International agreements to reduce anthropogenic environmental disasters rely on public pressure driving local action. We study whether focused media and increased public outcry can drive local environmental action, reducing environmental damage. Although an annual affair, forest fires in the...

The market of emission credits as well as other pollution-related commodities is currently viewed as an important instrument of the reduction of environmentally hazardous emissions. European trading in emission credits followed promulgation of the Kyoto Treaty by all major EU nations after 1997...