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 | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Senior Fellow and Director, Forest Economics and Policy Program | |
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PROFILE |
Roger Sedjo is a senior fellow and the director of RFF's forest economics and policy program. His research interests include forests and global environmental problems; climate change and biodiversity; public lands issues; long-term sustainability of forests; industrial forestry and demand; timber supply modeling; international forestry; global forest trade; forest biotechnology; and land use change. He has written or edited 14 books related to forestry and natural resources.
Sedjo has served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Committee of Scientists and has cochaired the committee of authors who wrote the chapter on biological sinks for the International Panel on Climate Change's Third Assessment Report on climate change mitigation through forestry and other land use measures.
Sedjo also has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other international organizations in more than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, Russia, Romania, Estonia, and Thailand.
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| Featured Publications | | Forestland Ownership Changes in the United States and Sweden | | Lars Lonnsteadt and Roger Sedjo | | Forest Policy and Economics | Fall 2011 | September 2011 | | | | “Wood as a Major Feedstock for Biofuel Production in the U.S.: Impacts on Forests and International Trade | | Roger Sedjo and Brent Sohngen | | Journal of Sustainable Forests. | July 2012 | forthcoming | | | | “Biomass Sequestration, Energy and Global Change,” | | Roger Sedjo | | International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics | H. Folmer and T. Tietenberg, eds. | Edward Elgar | 2010 | | | | Making the case for new empirical research in wildfire economics and policy | | Carolyn Kousky, Sheila Olmstead, and Roger Sedjo | | Dean Lueck and Karen Bradshaw | Washington, DC: Resources for the Future | 2011 | | | | Forests in Climate Policy: Technical, Institutional and Economic Issues in Measurement and Monitoring | | Molly K. Macauley and Roger A. Sedjo | | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Forthcoming | | | | Far-reaching deleterious impacts of regulations on research and environmental studies of recombinant DNA-modified perennial biofuel crops in the USA | | Strauss, S.H., D..L. Kershen, J.H. Bouton, T.P. Redick, H. Tan, and R. A. Sedjo. | | BioScience | October 2010. | Vol. 60, No. 9. | pp. 729-741. | | | | How do Environmental Regulations Affect Investments in Biofuel and Biofuel R&D: The case of Transgenic Trees | | Roger A. Sedjo | | AgBioForum. | Fall 2010 | forthcoming | | | | Forests, Biodiversity and Avoided Deforestation in Latin America | | Roger A. Sedjo and Juha Siikamaki | | Latin American Development Priorities – Costs and Benefit | Edited by Bjorn Lomborg | NY: Cambridge University Press | 2010 | | | | “Some Limits of Wood Biomass for Cellulosic Biofuels | | Roger A. Sedjo and Brent Sohngen | | Milken Institute Review | Fourth Quarter 2009 | Vol. 11, No. 4. | pps. 51-55. | | | | The Implications for the Timber Sector of US Biofuel Mandates | | Roger Sedjo | | Forest Sector Modeling Conference | College of Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle | University of Washington, Seattle | November 18, 2008 | | | | Carbon Credits for Avoided Deforestation | | Roger A. Sedjo, Brent Sohngen. | | Icfai's Professional Reference Book: Carbon Credits: An Introduction | N.A. | New Delhi: Icfai | 2008 | | | | Sedjo's Comments on 'Global Markets and the Health of America’s Forests: A Forest Service Perspective,' | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Journal of Forestry. | forthcoming | | | | Returning Forest analyzed with the forest identity | | Pekka E. Kauppi, Jesse H. Ausubel, Jingyun Fang, Alexander Mather, Roger A. Sedjo, and Paul E. Waggoner | | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 14, . | Fall 2006 | Vol. 103, no.46 | pp.17574-17579 | | | | Valuing Biodiversity for Pharmaceutical Research (Reprint) | | R. David Simpson, Roger Sedjo and J. Reid | | Environmental Economics: Critical Concepts | Charles Mason and Erwin Bulte | UK: Routledge | 2007 | | | | Will the Developing Countries be the Early Adopters of Genetically Engineered Forests | | Roger A. Sedjo | | AgBioForum | Vol. 8, No.4. | pp 1-19. | | | | Valuing Biodiversity for Use in Pharmaceutical Research | | R. David Simpson, Roger A. Sedjo and John W. Reid | | Journal of Political Economy | Winter 1996 | vol. 104, no. 1 | pp. 163 - 185 | | | | Voluntary Eco-Labeling and the Price Premium | | Roger A. Sedjo and S.K. Swallow | | Land Economics | May 2002 | Vol. 87, No. 2 | pp. 272-284 | | | | Accounting for Sequestered Carbon: The Question of Permanence | | Gregg Marland, Kristy Fruit, and Roger Sedjo | | Environment Science and Policy | 2001 | Vol. 4, No. 6 | pp. 259-268 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS | | Local Communities, Global Perspectives: The Spatial Scale of Forest Policy Implications | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Forest Policy: Ready for Renaissance | J.M. Calhoun, ed. | Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press | 1998 | | | | | Property Rights and the Protection of Plant Genetic Resources | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Seeds and Sovereignty: The Use and Control of Plant Genetic Resources | J.R. Kloppenburg Jr., ed. | Durham, NC: Duke University Press | 1988 | Chapter 13 | | | | | The Adequacy of Long-Term Timber Supply: A Worldwide Assessment | | Kenneth Lyon and Roger Sedjo | | Forest Sector and Trade Models | P. Cardillichio, D. Adams and R. Haynes, eds. | Seattle, WA: College of Forest Resources | 1987 | | | | | Forest Resources of the World: Forests in Transition | | Roger A. Sedjo | | The Global Forest Sector: An Analytical Perspective | M. Kallio, D. Dykstra and C. Binkley, eds. | New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons | 1987 | | | | | Below-Cost Timber Sales: A Summary | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Below-Cost Timber Sales | D. Le Master, B. Flamm, and J. Hendee, eds. | Washington, D.C.: Wilderness Society | 1987 | | | | | World Foresight Planning in the Resource Context | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Foresight Planning: Realities and Resiliency at the Policy Interface | Gerald Stairs, ed. | Durham, NC: Duke University Press | 1986 | | | | | Forest Plantations in the Southern Hemisphere and Their Implications for Temperate Climate Forests | | Roger A. Sedjo | | TIMS Studies in Management Science: Systems Analysis in Forestry and Forest Industries | Markku Kallio, Ake Andersson, Risto Seppala and Anne Morgan, eds. | Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers | 1986 | | | | | Outlook for the World and United States Timber Supply | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Assessing Timberland Investment Opportunities | Madison, WI: Forest Products Research Society | 1986 | | | | | Investments in Forestry: Resources, Land Use and Public Policy | | Roger A. Sedjo, ed. | | Boulder, CO: Westview Press | 1985 | | | | | Market and Nonmarket Influences in Urban/Forest Interface Conflicts | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Land Use and Forest Resources in a Changing Environment: The Urban/Forest Interface | Gordon A. Bradley, ed. | Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press | 1984 | | | | | History of Sustained Yield Concept and Its Application to Developing Countries | | Roger Sedjo and Marion Clawson | | History of Sustained-Yield Forestry | Harold Steen, ed. | Durham, NC: Forest History Society | 1984 | | | | | International Forest Plantations: An Economic Assessment | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Strategies and Designs for Afforestation | Wageningen, The Netherlands: Pudoc Scientific Publishers | 1984 | | | | | Evaluation of Investment Priorities | | Roger A. Sedjo | | New Forests for a Changing World | Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters | 1984 | | | | | The Comparative Economics of Plantation Forestry | | Roger A. Sedjo | | RFF Press | 1983 | | Description: Examines the economic return to representative plantation forests in twelve regions of the world and analyzes the ecological implications of tropical plantation forestry. | | Governmental Interventions, Social Needs and the Management of U.S. Forests | | Roger A. Sedjo, Editor | | Johns Hopkins University Press | 1983 | | | | | The World Supply of Wood: Economic Supply | | Roger A. Sedjo | | International Trade in Forest Products | James Bethel, ed. | Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press | 1983 | | | | | Application of Optimal Control Theory to Estimate Long-Term Supply of Timber | | Roger A. Sedjo and Kenneth Lyon | | Forest Sector Models | Bicester, U.K.: A.B. Academic Publishers | 1983 | | | | | Forest Plantations, Production and Trade in the Pacific Basin | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Renewable Resources in the Pacific | H.E. English and Anthony Scott, eds. | Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre | 1982 | | | | | Forest Policy | | Roger A. Sedjo and Marion Clawson | | The Management of Renewable Resources in Developing Countries | Charles Howe, ed. | Boulder, CO; San Francisco, CA; and Oxford, U.K.: Westview Press | 1982 | | | | | Global Forests: Issues for Six Billion People | | Jan Laarman and Roger Sedjo | | New York, NY: McGraw-Hill | 1991 | | | | | Postwar Trends in U.S. Forest Products Trade | | Roger A. Sedjo | | RFF Press | 1981 | | Description: An examination and analysis of the structure of the world's production and trade in forest products, with emphasis on North America and particularly the United States. Useful as a reference to trade in major forest products by commodity and country and as a comprehensive description of U.S. forest products trade by region. | | Issues U.S. International Forest Products Trade | | Roger A. Sedjo | | RFF Press | 1981 | | Description: Examines the future role of the United States in the world forest economy, the effect on the United States of trade restrictions, and effects of log-import restrictions. | | Exotic Plantations and Their Implications for U.S. Forest Products Trade | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Issues in U.S. International Forest Products Trade | Roger A. Sedjo, ed. | RFF Press | 1981 | | | | | Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of a Log Export Prohibition: Some Policy Implications | | Roger A. Sedjo with A. Clark Wiseman | | Issues in U.S. International Forest Products Trade | Roger A. Sedjo, ed. | RFF Press | 1981 | | | | | U.S. Comparative Advantage in Timber Growing | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Timber Demand: The Future is Now | Madison, WI: Forest Products Research Society | 1980 | | | | | U.S. Dependence on Canadian Resources | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. Dependency on Canadian Natural Resources | Frank Convery and Boyd Strain, eds. | Durham, NC: Duke University Press | 1979 | | | | | Policy Alternatives for Nonindustrial Private Forests | | Roger A. Sedjo and David M. Ostermeier | | Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters | 1978 | | | | | Combining Regression Analysis and Input-Output in Korea's Third Five-Year Sectoral Model | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Basic Documents and Selected Papers of Korea's Third Five-Year Plan | S. H. Jo and W. Y. Park, eds. | Seoul, Korea: Sogang University Press | 1972 | | | | | The Turning Point for the Korean Economy | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Basic Documents and Selected Papers of Korea's Third Five-Year Plan | S. H. Jo and W. Y. Park, eds. | Seoul, Korea: Sogang University Press | 1972 | | | | |
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