Regional Dependence and Location of the Wood Products Sector in the Northeastern United States: Unique Attributes of an Export-Based Industry

Natural resources have long been a source of both raw material supply and value added manufacturing in many rural regions across North America. Contemporary resource management and rural development planning increasingly emphasize the integration of raw material production with forward-linked processing activities. Empirical studies suggest that wood processors locate proximate to raw material supplies. Assessing the regional firm location decisions of wood processors, however, raises important and complex issues of sectoral heterogeneity. In this paper, we initiate analysis of firm location in three wood processing sub-sectors through descriptive location quotients of primary, secondary, and reconstituted wood products manufacturing sectors. Explanatory variables that support these sectoral specific location quotients include proxies for raw material inputs and output markets. Results suggest that important differences exist in locational dependency attributes between wood products sub-sectors

Computable General Equilibrium Modeling for Regional Analysis

Partial equilibrium analysis illustrates results for one market at a time. However, there often exist market interactions and thus market feedbacks. Pricing outcomes in one market usually have effects in other markets, and these effects, in turn, create ripples throughout the economy, perhaps even to the extent of affecting the price-quantity equilibrium in the original market. To represent this complex set of economic relationships, it is necessary to go beyond partial equilibrium analysis and construct a model that permits viewing many markets simultaneously. This Web Book provides an introduction to and overview of the general equilibrium modeling framework in the context of regional analysis.https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/rri-web-book/1023/thumbnail.jp

Mitochondrial physiology

As the knowledge base and importance of mitochondrial physiology to evolution, health and disease expands, the necessity for harmonizing the terminology concerning mitochondrial respiratory states and rates has become increasingly apparent. The chemiosmotic theory establishes the mechanism of energy transformation and coupling in oxidative phosphorylation. The unifying concept of the protonmotive force provides the framework for developing a consistent theoretical foundation of mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics. We follow the latest SI guidelines and those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on terminology in physical chemistry, extended by considerations of open systems and thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The concept-driven constructive terminology incorporates the meaning of each quantity and aligns concepts and symbols with the nomenclature of classical bioenergetics. We endeavour to provide a balanced view of mitochondrial respiratory control and a critical discussion on reporting data of mitochondrial respiration in terms of metabolic flows and fluxes. Uniform standards for evaluation of respiratory states and rates will ultimately contribute to reproducibility between laboratories and thus support the development of data repositories of mitochondrial respiratory function in species, tissues, and cells. Clarity of concept and consistency of nomenclature facilitate effective transdisciplinary communication, education, and ultimately further discovery

Mitochondrial physiology

As the knowledge base and importance of mitochondrial physiology to evolution, health and disease expands, the necessity for harmonizing the terminology concerning mitochondrial respiratory states and rates has become increasingly apparent. The chemiosmotic theory establishes the mechanism of energy transformation and coupling in oxidative phosphorylation. The unifying concept of the protonmotive force provides the framework for developing a consistent theoretical foundation of mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics. We follow the latest SI guidelines and those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on terminology in physical chemistry, extended by considerations of open systems and thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The concept-driven constructive terminology incorporates the meaning of each quantity and aligns concepts and symbols with the nomenclature of classical bioenergetics. We endeavour to provide a balanced view of mitochondrial respiratory control and a critical discussion on reporting data of mitochondrial respiration in terms of metabolic flows and fluxes. Uniform standards for evaluation of respiratory states and rates will ultimately contribute to reproducibility between laboratories and thus support the development of data repositories of mitochondrial respiratory function in species, tissues, and cells. Clarity of concept and consistency of nomenclature facilitate effective transdisciplinary communication, education, and ultimately further discovery

“Boosting” Tourism as Rural Public Policy: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

Tourism promotion represents popular public policy because of its focus on image improvement. After all, what politician would criticize efforts to “boost” the perception of one’s own state and advertise the resources that draw attention, visitation, and positive notoriety? Indeed, promoting tourism is a political nobrainer. But, political convenience does not necessarily convey long-term societal improvement. Does it make good policy sense from the standpoint of rural development? Are increased levels of tourism in the best interest of communities affected by tourists? Are the jobs created by tourism the types of jobs needed by people in rural America? This paper argues that states should move away from traditional “boosterism” approaches that focus simply on stimulating tourism demand toward more integrative planning frameworks that focus on the real costs and benefits of tourism growth

The Tourism Supply Linkage: Recreational Sites and their Related Natural Amenities

While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation and tourism-related travel have long held the spotlight of research, the supply or production side remains inexact and relatively unexplored. In this manuscript, we focus on supply components of recreational resources and their links with tourism incidence in Wisconsin. The supply of recreation and tourism is a complex combination of natural amenities, recreational sites, access, and private sector business activity which is influenced by an array of factors that act to provide opportunities that satisfy leisure-based travel demands. Measures of recreational site density that account for both physical/geographic size and population, or social capacity are used as key explanatory variables in models of tourism dependence. Results suggest that tourism dependence in Wisconsin involves both recreation sites and natural amenities. Assessing tourism production without incorporation of these non-priced latent inputs provides an incomplete characterization of the tourism phenomenon

Recreational Homes and Migration to Remote Amenity-Rich Areas

Counterurbanization pressures in remote amenity-rich regions present a host of land use and development planning issues. In the work reported here, we identify, examine and spatially analyze residential housing characteristics, land ownership, land developability, nat-ural and human-built amenities, infrastructure density, and socio-demographic data at the minor civil division level for an eight county region of Northern Wisconsin. This is done us-ing spatial error and spatial regime models to distinguish between rural “remote” and “fron-tier” levels of population density. Our intent is to develop initial empirical insights into the counterurbanization process that has been at the core of forest fragmentation and land parcelization during the latter half of the 20th and early 21st Centuries. Results suggest that land developability and the presence of public lands are central significant factors involved in in-migration to the frontier region. Further, we note that seasonal, recreational, and occasion-al use housing units, while an important metric, only partially captures important transitions in housing options for both full-time and part-time residents. Both policy implications and further research needs serve as segues into future regional science effort