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

. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …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 …

This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …

This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that … the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day … disposing of MSW vary widely across countries in accord with the nature of the waste stream and key features of the …

key policy goals with subsidies as opposed to using taxes to raise the price of pollution-related activities. In …

Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … some of the pollution exposure risk. Using a unique data set of Internet purchases, we document that households invest more … in masks and air filter products when ambient pollution levels exceed key alert thresholds. Richer people are more likely …