Hydrological disruption and water pollution from urbanization can be reduced if households adopt decentralized stormwater controls. We use spatial data from Chicago’s rain barrel program to explore what factors influence adoption of durable green technology that provides public goods in an...

This paper explores the spatial equilibrium patterns of land conservation that derive from a game between land conservation agents who provide public goods. The shape of the conservation benefit function determines whether one agent's conservation crowds in/out conservation by the other agent....

An in-class game can be used to improve students' understanding of how a TDP program might work. There are, however, tradeoffs one must face in designing such a game. An exercise might, in theory, demonstrate all the nuances of a TDP program and yet be so complex that students learn little from...

Urgent calls for actions to slow climate change have stimulated new interest in actions to harness the potential for carbon sequestration on agricultural lands. The private sector has established corporate goals for reducing contributions to climate change and there has been much decentralized...

A quarter of all species around the globe are threatened with extinction; this article reviews research in economics on how best to counter those threats. Normative research has developed useful tools for cost-effectively choosing areas of habitat to protect. Such work has also designed...