What drives land-use change in the United States?
2008 paper by Harvard University, Oregon State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the economic and policy drivers of national land-use change.
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How longer work lives ease the crunch of population aging
2009 RAND Corporation paper examines the potential benefits of workers remaining in the workforce for longer periods of time.
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Smoothing effect of carpool lanes on freeway bottlenecks
2008 U.C. Berkeley study looking at the effect of carpool lanes on the number of person and vehicle hours traveled.
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Global versus local conservation for endangered bird species
2010 study examining the challenges of coordinating small-scale and large-scale endangered-species lists.
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Emissions and costs of electricity from coal, natural gas, wood pellets
2009 study published in Environmental Science and Technology on the costs and potential benefits of substituting biomass for coal to generate energy.
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Did U.S. highways cause suburbanization?
2008 Brown University paper examining the extent to which highways could explain rates of suburbanization within the U.S.
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Potential of water power in the fight against global warming
2008 University of Missouri study exploring the potential for hydropower in reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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Environmental consequences of mountaintop coal mining
2010 study by the University of Maryland and other institutions on the long-term environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining.
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Roller coaster of California state budgeting after Proposition 13
2006 study by California State University, Sacramento, on how state budgeting changed after the enactment of Proposition 13.
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Does incarceration-based drug treatment reduce recidivism?
2007 paper in the Journal of Experimental Criminology on the effectiveness of incarceration-based drug treatment in reducing drug relapse and recidivism.
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