Bob Abt
Carl Alwin Schenck Professor Emeritus
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Jordan Hall 3126
Area(s) of Expertise
Forest Economics and Management
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
Publications
- Global timber investments, 2005 to 2017 (2020)
- Assessing market power in the US pulp and paper industry (2019)
- Projected Market Competition for Wood Biomass between Traditional Products and Energy: A Simulated Interaction of US Regional, National, and Global Forest Product Markets (2019)
- Structural Changes on Pulpwood Market in the US South: Wood Pellets Investments and Price Dynamics (2019)
- Annual Monitoring of US Timber Production: Rationale and Design (2018)
- Projecting housing starts and softwood lumber consumption in the United States (2018)
- Tree breeding model to assess financial performance of pine hybrids and pure species: deterministic and stochastic approaches for South Africa (2018)
- Bioenergy production and forest landscape change in the southeastern United States (2017)
- Modeling the impacts of wood pellet demand on forest dynamics in southeastern United States (2017)
- Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy-induced landscape change (2017)