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| | Forest Sequestration: Performance in Selected Countries in the Kyoto Period and its Potential Roles in Post Kyoto Agreements | | Masahiro Amano and Roger A. Sedjo | | Waseda University, Tokyo. Funded by the Global Environment Research Fund of the Japanese Ministry of Environment. | March 23, 2006 | | | | | | Sedjo's Comments on 'Global Markets and the Health of America’s Forests: A Forest Service Perspective,' | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Journal of Forestry. | forthcoming | | | | | | “Timber, Fibre and Fuel,” | | Neil Sampson, Roger Sedjo and others | | Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Volume I Island Press, Washington, DC | Rashid Hassan, Robert Scholes and Neville Ash | Washington: Island Press | 2005 | | | | | | “Voluntary eco-labeling and the price premium.
| | Roger A. Sedjo and Stephen Swallow | | Labeling Strategies in Environmental Policy | Mario Teisi, editor. | UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited. | 2007 | | | | | | Appreciation: Marion Clawson's Long View of the Land | | Resources Editor | | Resources | Summer 1998 (132) | | | | | | A Comparison of Timber Models for Use in Public Policy Analysis | | Brent L. Sohngen, Roger A. Sedjo | | RFF Discussion Paper 96-12 | March 1996 | | Abstract: In this paper, we compare and contrast two types of timber models that have been used for public policy analysis. These models have been variously used to predict price, inventory and market welfare impacts under different exogenous forces that impact timber markets. The framework and theory for each model type is presented and discussed. We then thoroughly test the two model types across six potential exogenous shocks to timber markets, ranging from instantaneous demand shocks to gradual supply adjustments. Our comparison indicates that these models predict potentially important differences in timber market behavior. These differences are important to consider for those who do public policy analysis. | | | | A Global Forestry Initiative | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Resources | Fall 1992 (109) | | | | | | A Spatial-Intertemporal Model for Tropical Forest Management Applied to Khao Yai National Park, Thailand | | Heidi J. Albers | | RFF Discussion Paper 01-35 | October 2001 | | Abstract: This paper discusses the application of a spatial-intertemporal model for tropical forest management to Khao Yai National Park in Thailand. This type of model, especially the spatial components, finds different optimal land allocations than do traditional models at empirically relevant levels of benefits. The spatial analysis here suggests that most of this park can be best used as a preserved area and also provides support for expanding the park into an adjacent unpopulated area. The analysis demonstrates that the park’s benefits to regional agriculture and villagers are large enough that preservation can proceed without international support, and that local people, as a group, have incentives to maintain most of the area as preserved land. Although the data cannot support a full case-study, these results underscore the need for empirical assessment of the spatial aspects of protected area management.
| | | | A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service | | Roger A. Sedjo, Editor | | RFF Press | 2000 | | | Description: What lies ahead for America's first conservation-based agency? What objectives should it set? What reforms will be most effective in allowing the Forest Service to carry out its mission?
A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service is both a "look forward" and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the agency. The engaging, non-technical contributions of scholars, policymakers, and forestry officials provide broad reflections on the agency's past and future, contemporary perspectives about the use and stewardship of public lands, and insightful analyses about the science involved in the practice of "scientific management." The authors offer challenging ideas for evaluating the performance of the Forest Service, reshaping its mission, enhancing its effectiveness, improving internal morale, and increasing public participation in the agency.
Roger Sedjo and his coauthors intend to stimulate renewed attention to an agency that has had a history of both distinction and controversy. They have developed a work that will have great appeal to long-time observers of the Forest Service; past and present employees of the agency; industry, activists, and advocacy groups; public officials; and anyone with an interest in public land use and the future of U.S. forests.
The topics included in this volume were first presented at a national conference sponsored by Resources for the Future and the U.S. Forest Service. A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service is dedicated to the memory of Marion Clawson, a devoted scholar and expert in resource and environmental economics. | | Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change: Some Estimates | | Roger A. Sedjo | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-06 | January 2010 | | Abstract: This paper is based on a World Bank–sponsored effort to develop a global estimate of adaptation costs, considering the implications of global climate change for industrial forestry. It focuses on the
anticipated impacts of climate change on forests broadly, on industrial wood production in particular, and on Brazil, South Africa, and China. The aim is to identify likely damages and possible mitigating investments or activities. The study draws from the existing literature and the results of earlier investigations reporting the latest comprehensive projections in the literature. The results provide perspective as well as estimates and projections of the impacts of climate change on forests and forestry in various regions and countries. Because climate change will increase forest productivity in some areas while decreasing it elsewhere the impacts vary for positive to negative by region. In general, production
increases will shift from low-latitude regions in the short term to high latitude regions in the long term. Planted forests will offer a major vehicle for adaptation. | | | | Alaska in Transition | | George W. Rogers | | RFF Press | 1960 | | | | | | America's National Parks and Their Keepers | | Ronald A. Foresta | | RFF Press | 1984 | | | Description: "…Is certainly the best history of the National Park Service yet to appear. It is a sophisticated work that analyzes the service's inner dynamics as well as its complex relationships with Congress, the executive branch, and the public, especially environmental groups." -Journal of Forest History | | America's Renewable Resources | | Kenneth D. Frederick and Roger A. Sedjo, Editors | | RFF Press | 1991 | | | Description: By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on renewable resources--water, forests, rangeland, cropland and soils, and wildlife--which possess the capacity to restore themselves after they have be consumed. Because this capacity can be destroyed and the time required for restoration can be very long, a balance in thier use is necessary to sustain continued productivity.
In arresting fashion, the authors trace the history of each resource's use from early colonial times through periods of dramatic, sometimes cataclysmic, changes in its utilization by an expanding, diversifying society. They show how unforeseen consequences have forced social institutions into existence and compelled policymakers, especially at the federal level, to deal with problems for which they were largely unprepared. Complicating the effort is the fact that many of these resources are common property, and have been available on a first-come-first-served basis. Competing claims to their use have many times erupted into legal and even physical conflict. A concluding chapter examines the implications of the growing demand for outdoor recreation on these renewable resources.
America's Renewable Resources, by examining changes in demand, technologies, policies, and institutions, will assist both policymakers and the public at large to look past short-term events to the conditions fundamental to maintaining our future economic and environmental well-being. | | An Analysis of Global Timber Markets | | Brent L. Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn, Roger A. Sedjo, Kenneth S. Lyon | | RFF Discussion Paper 97-37 | May 1997 | | Abstract: This paper presents a model of global timber markets that captures the evolution of a broad array of forest resources and timber market margins over time. These margins include the inaccessible northern and tropical margins, plantation establishment, and timberland management. A baseline case is presented and discussed. Five alternative scenarios are then presented. These scenarios allow us to consider several important questions about timber market behavior and the future supply of industrial fiber: (1) What happens along the northern and the tropical inaccessible margins? (2) What role do timber plantations play? and (3) How do shifts in management intensity interact with market forces? The baseline case suggests that both prices and harvests rise over the next 150 years, with most of the increased harvest coming from existing and newly established plantations. Future gains in harvests result mainly from intensification of management, through additional plantation establishment and higher levels of management on selected forests rather than higher harvests in currently inaccessible forests. Prices and harvests are most sensitive to alternative demand and plantation establishment scenarios, and less sensitive to costs of accessing extensive forests. | | | | An Overview of Changes in the Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services Through Forest Land Markets in the U.S. | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Management and Environmental Quality | October 2007 | vol. 18 issue 6 | forthcoming | | | | | | Analyzing the Economic Impact of Climate Change on Global Timber Markets | | Brent L. Sohngen, Roger A. Sedjo, Robert Mendelsohn, Kenneth S. Lyon | | RFF Discussion Paper 96-08 | January 1996 | | Abstract: In this paper, we show how ecological and economic models can be linked to determine the economic impact of climate change on global timber markets. We begin by discussing some of the important issues relevant to global impact analyses such as this. We then outline our general modeling framework and discuss the particular models that will be used. Finally, we discuss some of the important issues involved with linking the two types of models. The authors would like to acknowledge the help of Ron Neilson, who provided us with information, data, and output from the ecological model, MAPSS (Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System). | | | | Are Forests Making a Comeback? New Findings Suggest Optimism on Global Outlook | | Roger A. Sedjo, Pekka E. Kauppi, Jesse Ausubel | | Resources | Winter 2007 (164) | | | | | | 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 | | Abstract: We extend the theory of quality-adjusted expenditure indices to estimate benefits from public investment. In particular, we model the selection of new instruments (in the form of remote-sensing devices) to enhance the longest-operating U.S. satellite-based land-observing program, Landsat. We then apply the model to the use of Landsat in measuring global forest carbon sequestration. Improving measurement of the role of forests in storing carbon has become a prominent concern in climate policy. By characterizing the value of Landsat data in forest measurement, the expenditure function allows us to
help inform public investment decisions in the satellite system. The expenditure function also makes explicit the sensitivity of the selection of instruments for the satellites to the value of Landsat information, thus linking instrument choice explicitly to policy design. | | | | At the Intersection of Climate and Deforestation: Can We Solve Two Problems at Once? | | | Resources | Fall/Winter 2008 (167) | | | | | | Biotechnology and Planted Forests: Assessment of Potential and Possibilities | | Roger A. Sedjo | | RFF Discussion Paper 00-06 | December 1999 | | Abstract: This paper addresses the potential impact of the introduction and development of biotechnology on planted forests. It includes a description of some recent innovations in forestry including the use of traditional breeding, and also more recent innovations involving biotechnology, including the development of clonal propagation and the use of modern molecular biology techniques. In addition to describing these innovations, the paper undertakes an assessment of their probable impact on future production of the forest industry, on the global timber supply, and on future markets for timber and wood products.
The paper offers a description of recent innovations in tree breeding and biotechnology, including a discussion of innovations in agriculture that have promise for forestry. This is followed by a discussion of the current role of biotechnology in forestry and an assessment of the various types of biotechnological innovations that could be forthcoming in the next decade and beyond. Additionally, the paper examines the likely effects of biotechnology on the economics of forestry. An estimate is provided for the potential cost savings and/or value increases expected from the various innovations. Using these estimates, a quantitative assessment is made of global potential economic returns to the most immediate and major innovation, the herbicide tolerant trait. Additionally, estimates are made of the potential impact of cost savings realized from this type of biotechnology on future timber supplies in the global timber market. | | | |
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