Gregory S. Amacher - Publications

Affiliations: 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States 
Area:
Agricultural Economics, General Economics, Public Health

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2020 Schons SZ, Amacher G, Cobourn K, Arantes C. Benefits of community fisheries management to individual households in the floodplains of the Amazon River in Brazil Ecological Economics. 169: 106531. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2019.106531  0.35
2019 Schons SZ, Lima E, Amacher GS, Merry F. Smallholder land clearing and the Forest Code in the Brazilian Amazon Environment and Development Economics. 24: 157-179. DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X18000505  0.408
2018 Wade CM, Cobourn KM, Amacher GS, Hester ET. Policy Targeting to Reduce Economic Damages From Land Subsidence Water Resources Research. 54: 4401-4416. DOI: 10.1029/2017Wr022133  0.35
2018 Siriwardena SD, Cobourn KM, Amacher GS, Haight RG. Cooperative bargaining to manage invasive species in jurisdictions with public and private lands Journal of Forest Economics. 32: 72-83. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfe.2018.04.001  0.408
2018 Kuusela O, Bowman MS, Amacher GS, Howarth RB, Laporte NT. Does infrastructure and resource access matter for technical efficiency? An empirical analysis of fishing and fuelwood collection in Mozambique Environment, Development and Sustainability. 22: 1811-1837. DOI: 10.1007/S10668-018-0264-2  0.413
2017 Xu Y, Amacher GS, Xu J. Village democracy and household welfare: evidence from rural China Environment and Development Economics. 22: 351-372. DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X17000146  0.442
2016 Xu Y, Amacher G, Sullivan J. Amenities, Multiple Natural Disturbances, and the Forest Rotation Problem Forest Science. 62: 422-432. DOI: 10.5849/Forsci.15-101  0.317
2016 Xu Y, Amacher GS, Sullivan J. Optimal forest management with sequential disturbances Journal of Forest Economics. 24: 106-122. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfe.2016.04.003  0.384
2016 Amacher G, Ollikainen M, Puhakka M. Renewable Resource Use and Nonseparable Amenity Benefits Environmental and Resource Economics. 69: 637-659. DOI: 10.1007/S10640-016-0095-2  0.373
2016 Kuusela OP, Amacher GS. Changing Political Regimes and Tropical Deforestation Environmental and Resource Economics. 64: 445-463. DOI: 10.1007/S10640-015-9880-6  0.4
2014 Amacher GS, Ollikainen M, Puhakka M. A long-run perspective on renewable resource use and amenity benefits: the case of forestry Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. 4: 164-176. DOI: 10.1080/21606544.2014.987830  0.412
2014 Amacher GS, Ollikainen M, Uusivuori J. Forests and ecosystem services: Outlines for new policy options Forest Policy and Economics. 47: 1-3. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2014.07.002  0.322
2014 Hallmann FW, Amacher GS. Uncertain emerging biomass markets, ecosystem services, and optimal land use Forest Policy and Economics. 47: 46-56. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2014.05.009  0.463
2013 Pfaff A, Amacher GS, Sills EO. Realistic REDD: Improving the forest impacts of domestic policies in different settings Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 7: 114-135. DOI: 10.1093/Reep/Res023  0.434
2013 Sullivan J, Amacher GS. Optimal hardwood tree planting and forest reclamation policy on reclaimed surface mine lands in the Appalachian coal region Resources Policy. 38: 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/J.Resourpol.2012.06.011  0.417
2013 Watson AC, Sullivan J, Amacher GS, Asaro C. Cost sharing for pre-commercial thinning in southern pine plantations: Willingness to participate in Virginia's pine bark beetle prevention program Forest Policy and Economics. 34: 65-72. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2013.05.004  0.397
2013 Busby G, Amacher GS, Haight RG. The social costs of homeowner decisions in fire-prone communities: Information, insurance, and amenities Ecological Economics. 92: 104-113. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2013.02.019  0.363
2012 Hallmann FW, Amacher GS. Forest bioenergy adoption for a risk-averse landowner under uncertain emerging biomass market Natural Resource Modeling. 25: 482-510. DOI: 10.1111/J.1939-7445.2012.00128.X  0.434
2012 Amacher GS, Ollikainen M, Koskela E. Corruption and forest concessions Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 63: 92-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2011.05.007  0.31
2010 Sullivan J, Amacher GS. Private and social costs of surface mine reforestation performance criteria. Environmental Management. 45: 311-9. PMID 19967364 DOI: 10.1007/S00267-009-9395-4  0.365
2010 Hesseln H, Amacher GS, Deskins A. Economic analysis of geospatial technologies for wildfire suppression International Journal of Wildland Fire. 19: 468-477. DOI: 10.1071/Wf08155  0.386
2010 Vokoun M, Amacher GS, Sullivan J, Wear D. Examining incentives for adjacent non-industrial private forest landowners to cooperate Forest Policy and Economics. 12: 104-110. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2009.08.008  0.463
2010 Mann ML, Kaufmann RK, Bauer D, Gopal S, Vera-Diaz MDC, Nepstad D, Merry F, Kallay J, Amacher GS. The economics of cropland conversion in Amazonia: The importance of agricultural rent Ecological Economics. 69: 1503-1509. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2010.02.008  0.417
2009 Merry F, Soares-Filho B, Nepstad D, Amacher G, Rodrigues H. Balancing conservation and economic sustainability: the future of the Amazon timber industry. Environmental Management. 44: 395-407. PMID 19636609 DOI: 10.1007/S00267-009-9337-1  0.453
2009 Sullivan J, Amacher GS. The social costs of mineland restoration Land Economics. 85: 712-726. DOI: 10.3368/Le.85.4.712  0.302
2009 Crowley CSL, Malik AS, Amacher GS, Haight RG. Adjacency externalities and forest fire prevention Land Economics. 85: 162-185. DOI: 10.3368/Le.85.1.162  0.391
2009 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M. Deforestation and land use under insecure property rights Environment and Development Economics. 14: 281-303. DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X0800483X  0.402
2009 Amacher GS, Merry FD, Bowman MS. Smallholder timber sale decisions on the Amazon frontier Ecological Economics. 68: 1787-1796. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2008.11.018  0.43
2008 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M. Forest Rotations and Stand Interdependency: Ownership Structure and Timing of Decisions Natural Resource Modeling. 17: 1-43. DOI: 10.1111/J.1939-7445.2004.Tb00127.X  0.33
2008 Merry F, Amacher G, Lima E. Land Values in Frontier Settlements of the Brazilian Amazon World Development. 36: 2390-2401. DOI: 10.1016/J.Worlddev.2007.11.014  0.396
2008 Goodnow R, Sullivan J, Amacher GS. Ice damage and forest stand management Journal of Forest Economics. 14: 268-288. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfe.2007.08.002  0.335
2008 Bowman MS, Amacher GS, Merry FD. Fire use and prevention by traditional households in the Brazilian Amazon Ecological Economics. 67: 117-130. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecolecon.2007.12.003  0.486
2007 Merry F, Almeida O, Lima E, Nepstad D, Amacher G, Ramos CA, Lefebvre P, Júnior FR. A pequena produção e a exploração sustentável de madeira na Amazônia Novos Cadernos Naea. 10. DOI: 10.5801/Ncn.V10I2.104  0.331
2007 Bauch SC, Amacher GS, Merry FD. Costs of harvesting, transportation and milling in the Brazilian Amazon: Estimation and policy implications Forest Policy and Economics. 9: 903-915. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2006.07.004  0.441
2007 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M. Royalty reform and illegal reporting of harvest volumes under alternative penalty schemes Environmental and Resource Economics. 38: 189-211. DOI: 10.1007/S10640-006-9070-7  0.309
2006 Amacher GS, Malik AS, Haight RG. Reducing social losses from forest fires Land Economics. 82: 367-383. DOI: 10.3368/Le.82.3.367  0.344
2006 Lima E, Merry F, Nepstad D, Amacher G, Azevedo-Ramos C, Lefebvre P, Resque F. Searching for Sustainability: Forest Policies, Smallholders, and the Trans - Amazon Highway Environment: Science and Policy For Sustainable Development. 48: 26-38. DOI: 10.3200/Envt.48.1.26-38  0.385
2006 Merry F, Amacher G, MacQeen D, Santos MGD, Lima E, Nepstad D. Collective Action Without Collective Ownership: Community Associations and Logging on the Amazon Frontier International Forestry Review. 8: 211-221. DOI: 10.1505/Ifor.8.2.211  0.323
2006 Merry F, Amacher G, Nepstad D, Lima E, Lefebvre P, Bauch S. Industrial development on logging frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon International Journal of Sustainable Development. 9: 277. DOI: 10.1504/Ijsd.2006.012849  0.389
2006 Amacher GS. Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation and Development American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 88: 515-517. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8276.2006.00876_1.X  0.347
2006 Amacher GS. Corruption: A challenge for economists interested in forest policy design Journal of Forest Economics. 12: 85-89. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfe.2006.05.002  0.365
2006 Vokoun M, Amacher GS, Wear DN. Scale of harvesting by non-industrial private forest landowners Journal of Forest Economics. 11: 223-244. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfe.2005.10.002  0.433
2005 Amacher GS, Malik AS, Haight RG. Not getting burned: The importance of fire prevention in forest management Land Economics. 81: 284-302. DOI: 10.3368/Le.81.2.284  0.35
2005 Merry FD, Amacher GS. Forest taxes, timber concessions, and policy choices in the Amazon Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 20: 15-44. DOI: 10.1300/J091V20N02_02  0.451
2005 Amacher GS, Malik AS, Haight RG. Forest landowner decisions and the value of information under fire risk Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 35: 2603-2615. DOI: 10.1139/X05-143  0.324
2005 Köhlin G, Amacher GS. Welfare implications of community forest plantations in developing countries: The orissa social forestry project American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87: 855-869. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8276.2005.00774.X  0.428
2005 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M. Quality competition and social welfare in markets with partial coverage: New results Bulletin of Economic Research. 57: 391-405. DOI: 10.1111/J.0307-3378.2005.00229.X  0.344
2005 Amacher GS, Malik AS, Haight RG. Nonindustrial private landowners, fires, and the wildland-urban interface Forest Policy and Economics. 7: 796-805. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2005.03.004  0.42
2005 Sullivan J, Amacher GS, Chapman S. Forest banking and forest landowners forgoing management rights for guaranteed financial returns Forest Policy and Economics. 7: 381-392. DOI: 10.1016/J.Forpol.2003.07.001  0.434
2004 Ersado L, Amacher G, Alwang J. Productivity and land enhancing technologies in Northern Ethiopia: Health, public investments, and sequential adoption American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 86: 321-331. DOI: 10.1111/J.0092-5853.2004.00581.X  0.717
2004 Amacher GS, Ersado L, Grebner DL, Hyde WF. Disease, microdams and natural resources in Tigray, Ethiopia: Impacts on productivity and labour supplies Journal of Development Studies. 40: 122-145. DOI: 10.1080/0022038042000233830  0.704
2004 Amacher GS, Ersado L, Hyde WF, Osorio A. Tree planting in Tigray, Ethiopia: The importance of human disease and water microdams Agroforestry Systems. 60: 211-225. DOI: 10.1023/B:Agfo.0000024411.22604.0A  0.693
2004 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M. Environmental quality competition and eco-labeling Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 47: 284-306. DOI: 10.1016/S0095-0696(03)00078-0  0.339
2004 Xu J, Tao R, Amacher GS. An empirical analysis of China's state-owned forests Forest Policy and Economics. 6: 379-390. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.03.013  0.302
2003 Merry FD, Amacher GS, Lima E, Nepstad DC. A risky forest policy in the Amazon? Science (New York, N.Y.). 299: 1843; author reply 1. PMID 12649462 DOI: 10.1126/Science.299.5614.1843B  0.38
2003 Conway MC, Amacher GS, Sullivan J, Wear D. Decisions nonindustrial forest landowners make: An empirical examination Journal of Forest Economics. 9: 181-203. DOI: 10.1078/1104-6899-00034  0.587
2003 Amacher GS, Conway MC, Sullivan J. Econometric analyses of nonindustrial forest landowners: Is there anything left to study? Journal of Forest Economics. 9: 137-164. DOI: 10.1078/1104-6899-00028  0.537
2002 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M, Conway MC. Bequest intentions of forest landowners: Theory and empirical evidence American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 84: 1103-1114. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8276.00371  0.587
2002 Amacher GS. Forest policies and many governments Forest Science. 48: 146-158. DOI: 10.1093/Forestscience/48.1.146  0.435
2002 Jenkins DH, Sullivan J, Amacher GS, Nicholas NS, Reaves DW. Valuing high altitude spruce-fir forest improvements: Importance of forest condition and recreation activity Journal of Forest Economics. 8: 77-99. DOI: 10.1078/1104-6899-00005  0.4
2002 Amacher GS, Koskela E, Ollikainen M. Optimal forest policies in an overlapping generations economy with timber and money bequests Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 44: 346-369. DOI: 10.1006/Jeem.2001.1201  0.412
2001 Amacher GS, Brazee RJ, Witvliet M. Royalty systems, government revenues, and forest condition: An application from Malaysia Land Economics. 77: 300-313. DOI: 10.2307/3147096  0.381
2001 Fina M, Amacher GS, Sullivan J. Uncertainty, debt, and forest harvesting: Faustmann revisited Forest Science. 47: 188-196. DOI: 10.1093/Forestscience/47.2.188  0.417
2000 Grebner DL, Amacher GS. The impacts of deregulation and privatization on cost efficiency in New Zealand's forest industry Forest Science. 46: 40-51. DOI: 10.1093/Forestscience/46.1.40  0.396
1999 Amacher GS. Government preferences and public forest harvesting: A second-best approach American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 81: 14-28. DOI: 10.2307/1244447  0.414
1999 Sullivan J, Amacher GS. A framework for designing forest subsidies: Linking landowner and regional impacts in the Mississippi Delta Forest Science. 45: 381-393. DOI: 10.1093/Forestscience/45.3.381  0.44
1999 Amacher GS, Hyde WF, Kanel KR. Nepali fuelwood production and consumption: Regional and household distinctions, substitution and successful intervention Journal of Development Studies. 35: 138-163. DOI: 10.1080/00220389908422584  0.381
1999 Brazee RJ, Amacher GS, Conway MC. Optimal harvesting with auto-correlated stumpage prices Journal of Forest Economics. 5: 201-216.  0.496
1998 Jenkins DH, Sullivan J, Nicholas NS, Amacher G, Reaves DW. Sensitivity Of Protection Value To Forest Condition In The Southern Appalachian Spruce-Fir Forest Ecological Studies. 128: 837-853. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2178-4_46  0.381
1998 Amacher GS, Rios M, Constanino L, Brazee RJ. The design of second best forest incentives in small open economies Forest Science. 44: 165-175.  0.383
1998 Amacher GS, Sullivan J, Shabman L, Zepp L, Grebner D. Reforestation of flooded farmland: policy implications from the Mississippi River delta Journal of Forestry. 96: 10-17.  0.353
1997 Amacher GS, Brazee RJ. Forest quality, government revenue constraints, and the second-best efficiency of regressive forest taxes Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 27: 1503-1508. DOI: 10.1139/X97-067  0.421
1997 Amacher GS, Feather PM. Testing producer perceptions of jointly beneficial best management practices for improved water quality Applied Economics. 29: 153-159. DOI: 10.1080/000368497327236  0.306
1997 Amacher GS, Brazee RJ. Designing forest taxes with varying government preferences and budget targets Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 32: 323-340. DOI: 10.1006/Jeem.1997.0970  0.44
1997 Amacher GS. The design of forest taxation: A synthesis with new directions Silva Fennica. 31: 101-119.  0.329
1996 Hyde WF, Amacher GS, Magrath W. Deforestation and forest land use: Theory, evidence, and policy implications World Bank Research Observer. 11: 223-248. DOI: 10.1093/Wbro/11.2.223  0.485
1996 Hyde WF, Amacher GS. Applications of environmental accounting and the new household economics: New technical economic issues with a common theme in forestry Forest Ecology and Management. 83: 137-148. DOI: 10.1016/0378-1127(96)03724-3  0.45
1996 Amacher GS, Hyde WF, Kanel KR. Household fuelwood demand and supply in Nepal's tarai and mid-hills: Choice between cash outlays and labor opportunity World Development. 24: 1725-1736. DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(96)00073-3  0.456
1996 Amacher GS, Hyde WF, Kanel KR. Forest policy when some households collect and others purchase fuelwood Journal of Forest Economics. 2: 273-288.  0.368
1994 Feather PM, Amacher GS. Role of information in the adoption of best management practices for water quality improvement Agricultural Economics. 11: 159-170. DOI: 10.1016/0169-5150(94)00013-1  0.343
1993 Amacher GS, Hyde WF, Joshee BR. Joint Production and Consumption in Traditional Households: Fuelwood and Crop Residues in Two Districts in Nepal The Journal of Development Studies. 30: 206-225. DOI: 10.1080/00220389308422311  0.446
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