Browsing by Author "Woodward, Richard T."
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Blunt, Emily Ann (2012-10-19)Gulf oysters are harvested and consumed year-round, with more than 90% consumed in a raw, unprocessed state. A chief concern of policymakers in recent years is the incidence of Vibrio vulnificus infection following raw ...
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Deng, Xiaoyang (2022-04-22)The Gulf Coast is the most important U.S. oil and gas region and contains substantial industry infrastructure and assets. The coastal location makes that energy infrastructure vulnerable to extreme weather like hurricanes, ...
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Feng, Siyi (2012-07-16)This dissertation is composed of three essays, investigating two aspects of the role of agricultural sector in climate change mitigation: leakage and additionality. Leakage happens when mitigation policies reduce net GHG ...
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Cho, Sung Ju (2015-10-27)Climate change, biofuels, agricultural policies and other factors may well be changing farmer decisions and extreme events like wildfires. We use discrete choice models to examine how climate is influencing decisions on ...
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Ding, Jinxiu (2014-07-23)Agricultural production and water resources are sensitive to climate variability and change. Decadal climate variability (DCV) is another force that has been found to influence crop yields and water supplies. DCV phenomena ...
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Wang, Minglu (2020-03-23)This dissertation contains three essays. This first essay reports on an econometric analysis on how climate change affects livestock reproductive efficiency and livestock location. Reproductive activity is measured through ...
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Huang, Pei (2015-07-02)This dissertation analyzes the yield, economic and societal implications of decadal climate variability (DCV) information in the Missouri River basin and policy regulations on the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery. The ...
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Da, Yabin (2022-01-14)Climate change and surface ozone have been proven to impose significant threats on crop productions and the interactions between these two factors further make the issue more complicated. Although the quantification of ...
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Pancharatnam, Padmaja (2014-05-30)This thesis is concerned with examining the relationship between indicators of economic growth and environmental quality. During this process, the analysis explores and attempts to interlink the following theoretical and ...
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Kim, Hwa Nyeon (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Overfishing of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico has significantly increased lately. A major regulation to reduce the overfishing is Total Allowable Catches (TAC) in combination with a season closure. The restrictions on ...