David Courard-Hauri
Drake University
13 Papers
18 Citations
David Courard-Hauri is an academic researcher from Drake University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Statement (logic) & Forest management. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
Electronic rulemaking: a public participation research agenda for the social sciences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a social science research agenda that will reflect on and inform the development of new information technology-based approaches to the electronic collection, distribution, synthesis, and analysis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process.
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Using Monte Carlo analysis to investigate the relationship between overconsumption and uncertain access to one's personal utility function
TL;DR: This paper used a Monte Carlo model to incorporate findings from hedonic psychology to investigate the question of how imperfect access to one's utility may lead to negatively affective overconsumption through asymmetries in how people are able to budget their time.
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"The effect of income choice on bias in policy decisions made using cost-benefit analyses"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that CBA is likely to be biased against environmental protection because concerned individuals are likely to choose careers which do not maximize consumption, thus decreasing their ability to pay for both real and hypothetical environmental improvements.
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An analysis of the long-term social discount rate and the valuation of large environmental losses using non-monetary tradeoffs
TL;DR: The authors investigate individuals' social discount rate and utility functions using a survey instrument that asks respondents to choose between saving a fraction of an ecosystem forever versus saving all of it for a limited time.
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Stability in forest lepidopteran communities: how sensitive are pest species to experimental forest management?
TL;DR: It is suggested that pre‐harvest abundance is not a good predictor of a species' resilience to forest management, and weather‐related stochastic changes in abundance might obscure forestry effects.
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