The potential for bioenergy crop alternatives

What is the viability and sustainability of cellulosic bioenergy crops in the US? New research by AAE faculty Brad Barham and colleagues from other scientific fields at UW-Madison, Michigan State, and elsewhere explores the answer …

Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Developing World

Hear AAE Professor Ian Coxhead is featured on the Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. When it comes to international energy production, many developing nations have turned to subsidizing fossil fuel prices in an attempt …

Putting a value on natural assets: the BP Oil Spill

AAE’s Rich Bishop is lead author, with Kevin Boyle (AAE Ph.D. 1985) and others, on a new study published in Science magazine, that values the damages caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon drilling explosion, …

Bromley and Hiedanpää on Environmental Heresies

Dan Bromley and co-author Juha Hiedanpää have published Environmental Heresies:  The  Quest for Reasonable.  The book “motivates readers to shift environmental discourse from ideology and narrow disciplinary paradigms to a more direct focus on what …

State Economy Faces Trouble

With relatively few college-educated people moving here and an economy that is generating large numbers of lower-skill jobs, Wisconsin faces a challenging future, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Extension and UW-Madison argue in a …