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Category: Coastal management
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Feel free to promote far and wide. Intended for a non-expert audience (my goal is to get a spot in the sequel to this blockbuster). If you don't like QR codes, you can register here.
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Feel free to promote far and wide. Intended for a non-expert audience (my goal is to get a spot in the sequel to this blockbuster). If you don't like QR codes, you can register here.
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I just finished reading Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast. Here's my book review (from the view of an Environmental Economist of course). The Fishermen and the Dragon tells the true story of the evolution of the Texas Gulf Coast crab and…
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I was asked to write an article for The Conversation that explains how economists place values on environmental goods (with examples). Here's what I came up with. Apologies to all of those involved in the research if this comes across as self-promoting–the perils of writing with an editor. All of the examples mentioned in the…
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Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks on possible causes of sea level rise: "What about erosion?…Every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you've got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up." Anyone still question…
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Abstract: We provide evidence from a nationally representative survey on Americans' willingness to pay (WTP) for a carbon tax, and public preferences for how potential carbon-tax revenue should be spent. The average WTP for a tax on fossil fuels that increases household energy bills is US$177 per year. This translates into an average WTP of…
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Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies. Here, we develop a flexible architecture for computing damages that integrates climate science, econometric analyses, and process models. We…
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So, I always make light of the fact that I'm doing coastal and marine research and my affiliation is in the mountains. So, my joke is that I'm from that "prestigious, marine science institution, Appalachian State University." It might receive a bit of a chuckle but I imagine folks give me a pat on the…
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The big data consulting firms seem to be out ahead of the academic researchers: Real estate agents looking to sell coastal properties usually focus on one thing: how close the home is to the water’s edge. But buyers are increasingly asking instead how far back it is from the waterline. How many feet above sea…
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