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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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significantly in stages of development and resource bases: the United States, China, Brazil, India, and Venezuela. With the …
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impact throughout the basin, and those that are the most vulnerable to shocks caused by remote deforestation. On average, the …
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ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and …
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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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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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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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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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Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first, the realization that it … forest loss at a fine spatial resolution across the globe. We then develop a simple benchmark model of deforestation based on … classic models of natural resource extraction. Extending this approach to incorporate features that characterize deforestation …
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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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