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policies instead involve sequestration, afforestation, stabilization of property rights and emissions trading. Among the public …
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Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to understanding tropical deforestation … associated with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot …
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drastic switches at tipping points, in response to changes in rainfall patterns and other drivers. Deforestation cost studies … the true social cost of deforestation. We explore the implications of a forest-savanna critical transition and propose an … for ecosystem services. We apply this framework to the calculation of the social cost of deforestation of the Amazon …
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deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a ‘Priority …, we first estimate the causal impact of the Priority List on deforestation using ‘changes-in-changes' (Athey and Imbens …, 2006), a flexible treatment effects estimation method, finding that it reduced deforestation by 40 percent and cut …
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Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to study. Drawing on data from satellites, air monitors, and vital records, we study how smoke from sugarcane harvest fires affects infant health in the Brazilian state that...
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which received the program for two years. The PES program reduced deforestation and forest degradation: Tree cover, measured …
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This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic … political economy of deforestation. They are consistent with the literature on (under) provision of public goods and social … decentralisation can reduce deforestation by delegating powers to more homogeneous communities …
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Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing pollution. We take three papers from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management as examples, and we extend them to make an additional important point. In each case,...
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The federal government owns and administers 472, 892,659 acres or 21% of the land area of the lower US, making it both the country's largest land owner and among the largest by a central government among western democracies. This condition is surprising, given that the US generally is viewed as...
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We use metro-level variation in land and structural input prices to test and estimate a housing cost function with differences in local housing productivity. Both OLS and IV estimates imply that stringent regulatory and geographic restrictions substantially increase housing prices relative to...
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