A5072674824- Forest Management and Policy
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest ecology and management
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Drilling and Well Engineering
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
North Carolina State University
2021-2025
RTI International
2013-2024
North Central State College
2022-2024
University of Maine
2024
The Ohio State University
2015-2024
Center for Environmental Health
2021
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2021
University of Idaho
2017-2018
Amec Foster Wheeler (Czechia)
2018
Saint Louis University
2015
Abstract Forests are critical for stabilizing our climate, but costs of mitigation over space, time, and stakeholder group remain uncertain. Using the Global Timber Model, we project potential four abatement activities across 16 regions carbon price scenarios $5–$100/tCO 2 . We 0.6–6.0 GtCO yr −1 in global by 2055 at 2–393 billion USD , with avoided tropical deforestation comprising 30–54% total mitigation. Higher prices incentivize larger proportions via rotation forest management temperate...
Deforestation has contributed significantly to net greenhouse gas emissions, but slowing deforestation, regrowing forests and other ecosystem processes have made a sink. will still influence future carbon fluxes, the role of forest growth through aging, management, silvicultural inputs on fluxes are critically important not always recognized by bookkeeping integrated assessment models. When projecting future, it is vital capture how management affect storage in ecosystems wood products. This...
This paper develops structural dynamic methods to project future carbon fluxes in forests. These account for land management changes on both the intensive and extensive margins, of which are critical components fluxes. When implemented, model suggests that U.S. forests remain a sink through most coming century, sequestering 128 Tg C y<sup>−1</sup>. Constraining forestland its current boundaries constraining levels reduce average sequestration by 25 28 An increase demand leads increased...
Many countries have taken on ambitious but potentially costly renewable energy development goals to combat climate change. The government of Guatemala has introduced a plan increase generation capacity, while an estimated 76% Guatemalans are poor. In this paper, we evaluate the trade-offs between alleviating poverty and achieving in Guatemala. We present framework that combines electricity cost model with household expenditure survey assess effects national goal could through added...
Although various studies have shown that corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by displacing fossil fuel use, many of these fail to include how land-use history affects the net carbon balance through changes in soil content. We evaluated effectiveness and economic value cellulosic production for reducing GHG when produced on lands with different histories, comparing strategies reductions achieved set-aside programs such as Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Depending prior...
Uneven global distribution of phosphate rock deposits and the supply chains to transport phosphorus (P) make P fertilizers vulnerable exogenous shocks, including commodity market shocks; extreme weather events or natural disasters; geopolitical instability, such as trade disputes, disruption shipping routes, war. Understanding bidirectional risk transmission (global-to-local local-to-global) in consumption is thus essential. Ignoring system interdependencies associated risks could have major...
According the IPCC's 2023 Synthesis Report on Climate Change, global temperatures have risen approximately 1C since pre-industrial period, and there is significant uncertainty around future climate projections. Additionally, IPCC related scientific literature find that forestry sector both vulnerable to already feeling effects of change. This work sets out accomplish two goals. The first contribute a new modeling approach accounts intra-annual changes in variability weather patterns tree...
Reversing forest losses through restoration, improvement, and conservation is a critical goal for greenhouse gas mitigation. Here, we examine some ecological, demographic, economic opportunities constraints on forest-loss mitigation activities. Reduced deforestation degradation could cut global rates in half by 2030, preserving 1.5 billion to 3 metric tons of carbon dioxide—equivalent (tCO2e) emissions yearly. Our new modeling the United States suggests that payments up $50 per tCO2e reduce...
Though there are surprisingly few estimates of the economic benefits coordinated infrastructure development and operations in international river basins, is a widespread belief that improved cooperation beneficial for managing water scarcity variability. Hydro-economic optimization models commonly-used identifying efficient allocation across time space, but such typically assume full coordination. In real world, investment operational decisions specific projects often made without...
Agriculture is one of the sectors that expected to be most significantly impacted by climate change. There has been considerable interest in assessing these impacts and many recent studies investigating agricultural for individual countries regions using an array models. However, great majority existing explore on a country or region without explicitly accounting rest world. This approach can bias results impact assessments agriculture given importance global trade this sector. Due potential...
Several previous studies have evaluated the potential greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of forest biomass energy relative to fossil fuel equivalents over different spatial scales and time frames applying a variety methodologies. This paper contributes this literature through an analysis multiple projected sources demand growth in regions world using detailed intertemporal optimization model global sector. Given range current policies incentivizing bioenergy expansion globally, evaluating...
This paper develops methodologies and identifies data gaps for understanding the impacts of hurricanes on forest product markets. Using case Hurricane Michael, we simulate damage to growing stock area from alternative estimations (inventory remote sensed). We then consider scenarios replanting, spatial distribution salvage consumption. Beyond previous analyses examine both short run long market outcomes resulting age demographics standing timber post-hurricane. The simulation framework...
Abstract There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward nutritional security, climate stability, environmental integrity. How can satisfy demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, Energy—Consortium reconcile both elements developing system pathways. This includes three key...
Abstract This study examines the effects of supplying forest biomass on ecosystem services and goods with a dynamic systems model. unique analysis models trade investments in forestry, thereby capturing price changes from increased demand current future flows natural capital stocks. Forests across globe are interconnected through timber markets, which influence management decisions, land rents, policy responses. Results indicate that expanding consumption, even at relatively low levels, will...
Abstract There is considerable concern that consuming forest biomass for energy will increase net carbon emissions from forests, which defined as debt. Using a market-based economic model, we test the effects of 51 demand pathways bioenergy on future stocks to assess likelihood incurring sustained debt lasting several decades. We show potential expansion, measured near-term decrease in sequestration relative baseline, occurs and persists only under specific set assumptions about accounting,...
Abstract Background Wood products continue to store carbon sequestered in forests after harvest and therefore play an important role the total storage associated with forest sector. Trade-offs between sequestration/storage wood product pools managed systems exist, order for sector modeling be meaningful, it must link specific system from which originate have ability incorporate situ ex synchronously over time. Results This study uses elements of a life cycle assessment approach, tracing US...