Concerns about the efficiency and the reliability of point sampling to estimate change in forest growth variables have been expressed ever since point sampling appeared in the literature more than 60 years ago. Change estimators for point samples based on point-to-tree distance in variable-radius plots were introduced about 30 years ago but are rarely implemented despite easy access to point-to...

I construct a putty-clay model of directed technical change and use it to analyze the effect of environmental policy on energy use in the United States. The model matches key data patterns that cannot be explained by the standard Cobb-Douglas approach used in climate change economics. In particular, the model captures both the shortand long-run elasticity of substitution between energy and non-...

the input-oriented data envelopment analysis was used to measure the water use efficiency and productivity indices of tehran over the period 2005-13. meanwhile, the correlation between water uses and regional economic activities was examined using the gross regional domestic product index. the results indicated that the total productivity was improved 1.8% and 1.68% aspect of technical efficien...

results of an evaluation of the impact of agricultural science and technology (as and t) policy system institutions on efficiency and technical change in kenyan and ugandan agriculture are presented here. data envelopment analysis was used to derive efficiency and technical change and logistic regression applied to delineate as and t institutions that induced efficiency and technical progress. ...

Abstract I develop a directed technical change model of economic growth and energy efficiency in order to study the impact climate mitigation policies on use. show that standard Cobb–Douglas production function used environmental macroeconomics literature overstates reduction cumulative use can be achieved with given path taxes. also that, model, government combines taxes research development (...

Climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. Climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...