Browsing by Author "Gan, Jianbang"
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An, Hyunjin; Gan, Jianbang; Cho, Sung (Forests, 2015)
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Stroman, Dianne A (2014-09-29)Perpetual conservation easements have become one the primary tools used for long-term land protection and are credited with helping protect endangered species, preventing habitat fragmentation, maintaining ecosystem functions ...
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Huff, Juanita Katheryn (2016-07-29)Big Bend National Park has some of the most diverse ecosystems and landscapes in the country. Tourists are drawn to the park’s unique biological diversity provided by the park’s natural resources each year. The potential ...
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Prasodjo, Darmawan (2012-10-19)Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and a point of electricity generation is a promising option for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. One issue with respect to CCS is the design of carbon dioxide transport, storage and ...
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Campiche, Jody L. (2010-07-14)The renewable energy industry continues to expand at a rapid pace. New advances in cellulosic ethanol technologies have the potential to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. The evolution of these new biofuel markets could ...
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Zhou, Xinnian; Zhou, Yuan; Zhou, Chengjun; Wu, Zhilong; Zheng, Lifeng; Hu, Xisheng; Chen, Hanxian; Gan, Jianbang (Forests, 2015)
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Lee, So Young (2020-04-23)South Korea plans to expand imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) to mitigate air pollution and climate change. This study assesses the environmental and economic implications of importing U.S. LNG for electricity ...
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Aisabokhae, Ruth 1980- (2012-12-05)Climate factors like precipitation and temperature, being closely intertwined with agriculture, make a changing climate a big concern for the entire human race and its basic survival. Adaptation to climate is a long-running ...
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Park, Jiyun (2012-10-19)This dissertation investigates: (1) the climate change effects on the mean and higher order moments of crop yield distributions; (2) the effects of irrigation with and without its interactive terms with climate variables; ...
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Villavicencio Cordova, Xavier A. (2010-07-14)In this dissertation, I study the effects of climate change on agricultural total factor productivity and crop yields and their variability. In addition, an examination was conducted on the value of select climate change ...
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Chen, Wenjuan (2014-07-31)Climate change has imposed significant challenges on global dryland systems. In this dissertation, Inner Mongolia, a typical dryland system in the world’s largest developing county, China, was selected as an example to ...
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Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan; Grant, William E.; Gan, Jianbang; Rogers, William E.; Swannack, Todd M.; Koralewski, Tomasz E.; Miller, James H.; Taylor, John W.; Scalas, Enrico (PloS One, 2012)
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Jarrett, Adam R. (2009-05-15)Non-industrial Private Forests (NIPF) landowners constitute a major component of the forested land portfolio in the Southeastern United States. The lands they possess provide a variety of social benefits but many aspects ...
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Clifton, Kathryn Marie (2014-05-08)National parks in developing countries often have inhabitants that practice communal land management. Potential drivers for sustainable communal land management have been identified in literature, however these drivers ...
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Doner, Yavuz (2018-11-19)The stress on water resources is more critical in drylands due to ecological and climatological changes. Because upscaling the findings of paired-catchment studies to larger watersheds is difficult, hydrological models ...
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Monge, Juan (2012-10-19)The economic impacts of a government-funded, forest-based sequestration program were analyzed under two different payment schemes. The impacts were obtained by developing a regional, static CGE model built to accommodate ...
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Occupation, Dispersal, and Economic Impact of Major Invasive Plant Species in Southern U.S. Forests Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan (2011-02-22)Invasive alien plants have impacted southern U.S. forests. This study focuses on quantifying current distribution, rate of dispersals, and economic losses caused by four major invaders — Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera ...
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Zhu, En (2009-05-15)In 2005 the highest global surface temperature ever was recorded. A virtual consensus exists today among scientists that global warming is underway and that human greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are a significant cause. ...
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Lee, Won Ju (2009-06-02)Wildfires have become more destructive and are seriously threatening societies and our ecosystems throughout the world. Once a wildfire escapes from its initial suppression attack, it can easily develop into a destructive ...
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Kabli, Mohannad; Gan, Jianbang; Ntaimo, Lewis (Forests, 2015)