
August 2022
Virtual Q&A Session for New Certificate Students
Fall 2022 new students, join us on Zoom for a live Q&A session.
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Fall 2022 new students, join us in Jordan Hall for in-person orientation.
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Geospatial Forum with Dr. Eric Edwards (NC State)
The Long-Term Outcomes of Recognizing Indigenous Property Rights to Water Summary: Restoring natural resource access for Indigenous groups has become a recent policy focus. We combine satellite data and robust difference-in-difference methods to estimate the causal effect of water right settlements on Native American reservations in the western United States over 1974-2012. Settlements increase agricultural land use by 8% and have no effect on developed land use. Our estimates of tribal water use indicate that many tribes are utilizing only…
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