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 | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Senior Fellow and Director, Forest Economics and Policy Program | |
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PROFILE |
Roger Sedjo is a senior fellow and the director of RFF's forest economics and policy program. His research interests include forests and global environmental problems; climate change and biodiversity; public lands issues; long-term sustainability of forests; industrial forestry and demand; timber supply modeling; international forestry; global forest trade; forest biotechnology; and land use change. He has written or edited 14 books related to forestry and natural resources.
Sedjo has served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Committee of Scientists and has cochaired the committee of authors who wrote the chapter on biological sinks for the International Panel on Climate Change's Third Assessment Report on climate change mitigation through forestry and other land use measures.
Sedjo also has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other international organizations in more than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, New Zealand, Russia, Romania, Estonia, and Thailand.
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| Featured Publications | | Forestland Ownership Changes in the United States and Sweden | | Lars Lonnsteadt and Roger Sedjo | | Forest Policy and Economics | Fall 2011 | September 2011 | | | | “Wood as a Major Feedstock for Biofuel Production in the U.S.: Impacts on Forests and International Trade | | Roger Sedjo and Brent Sohngen | | Journal of Sustainable Forests. | July 2012 | forthcoming | | | | “Biomass Sequestration, Energy and Global Change,” | | Roger Sedjo | | International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics | H. Folmer and T. Tietenberg, eds. | Edward Elgar | 2010 | | | | Making the case for new empirical research in wildfire economics and policy | | Carolyn Kousky, Sheila Olmstead, and Roger Sedjo | | Dean Lueck and Karen Bradshaw | Washington, DC: Resources for the Future | 2011 | | | | Forests in Climate Policy: Technical, Institutional and Economic Issues in Measurement and Monitoring | | Molly K. Macauley and Roger A. Sedjo | | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | Forthcoming | | | | Far-reaching deleterious impacts of regulations on research and environmental studies of recombinant DNA-modified perennial biofuel crops in the USA | | Strauss, S.H., D..L. Kershen, J.H. Bouton, T.P. Redick, H. Tan, and R. A. Sedjo. | | BioScience | October 2010. | Vol. 60, No. 9. | pp. 729-741. | | | | How do Environmental Regulations Affect Investments in Biofuel and Biofuel R&D: The case of Transgenic Trees | | Roger A. Sedjo | | AgBioForum. | Fall 2010 | forthcoming | | | | Forests, Biodiversity and Avoided Deforestation in Latin America | | Roger A. Sedjo and Juha Siikamaki | | Latin American Development Priorities – Costs and Benefit | Edited by Bjorn Lomborg | NY: Cambridge University Press | 2010 | | | | “Some Limits of Wood Biomass for Cellulosic Biofuels | | Roger A. Sedjo and Brent Sohngen | | Milken Institute Review | Fourth Quarter 2009 | Vol. 11, No. 4. | pps. 51-55. | | | | The Implications for the Timber Sector of US Biofuel Mandates | | Roger Sedjo | | Forest Sector Modeling Conference | College of Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle | University of Washington, Seattle | November 18, 2008 | | | | Carbon Credits for Avoided Deforestation | | Roger A. Sedjo, Brent Sohngen. | | Icfai's Professional Reference Book: Carbon Credits: An Introduction | N.A. | New Delhi: Icfai | 2008 | | | | Sedjo's Comments on 'Global Markets and the Health of America’s Forests: A Forest Service Perspective,' | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Journal of Forestry. | forthcoming | | | | Returning Forest analyzed with the forest identity | | Pekka E. Kauppi, Jesse H. Ausubel, Jingyun Fang, Alexander Mather, Roger A. Sedjo, and Paul E. Waggoner | | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 14, . | Fall 2006 | Vol. 103, no.46 | pp.17574-17579 | | | | Valuing Biodiversity for Pharmaceutical Research (Reprint) | | R. David Simpson, Roger Sedjo and J. Reid | | Environmental Economics: Critical Concepts | Charles Mason and Erwin Bulte | UK: Routledge | 2007 | | | | Will the Developing Countries be the Early Adopters of Genetically Engineered Forests | | Roger A. Sedjo | | AgBioForum | Vol. 8, No.4. | pp 1-19. | | | | Valuing Biodiversity for Use in Pharmaceutical Research | | R. David Simpson, Roger A. Sedjo and John W. Reid | | Journal of Political Economy | Winter 1996 | vol. 104, no. 1 | pp. 163 - 185 | | | | Voluntary Eco-Labeling and the Price Premium | | Roger A. Sedjo and S.K. Swallow | | Land Economics | May 2002 | Vol. 87, No. 2 | pp. 272-284 | | | | Accounting for Sequestered Carbon: The Question of Permanence | | Gregg Marland, Kristy Fruit, and Roger Sedjo | | Environment Science and Policy | 2001 | Vol. 4, No. 6 | pp. 259-268 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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TESTIMONY | | Conditions of Competition in U.S. Forest Products Trade | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) | May 26, 1999 | | | | | Testified for the Hearing on Committee of Scientists and National Forest Planning | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Forest and Forest Health | March 16, 1999 | | | | | Testified for the Hearing on Natural Resources (on topic of forestry research) | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. House of Representatives, Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Activities | March 7, 1990 | | | | | Testified for the Hearing on Tropical Forestry Research | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands | June 1989 | | | | | Climate Change and U.S. Forests | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Congressional "Forestry Task Force 2000" | January 12, 1988 | | | | | Deforestation and Biological Diversity | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on International Organizations | September 1984 | | | | | Housing Recession's Effect on the Forest Products Industry | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. House of Representatives, Agricultural Subcommittee | September 1982 | | | | | Timber Sales Termination | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee | 1982 | | | | | Tropical Deforestation | | Roger A. Sedjo | | Congressional Hearing | 1981 | | | | | Log Export Policy | | Roger A. Sedjo | | U.S. House of Representatives, Forests Subcommittee on Agriculture | May l980 | | | | |
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