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Overview

Brent Sohngen is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a notable focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Bioenergy Crop Production and Management

Brent Sohngen has contributed extensively to academic literature, with notable papers including:

  • "Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country" (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • "Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both?" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world's forests to mitigate climate change" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies" (2022, Global Environmental Change)
  • "The effect of carbon fertilization on naturally regenerated and planted US forests" (2022, Nature Communications)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Alice Favero
  • Adam Daigneault
  • Justin S. Baker
  • Frank Lupi
  • Christopher M. Wade

Contributions have been published repeatedly in key venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Nature Communications
  • Forest Policy and Economics

Additionally, Brent Sohngen has authored a book titled Reversing Deforestation, published in 2024 by Stanford University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Global cost estimates of reducing carbon emissions through avoided deforestation

    Georg Kindermann;Michael Obersteiner;Brent Sohngen;Jayant Sathaye

  • An Optimal Control Model of Forest Carbon Sequestration

    Brent Sohngen;Robert Mendelsohn

  • Forest Management, Conservation, and Global Timber Markets

    Brent Sohngen;Robert Mendelsohn;Roger Sedjo

  • Ecosystems and Their Goods and Services

    H. Gitay;S. Brown;W. Easterling;B. Jallow

  • Land-based measures to mitigate climate change: Potential and feasibility by country.

    Stephanie Roe;Charlotte Streck;Robert Beach;Jonah Busch

  • Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study.

    George S. Bullerjahn;Robert M. McKay;Timothy W. Davis;David B. Baker

  • Carbon Sequestration in Forests and Soils

    Roger Sedjo;Brent Sohngen

  • The Opportunity Cost of Land Use and the Global Potential for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Agriculture and Forestry

    Alla Golub;Thomas Hertel;Huey-Lin Lee;Steven Rose

  • Forestry and the carbon market response to stabilize climate

    Massimo Tavoni;Brent Sohngen;Valentina Bosetti

  • Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both?

    Alice Favero;Adam Daigneault;Brent Sohngen

  • A Global Model of Climate Change Impacts on Timber Markets

    Brent Sohngen;Robert Mendelsohn;Roger A. Sedjo

  • The economic costs of planting, preserving, and managing the world's forests to mitigate climate change.

    K G Austin;J S Baker;J S Baker;B L Sohngen;C M Wade

  • Global climate policy impacts on livestock, land use, livelihoods, and food security

    Alla A. Golub;Benjamin B. Henderson;Thomas W. Hertel;Pierre J. Gerber

  • Economic consequences of consideration of permanence, leakage and additionality for soil carbon sequestration projects

    Brian C. Murray;Brent Sohngen;Brent Sohngen;Martin T. Ross

  • Valuing the Impact of Large-Scale Ecological Change in a Market: The Effect of Climate Change

    Robert Mendelsohn;Brent Sohngen

  • Adaptive Management of the Global Climate Problem: Bridging the Gap Between Climate Research and Climate Policy

    Joseph Arvai;Gavin Bridge;Nives Dolsak;Robert Franzese

  • Carbon Sequestration in Global Forests Under Different Carbon Price Regimes

    Brent Sohngen;Roger Sedjo

  • How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies

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  • Towards An Integrated Land Use Database for Assessing the Potential for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

    Huey-Lin Lee;Thomas Hertel;Brent Sohngen;Navin Ramankutty

  • Assessing Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change on US Forests, Wood-Product Markets, and Forest Recreation

    Lloyd C. Irland;Darius Adams;Ralph Alig;Carter J. Betz

  • Measuring leakage from carbon projects in open economies: a stop timber harvesting project in Bolivia as a case study

    Brent Sohngen;Sandra Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Hertel
Thomas W. Hertel Purdue University West Lafayette
Roger A. Sedjo
Roger A. Sedjo Resources For The Future
Robert Mendelsohn
Robert Mendelsohn Yale University
Brian E. Roe
Brian E. Roe The Ohio State University
Kevin W. King
Kevin W. King Agricultural Research Service
Sandra A. Brown
Sandra A. Brown University of California, San Diego
Ralph J. Alig
Ralph J. Alig Oregon State University
Alan Randall
Alan Randall The Ohio State University
Frank Lupi
Frank Lupi Michigan State University
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan

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