Quantifying the uncertainties in estimating the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxes on labor, land, water, and fertilizer use in US agriculture

17 May 2023 | 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...

Magmatic Forcing of Cenozoic Climate?

13 Aug 2019 | 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.

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...

SEPIDROUD DAM GEODETIC DATA

19 Nov 2018 | 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...

Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas

09 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters...

New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon

22 Nov 2017 | 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...

An open source geospatial cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration and broader engagement

26 Oct 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song

Solving complex global problems demands that researchers from different disciplines work together, and their analytical tools, models and datasets interoperate. This is especially true in the context of sustainability. For instance, multiple goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development...

iData Walkthrough

21 Oct 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

This video demonstrates the features of the GABBs iData data management building block such as automatic metadata extraction and geospatial file preview. It also walks through how iData files can be used in both hub tools and publications. 

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.

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...

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,...

Climate Scenario Aggregator

09 Sep 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

Climate Scenario Aggregator

LANDPARAM

20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

The role of international trade in managing food security risks from climate change

20 Mar 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel

International trade plays an important role in facilitating global food security in the face of a changing climate. In considering this issue, it is useful to distinguish between two different time scales: inter-annual and inter-decadal. Inter-annual adjustments in international trade can play an...

AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

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.

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

01 Aug 2014 | Online Presentations | 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...

Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | 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,...

Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Zekarias Hussein, Tom Hertel, Alla Golub

Mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change is one of the leading policy concerns of the 21st century. However, there continues to be heated debate about the nature, the content and, most importantly, the impact of the policy actions needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One...

Land, Environment and Climate: Contributing to the Global Public Good

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | 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...