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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
purchase conservation, or the forest, from S? If this were an equilibrium, S would never consume, anticipating a higher price … strategies, implying that the good is consumed (or the forest is cut) at a positive rate. If conservation is more valuable, it is … patient, the forest disappears with probability one. A rental market has similar properties. By comparison, a rental market …
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest … central government interventions in program countries. Analyzing new data on forest conservation outcomes, we identify several … problems with this centralized approach to forest protection. We describe options for a more diversified policy approach that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836719
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Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence
Alston, Lee J.; Andersson, Krister; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
because of the potential for sequestering carbon by paying to prevent deforestation and degradation of forest lands. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785634
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271429
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What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions
Stavins, Robert Norman; Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We...
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Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Management of Common Pool Resources
Baylis, Kathy; Gong, Yazhen; Wang, Shun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Yunnan, China on social capital and firewood collection on communal lands. We find that bonding social capital decreases the …
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Some Like it (Less) Hot: Extracting Tradeoff Measures for Physically Coupled Amenities
Smith, V. Kerry; Klaiber, H. Allen; Abbott, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) provides direct evidence of how human activities contribute to a feedback loop that can result in multiple changes in ecosystem services by creating localized warming as well as differences in vegetated landscapes in areas surrounding the urban core. This paper...
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Economic Behavior, Market Signals, and Urban Ecology
Smith, V. Kerry; Abbott, Joshua K.; Klaiber, H. Allen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Urban ecologists have extended the bounds of this field to incorporate both the effects of human activities on ecological processes (e.g., humans as generators of disturbances), and the ways in which the structures, functions, and processes of urban ecosystems, and human alterations to them, in...
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
Barreca, Alan Irwin; Clay, Karen B.; Deschenes, Olivier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969229
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Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements
Battaglini, Marco; Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We analyze participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs) in a dynamic game where countries pollute and invest in green technologies. If complete contracts are feasible, participants eliminate the hold-up problem associated with their investments; however, most countries prefer...
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