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The environmental impacts of protected area policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - 2023
The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and vegetation cover. We discuss critical issues...
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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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Measuring the stringency of land-use regulation : the case of China's building-height limits
Brueckner, Jan K.; Fu, Shihe; Gu, Yizhen; Zhang, Junfu - 2016
This paper develops a new approach for measuring the stringency of a major form of land-use regulation, building-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that the elasticity of land price with respect to...
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Land use and fiscal competition
Büttner, Thiess - 2021
This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life....
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Sinking land : Optimal control of subsidence
Sen, Suphi; Verhoeven, Dewy; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2023
Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in deltaic regions requires lowering the groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry to maintain productivity, which, however,...
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Regime shifts and uncertainty in pollution control
Zeeuw, Aart de; Zemel, Amos - 2012
each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether …. -- environmental pollution ; optimal management ; catastrophic transitions ; uncertainty ; adaptation ; mitigation …
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Cities and the sea level
Lin, Yatang; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy - 2021
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially disaggregated data on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts. We document nine stylized facts, including a sizeable...
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A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on European agriculture
Van Passel, Steven; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, … - 2014
This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...
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Using degree days to value farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert O.; … - 2014
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
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The green paradox and learning-by-doing in the renewable energy sector
Nachtigall, Daniel; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2014
The green paradox conveys the idea that climate policies may have unintended side effects when taking into account the reaction of fossil fuel suppliers. In particular, carbon taxes that will be implemented in the future induce resource owners to extract more rapidly which increases present...
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