Carbon offsets, reversal risk and US climate policy (2009)
Mignone, Bryan K, Hurteau, Matthew D, Chen, Yihsu, Sohngen, Brent
Abstract Background One controversial issue in the larger cap-and-trade debate is the proper use and certification of carbon offsets related to changes in land management. Advocates of an expanded...
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to Stabilize Climate (2007)
Tavoni, Massimo, Bosetti, Valentina, Sohngen, Brent
This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to...
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to Stabilize Climate (2007)
Tavoni, Massimo, Bosetti, Valentina, Sohngen, Brent
This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to...
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to Stabilize Climate (2007)
Tavoni, Massimo, Bosetti, Valentina, Sohngen, Brent
This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to...
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to Stabilize Climate (2007)
Tavoni, Massimo, Bosetti, Valentina, Sohngen, Brent
This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to...
The Role of Global Land Use in Determining Greenhouse Gases Mitigation Costs (2006)
Hertel, Thomas, Lee, Huey-Lin, Rose, Steven, Sohngen, Brent
This paper develops a CGE model with unique regional land types and detailed non-CO2 GHG emissions which it uses to analyze the potential for reductions in land-based greenhouse gas emissions as well...
The Value of Steelhead (Onchorhynchus mykiss) Angling in Lake Erie Tributaries (2006)
Dave Kelch, Frank Lichtkoppler, Brent Sohngen, Adam Daigneault
Steelhead (Onchorhynchus mykiss) have been stocked in Ohio tributaries to Lake Erie for over a decade yet little information on the value of this fishery exists. A steelhead angler intercept survey...
Lee, Huey-Lin, Hertel, Thomas, Sohngen, Brent, Ramankutty, Navin
This paper describes the GTAP Land Use Data Base designed to support integrated assessments of the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation. It disaggregates land use by agro-ecological zone (AEZ). To...
Conference on Adaptive Management and Global Climate Change (2003)
Aryal, Joseph, Koontz, Thomas, Robbins, Paul, Sohngen, Brent, Thompson, Alex
Scholars from a variety of disciplines, including Economics, Geography, Political Science, and others, came to Ohio State to discuss the human dimension of climate change during the Adaptive Research...
Brent Sohngen, Roger Sedjo, Robert Mendelsohn, Ken Lyon, Brent Sohngen, Roger Sedjo, ...
No portion of this paper may be reproduced without permission of the authors. Discussion papers are research materials circulated by their authors for purposes of information and discussion. They...
Forestry Sequestration of CO2 and Markets for Timber
Forestry has been considered to have potential in reducing the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide by sequestrating carbon in above-ground timber and below-ground roots and soil. This...
An Analysis of Global Timber Markets
Sedjo, Roger, Sohngen, Brent, Mendelsohn, Robert, Lyon, Kenneth
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...
Towards An Integrated Land Use Database for Assessing the Potential for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Lee, Huey-Lin, Thomas Hertel, Brent Sohngen, Navin Ramankutty
This paper describes the GTAP Land Use Data Base designed to support integrated assessments of the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation. It disaggregates land use by agro-ecological zone (AEZ). To...
Modeling Multiple-Objective Recreation Trips with Choices Over Trip Duration and Alternative Sites
Chia-Yu Yeh, Timothy Haab, Brent Sohngen
Traditionally, recreation demand studies have focused on single-day, single-activity trips, despite anecdotal and empirical evidence that many recreational trips involve overnight stays and multiple...
Carbon Credits for Avoided Deforestation
Sedjo, Roger A., Sohngen, Brent
Several important issues need to be addressed to make avoided deforestation (AD) a feasible option for climate change policy. Traditional questions associated with land-based sequestration options...
Sohngen, Brent, Mendelsohn, Robert
This paper establishes a methodology for valuing the impact of large-scale ecological changes in a market. Given the large capital stocks inherent in most ecological systems, the dynamic nature of...
The Role of Global Land Use in Determining Greenhouse Gases Mitigation Costs
Hertel, Thomas, Lee, Huey-Lin, Rose, Steven, Sohngen, Brent
This paper develops a CGE model with unique regional land types and detailed non-CO2 GHG emissions which it uses to analyze the potential for reductions in land-based greenhouse gas emissions as well...
The Value of Agricultural Economics Extension Programming: An Application of Contingent Valuation
Brian Roe, Timothy C. Haab, Brent Sohngen
We used contingent valuation to estimate participant willingness to pay (WTP) for agricultural economics extension programming. The data, collected from evaluation forms used for a series of outlook...
An Optimal Control Model of Forest Carbon Sequestration
Brent Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn
This study develops an optimal control model of carbon sequestration and energy abatement to explore the potential role of forests in greenhouse gas mitigation. The article shows that if carbon...
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to Stabilize Climate
Massimo Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, Brent Sohngen
This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to...
Economics of Forest Ecosystem Carbon Sinks: A Review
Carbon terrestrial sinks are seen as a low-cost alternative to fuel switching and reduced fossil fuel use for lowering atmospheric CO2. In this study, we review issues related to the use of...
Diane Hite, Brent Sohngen, Josh Templeton
Competing risks survival analysis is used to investigate tax and zoning policy impacts on residential, commercial, and industrial development timing in a rapidly growing Midwestern county....
Global Forestry Data for the Economic Modeling of Land Use
Sohngen, Brent, Tennity, Colleen, Hnytka, Marc, Meeusen, Karl
*Chapter 3 of the forthcoming book "Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy," edited by Thomas W. Hertel, Steven Rose, and Richard S.J. Tol
Modeling Land-use Related Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks and their Mitigation Potential
Hertel, Thomas, Lee, Huey-Lin, Rose, Steven, Sohngen, Brent
*Chapter 6 of the forthcoming book "Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy," edited by Thomas W. Hertel, Steven Rose, and Richard S.J. Tol
Land Use Modeling in Recursively-Dynamic GTAP Framework
Golub, Alla, Hertel, Thomas, Sohngen, Brent
*Chapter 10 of the forthcoming book "Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy," edited by Thomas W. Hertel, Steven Rose, and Richard S.J. Tol. The goal of this work is to...
The Role of Forestry in Carbon Sequestration in General Equilibrium Models
Sohngen, Brent, Golub, Alla, Hertel, Thomas
*Chapter 11 of the forthcoming book "Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy," edited by Thomas W. Hertel, Steven Rose, and Richard S.J. Tol
Estimating Carbon Supply Curves for Global Forests and Other Land Uses
Sedjo, Roger, Sohngen, Brent, Mendelsohn, Robert
This study develops cumulative carbon “supply curves” for global forests utilizing an dynamic timber supply model for sequestration of forest carbon. Because the period of concern is the next...
Analyzing the Economic Impact of Climate Change on Global Timber Markets
Sedjo, Roger, Sohngen, Brent, Mendelsohn, Robert, Lyon, Kenneth
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...
A Comparison of Timber Models for Use in Public Policy Analysis
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...
THE VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS EXTENSION PROGRAMMING: AN APPLICATION OF CONTINGENT VALUATION
Roe, Brian, Haab, Tim, Sohngen, Brent
We use the contingent valuation method to estimate participant willingness to pay for agricultural economics extension programming. The data, collected as part of standard evaluation forms for the...
EFFECTS OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PRESSURE ON LAND PRICES: A SPATIAL ECONOMIC APPROACH
Jeanty, Pierre W., Kraybill, David S., Libby, Lawrence W., Sohngen, Brent
We conduct a study to examine the effects of local development pressure and other factors on the value of urban-fringe land parcels. Multiple regression spatial models were estimated using parcel-...
COMPETING RISKS IN THE SUBURBANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND
Hite, Diane, Sohngen, Brent, Simpson, John, Templeton, Josh
The rapid change in the character of land use in traditional agricultural regions of the Midwest has led to public concern in recent years. As a result, policy makers have attempted to forge novel...
Projecting Supply and Demand for Land in the Long Run
Golub, Alla, Hertel, Thomas, Sohngen, Brent
The goal of this work is to investigate land-use change at the global scale over the long run – particularly in the context of analyzing the fundamental drivers behind land-use related GHG...
Optimal Forest Rotations with Environmental Values and Endogenous Fire Risk
Daigneault, Adam, Sohngen, Brent, Miranda, Mario
This paper develops a model that solves for the optimal economic harvest rotation problem to maximize revenue of an even-aged forest plantation when there is a risk of a catastrophic forest fire. The...
Exchange Rates and the Competitiveness of the US Timber Sector in a Global Economy
Daigneault, Adam, Sohngen, Brent, Sedjo, Roger
This paper examines the competitiveness of the US timber industry under different exchange rate policies using a dynamic optimization model of global timber markets. We assume that exchange rates...
Assessing the Relationship Between Crop Choice and Land Use Change Using A Markov Model
Hua, Wei, Sohngen, Brent, Hite, Diane
There is widespread concern among environmental and agricultural interest that land use change will affect the future productivity of the agricultural industry by utilizing highly productive land for...
Agricultural Productivity, Technological Change, and Deforestation: A Global Analysis
BRADY, Michael, SOHNGEN, Brent
This study takes advantages of recent developments in measuring total factor productivity in output specific directions to examine the influence of technological change in different agricultural...
A COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE-BASED CONTRACT FOR POINT-NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION TRADING
Taylor, Michael A., Randall, Alan, Sohngen, Brent
Collective performance-based trading can be achieved by pairing a team contract with an auction to determine team membership. The auction effectively overcomes adverse selection, and the team...
PERFORMANCE-BASED VOLUNTARY GROUP CONTRACTS FOR NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION
Pollution from nonpoint sources (NPS), and agriculture in particular, remains as one of the largest sources of water quality impairments in the United States. As is well known in the literature,...
THE OPTIMAL CHOICE OF RESIDUE MANAGEMENT, CROP ROTATIONS, AND THE COST OF SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION
This paper develops a dynamic model of land, crop, and residue management choices in a typical Midwestern farm region. Carbon renting policy is implemented with alternative assumptions about relative...
TO ADOPT OR NOT TO ADOPT: CONSERVATION DECISIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN WATERSHED GROUPS
Hua, Wei, Zulauf, Carl, Sohngen, Brent
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/21/04.
POINT-NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION TRADING USING COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES
Taylor, Michael A., Randall, Alan, Sohngen, Brent
Point-nonpoint trading markets must accommodate the problem of monitoring individual nonpoint source discharges (NPS). A permit trading market that allows the regulator to monitor noncompliance based...
Sohngen, Brent, Hite, Diane, Templeton, Josh
This study explores how property taxes affect the timing of development. The theoretical literature suggests that higher taxes increase the time to development, although there is some disagreement in...
Choi, Suk-Won, Sohngen, Brent, Alig, Ralph
This study develops a model of land use change in the Midwestern States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Given the emergence of spatial econometrics, three models are compared to assess the...
SINGLE VERSUS MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE RECREATION TRIPS: A SPLIT-SAMPLE MULTI-SITE ANALYSIS
Yeh, Chia-Yu, Sohngen, Brent, Habb, Timothy
A random utility model of the choice over trip duration on multiple objective recreation trips is developed. We explore several methods for allocating trip expenses to estimate the welfare of single...
Projecting Supply and Demand for Land in the Long Run
Golub, Alla, Hertel, Thomas, Sohngen, Brent
The goal of this work is to investigate land-use change at the global scale over the long run – particularly in the context of analyzing the fundamental drivers behind land-use related GHG...
Optimal Forest Rotations with Environmental Values and Endogenous Fire Risk
Daigneault, Adam, Sohngen, Brent, Miranda, Mario
This paper develops a model that solves for the optimal economic harvest rotation problem to maximize revenue of an even-aged forest plantation when there is a risk of a catastrophic forest fire. The...
A GLOBAL MODEL OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON TIMBER MARKETS
Sohngen, Brent, Mendelsohn, Robert, Sedjo, Roger
Several papers have now estimated the impact of climate change on national timber markets, but few studies have measured impacts globally. Further, the literature on impacts has focused heavily on...
Hite, Diane, Sohngen, Brent, Templeton, Josh
Competing risks survival analysis is used to investigate tax and zoning policy impacts on residential, commercial, and industrial development timing in a rapidly growing Midwestern county. Industrial...
Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation
Kindermann, Georg, Obersteiner, Michael, Sohngen, Brent, Sathaye, Jayant, Andrasko, Kenneth, Rametsteiner, Ewald, ...
Tropical deforestation is estimated to cause about one-quarter of anthropogenic carbon emissions, loss of biodiversity, and other environmental services. United Nations Framework Convention for...
Biofuel Growth: Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts from Changes in Forest Carbon Stocks
Golub, Alla, Hertel, Thomas, Rose, Steven, Sohngen, Brent
There is significant policy interest in liquid biofuels with appealing prospects for energy security, farm security, poverty alleviation, and climate change. Large-scale commercial biofuel production...
How big is leakage from forestry carbon credits? Estimates from a Global Model
Acosta, Montserrat, Sohngen, Brent
There is widespread recognition that forestry carbon credits can reduce the net emissions of carbon into the atmosphere. Designing systems to sequester carbon, however, has proven difficult due to a...
Kim, Yoon Hyung, Sohngen, Brent
This paper analyzes the effect of uncertainty in several key parameters on the marginal costs of carbon sequestration in forests. These parameters include the land supply elasticity, which governs...
The Relative Role of Land in Climate Policy
Golub, Alla, Hertel, Thomas, Rose, Steven, Sohngen, Brent, Avetisyan, Misak
Replaced with revised version of paper 06/26/09.
Carbon offsets, reversal risk and US climate policy
Mignone, Bryan K, Hurteau, Matthew D, Chen, Yihsu, Sohngen, Brent
CARBON OFFSETS, REVERSAL RISK AND US CLIMATE POLICY
Bryan K. Mignone, Matthew D. Hurteau, Yihsu Chen, Brent Sohngen
Background - One controversial issue in the larger cap-and-trade debate is the proper use and certification of carbon offsets related to changes in land management. Advocates of an expanded offset...
Carbon Sequestration in Global Forests Under Different Carbon Price Regimes
This paper examines the potential role of carbon sequestration in forests under a range of exogenously chosen carbon price paths. The price paths were chosen to simulate several different climate...