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

• Meeting renewable energy and land use objectives through public-private biomass supply partnerships (2016)
• Sustainability guidelines and forest market response: An assessment of European Union pellet demand in the southeastern United States (2016)
• Carbon mitigation impacts of increased softwood lumber and structural panel use for nonresidential-construction in the United States (2016)
• Carbon savings with transatlantic trade in pellets: accounting for market-driven effects (2015)
• The environmental and economic effects of regional bioenergy policy in the southeastern US (2015)
• Linking state-and-transition simulation and timber supply models for forest biomass production scenarios (2015)
• Projecting potential adoption of genetically engineered freeze-tolerant eucalyptus in the United States (2015)
• Global timber investments and trends, 2005-2011 (2014)
• Forest carbon accounting considerations in US bioenergy policy (2014)
• Assessing independent variables used in econometric modeling forest land use or land cover change: A meta-analysis (2014)

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