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The Inherent Trade-Off Between the Environmental and Anti-Poverty Goals of Payments for Ecosystem Services

Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Conservation programs in low-income countries often have dual goals of protecting the environment and reducing poverty. This article discusses the tension between these two goals in payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. Participants who undertake a pro-environment behavior receive a...

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....

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Payment for Environmental Services : Hypotheses and Evidence

Alston, Lee J. - 2013

The use of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is not a new type of contract but they have become more in vogue because of the potential for sequestering carbon by paying to prevent deforestation and degradation of forest lands. We provide a framework utilizing transaction costs to...

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Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets : Markets for Florida Wetlands

Aronoff, Daniel; Rafey, Will - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce an empirical framework for valuing markets in environmental offsets. Using newly-collected data on wetland conservation and offsets, we apply this framework to evaluate a set of decentralized markets in Florida, where land developers purchase offsets from a small number of...

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Pricing the Priceless : The Financial Cost of Biodiversity Conservation

Chen, Fukang; Chen, Minhao; Cong, Lin William; Gao, Haoyu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The pace of biodiversity loss requires drastic shifts in conservation efforts that carry substantial costs. We investigate how the financial market prices such conservation costs exploiting the "Green Shield Action," a major regulatory initiative launched by the Chinese central government in...

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Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Quality : The Environment, With Applications to Physical and Human Capital

Keohane, Nathaniel O. - 2000

Our analysis melds two traditional approaches to promoting quality. The first is restoring the stock of quality. The second is curbing its flow of deterioration. Although both approaches are widely used in real world settings, analytic models have tended to focus on one strategy or the other. We...

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Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth

Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2010

We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as...

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The Measurement of Wealth : Recessions, Sustainability and Inequality

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2015

This paper considers two central problems in our statistical frameworks which impair the ability to use wealth to assess economic sustainability or the impacts of economic downturns. Some increases in wealth may reflect increased economic rents--in particular, land and exploitation rents--and...

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The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental RIVs

Katsoulacos, Yannis - 1999

pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …

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What's Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring : Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors

Mu, Yingfei; Rubin, Edward; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip air pollution monitoring when they expect air quality to … deteriorate. We infer this expectation from air quality alerts - public advisories based on local governments' own pollution … individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 "Bridgegate" traffic jam …

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