Thursday June 25, 2009

 

8:00     Registration and Coffee

 

8:30     Welcome, Goals of Workshop & Introductions:

                Jacqueline Geoghegan, Clark University

Lori Lynch, University of Maryland

9:00     Invited Speaker I: 

Spatial Dynamics and Economic Models of Land Use Change

Elena Irwin, Ohio State University 

10:00   Selected Paper I:

A Spatial Dynamic Model of Exurban Development

                    David Newburn, Texas A&M University; Peter Berck, University of California-                     Berkeley

 

11:15   Selected Paper II:

Characterizing Land Preservation Welfare Patterns Associated with Study-Invariant Spatial Factors:  Spatial Data Supplemented Meta-Regression

Robert Johnston, Clark University; Joshua Duke, University of Delaware

 

12:10   Lunch 

Invited Speaker II:

How Does Preference Heterogeneity Influence Land-Use Patterns via Market Interactions? Evidence from an Agent-Based Land Market Model

               Dawn Parker, George Mason University; Tatiana Filatova, University of Twente

 

1:45     Selected Paper III:

Land Regulation and Welfare

                     Andrew Haughwout, FRB-NY; Matthew Turner, University of Toronto;

                    Wilbert van der Klaauw, FRB-NY

                       

2:40     Selected Paper IV:

Sizing Protected Areas within a Landscape: The Roles of Villagers’ Reaction and the Ecological-Socioeconomic Setting in Tanzania

                         Elizabeth Robinson (University of Dar es Salaam), Heidi J Albers

                        (Oregon State University), Jeffrey Williams (University of California, Davis)

 

3:50     Selected Paper V:

Determinants of Secondary Forest Cover and Spatial Interactions in a Private Tenure Shifting Cultivation System in the Brazilian Amazon

Heather Klemick, US Environmental Protection Agency

 Day Two:  Friday June 26, 2009

 

8:30     Reconvene, Insights from the First Day:

Peter Berck, University of California, Berkeley to lead

9:05     Selected Paper VI:

REDD Roads in Brazil: Spatial Frontier Dynamics and Spatial Variation in Causal Impacts

               Alexander Pfaff, Duke University; Juan Robalino, EFD-LACEEP              

10:00   Selected Paper VII:

Does Oregon’s Land-use Planning System Affect Land Prices?  Regression Discontinuity Design Approach

           Cyrus Grout, William Jaeger, Andrew Plantinga; Oregon State University

11:10   Selected Paper VIII:

A Spatially Determined Production Function to Model Fiscal Impacts of Community Development

Scott N. Lieske, Donald McLeod, Roger Coupal, University of Wyoming

12:05   Lunch

Invited Speakers III & IV:

Evolution of Empirical Methods in Land Use Modeling

                        Jacqueline Geoghegan, Clark University       

                        &

Policy Challenges for Spatial Land Use Modeling

                Lori Lynch, University of Maryland

 

1:30     Selected Paper IX:

Conservation of Species in Human Altered Landscapes using a Spatially-Explicit, Dynamic Land Allocation Model

Dana Marie Bauer, Boston University

2:25     Insights Revisited:

Report from “Distinguished Participants”

Peter Berck, University of California, Berkeley; Nancy Bockstael, University of Maryland; Kerry Smith, Arizona State University

3:45     Research Agenda Setting Session (full group or break-out as appropriate)

  

5:00     Adjourn