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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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Public attention and environmental action : evidence from fires in the Amazon

Araujo, Rafael; Costa, Francisco; Garg, Teevrat - 2022

International agreements to reduce anthropogenic environmental disasters rely on public pressure driving local action. We study whether focused media and increased public outcry can drive local environmental action, reducing environmental damage. Although an annual affair, forest fires in the...

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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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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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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019

We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...

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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia

Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district...

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Effects of precipitation on food consumer price inflation

Moessner, Richhild - 2022

We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI Phillips curves across countries for 34 OECD member and candidate economies from 1985 to 2010 augmented with climate variables. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation...

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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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Climate change and migration : the case of Africa

Conte, Bruno - 2022

This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …

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