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Impacts of Policy Measures on the Development of State-Owned Forests in Northeastern China: Theoretical Results and Empirical Evidence

Xuemei Jiang, Peichen Gong, Goran Bostedt and Jintao Xu

Ecosystem Services: Quantification, Policy Applications, and Current Federal Capabilities

Lynn Scarlett and James Boyd

What Do Respondents Bring to Contingent Valuation? A Comparison of Monetary and Labor Payment Vehicles

Godwin Kofi Vondolia, Håkan Eggert, Stale Navrud and Jesper Stage

Redistributional Effects of the National Flood Insurance Program

Okmyung Bin, John A. Bishop and Carolyn Kousky

Private Trees as Household Assets and Determinants of Tree-Growing Behavior in Rural Ethiopia

Alemu Mekonnen and Abebe Damte

Carbon Neutrality and Bioenergy: A Zero-Sum Game?

Roger Sedjo

On the Economic Analysis of Regulations at Independent Regulatory Commissions: Would Greater Use of Economic Analysis Improve Regulatory Policy at Independent Regulatory Commissions?

Arthur Fraas and Randall Lutter

Health Impacts of Power-Exporting Plants in Northern Mexico

Allen Blackman, Santosh Chandru, Alberto Mendoza-Dominguez and A.G. Russell

Heavy-Tailed Distributions: Data, Diagnostics, and New Developments

Roger Cooke and Daan Nieboer

Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives: An Application to Mauritius

Ian Parry

Prizes, Patents, and Technology Procurement: A Proposed Analytical Framework

Timothy Brennan, Molly Macauley and Kate Whitefoot

Ecosystem Good and Service Co-Effects of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration: Implications for the U.S. Geological Survey’s LandCarbon Methodology

James Boyd and David S. Brookshire

A Proposal for a Consultative Group for Low Emissions Development

Abigail Jones, Christian Downie and Nigel Purvis

The Fossil Endgame: Strategic Oil Price Discrimination and Carbon Taxation

Jiegen Wie, Magnus Wennlock, Daniel J.A. Johansson and Thomas Sterner

Energy Efficiency Policy: Surveying the Puzzles

Timothy Brennan

A Whole-of-Government Approach to Reducing Tropical Deforestation

Michael Wolosin, Anne Riddle and Daniel Morris

Prevailing Academic View on Compliance Flexibility under § 111 of the Clean Air Act

Gregory E. Wannier, Jason A. Schwartz, Nathan Richardson, Michael A. Livermore, Michael B. Gerrard and Dallas Burtraw

Retail Electricity Price Savings from Compliance Flexibility in GHG Standards for Stationary Sources

Dallas Burtraw, Anthony Paul and Matt Woerman

The Benefits of Achieving the Chesapeake Bay TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads): A Scoping Study

Maureen Cropper and William Isaac

Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets

Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls and Elena Safirova

Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy Design: Size Matters

Christoph Böhringer, Carolyn Fischer and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Modeling a Clean Energy Standard for Electricity: Policy Design Implications for Emissions, Supply, Prices, and Regions

Anthony Paul, Karen Palmer and Matt Woerman

A Comment on “Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right” by Muller and Mendelsohn

Art Fraas and Randall Lutter

Fuel Prices and New Vehicle Fuel Economy in Europe

Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn

Discounting and Relative Consumption

Olof Johansson-Stenman and Thomas Sterner

Does Eco-Certification Boost Regulatory Compliance in Developing Countries? ISO 14001 in Mexico

Allen Blackman

Output-Based Allocation of Emissions Permits for Mitigating the Leakage and Competitiveness Issues for the Japanese Economy

Shiro Takeda, Toshi Arimura, Hanae Tamechika, Carolyn Fischer and Alan Fox

Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action

Georgiy Bobashev, Maureen Cropper, Joshua Epstein, Michael Goedecke, Stephen Hutton and A. Over

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Information Gap: Results from a Survey of Home Energy Auditors

Karen Palmer, Margaret Walls, Hal Gordon and Todd Gerarden

Strategic Release of News at the EPA

Lucija Muehlenbachs, Elisabeth Newcomb Sinha and Nitish Ranjan Sinha

Deposit-Refund Systems in Practice and Theory

Margaret Walls

Playing without Aces: Offsets and the Limits of Flexibility under Clean Air Act Climate Policy

Nathan Richardson

Conservation Return on Investment Analysis: A Review of Results, Methods, and New Directions

James Boyd, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell and Juha Siikamäki

Coping with Fuelwood Scarcity: Household Responses in Rural Ethiopia

Abebe Damte, Steven Koch and Alemu Mekonnen

Improving Fuel Economy in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Winston Harrington and Alan Krupnick

Plot and Household-Level Determinants of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania

Menale Kassie, Moti Jaleta, Bekele Shiferaw, Frank Mmbando and Geoffrey Muricho

A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package

Joseph Aldy

The Role of Incentives for Sustainable Implementation of Marine Protected Areas: An Example from Tanzania

Elizabeth Robinson, Heidi Albers and Stephen L. Kirama

Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World

William Shobe and Dallas Burtraw

Tradable Standards for Clean Air Act Carbon Policy

Dallas Burtraw, Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson

Voluntary Environmental Agreements in Developing Countries: The Colombian Experience

Allen Blackman, Eduardo Uribe, Bart van Hoof and Thomas Lyon

Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improved Urban Waste Management in Mekelle City, Ethiopia

Dagnew Hagos, Alemu Mekonnen and Zenebe Gebreegziabher

Insiders, Outsiders, and the Role of Local Enforcement in Forest Management: An Example from Tanzania

Elizabeth Robinson, Heidi Albers, Razack Lokina and Guyslain Ngeleza

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Land Use: Comparing Three Federal Policies

Margaret Walls and Anne Riddle

Nudging Boserup? The Impact of Fertilizer Subsidies on Investment in Soil and Water Conservation

Godwin Kofi Vondolia, Håkan Eggert and Jesper Stage

The Potential Role of Carbon Labeling in a Green Economy

Mark Cohen and Michael P. Vandenbergh

Contract Duration under Incomplete Land Ownership Rights: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Abebe D. Beyene, Mintewab Bezabih and Zenebe Gebreegziabher

Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Economics and Policy

Timothy Brennan and Karen Palmer

The Valuation of Biodiversity Conservation by the South African Khomani San “Bushmen†Community

Johane Dikgang and Edwin Muchapondwa

Putting a Floor on Energy Savings: Comparing State Energy Efficiency Resource Standards

Karen Palmer, Samuel Grausz, Blair Beasley and Tim Brennan