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 | | Juha V. Siikamäki | | Associate Research Director and Fellow | |
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PROFILE |
Juha Siikamäki's research focuses on evaluating the benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of different environmental policy options. His work concentrates on natural ecosystems, such as forests, agricultural landscapes, and coastal ecosystems, and empirically evaluating different options for their management and conservation. Moreover, he has broad interest in public policy evaluations, especially in the context of empirical assessments of consumer preferences and choices.
At RFF since 2004, his recent work has examined nature recreation in the US; global options for preserving forest carbon and biodiversity; potential for improving the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation; valuing ecological benefits from reduced air pollution; and evaluating households’ preferences for energy efficiency. His work has been published in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Ecological Applications; Land Economics; and Environment. Siikamäki currently serves as the Treasurer of Association of the Environmental and Resource Economists.
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| Featured Publications | | Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels | | Richard G. Newell and Juha Siikamaki | | Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | San Diego, CA | January 5, 2013 | | | | Energy efficiency behavior: The role of information, purchase cost, and individual discount rates | | Richard Newell and Juha Siikamaki | | AERE 2nd Annual Summer Conference Asheville | Association for Enviromental and Resource Economists | Asheville, North Carolina | June 4, 2012 | | | | Global economic potential for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from mangrove loss | | Juha Siikamaki, James Sanchirico, and Sunny Jardine | | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | In press | | | | Potential Biodiversity Benefits from International Programs to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Deforestation | | Juha Siikamaki and Stephen C. Newbold | | Ambio | 2012 | Vol. 41, Supplement 1 | pp.78-89 | | | | Contributions of the U.S. State Park System to Nature Recreation | | Juha Siikamaki | | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | August 2011 | Vol. 108 | pp. 14031-14036 | | | | Evaluating Global Potential for REDD Programs to Protect Biodiversity | | Juha Siikamaki and Stephen C. Newbold | | AERE 2nd Annual Summer Conference Asheville | Association for Enviromental and Resource Economists | Asheville, North Carolina | June 4, 2012 | | | | State Parks: Assessing Their Benefits | | Juha V. Siikamäki | | Resources | 2012 (179) | | | | The State of the Great Outdoors: America's Parks, Public Lands, and Recreation Resources | | Margaret A. Walls, Sarah R Darley, Juha V. Siikamäki | | RFF Report | September 2009 | | | | Prioritizing conservation activities using reserve site selection and population viability analysis with an application to Pacific salmon | | Stephen Newbold and Juha Siikamaki | | Ecological Applications | October 2009 | Vol. 19, No.7 | pp. 1774-1790 | | | | Discrete Choice Survey Experiments: A Comparison Using Flexible Methods. | | Juha Siikamaki and David Layton | | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2007 | Vol. 53 | pp. 127-139 | | | | Biodiversity: What it Means, How it Works, and What the Current Issues Are | | Juha V. Siikamäki | | Resources | Spring 2008 (168) | | | | Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs: Predicting Landowners' Enrollment and Opportunity Cost Using a Beta-Binomial Model | | David F. Layton and Juha Siikamaki | | Environmental and Resource Economics | November 2009 | Vol. 44, No.3 | pp. 415-439 | | | | Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: Examining the Connections | | Juha Siikamaki | | Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development | July/August 2008 | Vol. 50, No. 4 | pp. 36-49. | | | | Valuing Benefits from Ecosystem Improvements using Stated Preference Methods: An Example from Reducing Acidification in the Adirondacks Park | | David A. Evans, H. Spencer Banzhaf, Dallas Burtraw, Alan Krupnick and Juha Siikamaki | | Saving Biological Diversity: Balancing Protection of Endangered species and Ecosystems | Robert A. Askins, Glenn D. Dreyer, Gerald R. Visgilio | New York: Springer | 2008 | | | | 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 | | | | Using Time Use Data to Examine Outdoor Recreation From 1965 To 2007 | | Juha Siikamaki | | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Newsletter Essay | November 2009 | Vol. 29, No. 2 | 26-32 | | | | Biodiversity in the United States | | Juha Siikamaki and Jeffrey Chow | | Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America | Roger Sedjo, ed. | Washington DC: RFF Press | 2008 | | | | Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur – Environmental Criteria. | | Tara Greaver et al. | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | December 2007 | | | | Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options | | Raymond J. Kopp, William A. Pizer, Daniel Hall, Richard D. Morgenstern, Juha V. Siikamäki, Joseph E. Aldy, Ian W.H. Parry, Karen L. Palmer, Dallas Burtraw, Mun Ho, Evan M Herrnstadt, Joseph Maher | | RFF Report | November 2007 | | | | How People Value What Nature Provides | | Alan J. Krupnick, Juha V. Siikamäki | | Resources | Spring 2007 (165) | | | | View All Related Publications |
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS | | Voluntary Conservation in Working Landscapes | | Juha Siikamaki | | RFF Blue-Green Group | RFF | March 17, 2006 | | | | | Agriculture, the Environment, and the Farm Bill | | Juha Siikamaki | | RFF First Wednesday Seminar | Washington DC | February 7, 2007 | | | | | Microeconomics of Valuing Nature with Applications to Optimal Biological Conservation: Estimating the Marginal Costs and Benefits of Protecting Biodiversity | | Siikamaki Juha | | RFF Junior Staff Seminar Series | Resources for the Future | July 11, 2007 | | | | | Biodiversity, Endangered Species, and Habitat Protection: A Research Overview | | Juha Siikamaki | | RFF Forest Economics and Policy Program, Annual Meeting | Resources for the Future, Washington DC | June 16, 2005 | | | | | Potential Cost-Efficiency of Using Incentive Payments for Nature Conservation on Working Landscapes | | Juha Siikamaki | | RFF Forest Economics and Policy Program Annual Meeting | Resources for the Future, Washington DC | May 11, 2006 | | | | | Cost-Effectiveness of Biological Conservation: Applications and General Principles | | Juha Siikamaki | | RFF Forest Economics and Policy Program Annual Meeting | Resources for the Future Washington DC | June 21, 2007 | | | | | Conservation Reconsidered: Innovations in Academic Thought | | Juha Siikamaki | | Reconsidering Conservation Reconsidered: A 40-Year Legacy | RFF | October 3, 2007 | | | | | Discussion of M. D. Smith. L. B. Crowder: Valuing Ecosystem Services with Fishery Rents: A Lumped-Parameter Approach to Hypoxia in the Neuse River Estuary. | | Juha Siikamaki-discussant | | Workshop "Linking Economics and Ecological Models for Environmental Policy Analysis: Challenges and Research Stratagies" | NSF and U.S. EPA | Santa Fe, New Mexico | April 17, 2005 | | | | | Optimal Conservation: Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland | | Juha Siikamaki and David F. Layton | | Fall 2005 Conference "Understanding and Informing Policy Design" | APPAM (Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management) | Washington, DC | November 5, 2005 | | | | | Discussion of D. A. Behrens and B. Friedl: Is protecting the charismatic species enough? Tourism strategies to optimally balancerecreation and conservation in a predator-prey system. | | Juha Siikamaki | | 14th Annual EAERE Conference | European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Bremen, Germany | July 25, 2005 | | | | | Cost-Effective Habitat Protection: the Case of Northwest Pacific Salmon. | | S. Newbold, J. Siikamaki, and M. Clark. | | Natural Resources at Risk. AERE 2005 Summer Workshop. | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Grand Teton, Wyoming | June 14, 2005 | | | | | Discussion of K. Stackelberg and J. Hammitt: Use of Stated Preference Methods to Value the Benefits of Ecological Risk Reductions: A Case Study of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls. | | Juha Siikamaki | | Natural Resources at Risk, AERE 2005 Summer Workshop | Association of Environmental and Resources Economists | Grand Teton, Wyoming | June 14, 2005 | | | | | Optimal Conservation: Estimating Marginal Costs and Benefits of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland. | | Juha Siikamaki | | Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar Series | NC State (Center for Environmental and Resources Economics Policy), RTI International, Duke University. | RTI International | September 21, 2005 | | | | | Optimal Conservation: Estimating Marginal Costs and Benefits of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland. | | Juha Siikamaki and David Layton | | 8th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics | University of California, Sanat Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | October 29, 2005 | | | | | Discussion of Richard Zerbe (UW-Seattle) et al. An Aggregate Measure for Benefit Cost Analysis, and Scott Farrow (GAO, UM-BC) When is Some Number Better than No Number? | | Juha Siikamaki | | APPAM Fall 2005 Conference "Understanding and Informing Policy Design", session "Government Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis" | Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management | Washington DC | November 26, 2005 | | | | | Optimal Conservation: Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland | | Juha Siikamaki | | 14th Annual EAERE Conference | European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Bremen, Germany | June 25, 2005 | | | | | Optimal Conservation: Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Protecting Endangered Habitat in Finland | | Juha Siikamaki and David Layton | | May 18, 2006 | | | | | Ammonia and Methane Emissions from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options | | Shih, Jhih-Shyang, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Juha Siikamaki | | Agricultural Air Quality: State of the Science | Ecological Society of America | Potomac, MD | June 8, 2006 | | | | | Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Incentive Payment Programs for the Protection of Non-Industrial Private Forests | | Juha Siikamaki | | Third Wold Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists | AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists), EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economistsm), SEEPS | Kyoto, Japan | July 6, 2006 | | | | | Valuing Surface Water Quality in California: A Mixed Panel Logit Model Using a 2½-Bounded CVM | | Juha Siikamaki | | Third World Conference of Environmental and Resource Economists | AERE, EAERE, SEEPS | Kyoto, Japan | July 6, 2006 | | | | | Valuing the Ecological Effects of Acidification: Defining the Commodity and Eliciting Preferences | | Juha Siikamaki, Shalini Vajjhala, Alan Krupnick, Dallas Burtraw, Spencer Banzhaf, David Evans, and Anna Mische John | | Valuation of Ecological Benefits: Improving the Science Behind Policy Decisions | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), and National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) | Arlington, Virginia | April 24, 2007 | | | | | Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies for Biological Conservation with Two Appplications: Non-Industrial Private Forests and Pacific Salmon. | | Juha Siikamaki | | College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle. Invited seminar. | College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, | Seattle, Washington | April 30, 2007 | | | | | Progress Report on SAMI Project | | Juha Siikamaki and Shalini Vajhalla | | Valuing Ecocsystem Services | USEPA, NCEE | Crystal City, Alexandria, VA | April 24, 2007 | | | | | Economic Assessment of the Environmental Effects of NOx and SOx (Chapter 11: Monetary Valuation) | | Alan Krupnick and Juha Siikamaki | | Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur (NOx and SOx) Secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Workshop to Conduct a Review of Science and Inform Policy-Driven Scientific Needs | U. S. EPA | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | July 19, 2007 | | | | | Air Emissions of Ammonia and Methane from Livestock Operations: Valuation and Policy Options | | Jhih-Shyang Shih, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer, and Juha Siikamaki | | Trans-Atlantic INFRADAY Conference on Applied Infrastructure Modeling and Policy Analysis | College Park, MD | November 2, 2007 | | | | | Valuing Ecosystem Services | | Juha Siikamaki | | Valuing Freshwater Inflows in Texas Workshop | HARC, the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, and the Texas Living Waters project | Austin, Texas | November 16, 2007 | | | | | Cost-Effective Species Conservation with an Application to Pacific Salmon | | Juha Siikamaki and Stephen Newbold | | European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 16th Annual Conference | European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Gothenburg, Sweden | June 26, 2008 | | | | | Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation: Overall Potential, Possible Policy Mechanisms, and Issues to be Resolved | | Juha Siikamaki | | Critical Aspects of the Post 2012 EU Climate Policy | Clipore, the climate policy research program supported by the Mistra foundation | Gothenburg, Sweden | June 25, 2008 | | | | | Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) | | Juha Siikamaki | | The Fifth European Climate Platform Meeting: The Financial Architecture for the Post-2012 Period | Center for European Policy Studies (CESP) | Brussels, Belgium | September 30, 2008 | | | | | Potential cost-effectiveness of PES-programs for biological conservation with an application to non-industrial private forests | | Juha Siikamaki | | An International Symposium on Ecosystem Services Evaluation and Payment, Yangling, China | Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, Michigan State University, and Ecosystem Policy Institute of China | Yangling, China | October 26, 2008 | | | | | Ecosystem Evaluation and Payment - Conference Summary and Closing Discussion | | Juha Siikamaki | | International Symposium on Ecosystem Services Evaluation and Payment, Yangling, China | Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, Michigan State University, and Ecosystem Policy Institute of China | Yangling, China | October 27, 2008 | | | | | Prioritizing conservation activities using reserve site selection and population viability analysis with an application to Pacific salmon | | Steve Newbold and Juha Siikamaki (presenter) | | RFF Academic Seminar | Resources for the Future | December 18, 2008 | | | | | Integrating Economics into Biological Conservation Decisions | | Juha Siikamaki | | Centennial Speaker Series "UC Davis – Global Leader in Environmental Sciences: Integrating Biophysical Sciences with Ecology and Policy" | University of California, Davis, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Department of Environmental Science and Policy | Davis, California | March 11, 2009 | | | | | Integrating Economics and Ecology in Biological Conservation Decisions: Basic Concepts and Two Empirical Applications | | Juha Siikamaki | | Michigan State University, Hanover Forest Science Seminar Series | Department of Forestry, Michigan State University | Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI | April 14, 2009 | | | | | Valuing Nature: Benefits, Costs and Cost Effectiveness | | Juha Siikamaki | | Conference "Economic Valuation of the Ecosystem Services", University of Chicago | University of Chicago, Program on the Global Environment | Chicago, IL | May 29, 2009 | | | | | Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs: Predicting Landowners' Enrollment and Opportunity Cost Using a Beta-Binomial Model | | Juha Siikamaki and David Layton | | Environment for Development Annual Conference | EfD and the Kenyan Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) | Naivasha, Kenya | November 5, 2009 | | | | | A Hedonic Estimation of Benefits from Anti-Smoking Laws | | Ramanan Laxminarayan, Shawn Magnuson, and Juha Siikamaki | | Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis | Washington, DC | October 20, 2009 | | | | | Use of Time for Recreation in the United States, 1965-2007 | | Juha Siikamaki | | Annual Conference of W2133: Benefits and Costs of Natural Resources Policies Affecting Public and Private Lands | W2133 | Tucson, Arizona | February 25, 2010 | | | | | The Coming US Carbon Market: Preparing for the Ex Post Assessments | | Juha Siikamaki | | Meeting of the American Statistical Association Committee on Energy Statistics with the Energy Information Administration (EIA) | Energy Information Administration (EIA), American Statistical Association | Energy Information Agency, Washignton DC | April 29, 2010 | | | | | Changing Status of Nature Recreation: New Evidence from Time Use Data on the Role of Access to Nature | | Juha Siikamaki | | 4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists | Association of Environmental and Resource Economics | Montreal, Canada | July 1, 2010 | | | | | Reduced Carbon Emissions from Deforestation and Biodiversity Conservation: A Global Assessment of Tradeoffs and Synergies | | Juha Siikamaki | | Peking University, College of Environmental Science and Engineering | Peking University | Beijing, China | November 18, 2010 | | | | | Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) | | Juha Siikamaki | | The Financial Architecture for the Post-2012 Period | ECP (European Climate Platform) | Brussels | September 30, 2008 | | | | | Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Energy Efficiency Labeling Using a Choice Experiment | | Juha Siikamaki | | Benefits of Environmental Information Disclosure | National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) and the National Center for Environmental Research, US EPA | Arlington, VA | January 18, 2011 | | | | | Measuring Nature Recreation Services from the US State Park System | | Juha Siikamaki | | RFF Seminar | Resources for the Future, Washignton DC | July 20, 2011 | | | | | Blue Carbon: Global Options for Reducing Emissions from the Development of Coastal Ecosystems | | Juha Siikamaki, Jim Sanchirico, Sunny Jardine, David McLaughlin, Daniel Morris | | RFF Seminar | Resources for the Future, Washington DC | September 27, 2011 | | | | | Implementing forest tenure reform: lessons and contributions to the Rio agenda; session discussion. | | Juha Siikamaki | | Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty | World Bank | Washington DC | April 24, 2012 | | | | | Forest Tenure Reform, Economic Recession and Farmer Household Labor Re-location Decision | | Jintao Xu, Klaus Deininger, Juha Siikamaki and Yongjie Ji | | Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty | World Bank | Washington DC | April 24, 2012 | | | | | Energy efficiency behavior: The role of information, purchase cost, and individual discount rates | | Richard Newell and Juha Siikamaki | | D-CIDES Conference: Decision Making Across the Disciplines | Duke University | Durham, North Carolina | May 18, 2012 | | | | | Blue Carbon: Evaluation Global Options for Reducing Emissions from Coastal Ecosystems | | Juha Siikamaki, Jim Sanchirico, Sunny Jardine, David McLaughlin, Daniel Morris | | 5th Annual Conference of the Environment for Development Initiave, Arusha, Tanzania | Environment for Development Initiave & University of Dar Es Salaam | Arusha, Tanzania | October 30, 2011 | | | | | “Prioritizing policies for biodiversity conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean: A rapid assessment” | | Allen Blackman | | Peer Review Workshop on the Biodiversity Platform | Inter-American Development Bank | Washington, DC | April 19, 2012 | | | | | Evaluating Global Potential for REDD Programs to Protect Biodiversity | | Juha Siikamaki and Stephen C. Newbold | | AERE 2nd Annual Summer Conference Asheville | Association for Enviromental and Resource Economists | Asheville, North Carolina | June 4, 2012 | | | | | Energy efficiency behavior: The role of information, purchase cost, and individual discount rates | | Richard Newell and Juha Siikamaki | | AERE 2nd Annual Summer Conference Asheville | Association for Enviromental and Resource Economists | Asheville, North Carolina | June 4, 2012 | | | | | Economic value of water and determining compensatory fees for water use and wastewater discharges in Peru: a discussion of the consultant's report | | Juha Siikamaki | | Methodology for determining the economic value of water and compensatory fees for water use and wastewater discharges | Inter-American Development Bank | Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC | July 9, 2012 | | | | | Global Potential for REDD Programs to Protect Biodiversity | | Juha Siikamaki and Stephen C. Newbold | | The Sixth Annual Conference of the Environment for Development Initiave | CATIE & Environment for Development, Costa Rica | Arenal Manoa, Costa Rica | September 27, 2012 | | | | | Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels | | Richard G. Newell and Juha Siikamaki | | Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | San Diego, CA | January 5, 2013 | | | | | Reduction in Peak Hourly Ozone Levels Explain Half of the Observed Trends in US Corn Yields 1993-2011 | | Christopher Boone, Wolfram Schlenker, and Juha Siikamaki | | Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting | Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | San Diego, CA | January 4, 2013 | | | | | Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | | Juha Siikamaki | | Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Seminar | Inter-American Development Bank | IDB, Washington, DC | April 5, 2013 | | | | | Factors Driving Post-Reform Forest Land Markets in China | | Juha Siikamaki, Jintao Xu, Yongjie Ji, Klaus Deininger | | Annual Conference on Land and Poverty | World Bank | World Bank, Washington D.C. | April 9, 2013 | | | | |
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| RELATED SUBTOPICS | | Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Mitigation, Coastal Resources, Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Accounting, Forest Carbon, Forest Conservation, Global Forest Monitoring, Outdoor Recreation, Parks, Refuges, and Wildernesses, Public Lands, Regulation, Valuation |
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