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pERE
Weekly Workshop
“Valuing Military Lands”
by William Goran and Timothy Hayden (Engineer Research and Development Center - Construction Engineering Research Lab (ERDC-CERL))
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
12 noon - 1 p.m.
Mumford Hall Room 426
Abstract:
Military land provides both national security and ecosystem values, but the U.S. government lacks an effective framework (such as land appraisals) to adequately determine these values in economic terms. This challenge has growing importance, as the military engages in various exchanges (such as land use easements on neighboring private lands, habitat agreements within and beyond military borders, watershed management plans across ownership and jurisdictional boundaries, and renewable energy leases on military lands) with neighbors, regulators, and various military users, including foreign military. What critical steps might help us move towards an economic evaluation framework that integrates national security and ecosystem service valuations for land related actions?
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The graduate program in
Environmental and Resource Economics (pERE) explores the complex
relationships between environmental quality, economic prosperity,
and human behavior. Students and faculty from departments across
campus are using economics to analyze policy regarding some of
today's most critical environmental and natural resource issues.
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