Michael O’hare
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael O’hare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | O’hare |
| SIGNATURE | O’HARE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2833-3697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation
Significance Could the intensification of pasture-based cattle ranching allow Brazil to protect its forests and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while increasing its agricultural production? Would these benefits be substantially undermined by increased deforestation and GHGs triggered abroad? We model two policies for increasing cattle ranching productivity in Brazil: a tax on conventional pasture and a subsidy for semi-intensive pasture…
Accounting for the water impacts of ethanol production
Biofuels account for 1â 2% of global transportation fuel and their share is projected to continue rising, with potentially serious consequences for water resources. However, current literature does not present sufficient spatial resolution to characterize this localized effect. We used a coupled agro-climatic and life cycle assessment model to estimate the water resource impacts of bioenergy expansion scenarios at a county-level resolution. The s…
Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum
The global warming intensities of crop-based biofuels and fossil fuels differ not only in amount but also in their discharge patterns over time. Early discharges, for example, from market-mediated land use change, will have created more global warming by any time in the future than later discharges, owing to the slow decay of atmospheric CO2. A spreadsheet model of this process, BTIME, captures this important time pattern effect using the Bern CO…
The Border Conflict between the Present and the Past: Programming Classical Music and Opera
Contemporary music is a category of cultural capital that is employed by symphonies and opera especially inefficiently. Considering its quantity, presumed relevance to social needs, and programming, this is surprising. The authors present a model of the programming decision for an ensemble that indicates that increasing the use of contemporary music's capital stock (i.e., increasing on-stage performances of contemporary music and thus listeners' …
The 2006 Park City Appam spring conference (II)
The 2006 Park City Appam spring conference (III)
Pedagogy for policy analysis and management
This essay presents two pedagogical models found in public policy programs, and attends (less exhaustively) to the managerial environment in which they coexist. The models are, of course, lecturing in all its various versions, and the cluster of teaching practices called case‐method teaching, student‐centered learning, active learning, experiential learning, discussion‐based teaching, and the like. The central question addressed is: How can it be…
The 2006 park city appam spring conference
In 1986, a small group of public policy faculty gathered at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for a conference on what was then a novel enterprise in professional education for public service. The enterprise grew into the dozens of masters programs in policy analysis and management that now cover not only the United States but the globe, and on the 20th anniversary of that influential meeting, APPAM organized a conference at Park City, Utah, wh…
Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals
To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored coproducts and used some obsolete data. All studies indicated that current corn ethanol technologies are much less petroleum-intensive than gasoline but have greenhouse gas emissions similar to those of gasoline. However, many important environmental effects of biofuel pro…
Environmental Agencies' Funding Sources Should Follow Their Diverse Business Models
Environmental agencies provide a variety of regulatory, consulting, analysis, and other services that are typically funded by a mix of mechanisms including taxes, fees, contributions, and earmarked streams. Public deliberation in this area mostly attends to the levels of funding of these services, with inadequate attention to the relationship between means and funding adequacy, or between means and agency performance.The characteristic business m…
Rhetoric: Memo to my students
In Memoriam: Robert A. Leone, 14 July 1945 to 18 March 1999
Classroom design for discussion-based teaching
Quality assurance for teaching in Appam schools
Facility Siting and Compensation: Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience
In 1980, Massachusetts enacted a unique and comprehensive process for siting hazardous waste facilities. No facility has been constructed or approved since then, however, so it seems appropriate to ask whether the process was fundamentally flawed in concept, implemented imperfectly, or whether some other lesson can be drawn. The authors of this study were closely involved with the legislation at its inception, and Sanderson has stayed involved wi…
Talk and Chalk: The Blackboard as an Intellectual Tool
Why does the classroom chalkboard persist in an electronic world? Should we free ourselves of this primitive technology, or is it still a useful tool? If the latter, why is it rare in business facilities, and in teaching spaces like hotel conference rooms where mid-career training occurs? These questions occurred to me as I spent several hours outside my own classroom in the space of a month (teaching a group of third graders how an airplane flie…
Formal Models and Government: Teaching to Do
Welfare Reform and Work
A Typology of Governmental Action
Risk Perception
Risk Analysis and Decision Processes
Copyright: When Is Monopoly Efficient
Many goods and services are thought to be most efficiently provided under monopoly or oligopoly conditions. For instance, copyright is generally deemed of great value to authors, artists, and the public, an essential element to an efficient market in intellectual and artistic creation. Yet, evidence suggests this esteem may not be entirely justified. Copyright for a particular medium is valuable to the author or to society only when certain econo…
Patrons despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
The authors analyze indirect subsidies, which are an important sources of support for the arts and a far larger source than direct subsidies. The authors provide a well-grounded and detailed description of how the U.S. tax system relates to the arts. They ask who pays, who benefits, who decides on the allocation, and what are the effects? The findings include a realization that the reallocation on resources that indirect subsidies induce are detr…
Patrons despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
Indirect Aid to the Arts
Most government support of arts institutions is indirect—the result of charitable deduction provisions of the federal income tax, property tax exemptions extended by local governments, and other tax provisions. The money that government forgoes through these provisions must be made up by higher taxes for all taxpayers. The public, however, has little say about how these funds are spent. By its very nature, the income tax deduction places the deci…
Facility Siting and Compensation: Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience
In 1980, Massachusetts enacted a unique and comprehensive process for siting hazardous waste facilities. No facility has been constructed or approved since then, however, so it seems appropriate to ask whether the process was fundamentally flawed in concept, implemented imperfectly, or whether some other lesson can be drawn. The authors of this study were closely involved with the legislation at its inception, and Sanderson has stayed involved wi…
Formal Models and Government: Teaching to Do
The 2006 Park City Appam spring conference (III)
A Typology of Governmental Action
Copyright: When Is Monopoly Efficient
Many goods and services are thought to be most efficiently provided under monopoly or oligopoly conditions. For instance, copyright is generally deemed of great value to authors, artists, and the public, an essential element to an efficient market in intellectual and artistic creation. Yet, evidence suggests this esteem may not be entirely justified. Copyright for a particular medium is valuable to the author or to society only when certain econo…
Patrons despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
Patrons despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
The authors analyze indirect subsidies, which are an important sources of support for the arts and a far larger source than direct subsidies. The authors provide a well-grounded and detailed description of how the U.S. tax system relates to the arts. They ask who pays, who benefits, who decides on the allocation, and what are the effects? The findings include a realization that the reallocation on resources that indirect subsidies induce are detr…
Patrons despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy
Indirect Aid to the Arts
Most government support of arts institutions is indirect—the result of charitable deduction provisions of the federal income tax, property tax exemptions extended by local governments, and other tax provisions. The money that government forgoes through these provisions must be made up by higher taxes for all taxpayers. The public, however, has little say about how these funds are spent. By its very nature, the income tax deduction places the deci…
Copyright: When Is Monopoly Efficient
Many goods and services are thought to be most efficiently provided under monopoly or oligopoly conditions. For instance, copyright is generally deemed of great value to authors, artists, and the public, an essential element to an efficient market in intellectual and artistic creation. Yet, evidence suggests this esteem may not be entirely justified. Copyright for a particular medium is valuable to the author or to society only when certain econo…
Risk Analysis and Decision Processes
Welfare Reform and Work
A Typology of Governmental Action
Risk Perception
Formal Models and Government: Teaching to Do
Facility Siting and Compensation: Lessons from the Massachusetts Experience
In 1980, Massachusetts enacted a unique and comprehensive process for siting hazardous waste facilities. No facility has been constructed or approved since then, however, so it seems appropriate to ask whether the process was fundamentally flawed in concept, implemented imperfectly, or whether some other lesson can be drawn. The authors of this study were closely involved with the legislation at its inception, and Sanderson has stayed involved wi…
Talk and Chalk: The Blackboard as an Intellectual Tool
Why does the classroom chalkboard persist in an electronic world? Should we free ourselves of this primitive technology, or is it still a useful tool? If the latter, why is it rare in business facilities, and in teaching spaces like hotel conference rooms where mid-career training occurs? These questions occurred to me as I spent several hours outside my own classroom in the space of a month (teaching a group of third graders how an airplane flie…
Quality assurance for teaching in Appam schools
Classroom design for discussion-based teaching
In Memoriam: Robert A. Leone, 14 July 1945 to 18 March 1999
Rhetoric: Memo to my students
Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals
To study the potential effects of increased biofuel use, we evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol. Studies that reported negative net energy incorrectly ignored coproducts and used some obsolete data. All studies indicated that current corn ethanol technologies are much less petroleum-intensive than gasoline but have greenhouse gas emissions similar to those of gasoline. However, many important environmental effects of biofuel pro…
Environmental Agencies' Funding Sources Should Follow Their Diverse Business Models
Environmental agencies provide a variety of regulatory, consulting, analysis, and other services that are typically funded by a mix of mechanisms including taxes, fees, contributions, and earmarked streams. Public deliberation in this area mostly attends to the levels of funding of these services, with inadequate attention to the relationship between means and funding adequacy, or between means and agency performance.The characteristic business m…
The 2006 park city appam spring conference
In 1986, a small group of public policy faculty gathered at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for a conference on what was then a novel enterprise in professional education for public service. The enterprise grew into the dozens of masters programs in policy analysis and management that now cover not only the United States but the globe, and on the 20th anniversary of that influential meeting, APPAM organized a conference at Park City, Utah, wh…
The Border Conflict between the Present and the Past: Programming Classical Music and Opera
Contemporary music is a category of cultural capital that is employed by symphonies and opera especially inefficiently. Considering its quantity, presumed relevance to social needs, and programming, this is surprising. The authors present a model of the programming decision for an ensemble that indicates that increasing the use of contemporary music's capital stock (i.e., increasing on-stage performances of contemporary music and thus listeners' …
The 2006 Park City Appam spring conference (II)
The 2006 Park City Appam spring conference (III)
Pedagogy for policy analysis and management
This essay presents two pedagogical models found in public policy programs, and attends (less exhaustively) to the managerial environment in which they coexist. The models are, of course, lecturing in all its various versions, and the cluster of teaching practices called case‐method teaching, student‐centered learning, active learning, experiential learning, discussion‐based teaching, and the like. The central question addressed is: How can it be…
Proper accounting for time increases crop-based biofuels’ greenhouse gas deficit versus petroleum
The global warming intensities of crop-based biofuels and fossil fuels differ not only in amount but also in their discharge patterns over time. Early discharges, for example, from market-mediated land use change, will have created more global warming by any time in the future than later discharges, owing to the slow decay of atmospheric CO2. A spreadsheet model of this process, BTIME, captures this important time pattern effect using the Bern CO…
Accounting for the water impacts of ethanol production
Biofuels account for 1â 2% of global transportation fuel and their share is projected to continue rising, with potentially serious consequences for water resources. However, current literature does not present sufficient spatial resolution to characterize this localized effect. We used a coupled agro-climatic and life cycle assessment model to estimate the water resource impacts of bioenergy expansion scenarios at a county-level resolution. The s…
Cattle ranching intensification in Brazil can reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by sparing land from deforestation
Significance Could the intensification of pasture-based cattle ranching allow Brazil to protect its forests and reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while increasing its agricultural production? Would these benefits be substantially undermined by increased deforestation and GHGs triggered abroad? We model two policies for increasing cattle ranching productivity in Brazil: a tax on conventional pasture and a subsidy for semi-intensive pasture…
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