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Roger A. Sedjo
Title: Senior Fellow
Phone: 202-328-5065
E-mail: sedjo@rff.org


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Biography
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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Education
Ph.D. in economics, University of Washington, 1969.
M.A. in economics, University of Illinois, 1963.
B.A. in economics, University of Illinois, 1961.
 
Professional Experience
    • Director, Resources for the Future,  Forest Economics and Policy Program, 1977 - present.
    • Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Energy and Natural Resources Division, Forest Economics and Policy Program, 1977 - present.
    • President, Environmental Literacy Council, August 1999 - present.
    • Visiting Scientist, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN, Rome, April-July 2005
    • Fulbright Visiting Professorship at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, August  November 2003.
    • Elected Fellow of the Society of American Foresters of Outstanding Service to Forestry and to the Society, 2003.
    • Recipient of the Julian Simon Fellowship 2000, Awarded by the Political Economy Research Center..
    • Visiting Scholar, University of Umea, Sweden, June l98l.
    • Tenured Associate Professor of Economics, Utah State University, September 1973 -
      June 1976.
    • Program Economist, U.S. Agency for International Development, Asia Bureau, 1972 - August 1973.
    • Economist, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1970 - 1972.
    • Assistant Professor of Economics, Utah State University, 1968 - 1970.
 
Journal Articles
"Sedjo's Comments on 'Global Markets and the Health of Americas Forests: A Forest Service Perspective,'"
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry. | forthcoming
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
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.
Exchange rates and the competitiveness of the United States timber sector in a global economy
Adam J. Daigneault, Brent Sohngen, and Roger Sedjo
Forest Policy and Economics | Spring 07 | 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
Comparative views of different stumpage pricing systems: Canada and the U.S.
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Science | 52 (4)
Comparative Views of Different Stumpage Pricing Systems: Canada and the United States
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Science, | July/August 2006 | Vol. 52, No. 4 | pp. 446-450.
Review of the book GENETIC AND PRODUCTION INNOVATIONS IN FIELD CROP TECHNOLOGY, by Manjit S. Kang
Roger A. Sedjo
The Quarterly Review of Biology | forthcoming
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
Impacts of Climate Change on Forest Product Markets: Implications for North American Producers
Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo
Forestry Chronicle | September/October 2005 | forthcoming
Global Agreements and U.S. Forestry: Genetically Modified Trees
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | April/May 2005 | Vol. 103, No. 3
The Kyoto Protocol with a Focus on Sinks
M. Amano, S. Yamagata, and R. Sedjo
Journal of Forest Research | Forthcoming
A Global Model of Climate Change Impacts on Timber Markets
B. Sohngen, R. Mendelsohn, and R. Sedjo
Journal of Agricultural and Resources Economics | Forthcoming
The Future of the Forest Service: Some Scenarios
Roger A. Sedjo
Proceedings of the Centennial Forum | November 19, 2004 | forthcoming
presented to the Centennial Forum, Graytowers National Historical Landmark
Carbon Sequestration Costs in Global Forests
Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo
The Energy Journal | forthcoming
Comment on Bioprospects Less Than Golden
David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
Nature | August 12, 2004 | Vol. 430, No. 7001 | pp. 723-725
What are the Impacts of Global Warming on the U.S. Forests, Regions, and the U.S. Timber Industry?
Roger A. Sedjo and Brent Sohngen
Penn State Environmental Law Review | 2004 | Vol. 12, No. 1
Presented by Sedjo to the 2nd Goddard Forum Global Warming: Causes, Effects and Mitigation Strategies for States and Localities, April 17-18, 2002
Economics of Forestry Management, Multiple Use, and Sustainability
F. Schmithuesen, V.A. Sample, Roger A. Sedjo, and D.C. Le Master
Journal of Sustainable Forestry | forthcoming
Inter-trading Permanent Emissions Credits and Rented Temporary Carbon Emissions Offsets: Some Issues and Alternatives
Roger A. Sedjo amd Gregg Marland
Climate Policy | December 2003 | Vol. 3, No. 4 | pp. 435-444
Biotech and Planted Trees: Some Economic and Regulatory Issues
Roger Sedjo
AgBioForum | 2003 | Vol. 6, No. 3 | pp. 29-35
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
In This Age of Intensive Management? A Study of Loblolly Pine on Georgia's Piedmont.
Runsheng Yin and Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | December 2001 | Vol. 99, No. 12 | pp. 10-17
From Multiple-Use to All-for Me
Roger A. Sedjo
Environmental Forum | May/June 2001 | Vol. 18, No. 3 | p. 66
The Role of Sinks
Roger A. Sedjo
Oxford Energy Forum | May 2001 | Issue 45 | pp. 15-16
The Role of Forest Plantations in the World's Future Timber Supply
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Chronicle | March/April 2001 | Vol. 77, No. 2 | pp. 221-226
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
Can Tropical Forest Management be Economic?
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Business Administration | Vol. 20
Reprinted in
Eco-Labeling Consequences in a General Equilibrium Framework: A Graphical Assessment
Steve Swallow and Roger A. Sedjo
Land Economics | February 2000 | Vol. 78, No. 1 | pp. 28-36
Does the Forest Service Have a Future?
Roger A. Sedjo
Regulation | 2000 | Vol. 23, No. 1 | pp. 51-55
Potential Carbon Flux From Timber Harvests and Management on the Context of a Global Carbon Flux
Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo
Climatic Change | 2000 | Vol. 44 | pp. 151-172
From Foraging to Cropping: The Transition to Plantation Forestry, and Implications for Wood Supply and Demand
Roger A. Sedjo
Unasylva | January 2000 | No. 204
Mission Impossible
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | May 1999 | Vol. 97, No. 5
Sustaining the People's Lands: Recommendations for Stewardship of the National Forests and Grassland into the Next Century
Committee of Scientists, with K. Norman Johnson, Chairman, and others
Journal of Forestry | May 1999 | Vol. 97, No. 5
Forest Management, Conservation, and Global Timber Markets
B. Sohngen, R. Mendelsohn, and Roger A. Sedjo
American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1999 | Vol. 81, No. 1
Potential of High-Yield Plantation Forestry for Meeting Timber Needs
Roger A. Sedjo
New Forests | 1999 | Vol. 17 | pp. 1-3
Reprinted in
How Serious are the Damages Associated with Global Warming?
Roger A. Sedjo
Environment and Development Economics | July 1998 | Vol. 3, Pt. 2 | pp. 398-401
A Comparison of Timber Market Models: Static Simulation and Optimal Control Approaches
Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo
Forest Science | February 1998
Using Forest Plantations to Spare Natural Forests
Roger Sedjo and Daniel Botkin
Environment | December 1997 | No. 10 | pp. 15-20, 30
The Economics of Forest-Based Biomass Supply
Roger A. Sedjo
Energy Policy | May 1997 | Vol. 25, No. 6
Toward an Operational Approach to Public Lands Ecosystem Management
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | August 1996 | Vol. 94, No. 8 | pp. 24-27
Paying for the Conservation of Endangered Ecosystems: A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Approaches
R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
Environment and Development Economics | May 1996 | Vol. 1, Part 2 | pp. 241-257
Related Discussion Paper No. 95-20
Sustainability in Forest Management: An Evolving Concept
Roger Sedjo and Alaric Sample
International Advances in Economic Research | May 1996 | Vol. 2, No. 2 | pp. 165-173
Valuing Biodiversity for Use in Pharmaceutical Research
R. David Simpson, Roger A. Sedjo and John W. Reid
Journal of Political Economy | February 1996 | Vol. 104 | pp. 163-185
The Economics of Managing Carbon via Forestry: An Assessment of Existing Studies
Roger Sedjo, Joe Wisniewski, V. Alaric Sample, and John D. Kinsman
Environment and Resource Economics | September 1995 | Vol. 6, No. 2 | pp. 139-165
Local Logging, Global Effects
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | July 1995 | Vol. 93, No. 7 | pp. 25-28
The Global Environmental Effects of Reductions in Local Logging in Western North America
Roger A. Sedjo
Western Journal of Forestry | April 1995 | Vol. 10, No. 2
Commercialization of Indigenous Genetic Resources
R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
Contemporary Economic Policy | October 1994 | Vol. 12 | pp. 34-44
Managing Tropical Forests: A Reply
William Hyde and Roger Sedjo
Land Economics | August 1993 | Vol. 69, No. 3
The Carbon Cycle and Global Forest Ecosystems
Roger A. Sedjo
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution | 1993 | Special Issue
Impacts and Responses to Climate Change in Forests of the MINK Region
Michael D. Bowes and Roger A. Sedjo
Climatic Change | June 1993 | Vol. 24 | pp. 63-82
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 1993.
The MINK Methodology: Background and Baseline
Roger A. Sedjo and N. Rosenberg et al.
Climatic Change | June 1993 | Vol. 24 | pp. 7-22
Global Consequences of American Environmental Policies
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | April 1993
Managing Tropical Forests: Reflections on the Rent Distribution Discussion
William F. Hyde and Roger Sedjo
Land Economics | August 1992
Forest Ecosystems in the Global Carbon Cycle
Roger A. Sedjo
Ambio | June 1992 | Vol. 21, No. 4 | pp. 274-277
Property Rights, Genetic Resources, and Biotechnological Change
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Law and Economics | April 1992 | Vol. 35, No. 1
Exploiting National Returns to Log Exports
Roger Sedjo, A. Clark Wiseman and Kenneth Lyon
Journal of Forestry | April 1992
The Competition for Wood Fiber: A Global Overview
Roger A. Sedjo
World Forestry Research | March 1992
(In Chinese)
Can Tropical Forest Management be Economic?
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Business Administration | 1992 | Vol. 20
Reprinted in
Comparative Advantage in Timber Supply: Lessons from History and the Timber Supply Model
Roger A. Sedjo and K. Lyon
Journal of Business Administration | 1992 | Vol. 20
Reprinted in
Economic Aspects of "Climate, Forests, and Fire: A North American Perspective
Roger A. Sedjo
Environment International | 1991 | Vol. 17, Nos. 2/3
The Global Carbon Cycle: Are Forests the Missing Sink?
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | October 1990
Economic Wood Supply: Choices for Canada's Forest Industry
Roger A. Sedjo
The Forestry Chronicle | February 1990 | Vol. 66, No. 1
Forests to Offset the Greenhouse Effect
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | July 1989 | Vol. 87, No. 7 | pp. 12-16
Forests: A Tool to Moderate Global Warming?
Roger A. Sedjo
Environment | January/February 1989 | Vol. 31, No. 1 | pp. 14-20
An Optimal Control Model for Timber Resource Utilization in Southeast Asia
Roger A. Sedjo, K. Lyon and B. Adiwiyoto
Natural Resource Modeling | Summer 1987 | pp. 58-81
Binary-Search SPOC: An Optimal Control Theory Revision of ECHO
Roger A. Sedjo and K. Lyon
Forest Science | November 1986
Lowering Japanese Trade Barriers
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | November 1986
Tropical Deforestation and Species Extinctions: An Emerging Consensus?
Roger A. Sedjo and Marion Clawson
Futures | October 1986
Incentives and Tariff Barriers Related to Forest Products Trade
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of World Forest Resource Management | 1986 | Vol. 2, No. 2
An Outsider's View of Canadian Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Planning Canada | 1986 | Vol. 2, No. 6 | pp. 5-7
Have Controls Reduced Log Exports in the Pacific Northwest?
Roger A. Sedjo and A.C. Wiseman
Journal of Forestry | November 1985 | pp. 680-682
Can the U.S. Expand Forest Products Exports to Japan?
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Industries | May 1985 | pp. 36-37
An Economic Assessment of International Forest Plantations
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Ecology and Management | December 1984
U.S.-Japanese Solidwood Products Trade
Roger A. Sedjo
Columbia Journal of World Business | June 1984
An Optimal Control Theory Model to Estimate the Regional Long-Term Supply of Timber
Roger A. Sedjo and Kenneth Lyon
Forest Science | December 1983 | pp. 798-812
Long-Term Forest Resources Trade, Global Timber Supply and Intertemporal Comparative Advantage
Roger A. Sedjo and Kenneth Lyon
American Journal of Agricultural Economics | December 1983 | pp. 1010-1016
Tropical Deforestation: How Serious?
Roger A. Sedjo and Marion Clawson
Journal of Forestry | December 1983 | pp. 792-794
The Effectiveness of An Export Restriction on Logs
Roger A. Sedjo and Clark Wiseman
American Journal of Agricultural Economics | February 1983
The Housing Recession, The Forest Products Industry and International Markets
Roger A. Sedjo
Resources Evaluation Journal | Fall 1982
Log Export Restrictions: Some Findings
Roger A. Sedjo and A. Clark Wiseman
Journal of Forestry | December 1980
Forest Plantations in Brazil and Their Possible Effects on World Pulp Markets
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Forestry | November 1980
Regional Policy and It's Impact Upon Incentives for Regional Industrialization
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Korean Affairs | October 1976 | pp. 42-128
Korean Historical Experience and the Labor Surplus Model
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Developing Areas | January 1976 | pp. 213-222
Price Trends, Economic Growth, and the Canadian Balance of Trade: A Three Country Model
Roger A. Sedjo
Journal of Political Economy | May/June 1971 | pp. 596-613
 
Books, Chapters, and Reports
Land Use: Forest, Agriculture, and Biodiversity Competition
Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson
Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 3: Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets, Editors: | Robert E. Evenson and Prabhu Pingali. | : Elsevier B.V. | 2007
Regulation of Biotechnology for Forestry Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy | R.E. Just, J.M. Alston, and D. Zilberman | New York: Springer | 2006
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
Reprinted from Journal of Political Economy, February 1996
Regulation of Biotechnology for Forest Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Regulating Agriculture Biotechnology: Economics and Policy | Richard E. Just, Julian M. Alston, David Zilberman | USA: Springer | 2006
"Options and Measures to Reduce Atmospheric CO2," Chapter 4
Contributing author with Erik Haites, et al.
State of the Carbon Cycle Review (SOCCR), Accepted, | : National Academy of Science level effort sponsored by several federal government agencies, including NOAA, NASA, USGS, and DOE. | 2006
Forest Sequestration: Performance in Selected Countries in the Kyoto Period and the Potential Role of Sequestration in Post-Kyoto Agreements
Masahiro Amano and Roger A. Sedjo
RFF Report | May 2006 | Abstract
"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
Toward Commercialization of Genetically Engineered Forests: Economic and Social Considerations
Roger A. Sedjo
RFF Report | March 2006
The Establishment of Large-scale Reserves in Temperate and Boreal Forests: Some Experiences of the US and Prospects for Finland.
Roger A. Sedjo
Forestry and Environmental Change: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions | edited by J.L. Innes, G.M.Hickey and H.F. Hoen | Wallingford, UK: IUFRO Research Series, CABI, 2005. | 2005
Regulation of Biotechnology for Forestry Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies | R.E. Just, J. Alston, and D. Zilberman | Netherlands: Kluwer | 2006
Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies
Roger A. Sedjo
The Netherlands: Kluwer | 2006
The establishment of large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests: some experiences of the USA and prospects for Finland
J.L. Innes, G.M. Hickey. and H.F. Hoen, editors
New York: CABI Publishing | 2005
Chapter 10 pp. 183-193
Regulation of Biotechnology for Forestry Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies | Richard E. Just, Julian Alston and David Zilberman | New York: Springer | 2005
The Establishment of Large-Scale Reserves in Temperate and Boreal Forests: Some Experiences of the USA and Prospects for Finland
Roger A. Sedjo
Forestry and Envirnmental Change: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions | J.L. Innes, G.M. Hickey and H.F. Hoen, editors | New York: CABI Publishing | 2005
Regulation of Biotechnology for Forestry Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies | R.E. Just, J. Alston, D. Zilberman, editors | Netherlands: Kluwer | 2006
Tree Biotechnology: Regulation and International Trade
Roger A. Sedjo
International Trade and Policies for Genetically Modified Products | R. E. Evenson and V. Santaniello, editors | Wallington, UK: CABI Publishing, CAB International | 2006
Economic Issues in Ecosystem Approaches to Forest Management
Roger Sedjo, Josh Bishop and Jeffrey A. Sayer
Forests in Landscapes: Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability | Jeffrey A. Sayer and Steward Maginnis | London: Earthscan | 2005
The Value of Forest Carbon
Roger A. Sedjo
Valuing Mediterranean Forests: Towards Total Economic Value | Maurizio Merlo and Lelia Croitiru, editors | Rome: CABI Publishing | 2005
The Effects of Macroeconomics on Forest Sustainability in the Developing World
Roger A. Sedjo
Sustainable Forest Management & Ecosystem Approaches: Responding to the Challenge | Jeff Sayer, editor | : IUCN | forthcoming
paper in the forthcoming book
Trade in Wood Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Encyclopedia of Forest Science | Robert L. Youngs, John Youngquist, Julian Evans and Jeff Burley eds. | London, U.K.: Academic Press | Forthcoming
Potential for Biotechnology: Application in Plantation Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo
Plantation Forests Biotechnology for the 21st Century | Walter Christian and Michael Carlson, eds. | Rotorua, New Zealand: Forest Research | Forthcoming
The Establishment of Large-scale Reserves in Temperate and Boreal Forests: Some Experiences of the US and Prospects for Finland
Roger A. Sedjo
IUFRO Task Forest | Forthcoming
(Published in Report 8, titled "The Socio-economic Implications of Environmental Change with Particular Relevance to Forestry," H.F. Hoen and J.L. Innes, eds.)
Forest and Global Climate Change: Potential Impacts on U.S. Forests Resources
Herman Shugart, Roger Sedjo and Brent Sohngen
Pew Center Program on Global Climate Change | Forthcoming
Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Forests
H.H. Shugart, Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo
Pew Center Program on Global Climate Change | Forthcoming
Wood Use and Trade: International Trade in Wood Products
Roger A. Sedjo
Encyclopedia of Forest Science | Robert L. Youngs, John Youngquist, Julian Evans, and Jeff Burley, editors | : Elsevier Ltd. | 2005
Potential for Biotechnology: Application in Plantation Forestry 2004
Roger A. Sedjo
Plantation Forests Biotechnology for the 21st Century: 2004 | Walter Christian and Michael Carlson, editors | Kerala, India: Research Signpost | 2004
ISBN: 81-7736-228-3
Potential for Biotechnology Applications in Plantation Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo
Plantation Forest Biotechnology for the 21st Century: 2004 | edited by Walter Christian and Michael Carlson | Kerala, India: Research Signpost, ISBN: 81-7736-228-3. | 2004
Kenya Forestry: Economic and Financial Viability
Roger A. Sedjo
Consultant to the World Band and PROFPR | December 13, 2004
Genetically Engineered Trees: Promise and Concerns
Roger A. Sedjo
RFF Report | November 2004
Tree Biotechnology: Regulation and International Trade
Roger A. Sedjo
International Trade and Policies for Genetically Modified Products | R.E. Evenson and V. Santaniello, editors | Wallington, UK: CABI Publishing, CAB International | forthcoming
Sustainable Forestry in a World of Specialization and Trace
Roger A. Sedjo
Sustainability, Institutions, and Natural Resources: Institutions for Sustainable Forest Management | S. Kant and R.A. Berry, Editors | The Netherlands: Springer | 2004
Social, Legal and Regulatory Issues Related to Transgenic Trees
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Biotechnology Task Forest State of Knowledge Report | International Union of Forest Research Organixations (IUFRO) | : | forthcoming
Chapter 10
Streamlining Forest Service Planning
Roger A. Sedjo
New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President | Richard D. Morgenstern and Paul R. Portney, eds. | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 18
A Systematic Examination of the Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. Sections 7701 et seq) as Related to the Commercialization of Transgenic Trees for the Production of Timber and Industrial Wood
Roger A. Sedjo
Mellon Fellowship Report in Environmental Regulatory Implementations | August 31, 2004
Land Use
Roger A. Sedjo and David Simpson
Handbook of Agricultural Economics: Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets, Vol 3A | Robert E. Evenson, Prabhu Pingali, and T. Paul Schultz, editors | : Elsevier | 2005
Chapter 17
Valuing Biodiversity for Pharmaceutical Research (Chapter 21)
R. David Simpson, Roger Sedjo, and J. Reid
Recent Development in Environmental Economics | Michael Hoel, editor | Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited | 2004
Also printed in Journal of Political Economy (February 1996); reprinted in Economics of Forestry (2003), edited by Roger Sedjo, Ashgate Publishing.
Potential for Biotechnology: Application in Plantation Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo
Plantation Forests Biotechnology for the 21st Century | Walter Christian and Michael Carlson, editors | : Research Signpost | 2004
ISBN: 81-7736-228-3
Challenges to Sustainable Forestry: Management and Economics
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Futures | Joe Bowersox III and Karen Abeese, editors | New York: Rowman & Littlefield | 2004
Biotechnology and Global Wood Supply
Roger A. Sedjo
The Bioengineered Forest Challenges for Science and Society | Steven H. Strauss and H.D. Bradshaw, eds. | RFF Press | 2004 | Chapter 3
The 1998 Ice Storms: Results from a Survey of Households in Eastern Canada and Northeast US
P. Jagger, B. White, and Roger A. Sedjo
Task 29: Proceedings fo the Workshop, Socio-Economic Drivers in Implementing Bioenergy Projects: Education and Promotion | V. Segon and J. Domac, editors | : IEA Bioenergy | 2003
pp. 79-91
The Forestry Sector: OECD Environmental Outlook
Roger A. Sedjo
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) | November 1999
Economics of Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo, ed.
Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited | October 2002
(Part of the "International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy" series.)
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
Reprinted as a chapter in Labelling Strategies, Mario Teisi editor, The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy, Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Biotechnology for Planted Forests: An Assessment of Biological, Economic and Environmental Possibilities and Limitations
Roger A. Sedjo
The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies | Tim Swanson, ed. | Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Environmental Sciences, Biosciences Unit | Forthcoming
Deforestation
C. Oliver, R. Sedjo, and M. Boydak
Encyclopedia on Global Change | Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press | Forthcoming
Wood Materials Used As a Means to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (GHG): An Examination of Wooden Utility Poles
Roger A. Sedjo
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers | Forthcoming
The National Forests: For Whom and For What?
Roger A. Sedjo
PERC Policy Series | August 2001
Forests and Climate Change
R. Sedjo and B. Sohngen
Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology | Michael A. Toman, ed. | RFF Press | 2001 | Chapter 7
Carbon Sinks in the Post Kyoto World
R. Sedjo, B. Sohngen and P. Jagger
Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology | Michael A. Toman, ed. | RFF Press | 2001
Technical and Economic Potential of Options to Enhance, Maintain and Manage Biological Carbon Reservoirs and Geo-engineering
Pekka Kauppi, Roger Sedjo, et al.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | 2001
Forest Set-Asides and Carbon Sequestration
B. Sohngen and R. Sedjo
World Forests, Markets, and Policies. World Forests, Volume III. | M. Palo, J. Uusivuori and G. Mery, eds. | Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers | 2001 | Chapter 4
A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service: Goals for its Next Century
Roger A. Sedjo, Editor
RFF Press | 2000
El Niņo and the Eastern Forests of North America
Roger A. Sedjo, Nancy Bergeron, Chetan Agarwall, Pamela Jagger and William White
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | 2000
Biodiversity: Forests, Property Rights and Economic Value
Roger A. Sedjo
Conserving Nature's Diversity | Casey van Kooten, E.H. Bulte and A.E.R. Sinclair, eds. | Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited | 2000
Land Use Change and Innovation in U.S. Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo
Productivity in Natural Resource Industries | R. David Simpson, ed. | RFF Press | 1999 | pp. 141-174
Carbon Sequestration By Forestry - Effects of Timber Markets
Roger Sedjo and Brent Sohngen
IEA Greenhouse Gas R & D Programme | June 1999
Sustaining the People's Lands: Recommendations for Stewardship of the National Forests and Grasslands into the Next Century
Roger A. Sedjo
The Secretary of Agricultural by the Committee of Scientists (Norm Johnson, Chair) | March 15, 1999
Ecosystem Management: An Uncharted Path for Public Forests
Roger A. Sedjo
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management | Wallace E. Oates, ed. | RFF Press | 1999 | pp. 149-154
The Global Environmental Effects of Local Logging Cutbacks
Roger A. Sedjo
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management | Wallace E. Oates, ed. | RFF Press | 1999 | pp. 155-160
Preserving Biodiversity as a Resource
Roger A. Sedjo
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management | Wallace E. Oates, ed. | RFF Press | 1999 | pp. 171-176
Contracts for Transferring Rights to Indigenous Genetic Resources
R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Management | Wallace E. Oates, ed. | RFF Press | 1999 | pp. 183-190
Tropical Deforestation: Issues and Policies
G.C. van Kooten, Roger A. Sedjo and E. Bulte
International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 1999-2000: A Survey of Current Issues, Volume 3 | T. Teitenburg and H. Folmer, eds. | Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. | 1999
Tropical Deforestation
Roger A. Sedjo
Handbook of Weather, Climate and Water | New York, NY: McGraw-Hill | 1999
Valuing Biodiversity Use in Pharmaceutical Research
R.D. Simpson, R. Sedjo and J. Reid
Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy: Environmental Valuations | Kenneth G. Willis, Kenneth J. Button and Peter Nijkamp, eds. | Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. | 1999
Economic Interactions at Local, Regional, National and International Scales
Roger A. Sedjo, Toweill, and Wagner
Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management | W.T. Sexton, A.J. Malk, R.C. Szaro and N.C. Johnson, eds. | Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers | 1999
Ecological Costs of the Kaeng Sua Ten Water Resources Development Project
Suthawan Sathirathai, Isra Sarntisat, Anuchart Poungsamalee, Roger A. Sedjo, and R. David Simpson
National Energy Policy Office of Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok | 1999
Sustainability of Temperate Forests: Key Developments and Issues
Roger A. Sedjo, Alberto Goetzl and Steverson O. Moffat
RFF Press | 1998
The Value of Genetic Resources for Use in Agricultural Improvement
R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
Agricultural Values of Plant Genetic Resources | Robert Evenson, Douglas Gollin and Vittorio Santaniello, eds. | Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International | 1998 | Chapter 3
Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies
R. David Simpson, Roger A. Sedjo, and John W. Reid
Scales, Polycentricity and Incentives: Designing Complexity to Govern Complexity | Lakshman Guruswamy and Jeffrey McNeely, eds. | Durham, NC: Duke University Press | 1998
Economics of Carbon Sequestration in Forestry: An Overview
R. Neil Sampson and Roger A. Sedjo
Economics of Carbon Sequestration in Forestry | Roger Sedjo, Neil Sampson and Joe Wisniewski, eds. | Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, Inc. | December 29, 1997
Introduction to the Economics of Forestry: A Review
Roger A. Sedjo
Economics of Forestry | Roger A. Sedjo, ed. | Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited | Forthcoming
Economics of Carbon Sequestration in Forestry
Roger A. Sedjo, R. Neil Sampson, and Joe Wisniewski, eds.
Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers | 1997
The Role of Human Adaptation in Ameliorating the Impact of Climate Change on Global Timber Markets
Brent Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn, Roger Sedjo and Kenneth Lyon
Climate Change Mitigation and European Land Use Policies | Neil Adger, Davide Pettenella and Martin Whitby, eds. | Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International | 1997
Carbon and Tree Plantations: A Case Study in Argentina
Eduardo Ley and Roger Sedjo
The Economics of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration | Roger A. Sedjo et al., eds. | Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, Inc. | 1997
Carbon Policy: Some Conceptual Issues
Eduardo Ley and Roger Sedjo
The Economics of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration | Roger A. Sedjo et al., eds. | Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, Inc. | 1997
Local Timber Production and Global Trade: The Environmental Implications of Forestry Trade
Roger A. Sedjo
Forestry, Economics and the Environment | W.L. Adamowicz, P.C. Boxall, M.K. Luckert, W.E. Phillips and W.A. White, eds. | Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International | 1997
The Potential Role of Large-Scale Forestry Projects in Argentina
Roger Sedjo and Eduardo Ley
Climate Change Mitigation and European Land Use Policies | Neil Adger, Davide Pettenella and Martin Whitby, eds. | Wallingford, U.K.: CAB International | 1997
Managing Terrestrial Carbon Balances Via Forestry: Economic Considerations
R. Neil Sampson and Roger A. Sedjo
The Economics of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration | R. Neil Sampson et al., eds. | Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press | 1997
Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, "A Generic Assessment of Response Policies."
Roger A. Sedjo with C. Jepma and others
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | 1996
[Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Contribution of Working Group III, Cambridge, MA, Chapter 7, pp. 225-262.]
Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analysis, "Management of Forests for Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
Roger Sedjo and Sandra Brown with others
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | 1996
[Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Contribution of Working Group II, Cambridge, MA, Chapter 24, pp. 773-798.]
The Economics of Increased Carbon Storage Through Plantation and Forest Management
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Ecosystems, Forest Management and the Global Carbon Cycle | M. Apps and D. Price, eds. | Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag | 1996
Human Dimensions of the Forest-Carbon Issue
Roger Sedjo, Peter Duinker, and others
Forest Ecosystems, Forest Management and the Global Carbon Cycle | M. Apps and D. Price, eds. | Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag | 1996
Global Forests Revisited
Roger Sedjo and Marion Clawson
The State of Humanity | Julian Simon, ed. | Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers | 1996
Argentina: Carbon and Forests
Roger A. Sedjo and Eduardo Ley
The World Bank, Global Environmental Facility | December 4, 1995
Forests: Conflicting Signals
Roger A. Sedjo
The True State of the Planet | Ron Bailey, ed. | : Free Press | 1995
Property Rights, Externalities and Biodiversity
Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson
The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline | Timothy Swanson, ed. | Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press | 1995 | Chapter 7
(Also presented in abridged form at the Cambridge Symposium on Forces Driving Biodiversity, Kings College, Cambridge University, July 18-20, 1993.)
Property Rights, Contracting and the Commercialization of Biodiversity
Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson
Wildlife in the Marketplace | Terry L. Anderson and P. J. Hill, eds. | Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield | 1995
Contracting for Genetic Resources
Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Environmental Directorate | November 4, 1994
Potential Environmental and Other External Consequences of the Program to Increase the Area in Plantation Forests in Argentina
Roger A. Sedjo, Pierre Crosson, and others
The Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganadaria y Pesca, Gobierno de Argentina | April 1994
Commercial Forestry and Rural Development
Roger A. Sedjo
Forest Resources and Wood-based Biomass Energy as Rural Development Assets | William R. Bentley and Marcia M. Gower, eds. | New Delhi, India: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. | 1994
Valuing Biodiversity: An Application of "Green Accounting"
R. David Simpson and Roger A. Sedjo
Assigning Economic Value to Natural Resources | Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press | 1994
Sustainable Forest Management
Roger A. Sedjo and Jay Blakeney
Indonesia Forest Sector Review, World Bank Mission Report | April 1993
State of Art Modeling of Forest Ecosystem Productivity for Ecosystem Sustainability and Diversity
Ken Lyon and Roger Sedjo
Modeling Sustainable Forest Ecosystems | Washington, D.C.: American Forests | 1993
Forest Ecosystem and Global Carbon
Roger A. Sedjo
1993 Yearbook of Science and Technology | New York, NY: McGraw-Hill | 1993
The Carbon Cycle and Global Forest Ecosystems
Roger A. Sedjo
Terrestrial Biospheric Carbon Fluxes: Quantification of Sinks and Sources of CO2 | Joe Wisniewski and R. Neil Sampson, eds. | Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers | 1993
Boreal Forests and Tundra
Roger A. Sedjo with M.J. Apps and others
Terrestrial Biosphere Carbon Fluxes | Joe Wisniewski and R. Neil Sampson, eds. | Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers | 1993 | pp. 39-54
Modeling Sustainable Forest Ecosystems, Edited Proceedings
Dennis C. LeMaster and Roger A. Sedjo, eds.
Washington, D.C.: American Forests Press | 1992
Constraints on Timber Supply--The Political Factor
Roger A. Sedjo
Wood Product Demand and the Environment | Madison, WI: Forest Products Research Society | 1992
Climate Change and Forestry in the US Midwest
Roger A. Sedjo and Michael Bowes
Economic Issues in Global Climate Change | John M. Reilly and Margot Anderson, eds. | San Francisco, CA: Westview Press | 1992
Sustainable Natural Tropical Forest Management
Roger A. Sedjo and James Douglas, eds.
The World Bank, ASTEC | 1992
Preserving Biodiversity as a Resource
Roger A. Sedjo
Global Development and the Environment | Joel Darmstadter, ed. | RFF Press | 1992
Implications of a Tradeable Obligations Approach to International Forest Protection
Roger A. Sedjo
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | December 31, 1991 (revised February 10, 1992)
Report III - Forest Resources
Roger A. Sedjo
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | August 1991
Market Instruments and Sink Enhancement in a Global Warming Context
Roger A. Sedjo
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Environmental Directorate | May 1991
Forest Resources: Resilient and Serviceable
Roger A. Sedjo
America's Renewable Resources | K. Frederick and R. Sedjo, eds. | RFF Press | 1991 | Chapter 4
America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges
Kenneth D. Frederick and Roger A. Sedjo, Editors
RFF Press | 1991
Natural Resources in Agriculture: Trends and Issues
Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo, and Pierre R. Crosson
Social Science Agricultural Agendas and Strategies | G. Johnson and J. Bonnen, eds. | East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press | 1991
Economic Aspects of Management and Conservation of Tropical Forest Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Workshop Report
Roger A. Sedjo
Asian Development Bank (ADB) | 1991
(Also presented at Jakarta, Indonesia, December 16, 1991 as part of the ADB Report T.A. No. 1430- IND.)
Forest Protection, Monitoring, and Enforcement in the Philippines
Roger A. Sedjo
The World Bank, ASIA Agriculture | June 1990
The Pricing of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development
Roger A. Sedjo
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Environmental Directorate | May 1990
The Expanding Role of Plantation Forests in the Pacific Basin
Roger A. Sedjo
Prospects for Australian Forest Plantations | J. Dargavel and Noel Semple, eds. | Canberra, Australia: Australian National University, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies | 1990
Climate and Forests
Roger A. Sedjo and Allen Solomon
U.S. Senate, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry | April 1989
Policy Options for Adaptation to Climate Change
Roger A. Sedjo
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) | 1989
(Also published as Chapter 7 of "The Full Range of Responses to Anticipated Climate Change," and as a DOE funded Discussion Paper ENR89-05.)
Climate and Forests
Roger Sedjo and Allen Solomon
Greenhouse Warming: Abatement and Adaptation | Norman J. Rosenberg, William E. Easterling III, Pierre R. Crosson and Joel Darmstadter, eds. | RFF Press | 1989 | Chapter 8, pp. 105-119
Policy Options for Adaptation to Climate Change
Roger A. Sedjo
The Full Range of Responses to Anticipated Climate Change | Norman J. Rosenberg et al. | RFF Press | 1989 | Chapter 7
(Published in "The Full Range of Responses to Anticipated Climate Change." Also prepared as a report for the United Nations Environmental Programme, and as a DOE funded Discussion Paper ENR89-05.)
International Competitiveness, Community Stability, and Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Global Environment
Roger A. Sedjo
Community Stability in Forest Based Economies | Dennis LeMaster and John Beuter, eds. | Portland, OR: Timber Press | 1989
Forest Resource Management and the Environment: The Role of Economic Incentives
Roger A. Sedjo
Renewable Natural Resources: Economic Incentives for Improved Management | Paris, France: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development | 1989
The Long-Term Adequacy of World Timber Supply
Roger A. Sedjo and Kenneth S. Lyon.
RFF Press | 1989
Native Forests, Secondary Species, Plantation Forests and the Sustainability of Indonesia's Forest Industry
Roger A. Sedjo
FAO Project INS/83/019 | September 7, 1988
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
(Also published as RFF Reprint 242)
Incentives and Distortions in Indonesia's Forest Policy
Roger A. Sedjo
The World Bank, ASTEN, Environmental Division | October 1987
General Technical Report RM-10, "An Evaluation of Forest Planning"