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...

GLASS Conference 2020 Program

28 Jan 2020 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Program description for "Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable agriculture and use of the world's land and water resources in the 21st Century" conference.

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...

Marker Set

06 Nov 2018 | Contributor(s): Rob Campbell

Create iData Marker Set definition files (.ims)

Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt

08 Oct 2018 | 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

Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability

08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos

Video presentation on "Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century

08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Laura C Bowling, Iman Haqiqi

Video presentation on "Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

Introduction Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture

08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Video presentation on introduction of the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

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...

iData Packaging Tool

12 Jun 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Rob Campbell (contributor), Lan Zhao (contributor)

Package iData files into a BagIT bag for subsequent import to a different project.

Metadata Exporter

03 Apr 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam

Export geospatial file metadata to the ISO-19115 standard

MultiSpec - Desktop and Online Tool

20 Dec 2017 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl

MultiSpec is an easy to learn and use, freeware image processing tool for interactively analyzing a broad spectrum of geospatial image data, with capabilities such as image display, unsupervised and supervised classification, feature extraction, feature enhancement, and several other functions....

Developing Open Source Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks Software

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): JIngbo Wu

This is an article published at Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research by Jingbo Wu describing his summer intern work as part of the GABBs project.

MyGeoHub Geospatial Gateway

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Lan Zhao, Rob Campbell, Derrick Kearney, I Luk Kim, Jaewoo Shin, Larry Biehl, Wei Wan, Carol Song

MyGeoHub is a science gateway for researchers working with geospatial data. Based on the HUBzero cyberinfrastructure framework, it provides general-purpose software modules enabling geospatial data management, processing and visualization. Termed “GABBs” (Geospatial Data Analysis...

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. 

Assessing the Inter-regional Incidence of Climate Impacts on Agriculture

19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.

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.

Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Climate Change across Latin America

19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Monika Verma, Eduardo Magalhaes, Carlos Ludena, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Frances Moore

This is a poster presented at IMPACTS WORLD 2017, Germany.

Achieving Sustainable Irrigation Water Withdrawals: Global Impacts on Food Production and Land Use

27 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Richard Lammers, Alexander A Prusevich, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Danielle Grogan, Steve Frolking

Unsustainable water use challenges the capacity of water resources to ensure food security and continued growth of the economy. Adaptation policies targeting future water security can easily overlook its interaction with other sustainability metrics and unanticipated local responses to the...

Analyzing Water Scarcity in Global CGE Models

08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Farzad Taheripour

Incorporating water into a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model operating at global scale can be extremely demanding due to the absence of standardized data, the sheer dimensions caused by intersecting river basins with countries, and difficulties to model demand for and supply of water....