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Bernknopf, R. L., D. S. Brookshire, D. R. Soller, M. J. McKee, J. F. Sutter, J. C. Matti, and R. H. Campbell. 2006. The Societal Value of Geologic Maps, in Ogasawara, M., and K. Ooi, ed. Societal Value of Geologic Maps – Japanese Translation of USGS Circular 1111 and Reviews of Studies on the Economic Evaluation of Geologic Maps in the United States. GSJ Interim Report No. 37, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST: 5-58.

 
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Ganderton, P., Brookshire, D.,  and Bernknopf, R. 2005. “Improving the Homeland Security Advisory System: an experimental analysis of threat communication for national security.” In The Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, edited by Harry. Richardson, Peter Gordon, and James Moore II. Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

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Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, and M. Thayer. 2004. “Earthquake and Volcano Hazard Notices: An Economic Evaluation of Changes in Risk Perceptions.” In The Economics of Natural Hazards edited by Howard Kunreuther and Adam Rose. Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, and P. Ganderton. The role of geo-science information in reducing catastrophic loss using a web-based economics experiment. USGS Professional Paper 1683, p28., 2003.

 

Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, M. McKee, and D. Soller. 1997. Estimating the social value of geologic map information: a regulatory application. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 204-217.

 

Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, D. Soller, M. McKee, J. Sutter, J. Matti, and R. Campbell, The societal value of geologic maps. USGS Circular 1111, p53., 1993.

 

Watson, W., A. Medlin, K. Krohn, D. Brookshire, and R. Bernknopf. Economic effects of western Federal land use restrictions on U.S. coal markets. USGS Circular 1042, 1990.

 

Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, and M. Thayer. 1990. Earthquake and volcano alerts: an economic evaluation of risk perception changes. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management v.18:35-49.

 

Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, and R. Campbell. 1989, Evaluation of landslide hazards: an economic synthesis of geologic information. In Landslides in a semi-arid environment: studies from inland valleys of Southern California. Edited by P. Sadler and Douglas Morton, Inland Geological Society.

 

Bernknopf, R., D. Brookshire, R. Campbell, and C. Shapiro. 1988. “An economic and geographic appraisal of a spatial natural hazard risk: a study of landslide mitigation rules.” Environment and Planning A 20(5) 621-631.

 

Bernknopf, R., R. Campbell, D. Brookshire, and C. Shapiro. 1988. “A probabilistic approach to landslide mapping in Cincinnati, Ohio, with applications for economic evaluation.” Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists 25 39-56.

 

Brookshire, D., J. Chermak. 2002. Integrated Modeling: Data Transfers from the Physical and Social Sciences, First International Symposium on Transboundary Water Management, edited by Alvaro. Aldama, Javier Aparico Mijares, Rafael Equihua, AMH-IMTA.

 

Brookshire, D., J. Chermak, M. Ewers. 2002. Borders Crossing Borders: Efficiency and Equity Considerations of Groundwater Markets in the Ciudad Juárez/El Paso Region Along the Mexico/United States Border, Edited by  A. Zichichi and R. Ragaini, International Seminar On Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, The 26th Session, World Scientific Publishers.

 

Brookshire, D., M.Campana, L. Scuderi, O.P. Matthews, K. Krause, J. Chermak, B. Cullen, S. Snell and K. Gregory. 2003. Reallocation of Water and the Hydrological Effects of Climate Change: the Upper Rio Grande Basin, Southwestern USA. In Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, edited by A. S. Alsharhan and W.W. Wood, Developments in Water Science 50 169-181, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

 

Brookshire D. 2001. The Economic Value of Water: Results of a Workshop in Caracas, Venezuela, presented at IV Inter-American Dialogue on Water Management, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil published by Nature Conservancy, The Conservation Finance Guide, in CD ROM format, August 2003.

 

Brookshire D., H. Gupta, E. Springer, and T. Wagner. 2004. Multi-resolution Integrated Modeling for Basin-Scale Water Resources Management and Policy Analysis, Hydrology: Science & Practice for the 21st Century, Volume II, British Hydrological Society.

 

Brookshire D., S. Stewart, J. Valdes, J. Gastelum, J. Aparcio, J. Hidalgo and I. Velazco. 2004.  A Decision Support System for Demand Management In the Rio Conchos Basin, Mexico in Hydrology: Science & Practice for the 21st Century, Volume II, edited by B. Webb et al, British Hydrological Society.

 

Brookshire D., B. Colby, M. Ewers, and P. Ganderton. 2004. Water Markets in the Southwest: Why and Where?” Southwest Hydrology, Vol. 3, No. 2.
abstracted as part of the ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

 

Brookshire D., M.Campana, L. Scuderi, O.P. Matthews, K. Krause, J. Chermak, B. Cullen, S. Snell and K. Gregory. 2003. Reallocation of Water and the Hydrological Effects of Climate Change: the Upper Rio Grande Basin, Southwestern USA. In Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy, edited by A. S. Alsharhan and W.W. Wood. Developments in Water Science 50 169-181. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

 

Gupta H. V., D. Brookshire, E. Springer and T. Wagener. 2004. Multi-resolution Integrated Modeling for Basin-Scale Water Resources Management and Policy Analysis. In Hydrology: Science & Practice for the 21st Century, Volume II edited by B. Webb et al, British Hydrological Society.

 

Brookshire D., S. Stewart, J.  Valdes, J. Gastelum, J. Aparcio, J. Hidalgo and I. Velazco. 2004. A Decision Support System for Demand management in the Rio Conchos Basin, Mexico, Hydrology: Science & Practice for the 21st Century, Volume II edited by B. Webb et al, British Hydrological Society.

 

Brookshire D., K. Krause, J. Chermak, S. Burness. 2004. Urban Consumer Water Demand: A Field/Experimental Investigation, Hydrology: Science & Practice for the 21st Century, Volume II edited by B. Webb et al, British Hydrological Society.

 

Brookshire D., Wagener, T., Y. Liu, H. V. Gupta, E. Springer. 2005. Multi-resolution Integrated Assessment Modeling for Water Resources Management in Arid and Semi-arid Regions in Regional Hydrological Impacts of Climate Variability and Change-Impact Assessment and Decision Making -- Proceedings of symposium S6 held during the Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. 256-272.

 

Brookshire D., P. Ganderton and R. Bernknopf. 2005. Improving the Homeland Security Advisory System: An Experimental Analysis of Threat Communication for National Security in The Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks edited by H. W. Richardson, P. Gordon and J. E. Moore II, Elward Elgar Publishers.

 

Brookshire D., F. Lee Brown, and John Shoemaker & Associates. 2006. Economic Analysis of New Mexico Water Markets”, Proceedings of New Mexico Water Markets: A Seminar on Buying, Selling and Leasing Water Rights, Albuquerque, NM.

 

Brookshire D. and J. Chermak. 2007. Conceptual Issues of Benefit Transfers and Integrated Modeling, Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods, Vol  9 in Kluwer Academic Publishers edited by S. Navrud, R. Ready and O. Olvar, series entitled The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources.

 

Brookshire D., J. Chermak and R. DeSimone. 2007. Uncertainty, Benefit Transfers, and Physical Models: A Middle Rio Grande Valley Focus, Environmental Value Transfer: Issues and Methods, Vol  9 edited by S. Navrud, R. Ready and O. Olvar, in the Kluwer Academic Publishers series entitled The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources.

 

Brookshire D., C. Broadbent, D. Coursey, and V. Tidwell. Towards a Water Banking/Leasing System on the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico USA: Progress to Date”, forthcoming, UNESCO.

 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf and R. Campbell. 1989. Evaluation of Landslide Hazards:  An Economic Synthesis of Geologic Information edited by P. M. Sadler and D. M. Morton in Landslides in a Semi‑Arid Environment: With Emphasis on the Inland Valleys of Southern California, Vol. 2 (California: The Inland Geological Society) 61-77.

 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf, R. Campbell, C. Shapiro, and R. Fleming. 1985. The Economics of Landslide Mitigation Strategies in Cincinnati, Ohio:  A Methodology for Benefit‑Cost Analysis, Chapter D edited by R. H. Campbell in Feasibility of a Nationwide Program for the Identification and Delineation of Hazards from Mud Flows and Other Landslides, Open‑File Report 85‑276, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, Summary in Ground Failure 2:1(6‑9).

 

Brookshire D., R. Hageman, W. Schulze, and J. Tschirhart. 1982. The Benefits and Costs of Seismic Building Codes edited by B. G. Jones and M. Tomazevic in Social and Economic Aspect of Earthquakes. Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, University of Kiril and Metodij, Skopje, Yugoslavia 187‑204.

 

Brookshire D., R. Hageman, et al. 1982. An Economic Overview of the Issues and Problems of Microzonation, in Third International Earthquake Microzonation Conference Proceedings 1.

 

Brookshire D., S. Burness, J. Chermak, and K. Krause. 2002. Western Urban Water Demand, Natural Resources Journal 42:4.

 

Brookshire D., J. Chermak and K. Krause. 2003. The Demand for Water: Consumer Response to Scarcity, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 23:2, 167-191.

 

Brookshire D., S. Burness and J. Chermak. 2004. Water Management in a Mountain Front Recharge Aquifer, Water Resources Research 40.

 

Brookshire D., B. Colby, M. Ewers, and P. Ganderton. 2004. “Market Prices for Water in the Semi Arid West”, Water Resources Research 40:9.

 

Brookshire D., J. Chermak and R. Patrick. 2005. Economics and Transboundary Aquifers, Journal of Groundwater 43:5.

 

Brookshire D., P. Matthews, L. Scuderi, K. Gregory, S. Snell, K. Krause, J. Chermak, B. Cullen and M. Campana. 2001. Marketing Western Water: Can a Process Based Geographical Information System Improve Reallocation Decisions? Natural Resources Journal 41:2.

 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf, M. McKee, and D. Soller. 1997. Estimating the Social Value of Geologic Map Information: A Regulatory Application, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 32:2 204-218.

 

Brookshire D., S. Chang, H. Cochrane, R. Olson, A. Rose, and J. Steenson. 1997. Direct and Indirect Economic Losses from Earthquake Damage, Earthquake Spectra 13:4 683-702.

 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf, R. Campbell, and C. Shapiro. 1988. A Probabilistic Approach to Landslide Hazard Mapping in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Applications for Economic Evaluation, Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists 25:1 39‑56.

 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf, R. Campbell, and C. Shapiro. 1988. An Economic and Geographic Appraisal of a Spatial Natural Hazard Risk:  A Study of Landslide Mitigation Rules, Environment and Planning A 20 621‑631.

 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf and M. Thayer. 1990. Earthquake and Volcano Hazard Notices: An Economic Evaluation of Changes in Risk Perceptions, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 18 35-49.
Republished 2004 in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: The Economics of Natural Hazards edited by H. Kunreuther and A. Rose, Elgar Reference Collection 1 141-158.

 

Brookshire D., S. Ben-David, R. Hageman, and W. Schulze. 1990. Should We Try to Predict the Next Great U.S. Earthquake? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 18:3 247-262.

 

Brookshire D. and H. Neill. 1992. Benefit Transfers: Conceptual and Empirical Issues, Water Resources Research 28:3 651-655.

 

Brookshire D. and D. Whittington. 1993. Water Resources Issues in the Developing Countries, Water Resources Research 29:7 1883-1888.

 

Brookshire D., R. Hageman, W. Schulze, and J. Tschirhart. 1987. Benefits and Costs of Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Southern Economic Journal 53:4 934‑951.

 

Brookshire D., W. Schulze, M. Thayer, and J. Tschirhart. 1985. A Test of the Expected Utility Model: Evidence from Earthquake Risks, Journal of Political Economy 93:2 369‑389.
Re-published 1999 in Environmental Valuation edited by K. G. Willis, K. Button, P. Nijkamp Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 81-101.
Re-published 2004 in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: The Economics of Natural Hazards edited by H. Kunreuther and A. Rose. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd 1. Elgar Reference Collection 120-140.
Republished 2004 in Classics in Risk Management edited by W. K. Viscusi and T. Gayer Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

 

Brookshire D., R.L. Bernknopf, P.T. Ganderton. 2003. The Role of Geoscience Information in Reducing Catastrophic Loss Using a Web-based Economics Experiment, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 1683.

 

Brookshire D. and Phil Ganderton. 2004. Water Markets and Banking:  Institutional Evolution and Empirical Perspectives Water Resources Research 40:9.

 

Brookshire D. and C. Poland et al. 2006. Improved Seismic Monitoring and Improved  Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty, Committee on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring,  Research Council of the National Academies Press, Washington D. C.

 
 

Brookshire D. contributiong author. 1991. Mitigating Losses From Land Subsidence in the United States, Committee on Ground Failure Hazards Mitigation Research, Panel on Land Subsidence (National Academy Press, Washington D.C.).

 
 

Brookshire D., R. Bernknopf, D. Sollar, M. McKee, J. Sutter, J. Matti, and R. Campbell. 1983. Societal Value of Geologic Maps, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1111, U.S. Department of Interior.
Republished 2006 Societal Value of Geologic Maps: Japanese Translation of USGS Circular 111 and Review of Studies on The Economic Evaluation of Geologic maps in the United States, edited by Masatsugu Ogasawara and Kenta Ooi Geological Survey of Japan, AIST.

 
                   
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