Erik Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5996280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3228-1164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Is Language Necessary for Acquiring Conceptual Capabilities
Normative conceptual holists have argued that conceptual capabilities can only be acquired through language. The a priori nature of their argument means that, if it is correct, not only is it a mistake for scientists to attribute conceptual capabilities to nonlinguistic animals, but also a mistake to think that empirical results have any bearing on such a claim. I argue that the absurd conclusion that concept acquisition is impossible can be deri…
Kantian Animal Moral Psychology: Empirical Markers for Animal Morality
I argue that a Kantian inspired investigation into animal morality is both a plausible and coherent research program. To show that such an investigation is possible, I argue that philosophers, such as Korsgaard, who argue that reason demarcates nonhuman animals from the domain of moral beings, are equivocating in their use of the term ‘rationality.’ Kant certainly regards rationality as necessary for moral responsibility from a practical standpoi…
A Sellarsian argument for nonlinguistic conceptual capabilities
Rapid urbanization and uneven development of the food retail environment
Health Education Training Embedded in a Microfinance Platform Associated with Safer Sexual Behavior in Haitian Women
Estimating the Excess Mortality Risk during Two Red Alert Periods in Beijing, China
The magnitude of excess mortality risk due to exposures to heavy air pollution during the red alert periods in Beijing remains unknown. A health impact assessment tool combined with the PM 2.5 -mortality relationship was applied to estimate the number of excess deaths due to high air pollution exposure during two red alert periods in Beijing, China in December 2015. Daily PM 2.5 concentration increased from 80.2 μg/m3 to 159.8 μg/m3 during the fi…
Cost-effective Land Use Planning: Optimizing Land Use and Land Management Patterns to Maximize Social Benefits
Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States
Significance Land-use change affects the provision of ecosystem services and wildlife habitat. We project land-use change from 2001 to 2051 for the contiguous United States under two scenarios reflecting continuation of 1990s trends and high crop demand more reflective of the recent past. These scenarios result in large differences in land-use trajectories that generate increases in carbon storage, timber production, food production from increase…
Uncertainty in ecosystem services valuation and implications for assessing land use tradeoffs: An agricultural case study in the Minnesota River Basin
The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota
Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales
Nature provides a wide range of benefits to people. There is increasing consensus about the importance of incorporating these “ecosystem services” into resource management decisions, but quantifying the levels and values of these services has proven difficult. We use a spatially explicit modeling tool, Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to predict changes in ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and commod…
Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns
Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape
We develop an integrated model to predict private land-use decisions in response to policy incentives designed to increase the provision of carbon sequestration and species conservation across heterogeneous landscapes. Using data from the Willamette Basin, Oregon, we compare the provision of carbon sequestration and species conservation under five simple policies that offer payments for conservation. We evaluate policy performance compared with t…
Voting on open space: What explains the appearance and support of municipal-level open space conservation referenda in the United States
Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels
Negative environmental consequences of fossil fuels and concerns about petroleum supplies have spurred the search for renewable transportation biofuels. To be a viable alternative, a biofuel should provide a net energy gain, have environmental benefits, be economically competitive, and be producible in large quantities without reducing food supplies. We use these criteria to evaluate, through life-cycle accounting, ethanol from corn grain and bio…
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Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels
Negative environmental consequences of fossil fuels and concerns about petroleum supplies have spurred the search for renewable transportation biofuels. To be a viable alternative, a biofuel should provide a net energy gain, have environmental benefits, be economically competitive, and be producible in large quantities without reducing food supplies. We use these criteria to evaluate, through life-cycle accounting, ethanol from corn grain and bio…
Voting on open space: What explains the appearance and support of municipal-level open space conservation referenda in the United States
Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns
Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape
We develop an integrated model to predict private land-use decisions in response to policy incentives designed to increase the provision of carbon sequestration and species conservation across heterogeneous landscapes. Using data from the Willamette Basin, Oregon, we compare the provision of carbon sequestration and species conservation under five simple policies that offer payments for conservation. We evaluate policy performance compared with t…
Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales
Nature provides a wide range of benefits to people. There is increasing consensus about the importance of incorporating these “ecosystem services” into resource management decisions, but quantifying the levels and values of these services has proven difficult. We use a spatially explicit modeling tool, Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to predict changes in ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and commod…
The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota
Uncertainty in ecosystem services valuation and implications for assessing land use tradeoffs: An agricultural case study in the Minnesota River Basin
Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States
Significance Land-use change affects the provision of ecosystem services and wildlife habitat. We project land-use change from 2001 to 2051 for the contiguous United States under two scenarios reflecting continuation of 1990s trends and high crop demand more reflective of the recent past. These scenarios result in large differences in land-use trajectories that generate increases in carbon storage, timber production, food production from increase…
Estimating the Excess Mortality Risk during Two Red Alert Periods in Beijing, China
The magnitude of excess mortality risk due to exposures to heavy air pollution during the red alert periods in Beijing remains unknown. A health impact assessment tool combined with the PM 2.5 -mortality relationship was applied to estimate the number of excess deaths due to high air pollution exposure during two red alert periods in Beijing, China in December 2015. Daily PM 2.5 concentration increased from 80.2 μg/m3 to 159.8 μg/m3 during the fi…
Cost-effective Land Use Planning: Optimizing Land Use and Land Management Patterns to Maximize Social Benefits
Health Education Training Embedded in a Microfinance Platform Associated with Safer Sexual Behavior in Haitian Women
Rapid urbanization and uneven development of the food retail environment
Kantian Animal Moral Psychology: Empirical Markers for Animal Morality
I argue that a Kantian inspired investigation into animal morality is both a plausible and coherent research program. To show that such an investigation is possible, I argue that philosophers, such as Korsgaard, who argue that reason demarcates nonhuman animals from the domain of moral beings, are equivocating in their use of the term ‘rationality.’ Kant certainly regards rationality as necessary for moral responsibility from a practical standpoi…
A Sellarsian argument for nonlinguistic conceptual capabilities
Is Language Necessary for Acquiring Conceptual Capabilities
Normative conceptual holists have argued that conceptual capabilities can only be acquired through language. The a priori nature of their argument means that, if it is correct, not only is it a mistake for scientists to attribute conceptual capabilities to nonlinguistic animals, but also a mistake to think that empirical results have any bearing on such a claim. I argue that the absurd conclusion that concept acquisition is impossible can be deri…
Economics (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (8 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ecosystem (5 works) · Ecosystem services (5 works)