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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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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS | | Estimating Global Carbon Sequestration Costs | | Roger A. Sedjo and Brent Sohngen | | Working Group Meeting, Multi-Gas Mitigation and Climate Change | Modelers Group | Washington, DC | December 4, 2002 | | | | | Definitional Challenges and Realities of Sustainable Forestry with Respect to Management and Economics | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Forest Futures Conference | Williamette University, Salem, OR | September 25, 2002 | | | | | Land Use: Pasture, Crops and Biodiversity Competition | | Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson | | Bretton Woods Conference | October 1, 2002 | | | | | Future Prospects for the Forest Industry in the US | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Megatrends in the U.S. Forestry Sector, Society of American Forester National Convention | Society of American Forester | Winston-Salem, NC | October 8, 2002 | | | | | Issues and Recent Experience Related to Science and Policy in Sustainable Forest Management | | Roger A, Sedjo | | Great Lakes Forest Alliance: 1st Annual Sustainable Forest Management Summit | Great Lakes Forest Alliance | Green Bay, WI | July 17, 2002 | | | | | Renting and Trading Carbon Offsets: Carbon Sequestered in the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Question of Permanence | | Roger A. Sedjo(presentor), G. Marland, and K. Fruit | | Concerted Action for Tradable Emissions Permits (CATEP) workshop | London School of Economics | London, UK | March 25, 2002 | | | | | Tropical Forests and Poverty Alleviation | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Tropenbos International Seminar on Forest Valuation & Innovative Financing | | | | | Changing Productivity in Forestry | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Austrailan Productivity Commission | Canberra, Australia | February 12, 2002 | | | | | Discussant Issues in Land and Forest Management | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | American Economics Association meeting | Atlanta, GA | January 6, 2002 | | | | | Discussant International Environmental Policy-Making and Scholarship: Markets, Treaties, and Science | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Annual Research Conference, Association of Public Policy, Analysis & Management | Association of Public Policy, Analysis & Management | Washington, DC | November 3, 2001 | | | | | Policy Issues for the US Forest Service | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Seminar | New York Uinversity Law School | NYU Law School, New York City | September 22, 2005 | | | | | Deforestation, Goverance, Trade and EKC: A Comment | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Colloquium on Socioeconomic Drivers of Green House Gass Emissions | World Resource Institute/EPA | World Resource Instiute, Washington, DC | September 29, 2005 | | | | | Carbon Sequestration: Approaches of Japan, Canada and the EU | | Roger A. Sedjo and Masahiro Amano | | Electrical Utility Environmental Conference | EUEC | Tucson, AZ | January 24, 2006 | | | | | Carbon Sequestration Costs and Global Forests | | Brent Sohngen and Roger A. Sedjo | | EMF 21 -Multigas Mitigation and Climate Change Meeting | Stanford and EPA | Hotel Washington Washington, DC | January 31, 2006 | | | | | Forestry and Climate Change: Strategies for Coping | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Forestry Leadership Conference | Forestry Leadership | Tronto, Canada | March 1, 2006 | | | | | Climate Change: Is it real and can forests make a difference? | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Presentation to the Economics, Law, and the Environment Program | Economics, Law, and the Environment Program, University of Arizona | University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2, 2007. | February 2, 2007 | | | | | Forest Sequestration and Climate | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Roundtable on "Bioenergy, Biodiversity and Forest Sequestration" | Faculty of Science , University of Lisbon and the Portuguese-American Foundation | Lisbon, Portugal | July 19, 2007 | | | | | Ethanol, Biodiesel and other Renewable Energies: Wood for Biomass Energy | | Roger A. Sedjo | | International Workshop: Economics, Policies and Science of Bioenergy | ICABR 11th International Conference | Revello, Italy | July 27, 2007 | | | | | “Cellulosic Biofuels” | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Presentation to the Department of Forest Products, North Carolina State University. | Departement of Forest Products | North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC | November 28, 2007 | | | | | “Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Biological Possibilities.” | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Seminar on Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Technologies and Legal Issues | Sponsored by Fulbright & Jaworski | Web Seminar | November 15, 2007 | | | | | Driving Forces in Forestry: Future Directions for US Forestry in a Global Context | | Roger A. Sedjo | | National Convention of the Society of American Foresters | Society of American Foresters | Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas | October 21, 2005 | | | | | Biotechnology and Forest Trees | | Roger A. Sedjo | | State Forest Agency, PR China | Chinese State Forestry Agency | Beijing, China | October 31, 2005 | | | | | Forests and Climate Change | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Sino-American Symposium on Forest Policy | Chinese Academy of Forestry | Biejing, China | November 1, 2005 | | | | | Biological Sequestration: The Potential Contribution of Forests for the Next Kyoto Climate Protocol | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Meeting with Office of Climate Change, Japanese Forest Service | Japanese Forest Service | Japanese Forest Service, Tokyo, Japan | November 14, 2005 | | | | | Delegate with the USDA Delegation to China on Forest Policy | | Roger A. Sedjo | | USDA Delegation to China on Forest Policy: Oct 31-Nov 13, 2005 | USDA - Chinese Academy of Forestry | Biejing and several locations arounf China | October 31, 2005 | | | | | Biotechnology and Forest Trees: A Role in China? | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Lecture and Discusssion with Zhejiang University Biology Faculty, Zhejiang, China | Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China | Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China | November 9, 2005 | | | | | 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 | | | | | A Proposal to Frame a Comprehensive Global forest Monitoring System | | Roger Sedjo | | GEO Forest Monitoring Symposium | GEO, Brazil | Foz do Iguaca, Brazil | November 7, 2008 | | | | | Forestry in Emerging Carbon Markets | | Roger A. Sedjo | | The Symposium “Seeds of Change: A Renewed Perspective on Forest Policy | Duke University, Chapter SAF | Duke University | November 6, 2009 | | | | |
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