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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks
Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Forests accompany the cities we build. There are an estimated 5.5 billion urban trees in the United States. Globally, about 25 percent of urban land is covered by tree canopy. This study examines urban forests as a policy tool for air pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in...
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Forest Fires : Why The Large Year-to-Year Variation in Forests Burned?
Apt, Jerome; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned …
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A Supply Curve for Forest-Based CO₂ Removal
Franklin, Sergio Luis; Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
spatially disaggregated data, we estimate a supply curve for forest-based atmospheric CO₂ removal. The supply curve traces out …
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Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health
Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Little is known about how pollution impacts worker health and workplace safety. This paper leverages high-frequency, plausibly exogenous variation in wildfire smoke to estimate the impact of pollution on workplace injuries. Our analysis draws on unique data we construct through linking...
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Financing Outdoor Recreation
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2020
The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality : Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema - 2008
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the...
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Contracting for Impure Public Goods : Carbon Offsets and Additionality
Mason, Charles - 2011
carbon offsets to mitigate climate change. We analyze optimal contracts for forest carbon, an important offset category. A … 50 million acre increase in forest area, annual government expenditures with optimal contracts are found to be about $4 …
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Externalities in the Wildland - Urban Interface : Private Decisions, Collective Action, and Results from Wildfire Simulation Models for California
Kunreuther, Howard; Demidov, Artem; Pauly, Mark V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Much of the property damage from wildfires occurs when fires spread into built up areas, the wildland urban interface. Fire spread within such areas occurs from house to house, as embers from one burning structure ignite neighboring ones. Actions can be taken to mitigate the chances that a given...
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000122609
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Välfärdsstat i omvandling : amerikanskt perspektiv p°a den svenska modellen ; rapporten
Freeman, Richard B. (contributor) - 1995 - 1. uppl
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