Biomass/Biofuel Options

· Lifecycle Carbon Footprint, Bioenergy and Leakage: Empirical Investigations
Presented at USDA, FARM Foundation Conference on The Lifecycle Carbon Footprint of Biofuels: January 29, 2008 in Miami. It is an early draft of a paper that will appear in a proceedings volume.

· Biofuels: Will we see more ? An Economists View
Presented at Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, Texas Renewables '06 Conference, Austin, Nov 13, 2006

· Switchgrass as an Alternate Feedstock for Power Generation: Integrated Environmental, Energy, and Economic Life-Cycle Analysis
Paper in draft form, 2005.

· Switchgrass as an Alternate Feedstock for Power Generation: Integrated Environmental, Energy, and Economic Life-Cycle Analysis: Appendix

· U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Greenhouse Mitigation: An Economic Exploration of Time Dependent Effects
A chapter in Rural Lands, Agriculture and Climate beyond 2015: Usage and Management Responses, edited by F. Brouwer and B.A. McCarl , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.

· Economic Exploration of Biofuel-based Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation
A chapter in Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, edited by K. Collins and J. Outlaw, forthcoming, 2005.

· Biocomplexity Analysis of Alternative Biomass Routes for Power Generation: Environmental, Economic, and Technical Assessment
Presented at Complex Processes Symposium, College Station, TX, March, 2005.

· The Dynamic Competitiveness of U.S. Agricultural and Forest Carbon Sequestration
Paper submitted to Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

· The Comparative Value of Biological Carbon Sequestration
Paper submitted to Journal of Agricultural and Rsource Economics.

· An Economic Exploration of Biofuel based Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation
Presented at Workshop on Agriculture as a Producer and Consumer of Energy, Washington D.C., June 24-25, 2004.

· Climate change Mitigation as a stimulus for biofuel adoption:
An economic evaluation
Presented at Workshop on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Bio-Based Production, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 8 - 9, 2004.

· Competitiveness of Biomass-Fueled Electrical Power Plants
This is an earlier version of an article in Annals of Operations Research, 1998, see journal for a final copy.

· Economic Potential of Biomass Based Fuels from Agricultural Sources
Paper prepared for workshop on "Sustainable Energy : New Challenges for Agriculture and Implications for Land Use", May 18-20, 2000 - Wageningen, The Netherlands. 

· Economic Potential of Biomass Based Fuels for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation
Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 24(4), 291-312, 2003.

· Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Through Energy Crops in the U.S. With Implications for Asian-Pacific Countries
Paper in book by Mendelssohn.

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