Council briefing assesses the state of progress of the world's largest nation and analyzes its impact on the global economy. |
| Energy Independence won't happen any time soon. |
| The short-term fixes won't make much difference in the way the world oil market works. Policies that could make a real difference have lead times measured in decades. |
| Gas Pumps and Voting Booths |
| The October First Wednesday Seminar explores energy and environment in the midterm elections. |
| Smart Growth at 10 |
| Abstracts are due Oct. 30th for this conference on the 10-year anniversary of Maryland's Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiative. The event is co-sponsored by RFF and the University of Maryland's Center for Smart Growth Research and Education. |
| Sample Representativeness |
| Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick and David A. Evans have released the proceedings from the workshop they hosted exploring sample representatives in stated preference surveys. |
| The Role of Water in Middle East Conflict & Cooperation: Perspectives on Jordan and its Neighbors |
| Editor Munther J. Haddadin speaks at an RFF Press Book Launch |
| Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? |
| 2005-06 Gilbert White Fellow Robert Weiner finds that speculators' influence on oil prices and price volatility is at best limited, suggesting policymakers should be less concerned with hedge-fund activity in oil, and instead focus on supply and demand shocks. |
| Bite the Barrel |
| Visiting Scholar Heather L. Ross proposes an "Oil Freedom Fund" to advance energy security by taxing domestic oil production to develop new oil-saving technologies. |
| The Role of Forest Sinks in a Post-Kyoto World |
| Senior Fellow Roger Sedjo and Masahiro Amano discuss the potential of forests as a low-cost, effective way to sequester atmospheric carbon post 2012. |
| Swimming Upstream |
| Resources interviews Senior Fellow James Sanchirico about the challenges of managing the world's fisheries. |
| Disproving Conventional Wisdom |
| Fellow Urvashi Narain examines the relationship between dependence on the environment and poverty in India. |
| Siting Renewable Energy Facilities |
| RFF Fellow Shalini Vajjhala explores the relationship between state renewable energy resources and transmission line siting difficulty |
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