Brent Sohngen
Brent Sohngen
Brent Sohngen
Brent Sohngen
Professor, Graduate Studies Leader
Contact Information
322 Agricultural Administration Building
2120 Fyffe Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210
sohngen.1@osu.edu
Telephone: 614-688-4640
Fax: 614-292-0078
Degree information
B.S., Applied Economics & Business Management, Cornell University (1991)
D.F., Natural Resource & Environmental Economics, Yale University (1996)
Natural Resource & Environmental Economics - Valuing environmental change; Modeling land-use/land-cover change; Timber market modeling; Economics of non-point source pollution
American Journal of Agricultural Economics - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association By Brent Sohngen and Robert Mendelsohn This study develops an optimal control model of carbon sequestration and energy abatement to explore the potential role of forests in greenhouse gas mitigation. The...
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May 2, 2003
By Brent Sohngen and Robert Mendelsohn The American Economic Review This paper establishes a methodology for valuing the impact of large-scale ecological changes in a market. Given the large capital stocks inherent in most ecological systems, the dynamic nature of most ecological change, and the...
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September 4, 1998
By Massimo Tavoni, Brent Sohngen, Valentina Bosetti This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to forest sequestration we couple two global models...
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January 1, 2013
This paper reviews literature on the impacts of climate change and climate change policy on agriculture and forests. The review suggests that the range of results in the impact literature is widening rather than narrowing as more studies are added. To a large degree, however, the range of results...
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December 7, 2008
By Brent Sohngen, Ralph Alig, and Birger Solberg This paper assesses recent research on climate change, the forest sector, and the global carbon cycle in order to provide a synthesis of recent research results that investigate how climate change may affect the global forest sector. There is...
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January 1, 2007
By Brent Sohngen and Robert H. Beach
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September 1, 2006
By Brent Sohngen and Sandra Brown
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January 1, 2006
This short piece provides estimates of the marginal costs of forest carbon sequestration in all regions of the world. The regions are highly aggregated to the level of countries and in many cases continents. They are the first globally comprehensive estimates of the marginal costs of carbon...
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August 1, 2005
By Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo This paper examines potential climate change impacts in North American timber markets. The results indicate that climate change could increase productivity in forests in North America, increase productivity in forests globally, and reduce timber prices. North...
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January 1, 2005
By Brent Sohngen and Sandra Brown This paper estimates a forestland management model for the three states in the South Central United States (Arkanses, Louisiana, and Mississippi). Forest type and land-use shares are estimated to be a function of economic and physical variables. The results suggest...
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December 15, 2004
By Brent Sohngen and Colleen Tennity This paper describes a dataset containing inventory and economic information on global forests. Inventory information on the area of timber in productive forest types is furnished for different age classes, where that information is available. Inventory...
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November 30, 2004
By Brent Sohngen and Robert Mendelsohn Paper prepared for Energy Modeling Forum Snowmass Meeting August, 2004
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September 29, 2004
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Terrestrial ecosystems store approximately 1 trillion tons of CO2 in the biomass of living trees and plants. Current estimates suggest that it would be possible to increase this carbon efficiently in order to reduce the future damages of climate change. The methods that could be used include...
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September 1, 2009
By Roger Sedjo and Brent Sohngen The growing reliance in the United States and many other industrial countries on foreign petroleum has generated increasing concerns. Since the 1970s, many administrations have called for energy independence, with a particular focus on petroleum. Although energy...
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June 1, 2009
By Brian Murray, Ruben Lubowski, and Brent Sohngen Deforestation and forest degradation currently account for 15% to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, exceeding the global emissions of the transportation sector (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] 2007). But efforts to curb...
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June 1, 2009
| Course number | Course title | Semesters offered |
|---|---|---|
| AED ECON 4320 | Energy, the Environment, and the Economy | Autumn |
| AED Econ 8890 | Workshop on Research Models | May |
| AEDE 4597.01 | Population, Food, and the Environment | Autumn, Spring, Summer |
| AEDE Econ 7890 | Workshop on Microeconomic Analysis | May |
| AEDE Econ 8200 | Frontiers of AED Economics | Spring |
Ohio State’s Environmental Policy Initiative, which is directed by AEDE's Dr. Brent Sohngen, has awarded three outstanding Ohio State doctoral students research grants for use during the summer of 2013. The grant funding will be used by the students for new research related to environmental policy.
The annual meeting of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) will be held at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada from June 6-8, 2013. AEDE will have a strong presence at the gathering with a number of faculty and students participating.
Every four years the U.S. federal government commissions the U.S. National Climate Assessment report to examine the effects of climate change on the environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, human health and welfare, and biological diversity. The final product is delivered to the President and Congress. AEDE’s Professor Brent Sohngen is serving as a co-author for the forestry chapter of this year's report.
AEDE faculty members Sathya Gopalakrishnan , H. Allen Klaiber , Brian Roe and H. Allen Klaiber have been awarded 2013 SEEDS grants from the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) to engage in new research.
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) will be held from August 12-14, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. AAEA is the premier professional organization for agricultural applied economists. The yearly meeting enables faculty and students from AEDE to...
Brent Sohngen will present “Nutrient BMPs: Voluntary Incentives, Regulation, Free Markets - What Will It Take to Keep Ohio's Waters Clean?” on July 6 at 10 a.m. at the MORPC offices, 111 Liberty St., Suite 100, in Columbus. To read more click here .