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View article: Effects of Shale Oil and Gas Exploration on Migration and Household Income: Predicting Causal Effects in the Permian Basin
Effects of Shale Oil and Gas Exploration on Migration and Household Income: Predicting Causal Effects in the Permian Basin Open
View article: Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold
Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold Open
View article: More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire
More smoke today for less smoke tomorrow? We need to better understand the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire Open
Rapidly scaling up the use of prescribed fire is being promoted as an important pathway for reducing the growing damages of wildfire events in the United States, including limiting the health impacts from smoke emissions. However, we do no…
View article: Determinants of Demand Response Program Participation: Contingent Valuation Evidence from a Smart Thermostat Program
Determinants of Demand Response Program Participation: Contingent Valuation Evidence from a Smart Thermostat Program Open
As renewable electricity generation continues to increase in the United States (US), considerable effort goes into matching heterogeneous supply to demand at a subhour time-step. As a result, some electric providers offer incentive-based p…
View article: Sending Agricultural Water to The Salton Sea to Improve Public Health? An Integrated Hydro-Agri-Health Economic Analysis
Sending Agricultural Water to The Salton Sea to Improve Public Health? An Integrated Hydro-Agri-Health Economic Analysis Open
View article: Mountain Pine Beetle Impacts on Health through Lost Forest Air Pollutant Sinks
Mountain Pine Beetle Impacts on Health through Lost Forest Air Pollutant Sinks Open
The mountain pine beetle (MPB) destroys millions of coniferous trees annually throughout Western US forests. Coniferous forests are important air pollutant sinks, removing pollutants from the air such as PM2.5 (particulate matter < 2.5 μm …
View article: The Local Labor Market Impacts of US Megafires
The Local Labor Market Impacts of US Megafires Open
As we learn to sustainably coexist with wildfire, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of its multidimensional impacts on society. To this end, we undertake a nationwide study to estimate how megafires (wildfires > 100,000 …
View article: Mesopelagic Scattering Layer Behaviors Across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: Implications for Deep-Sea Mining
Mesopelagic Scattering Layer Behaviors Across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: Implications for Deep-Sea Mining Open
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a 4 million km 2 area in the eastern Central Pacific Ocean exhibiting large variability in environmental parameters, particularly oxygen and primary production, that is being targeted for deep-sea polym…
View article: Public Willingness to Pay for Continuous and Probabilistic Hazard Information
Public Willingness to Pay for Continuous and Probabilistic Hazard Information Open
Investments in new weather forecasting technologies and communication products can be costly and serve the ultimate purpose of protecting life and property. The Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) paradigm attempts to…
View article: U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 1: Characteristics of the Installed Base
U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 1: Characteristics of the Installed Base Open
Motor systems are an integral part of our industrial and commercial facilities. They provide the motive force behind the fans, pumps, compressors, chillers, and conveyors in these facilities. Given their centrality to any facility’s operat…
View article: A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation
A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation Open
This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation.The disparate spillovers associated with innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns di…
View article: A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation
A Calculation of the Social Returns to Innovation Open
This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns d…
View article: Meeting the looming policy challenge of sea-level change and human migration
Meeting the looming policy challenge of sea-level change and human migration Open
View article: Short communication: Effect of abomasal inorganic phosphorus infusion on phosphorus absorption in large intestine, milk production, and phosphorus excretion of dairy cattle
Short communication: Effect of abomasal inorganic phosphorus infusion on phosphorus absorption in large intestine, milk production, and phosphorus excretion of dairy cattle Open
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of inorganic phosphorus (Pi) infusion on P absorption in large intestine, milk production, and phosphorus excretion. Four ruminally and ileally cannulated crossbred cows were used in a …
View article: In search of an inclusive approach: Measuring non-market values for the effects of complex dam, hydroelectric and river system operations
In search of an inclusive approach: Measuring non-market values for the effects of complex dam, hydroelectric and river system operations Open
View article: Broadband classification and statistics of echoes from aggregations of fish measured by long-range, mid-frequency sonar
Broadband classification and statistics of echoes from aggregations of fish measured by long-range, mid-frequency sonar Open
For horizontal-looking sonar systems operating at mid-frequencies (1–10 kHz), scattering by fish with resonant gas-filled swimbladders can dominate seafloor and surface reverberation at long-ranges (i.e., distances much greater than the wa…
View article: HEALTH OUTCOMES AND OPTIMAL CHOICES IN URBAN AREAS IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL SHOCKS AND CHANGES IN FOREST AMENITIES
HEALTH OUTCOMES AND OPTIMAL CHOICES IN URBAN AREAS IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL SHOCKS AND CHANGES IN FOREST AMENITIES Open
Forests and trees may play important roles in human health outcomes and choices made by individuals in urban areas. Disruptions to forest amenities and tree canopy coverage caused by shocks to the natural environment may affect urban air q…
View article: Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States
Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States Open
Survey-based contingent valuation (CV) techniques are commonly used to value the potential effects of a policy change when market-based valuation of those effects is not possible. The results of these analyses are often intended to inform …
View article: Comparisons among ten models of acoustic backscattering used in aquatic ecosystem research
Comparisons among ten models of acoustic backscattering used in aquatic ecosystem research Open
Analytical and numerical scattering models with accompanying digital representations are used increasingly to predict acoustic backscatter by fish and zooplankton in research and ecosystem monitoring applications. Ten such models were appl…