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A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models
04 May 2019 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Thales A P West, Jan Börner, Nelson Benjamin Villoria
Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When...
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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries
31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...
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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries
01 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...
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Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools
10 Nov 2016 | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza
This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...
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Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project
10 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski
HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...
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Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project
10 Nov 2014 | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski
HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...
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Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century
31 Jul 2014 | Contributor(s): Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Tom Hertel
Global land use research to date has focused on quantifying uncertainty effects of three major drivers affecting competition for land: the uncertainty in energy and climate policies affecting competition between food and biofuels, the uncertainty of climate impacts on agriculture and forestry,...
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Evaluation Reports
18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith
An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.
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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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Quantifying the uncertainties in estimating the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxes on labor, land, water, and fertilizer use in US agriculture
17 May 2023 | Publications | Contributor(s): Iman Haqiqi
Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC; July 23-25, 2023 Potential carbon taxes will have spatially heterogeneous impacts on agriculture. The magnitude of impacts depends on 1) the direct and...
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U2U Accomplishment Highlights (April 2011 - Sept 2012)
17 Oct 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, John Kriva
This document provides a brief overview of the top accomplishments from the U2U project from April 2011 - Sept 2012.
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U2U Fact Sheet - October 2011
28 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm
The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.
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U2U Fact Sheet - October 2012
17 Oct 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm
The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.
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U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet
24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm
The U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 1 Working Group.
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U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet
24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm
The U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 2 Working Group.
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U2U Overview Presentation
03 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy
This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) research project. Last updated Nov. 1, 2011.
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U2U Poster - July 2011
22 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy
This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.Thank you to our University of Wisconsin colleagues...
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U2U Poster - May 2012
18 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm
This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.
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U2U Poster - Oct 2012
27 Nov 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm
This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.
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U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)
08 Nov 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, John Kriva