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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks
Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Forests accompany the cities we build. There are an estimated 5.5 billion urban trees in the United States. Globally, about 25 percent of urban land is covered by tree canopy. This study examines urban forests as a policy tool for air pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in...
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Forest Fires : Why The Large Year-to-Year Variation in Forests Burned?
Apt, Jerome; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned …
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The Economics of Tropical Deforestation
Balboni, Clare A.; Berman, Aaron; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
forest loss at a fine spatial resolution across the globe. We then develop a simple benchmark model of deforestation based on …
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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
forest cover, with stronger effects in areas that face pressure of economic development. We then identify several open areas …
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An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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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 … whether a PES contract that requires enrollees to enroll all of their forest is more effective than the traditional PES …
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Financing Outdoor Recreation
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2020
The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality : Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema - 2008
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the...
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A Supply Curve for Forest-Based CO₂ Removal
Franklin, Sergio Luis; Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
spatially disaggregated data, we estimate a supply curve for forest-based atmospheric CO₂ removal. The supply curve traces out …
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Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health
Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Little is known about how pollution impacts worker health and workplace safety. This paper leverages high-frequency, plausibly exogenous variation in wildfire smoke to estimate the impact of pollution on workplace injuries. Our analysis draws on unique data we construct through linking...
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