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Economics, Society and Natural Resources Research Publications

Journal Articles |  Working Papers | Proceedings and Conference Papers | Bulletin/Reports | Technical Publications | PowerPoint Presentations

Journal Articles

• James, J.J., R. Sheley, T. Erickson, K. Rollins, M.H. Taylor, J. Aronson, and K.W. Dixon. 2012. "A systems approach to restoring degraded drylands." Revising to resubmit.
• Kobayashi, M., K. Rollins, and M.H. Taylor. 2012. Optimal Livestock Management on Sagebrush Rangeland with Ecological Thresholds, Wildfire, and Invasive Plants. Revising to resubmit.
• Taylor, M, K. Rollins, M. Kobayashi and R. Tausch. (2012). The Economics of Fuel Management: Wildfire, Invasive Plants, and the Evolution of Sagebrush Rangelands in the Western United States. Accepted for publication in The Journal of Environmental Management.
• Christman, L., and K. Rollins. (2012). The Expected Value of Wildfire-potential Information: A Location-Allocation Problem for Fire Suppression Resources. In review.
• Melkonyan, T, and M.H. Taylor. 2013. Regulatory Policy Design for Agroecosystem Management on Public Rangelands. Forthcoming in The American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• Evans, M.D.R., and K. Rollins. (2012) The Frying Pan or the Fire: Public Attitudes about Using Herbicides to Manage Invasive Weeds. Environmental Economics 3(3):108-121
• Taylor, M, K. Rollins. (2012). Using Ecological Models to Coordinate Valuation of Ecological Change on Western Rangelands for ex post Application to Policy Analysis. Western Economics Forum 11(1):13-21
• Taylor, Michael H. and Kimberly Rollins. "The Economics of Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management on High Desert Rangelands," 2012. Rangelands 34(6):48-52.
• Kobayashi, Mimako, Klaus Moeltner and Kimberly Rollins 2012, Latent Threshold Analysis of Choice Data with Multiple Bids and Response Options, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(1):189-208 
• Mimako Kobayashi, Kimberly Rollins, M.D.R. Evans 2010, Sensitivity of WTP Estimates to Definition of ‘Yes’: Reinterpreting Expressed Response Intensity Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39/1 (February 2010) 37-55.
• Kimberly Rollins, Diana Dumitras and Anita Castledine 2008, An Analysis of Congestion Effects Across and Within Multiple Recreation Activities Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Volume 56, Issue 1 (p 95-116).
• Rollins, Kimberly and Diana Elena Dumitras 2005, Estimation of Median Willingness to pay for a system of recreation areas International Review of Public and Non Profit Marketing, vol. 2, no 1 (June 2005), pp. 73-84.
• Margaret Insley and Kimberly Rollins 2005, On Solving the Multirotational Timber Harvesting Problem with Stochastic Prices: A Linear Complementarity Formulation Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 87(3) (August 2005): 735–755.
• Kimberly Rollins, Lori Heigh, and Vinay Kanetkar 2004, Net Costs of Wildlife Damage on Private Lands Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 29(3):5 17-536.
• Boxall, Peter, Kimberly Rollins and Jeffery Englin 2003, Heterogeneous Preferences for Wilderness Congestion Resource and Energy Economics vol. 25 no. 2:177 – 195, May, 2003.
• Jeremy Heigh, Glenn Fox, Daniel McKenney, Kimberly Rollins 2003, The economic impact of the 1998 ice storm on eastern Ontario woodlots: Case studies of red pine and white cedar Forestry Chronicle vol. 79, no. 1: 31-44.
• Rollins, Kimberly and Joseph Shaykewich 2003, Using Willingness-to-pay to assess the economic value of weather forecasts for multiple commercial sectors Meteorological Applications vol 10, no. 1: 30-38.
• Kidon, Jenifer, Glen Fox, Dan McKenney and Kimberly Rollins 2002, An enterprise-level economic analysis of losses and financial assistance for eastern Ontario maple syrup producers from the 1998 ice storm Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 4 (3): 201-211.
• Gordon, A. M., D. Larson, R. McBride, G. Lumis, K. Rollins, and S. Humphries 2002, Learning about the forest using alternative curricula – the Guelph Experience Forestry Chronicle vol. 78, no. 3:1-7, 2002.
• Kidon, Jenifer, Glen Fox, Dan McKenney and Kimberly Rollins 2001, Economic Impact of the 1998 Ice Storm on the Eastern Ontario Maple Syrup Industry Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 77, No. 4, 2001.
• Dyack, Brenda, K. Rollins and A. Gordon 1999, A model to calculate ex ante the threshold value of interaction effects necessary for proposed intercropping projects to be feasible to the landowner and desirable to society Agroforestry Systems 44:197-214.
• Kimberly Rollins and Audrey Lyke 1998, The Case for Diminishing Marginal Existence Values Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 36, 324-344 (1998).
• Rollins, Kimberly, William Wistowsky 1997, Benefits of Backcountry Canoeing in Ontario Wilderness Parks Journal of Applied Recreation Research, Vol. 22, No.1, 9-31, 1997.
• Rollins, Kimberly, Jim Frehs, Don Tate and Oswald Zachariah 1997, Resource Valuation and Public Policy: The Case of Water Pricing Canadian Water Resources Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, 185-195
• Rollins, Kimberly, William Wistowsky and Michael Jay 1997, Wilderness Canoeing in Ontario: Using Cumulative Results to Update Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Offer Amounts Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 45, 1-16.
• Kimberly Rollins and Hugh Briggs 1996, Moral Hazard, Externalities and Compensation for Crop Damages from Wildlife Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 31, 368-386 (1996).
• Rollins, Kimberly, Margaret Forsyth, Samuel Bonti-Ankomah, and Ben Amoah 1995, Economic Analysis of a White Pine Improvement Cut Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 466-472.

Working Papers

• Michael H. Taylor, Kimberly Rollins, Mimako Kobayashi and Robin J. Tausch 2011, "The Economics of Fuel Management: Wildfire, Invasive Species, and the Evolution of Sagebrush Rangelands in the Western United States,"  University of Nevada, Reno Department of Economics Working Paper No. 11-002
• Tigran Melkonyan and Michael H. Taylor 2010, "Regulatory Policy Design for Agroecosystem Management on Public Rangelands," University of Nevada, Reno Department of Economics Working Paper No. 10-007
• Kimberly Rollins and Mimako Kobayashi 2010, "Embedding a Field Experiment in Contingent Valuation to Measure Context-Dependent Risk Preferences: Does Prospect Theory Explain Individual Responses for Wildfire Risk?" University of Nevada, Reno Department of Economics Working Paper No. 10-003
• Kobayashi,M., K. Moeltner and K. Rollins 2010, Latent Threshold Analysis of Choice Data with Multiple Bids and Response Options UNR Joint Economics Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 10-001.
• Rollins, K., M.D.R. Evans, M. Kobayashi and A. Castledine 2010, Willingness to Pay Estimation When Protest Beliefs are not Separable from the Public Good Definition UNR Joint Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 10-002.
• Mimako Kobayashi and Kimberly Rollins 2009, Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin UNR Joint Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 09-004.

Proceedings and Conference Papers

• Fadali, Elizabeth, Kimberly Rollins,and Shawn Stoddard 2012. "Determining Water Value with Computable General Equilibrium Models," presented at "The Importance of Water to the U.S. Economy" workshop sponsored by the U.S. EPA. September 19, 2012 Washington, D.C.
• Rollins, Kimberly, Michael Taylor, Mimako Kobayashi, and Robin Tausch. 2012. "The Economics of Fuel Management: Wildfire, Invasive Plants, and the Evolution of Sagebrush Rangelands in the Western United States," selected paper presented at the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 19th Annual Conference, 27-30 June 2012, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Taylor, Michael, M. Kobayashi and K. Rollins. 2012. "Contrasting Economic and Ecological Thresholds on Semi-Arid Rangelands: Implications for Management and Regulation," Selected paper presented at the Western Economic Association International 87th Annual Conference, June 29 - July 2012, San Francisco, CA.
• Rollins, K., M.H. Taylor and M. Kobayashi (2011) "Incorporating Ecological Thresholds in the Modeling of Economic Decision Making on Semi-Arid Rangelands." Selected Paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Inaugural Annual Summer Conference, June 9-10, Seattle, WA.
• Kimberly Rollins, Mimako Kobayashi 2010, Embedding a Field Experiment in Contingent Valuation to Measure Context-Dependent Risk Preferences: An Application to Wildfire Risk Selected Paper 11142, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado. 33 pages.
• Mimako Kobayashi, Thomas Harris, Kimberly Rollins 2010, Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin Selected Paper 613121, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 23 pp.
• Mimako Kobayashi, Kimberly Rollins, Michael H. Taylor 2010, Ranching, Invasive Annual Grasses, and the External Costs of Wildfire in the Great Basin: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach Selected Paper 11955, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado. 39 pp.
• Mimako Kobayashi, Thomas Harris, Kimberly Rollins 2009, Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin Selected Paper 613121, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 29 pp.
• Kimberly Rollins, Lucrecia Rodriguez, Michael Price 2007, Using Bid Design to Measure the Boundaries of WTP Selected Paper 175050, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon. 17 pp.

Bulletins/Reports

• Rollins, K., M.D.R. Evans and L. Christman. 2010. "The Value of Hunting and Impacts of Habitat Change in Nevada: Survey Summary Statistics," Technical Report UCED 2010/11-05.
• Christman, L. and K. Rollins. "Simulating the Expected Value of Changing Spatial Distributions of Wildfire Resources in Response to Wildfire Probability Outlooks," 2011. Technical Report UCED 2010/11-02.
• Rollins, K., M.D.R. Evans, and L. Christman. 2010. "Wildfire! 2006, A Survey of Nevada's Risks, Responsibilities and Actions: Summary of Responses," Technical Report UCED 2010/11-01.
• Rollins, Kimberly, Anita Castledine, Sherman Swanson, M.D.R. Evans, Kent McAdoo, Brad Schultz, Michael Havercamp and Robert Wilson 2007, The 2005 Nevada Rangeland Vegetation Survey General Public Questionnaire University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Special Publication 07-11, 48 pages.

Technical Publications

• J McIver, M Brunson, S Bunting, J Chambers, N Devo, P Doescher, J Grace, D Johnson, S Knick, R. Miller, M Pellant, F Pierson, D. Pyke, K Rollins B Roundy, E Schupp, R Tausch, D Turner 2010, The Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project (SageSTEP): A Test of State-and-Transition Theory General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-237. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 16 6.
• “Motivation For Private Landowner Investment To Reduce Risk And Costs Of Rangeland Wildfires In Nevada” sponsored by the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station

Powerpoint Presentations