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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union

Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023

The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...

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The effect of forest access on the market for fuelwood in India

Bošković, Branko; Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; … - 2018

Fuelwood collection is often cited as the most important cause of deforestation in developing countries. Use of …

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Taxation and rotation age under stochastic forest stand value

Alvarez, Luis H. R.; Koskela, Erkki - 2004

The paper uses both the single rotation and ongoing rotation framework to study the impact of yield tax, lump-sum tax, cash flow tax and tax on interest rate earnings on the privately optimal rotation period when forest value growth is stochastic and forest owners are either risk neutral or risk...

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Tax streams, land rents and urban land allocation

Tang, Yugang; Su, Zhihao; Hou, Yilin; Yin, Zhendong - 2023 - This version: November, 2023

This paper examines the fiscal motives behind municipal governments' decisions to allocate commercial and residential land when two categories of land use are subject to different fiscal revenue alternatives: business-related tax and/or land rent. We use urban parcel-level land transfers during...

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Land use and decentralized government : a strategic approach for playing a short-sighted equilibrium

Aprile, Maria Carmela; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2018

This paper presents a simple strategic model (defined as a shortsighted game) to highlight the incentives for local governments to allow the exploitation of land in areas not suitable for such exploitation due to environmental or other risks. Municipal discretionary policy inevitably produces...

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Conservation contracts and political regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …'s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

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The conservation multiplier

Harstad, Bård - 2020

Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or to conserve and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or conserve. This paper develops a theory of this situation and shows when a small probability that some future government...

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Optimal contracts for discouraging deforestation with risk averse agents

Mason, Charles F. - 2018

reductions is to encourage reductions in deforestation. But any such strategy must confront a basic problem: agents that might be …

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Deforestation, production intensity and land use under insecure property rights

Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2004

management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …

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The market for conservation and other hostages

Harstad, Bård - 2013

A "conservation good" (such as a tropical forest) is owned by a seller who is tempted to consume (or cut), but a buyer benefits more from conservation. The seller does conserve if the buyer is expected to buy, but the buyer is unwilling to pay as long as the seller conserves. This contradiction...

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