Regional woody biomass supply and economic impacts from harvesting in the southern U.S

He, Lixia; English, Burton C.; Menard, R. Jamey; Lambert, Dayton M.

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2016.09.007

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“…The breakeven price they estimated was within the range of global and U.S. wholesale average prices reported by IBI from their 2014 survey [41]. Forest biomass is a likely feedstock candidate for a Tennessee pyrolysis facility given the state's forest resources [46]. We use findings by Campbell et al [44] regarding biochar co-product amounts and breakeven prices from their techno-economic analysis of a pyrolysis facility to compare with our estimates of biochar amounts demanded at the market-level and prices consumers would pay.…”

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Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Potting Mix with Biochar

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Biochar is a co-product of advanced biofuels production from feedstocks including food, agricultural, wood wastes, or dedicated energy crops. Markets for soil amendments using biochar are emerging, but little is known about consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for these products or the depth of the products’ market potential for this product. This research provides WTP estimates for potting mix amended with 25% biochar, conditioned on consumer demographics and attitudes about product information labeling. Data were collected with an online survey of 577 Tennessee home gardeners. WTP was elicited through a referendum contingent valuation. Consumer WTP for an 8.81 L bag of 25% biochar potting mix is $8.52; a premium of $3.53 over conventional potting mix. Demographics and attitudes toward biofuels and the environment influence WTP. Biochar amounts demanded are projected for the study area’s potential market. Optimal prices, profits, and market shares are estimated across different marginal costs of producing biochar potting mix.

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“…However, relatively little data exist on poplar and willow hardwood productivity and associated costs of production (Kline & Coleman, 2010), as well as water implications of growing these SRWCs throughout the region. More data are needed because conventional hardwood silviculture has productivity over a narrow range of site conditions for specific species, which requires decades of growth for economic profit given that establishment costs for these hardwoods can be quite high (He, English, Menard, & Lambert, 2016).…”

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Positive water linkages of producing short rotation poplars and willows for bioenergy and phytotechnologies

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Berndes

Dimitriou

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The production of short rotation woody crops (SRWCs) such as poplars and willows is a promising component of global bioenergy and phytotechnology portfolios. In addition to the provision of biomass feedstocks and pollution remediation, these trees and shrubs have been sustainably grown to conserve or utilize water in a variety of applications. Growing these woody plants for multiple uses supports many of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG6) and Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG7). As a result, focusing on ecosystem services such as freshwater and biomass has become an important aspect of deploying these production systems across variable landscapes. The current review consists of an introduction of ecosystem services and the SDGs, as well as SRWCs and their applications. The middle section of the review contains case studies highlighting the positive water linkages of producing short rotation poplars and willows for bioenergy and phytotechnologies. The review concludes with a section that combines the common themes that are consistent among the case studies to address options for integrating new bioenergy feedstock production systems into rural and urban landscapes to promote environmental, social and economic sustainability.

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“…The actual output is a number, a multiplier, called a ''response coefficient'' that captures the size of the effects of a grant's infusion of funds in the economy, in this case, per US $1 million spent. The model has been used in natural resources fields including forestry (He et al 2016;Daniels et al 2018), outdoor recreation (Guo et al 2017;Hjerpe 2018), the economic implications of drought (Ziolkowska 2016), and to estimate the size of the ''restoration economy'' (BenDor et al 2015) and is considered a standardized metric used across federal departments (NRCS no date).…”

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The State Wildlife Grant Program: Measuring the Public Value of a Proactive Conservation Program

Riley

Ryzin

Fuller

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Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's State Wildlife Grant (SWG) Program was designed as a proactive species conservation program to aid state fish and wildlife agencies in preventing nonplant species from becoming listed as threatened or endangered (T&E) under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. In this paper, we use four criteria to evaluate whether the SWG Program can be considered successful: 1) value is created (increased) in the short term; 2) value is created (increased) in the long term; 3) the value created is public; and 4) the value created is the value that was intended per the original goals of the program. Our analysis indicates the SWG Program has added US $3 billion in short-term value to local economies and supported the creation of about 18,000 jobs between 2001 until 2015. We use the example of the whooping crane Grus americana to calculate the long-term value of this single T&E species as US $103.5 million annually and argue that the SWG Program helps to maintain this value through supported species-conservation activities. Next, we look at two instances of species receiving proactive SWG Program conservation dollars: the oblong rock snail Leptoxis compacta and several North American bat species (Chiroptera spp.). These species and the conservation actions that benefit them demonstrate how public value is created or maintained through services these species naturally provide that benefit human health and economic well-being. Finally, we evaluate whether the SWG Program is creating the value it was designed to create by showing that T&E spending (expenditure) growth rates decreased after the SWG Program began. We find that the decrease in spending does not correlate with fewer species being removed from consideration as a T&E candidate for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, nor does spending correlate with fewer species being delisted (taken off the list) after being listed as T&E species. Allowing for a 5-y time lag, we are also able to show that the SWG Program has been used in 55% of T&E-listed species that were later delisted under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and 24% of candidate species later removed from consideration for T&E listing as a result of recovery or better information. We argue that these results demonstrate that the SWG Program meets or is potentially meeting all four criteria for an effective public program.

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Regional woody biomass supply and economic impacts from harvesting in the southern U.S

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Potting Mix with Biochar

Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Potting Mix with Biochar

Positive water linkages of producing short rotation poplars and willows for bioenergy and phytotechnologies

The State Wildlife Grant Program: Measuring the Public Value of a Proactive Conservation Program

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