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Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity can be financed by i) pure private capital and ii)...

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Market Design for the Environment

Cantillon, Estelle; Slechten, Aurélie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The main argument in favor of markets in environmental contexts is the same as in other contexts: their ability to promote efficient allocations and production. But environmental problems bring their own challenges: their underlying bio-physical processes - and the technologies to monitor them -...

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Ecosystems : burden or bounty?

Damania, Richard; Scandizzo, Pasquale Lucio; Glauber, A. J. - 2014

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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium

Carbone, Jared C. - 2010

We explore the consequences of treating the multiple, non-market benefits associated with improvements in ecosystem … to pay measures of use-based ecosystem services are impacted by the changes in demand for complementary market goods …. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …

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Can environmental cash transfers reduce deforestation and improve social outcomes? : a regression discontinuity analysis of Mexico’s national program (2011–2014)

Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Sims, Katharine R. E.; … - 2019

Environmental conditional cash transfers, or "payments for ecosystem services" are a centerpiece of global efforts to … impacts of Mexico's national payments for ecosystem services program, which provides five years of payments to landowners in … payments for ecosystem services significantly increased community social capital-the institutions, attitudes, and values that …

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The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment

Toman, Michael A. - 2014

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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks

Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016

This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...

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Cash for Carbon : A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

Jayachandran, Seema - 2016

This paper evaluates a Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) program in western Uganda that offered forest …

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Redesigning Payments for Ecosystem Services to Increase Cost-Effectiveness

Izquierdo-Tort, Santiago; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are a widely used approach for forest conservation through which people are paid …

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The ecological impact of transportation infrastructure

Asher, Sam; Garg, Teevrat; Novosad, Paul - 2018

There is a long-standing debate over whether new roads unavoidably lead to environmental damage, especially forest loss, but causal identification has been elusive. Using multiple causal identification strategies, this paper studies the construction of new rural roads to over 100,000 villages...

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