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Land Use in the 21st Century: Contributing to the Global Public Good
08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This paper focuses on the evolution of global public goods related to the world’s land resources over the course of the 21st century, their potential impacts on the world’s poorest households, as well as prospects for policy interventions aimed at enhancing these outcomes. It begins...
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Land, Environment and Climate: Contributing to the Global Public Good
31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This paper discusses global public goods related to the world's land resources, their current provision and likely future provision, their potential impacts on the world's poorest households, as well as prospects for using foreign assistance to enhance these outcomes. Specifically, the...
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LANDPARAM
20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)
A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities
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Magmatic Forcing of Cenozoic Climate?
13 Aug 2019 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Pietro Sternai
This is the supporting models for the contribution "AGU Centennial Grand Challenge: Magmatic Forcing of Cenozoic Climate?" [Paper #2018JB016460R] submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth.
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Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt
08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Christopher Kucharik, Laura C Bowling, Jing Liu
Video presentation on "Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018
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Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable Agriculture and Use of the World's Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Laura C Bowling, Keith Cherkauer, Matthew Huber, David R Johnson, Carol Song, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.
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Market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels
31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Wallace E. Tyner
This paper surveys the evidence on market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels, with special attention to the indirect greenhouse gas emissions stemming from land cover change in the wake of increased demand for biofuel feedstocks. We find clear evidence that market mediated land use...
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National Initiatives Gauge Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change (press release)
05 Mar 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): John Kriva, Melissa Widhalm
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New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon
22 Nov 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Frances C. Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel, Delavane Diaz
Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies. Here we present...
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PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)
14 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Delphine, Navin Ramankutty, I Luk Kim, Rajesh Kalyanam
A GEOSHARE tool for conducting live simulations using PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)
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POL 520/EAS 591 Great issues: climate and policy
14 Nov 2010 | Courses
The course POL 520/EAS 591, “Great issues: climate and policy”, is designed to better educate students in the use and misuse of modeling across disciplines, so that they will be better builders and consumers of integrated, complex models of coupled human/natural systems in their own careers. More...
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Predicting Long Term Food Demand, Cropland Use and Prices
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
This paper seeks to survey, understand and reconcile the widely divergent estimates of long run global crop output, land use and price projections in the current literature. We begin by reviewing the history of such projections and the different models and assumptions used in these exercises. We...
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Presentation of GABBs at Brown Dog Workshop
09 Sep 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Song
This is a presentation given at the first Brown Dog user workshop, Urbana, IL, July 2014.
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PyMapLib for Rapid Development of Geospatial Data Analysis Tools
02 Aug 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lan Zhao, Jaewoo Shin, Shandian Zhe, Carol Song
This is the presentation at CyberGIS 2016 conference introducing pyMapLib, a generic Python mapping library developed as part of the NSF funded GABBS project.
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Remote Sensing Analysis on HUBzero
16 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl
MultiSpec is a remote sensing analysis tool being developed on MyGeoHub.org as part of the Geospatial Analysis Building Blocks (GABBs) NSF-funded and the IndianaView/AmericaView USGS-funded projects. The tool has been adapted from the desktop Macintosh and Windows versions...
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Root Zone Water Quality Model
06 Jun 2022 | Tools | Contributor(s): Balaji Sesha Srikanth Pokuri, Anupam Bhar (contributor)
Whole-system model for studying crop production and environmental quality under current and changing climate conditions., developed by USDA-ARS
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SEPIDROUD DAM GEODETIC DATA
19 Nov 2018 | Downloads | Contributor(s): homeira mahmoudi (contributor)
Large and sensitive structures such as dams, power plants and towers are of great importance and the behavior of such structures is usually made in geotechnical and geodetic ways (engineering geodesy). In today's world, there are virtually no large structures in developed countries that...
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Sigma Coefficient of Yield Volatility: A Global Dataset of Irrigated and Rainfed Corn Yield Volatility Based on NEX-GDDP-CMIP6
24 Sep 2024 | Publications | Contributor(s): Iman Haqiqi
DescriptionThis global dataset provides the estimated volatility of corn yields due to heat stress for 20 climate models in NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 data at 0.25-degree resolution. To quantify volatility in crop yields across different locations and climate scenarios, the standard deviation...
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Sigma Coefficient of Yield Volatility: A Global Dataset of Irrigated and Rainfed Corn Yield Volatility Based on NEX-GDDP-CMIP6
24 Sep 2024 | Publications | Contributor(s): Iman Haqiqi
DescriptionThis global dataset provides the estimated volatility of corn yields due to heat stress for 20 climate models in NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 data at 0.25-degree resolution. To quantify volatility in crop yields across different locations and climate scenarios, the standard deviation...
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The GABBs Report - Building Geospatial Capability in HUBzero
15 Sep 2015 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song
Geospatial data are present everywhere today with the proliferation of location-aware computing devices. This is especially true in the scientific community where large amounts of data are driving research and education activities in many domains. Collaboration over geospatial data, for example,...