Graduate Theses

Note: Only abstracts from late 1998 through 2000 are available, pending an update.

Ph.D. Ecological Economics

Lining He, "Interregional Transportation, Trade, And Regional Comparative Advantage and Development in China", March 2007.

Chunbo Ma, "Essays on China's Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions and Economics Growth", June 2007

Roxana Julia, "Adapting To Climate Change: Global Agriculture and Trade, a Structural Approach", August 2004.

Judith Kallo, "Communication and Economic Asymmetries in the OECD and Transition 12 Countries", August 2004.

Raluca Iorgulescu, "Globalization and Institutional Change: the Example of Two Nigerian Igbo villages", December 2003.

Quentin Duroy, "Culture, Environmental Values and Economic Growth: Essays in Development and Ecological Economics", December 2003.

Ada Ferrer-Carbonell, "Consumption, Behavior and the Environment: Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Dimensions", August 2003.

Gregory Stella, "Estimating the Cost to Small Urban Banks of Enhanced Social Responsibility: a Stochastic Frontier Approach", August 2003.

Melinda Kane, "Shared Futures of City And Country: A Total Flows Analysis of Urban-Rural Ecological Economic Dependence in New York City's Catskill-Delaware Watershed", August 2003.

Graham Cox, "Applying Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Participatory Planning for Sustainable Management of the New York State Forest", May 2003.

Surendra Devkota, "Strong Sustainability in Nepal: A Structural Economics Approach", May 2003.

Mariko Hara, "Measuring Positive Externalities in Japanese Rice Production: A Hedonic Price Analysis", December 2002.

Peter Kobos, "The Implications of Renewable Energy Research and Development: Policy Scenario Analysis with Experience and Learning Effects", December 2002.

Audra Nowosielski, "Geo-Referenced Social Accounting with Application to Integrated Watershed Planning in the Hudson River Valley", August 2002.

Kerstin Gollner, "Economic Growth, Social Impoverishment and Quality of Life", August 2002.

John Polimeni, "Dynamic Spatial Simulation of Residential Development in the Hudson River Valley, New York State", August 2002.

Robert Jones, "A Test for Marshallian Externalities among New York State Industrial Complexes", August 2002.

Orachat Leingpeboon, "Information Technology and Economic Growth: An Empirical Study of the Thai Economy", December 2001.

Joshua Frank, "The Economics, Ethics, and Ecology of Companion Animal Overpopulation and a Mathematical Model for Analyzing the Effectiveness of Policy Alternatives", May 2001.

Evelyn Wright, "Catastrophe, Uncertainty, and the Costs of Climate Change Damage," December 2000.

Klaus Hubacek, "The Role of Land in Economics Development: a Structural Approach to Sustainability," December 2000.

Jose Vazquez, "Socio-Economic and Ecological Effects of Tourism: A Structural Analysis of the Lake George Watershed Region, NY," December 2000.

Lester Hadsell, "Large Retailers and Small Communities," December 1999.

Sigrid Stagl, "Global Food Markets and Their Local Alternatives: A Socio-Ecological Economic Perspective," May 1999.

M.S. Economics

Maura Flight, "Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Off-Road-Vehicle Management in Endangered Species Habitat: a Case Study of Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts," December 2000.

Peter Kobos, "China's Transportation System in Transition: A Simulation Model of Energy and Development," May 2000.

Audra Nowosielski, "Trade and the Environment," May 2000.

Melinda Kane, "Pursuing Sustainability: Institutional Economics and Lessons from Local Efforts," August 1999.

Min Zhang, "International Trade and Climate Change Policy: Identifying and Closing the Carbon Loophole," May 1999.

Graham Cox, "Protecting the Forest Lands as a Renewable Economic Base for the Adirondack Park," August 1998.

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, "Economic Behavior and Environmental Policy: the Contributions of Ecological Economics," August 1998.

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