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Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee

Allen Blackman, Heidi Albers, Beatriz Sartorio and Lisa Crooks

Meta Analysis in Model Implementation: Choice Sets and the Valuation of Air Quality Improvements

V. Smith and Spencer Banzhaf

How Local Governments Structure Contracts with Private Firms: Economic Theory and Evidence on Solid Waste and Recycling Contracts

Margaret Walls

Implementing the Efficient Auction: Initial Results from the Lab

Jason Shogren and Michael Margolis

The Economic and Policy Setting of Renewable Energy: Where Do Things Stand?

Joel Darmstadter

Scarcity and Growth in the New Millennium: Summary

Michael Toman, R. David Simpson and Robert Ayres

Emissions Pricing, Spillovers, and Public Investment in Environmentally Friendly Technologies

Carolyn Fischer

Safe Minimum Standards in Dynamic Resource Problems—Conditions for Living on the Edge of Risk

Michael Margolis and Eric Nævdal

Evaluating Regulatory Impact Analyses

Richard Morgenstern and Winston Harrington

Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation

Carolyn Fischer and Richard Newell

Bang for the Buck: Cost-Effective Control of Invasive Species with Different Life Histories

Michael Margolis, Eric Buhle and Jennifer Ruesink

How Trade Politics Affect Invasive Species Control

Michael Margolis and Jason Shogren

Monopoly Extraction of an Exhaustible Resource with Two Markets

Carolyn Fischer and Ramanan Laxminarayan

Habitat Benefit Assessment and Decisionmaking: A Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service

James Boyd, James Sanchirico and Leonard Shabman

Transgenic Trees: Implementation and Outcomes of the Plant Protection Act

Roger Sedjo

Who Pays for Energy Efficiency Standards?

Carolyn Fischer

Introduction to the Political Economy of Environmental Regulations

Robert Stavins

Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: Does Latency Matter?

Alan Krupnick, Anna Alberini, Nathalie Simon and Maureen Cooper

Are Absolute Emissions Better for Modeling? It's All Relative

Carolyn Fischer

Economies of Scale and Technical Efficiency in Community Water Systems

William Pizer, Winston Harrington, Jhih-Shyang Shih and Kenneth Gillingham

Emissions Trading to Improve Air Quality in an Industrial City in the People's Republic of China

Alan Krupnick, Ruth Bell, Richard Morgenstern, Robert Anderson, Piya Abegunawardena, Jeremy Schreifels, Cao Dong, Wang Jinan, Wang Jitian and Steiner Larsen

Model, Model on the Screen, What's the Cost of Going Green?

Hadi Dowlatabadi, David Boyd and Jamie MacDonald

Retrospective Examination of Demand-side Energy-efficiency Policies

Karen Palmer, Richard Newell and Kenneth Gillingham

Incentive-Based Land Use Policies and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay

Margaret Walls and Virginia McConnell

A Herculean Task? Economics, Politics, and Realigning Government in the Case of U.S. Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellites

Molly Macauley

Climate Policy in the United States and Japan: A Workshop Summary

William Pizer and Kentaro Tamura

A Social Scientist's Perspective on the Potential Benefits of the Census of Marine Life

James Sanchirico

The EU Emissions Trading Directive: Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls

William Pizer and Joseph Kruger

Source-Receptor Relationships for Ozone and Fine Particulates in the Eastern United States

Alan Krupnick, Jhih-Shyang Shih, S. Bergin and Armistead Russell

Fiscal Interactions and the Costs of Controlling Pollution from Electricity

Ian Parry

Can an Effective Global Climate Treaty Be Based on Sound Science, Rational Economics, and Pragmatic Politics?

Robert Stavins

Environmental Law and Public Policy

Robert Stavins and Richard Revesz

Project-Based Mechanisms for Emissions Reductions: Balancing Trade-offs with Baselines

Carolyn Fischer

Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?

Shakeb Afsah, Thomas Sterner and Jorge López

Global Compensation for Oil Pollution Damages: The Innovations of the American Oil Pollution Act

James Boyd

Output-Based Allocations of Emissions Permits: Efficiency and Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Setting with Taxes and Trade

Carolyn Fischer and Alan Fox

A Tale of Two Market Failures: Technology and Environmental Policy

Robert Stavins, Adam Jaffe and Richard Newell

Near-Term Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets

Raymond Kopp

Telecommuting and Emissions Reductions: Evaluating Results from the ecommute Program

Margaret Walls and Per-Kristian Nelson

What Have We Learned from a Recent Survey of Teleworkers? Evaluating the 2002 SCAG Survey

Margaret Walls and Elena Safirova

A Review of the Literature on Telecommuting and Its Implications for Vehicle Travel and Emissions

Margaret Walls and Elena Safirova

Emissions Trading with Telecommuting Credits: Regulatory Background and Institutional Barriers

Per-Kristian Nelson

The Brownfields Phenomenon: Much Ado about Something or the Timing of the Shrewd?

Kris Wernstedt, Anna Alberini, Lauren Heberle and Peter Meyer

Past, Present, and Future of Wetlands Credit Sales

Leonard Shabman and Paul Scodari

Should Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards Be Tightened?

Ian Parry, Carolyn Fischer and Winston Harrington

Environmental Economics

Robert Stavins

Cost-Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Policies

Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer

The Case for Intensity Targets

William Pizer

Companies and Regulators in Emissions Trading Programs

Joseph Kruger

Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks

Robert Stavins, Andrew Plantinga and Ruben Lubowski