Currently fossil-fuel-based energy accounts for 82% of global energy use and is the source of two-thirds of anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG). Such emissions are a primary climate change driver ultimately altering temperature and in turn influences energy use. This paper presents a...

This paper investigates how dryland wheat farm operators adapt to climate through the use of land leasing in the U.S. Pacific Northwest region. Using a farm-level dataset from the U.S. Census of Agriculture, we build a statistical relationship between climate and leased acreage for dryland wheat...

Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and...

Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatially explicit, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on allocation of land...

This paper presents a price endogenous, dynamic, nonlinear mixed integer programming (MINLP) model to determine the feedstock supply response and future biorefinery locations that meet the mandated cellulosic biofuel production targets in the U.S. With a large number of supply units and...

This paper develops a conceptual framework and a numerical simulation model of the fuel and agricultural sectors in the US to analyze the effects of the existing Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) that mandates the blending of specific volumes of low carbon biofuels with liquid fossil fuels and a...