Robert Abt
Bio
Education
B.S. Georgia Tech. (1976)
M.S. University of Tennessee (1979)
Ph.D. University of CA, Berkeley (1984)
Research Interests
Regional timber supply modeling; Economics of agroforestry; Econometric applications in forestry
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Courses
NR 400/500 – Natural Resource Management
FOR 319 – Forest Economics
Area(s) of Expertise
Forest Economics and Management
Publications
- Forest carbon under increasing product demand and land use change in the US Southeast , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2024)
- Critical Market Tipping Points for High-Grade White Oak Inventory Decline in the Central Hardwood Region of the United States , JOURNAL OF FORESTRY (2023)
- Quantifying additionality thresholds for forest carbon offsets in Mississippi pine pulpwood markets , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2023)
- Spatially-explicit assessment of carbon stocks in the landscape in the southern US under different scenarios of industrial wood pellet demand , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2023)
- Spatial Analysis of Forest Product Manufacturers in North Carolina , Forest Science (2022)
- When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense , BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS (2022)
- Economic Significance of Continued Improvement of Loblolly Pine Genetics and Its Efficient Deployment to Landowners in the Southern United States , Journal of Forestry (2020)
- Global timber investments, 2005 to 2017 , Forest Policy and Economics (2020)
- Assessing market power in the US pulp and paper industry , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2019)
- Biological and market responses of pine forests in the US Southeast to carbon fertilization , ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS (2019)