Project on the Economics of Climate Adaptation and Forests
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College of Agricultural Sciences |
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Track #2: Climate change adaptation, conservation,
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Principal
research question:
How does landowner adaptation to climate change and climate policy affect the
forest landscape and ecosystem services, and how can conservation policy be
designed in the face of climate change? |
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Objective 1: How can the optimal provision
of ecosystem services be implemented under
asymmetric information, spatial dependences and climate change induced range
shifts in wildlife? |
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-The provision of many ecosystem services depends on the
spatial pattern of land use. -Climate change may alter ecosystem service through time. -Landowners have asymmetric information regarding their
costs of conservation. -This research develops an auction mechanism to optimally
allocate conservation through time given the above three challenges. |
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Moose
in Balsam-Fir Forest of Northern Maine; Photo: David Lewis |
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Objective 2: Integrate the landscape
simulation of climate adaptation with ecological models of wildlife to depict
the impacts of climate change and climate policy on forest wildlife habitat.
We examine which species will gain habitat and which species will lose habitat
under alternative climate change and climate policy scenarios. |
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Objective 3: Use the integrated landscape
simulation of climate change to examine how climate change and climate policy
scenarios will affect fire prevalence and carbon sequestration through
adaptation behavior amongst landowners. |
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Research Papers Lewis,
D.J., and S. Polasky. 2018. An auction mechanism for the optimal provision of
ecosystem services under climate change. Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management (Forthcoming). (PDF
version). Hashida,
Y., Withey, J., Kline, J., Newman, T., and D.J. Lewis. 2018. Forest
landowners’ response to climate change and carbon pricing affect wildlife
habitat. Working Paper. |
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Sources of funding support |
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USDA Forest Service Pacific
Northwest Research Station
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USDA National Institute for
Food and Agriculture
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Last updated: 8/28/2018 |
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