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PROFILE | Molly Macauley's research interests include space economics and policy, the economics of new technologies for research and understanding of the interactions between people and natural resources, the use of economic incentives in environmental regulation, climate and earth science, and recycling and solid waste management. She serves on numerous special committees of the National Academy of Sciences and federal agencies.
She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Board of advisers for the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary, and the Women in Aerospace Scholarship Committee. Macauley has testified extensively before Congress and is the author of more than 80 articles, reports, and books.
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| Featured Publications | | Strategically Placing Green Infrastructure: Cost-Effective Land Conservation in the Floodplain | | Kousky, C., S. M. Olmstead, M. A. Walls, and M. Macauley | | Environmental Science & Technology | DOI: 10.1021/es303938c | | | | Forest Carbon Economics: What We Know, What We Do Not, and Whether it Matters | | Molly K Macauley and Nathan Richardson | | Climate Change Economics | December 2012 | Vol. 3, No.4 | | | | Prizes, Patents and Technology Procurement: A Proposed Analytical Framework | | Timothy J. Brennan, Molly K. Macauley, Kate Whitefoot | | RFF Discussion Paper 11-21-REV | December 2012 | | | | Challenges in Managing Long-Lived Environmental Problems | | Molly K Macauley | | US Department of the Interior | DOI Office of Policy Analysis | Washington DC | November 5, 2012 | | | | Forever Ours: Technology, Economics, and Institutions for Managing Long-Lived Environmental Problems | | Molly K. Macauley | | The Carolyn and Edward Wenk, Jr. Lecture in Technology and Public Policy | Johns Hopkins University | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD | April 27, 2012 | | | | Managing Risk through Liability, Regulation, and Innovation: Organizational Design for Spill Containment in Deepwater Drilling Operations | | Nathan D. Richardson, Molly K. Macauley, Mark A. Cohen, Robert Anderson, and Adam Stern | | Risk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy | 2011 | Vol. 2, No. 2 | Related Discussion Paper 10-63 | | | | Forests in Climate Policy: Technical, Institutional and Economic Issues in Measurement and Monitoring | | Molly Macauley and Roger Sedjo | | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. | June 2011 | Vol. 15, No. 5 | pp. 499-513 | | | | Forest Carbon Offsets: Possibilities and Limitations | | Molly K. Macauley and Roger Sedjo | | Journal of Forestry | forthcoming | | | | The Value of Information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications | | Ramanan Laxminarayan and Molly K. Macauley | | London: Springer | Forthcoming | | | | Using Satellites to Sustain Earth | | Molly K. Macauley | | LiveBetter Magazine | May/June No. 10 | Spring 2011 | | | | Seeing the Forests and the Trees: The Role of Technology, Economics, and Law in US Climate Policy | | Molly K. Macauley and Nathan Richardson | | Berkeley Symposium on Law and Technology | UC Berkeley School of Law | Berkeley CA | March 3, 2011 | | | | Organizational Design for Spill Containment in Deepwater Drilling Operations in the Gulf of Mexico: Assessment of the Marine WellContainment Company (MWCC) | | Robert Anderson, Mark A Cohen, Molly K. Macauley, Nathan Richardson, Adam Stern | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-63 | January 2011 | | Related journal article | | | | Adapting to Climate Change:The Public Policy Response | | Daniel F. Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern, Tiffany Clements | | Issue Brief 10-19 | November 2010 | | | | Earth Observations in US National Space Strategy | | Molly K Macauley | | Astropolitics | Vol. 8, No. 2-3 | 205-219 | | | | Valuing Information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications for Realizing Social Benefits | | Molly K. Macauley and Ramanan Laxminarayan | | Space Policy | November 2010 | Vol. 26, No. 4. | pp. 249-551 | | | | Climate Adaptation Policy: The Role and Value of Information | | Molly K. Macauley | | Issue Brief 10-10 | May 2010 | | | | Earth Observations in a National Space Strategy | | Molly K. Macauley | | Space Strategy | Eligar Sadeh | NY, NY: Routledge | 2011 | | | | 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 | Vol. 37, No. 2. | pp. 113-128 | 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 F. Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Roger A. Sedjo | | Resources | Winter 2010 (174) | | | | View All Related Publications |
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REPORTS | | The Supply Chain and Industrial Organization of Rare Earth Materials: Implications for the U.S. Wind Energy Sector | | Jhih-Shyang Shih, Joshua Linn, Timothy J. Brennan, Joel Darmstadter, Molly K. Macauley, Louis Preonas | | RFF Report | February 2012 | | | | | The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Precipitation and Flooding: A Case Study in Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River Basin | | Carolyn Kousky, Sheila M. Olmstead, Margaret A. Walls, Adam Stern, Molly K. Macauley | | RFF Report | November 2011 | | | | | Reforming Institutions and Managing Extremes U.S. Policy Approaches for Adapting to a Changing Climate | | Daniel F. Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern | | RFF Report | May 2011 | | | | | Spectrum Management for Science in the 21st Century | | Committee on Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum, National Research Council | | March 2010 | | | | | Forest Measurement and Monitoring: Technical Capacity and “How Good Is Good Enough?” | | Molly K. Macauley, Daniel F. 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 | | | | | United States Civil Space Policy: Summary of a Workshop | | Molly Macauley and Joseph Alexander | | National Academy of Sciences | 03/31/08 | | | | | Uses and Limitations of Observations, Data, Forecasts, and Other Projections in Decision Support for Selected Sectors and Regions: US Climate Change Science Program, Synthesis and Assessment Report Product 5.1 | | Molly Macauley and Fred Vukovich, Technical Editors, with Greg Glass, Holly Hartmann, Daewon Byun, and David Renne | | NASA, OMB, OSTP | 03/31/08 | | | | | Provision of Waste Management and Recycling Services by a Tatweer / National Projects Joint Venture within the Tatweer Zones, Dubai UAE | | Scott Hassell, Molly Macauley, Shelly Culbertson, Mike Toman, Ghassan Schbley, Brian Shannon, and Ian Cook | | the RAND Corporation | 03/15/08 | | | | | The Role of Earth Observations in Revolutionizing Management of Natural Resources and the Environment: Identifying the LANDSAT Contribution | | Molly Macauley | | USGS | 12/14/07 | | | | | Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond | | Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, National Research Council | | Note: As a member of the authoring committee, Macauley contributed written material for several sections of this report. | July 2007 | | | | | The Prospective Value of Space Solar Power as Rnewable ENergy: Implications for the Biosphere and Electricity Reliabilty | | Molly K. Macauley and Jhih-Shyang Shih | | NSF/NASA/EPRI | August 31, 2006 | | | | | The Value of Information: A Background Paper on Measuring the Contribution of Earth Science Applications to National Initiatives | | Molly K. Macauley | | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Office of Space Science | September 2002 | | | | | The Organization of Local Solid Waste and Recycling Markets: Public and Private Provisions of Services and the Nature of Contracts | | Molly K. Macauley and Margaret A. Walls | | Economic and Social Research Institute of Japan | February 2002 | | | | | Implications of Remote Sensing Technology | | Molly K. Macauley and Timothy J. Brennan | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | March 1996 | | | | | Spatially and Intertemporally Efficient Waste Management | | Molly K. Macauley, Eduardo Ley, and Stephen Salant | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | 1996 | | | | | NASA's Earth Observations Commercialization Program: A Model Government Approach | | Molly K. Macauley | | John C. Stennis Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1992 | | | | | Using Economic Incentives to Regulate Toxic Substances | | Molly K. Macauley, Michael Bowes, and Karen Palmer | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | March 1992 | | | | | Statistical Information on Advanced Materials: The Role of Government | | Molly K. Macauley | | U.S. Bureau of Mines | 1990 | | | | | Encounter with the Advanced Materials | | Molly K. Macauley and Hans Landsberg | | U.S. Department of the Interior | February 1988 | | | | |
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