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Response diversity as a sustainability strategy
Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem function amid environmental...
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Open AccessInferring Economic Impacts from a Program’s Physical Outcomes: An Application to Forest Protection in Thailand
Economists typically estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) when evaluating government programs. The economic interpretation of the ATT can be ambiguous when program outcomes are measured i...
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Valuing Water Purification by Forests: An Analysis of Malaysian Panel Data
Water purification might be the most frequently invoked example of an economically valuable ecosystem service, yet the impacts of upstream land use on downstream municipal water treatment costs remain poorly u...
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Erratum to: Impact Evaluation of Forest Conservation Programs: Benefit-Cost Analysis, Without the Economics
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Impact Evaluation of Forest Conservation Programs: Benefit-Cost Analysis, Without the Economics
Economists are increasingly using impact evaluation methods to measure the effectiveness of forest conservation programs. Theoretical analysis of two complementary economic models demonstrates that the average...
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Econometric Evidence on Forest Ecosystem Services: Deforestation and Flooding in Malaysia
Governments around the world are increasingly invoking hydrological services, such as flood mitigation and water purification, as a justification for forest conservation programs in upstream areas. Yet, rigoro...
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Climate change, the monsoon, and rice yield in India
Recent research indicates that monsoon rainfall became less frequent but more intense in India during the latter half of the Twentieth Century, thus increasing the risk of drought and flood damage to the count...
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Potential Economic Benefit of Cleft Lip and Palate Repair in Sub-Saharan Africa
Acceptance of basic surgical care as an essential element of any properly functioning health system is growing. To justify investment in surgical interventions, donors require estimates of the economic benefit...
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Governance and Timber Harvests
Resource economics theory implies that risks associated with weak governance have an ambiguous impact on extraction, with the net impact depending on the relative strengths of depletion and investment effects....
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Spatial distribution of species populations, relative economic values, and the optimal size and number of reserves
We examine the tradeoff between the number and average size of nature reserves. When the costs of enforcing reserve boundaries are negligible, we find analytically that the relative price of biodiversity has a...
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Spatial dynamics, social norms, and the opportunity of the commons
The most important message of Levin (Ecol Res 21:328–333, 2006) is that “Ecologists and economists have much incentive for interaction.” Recent studies that account for evolutionary processes and local interac...
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Nonlinearities, Biodiversity Conservation, and Sustainable Forest Management
There are two broad approaches for jointly producing timber and conserving biodiversity in forests: segregated management, in which timber production is emphasized in some parts of the forest and biodiversity ...
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Timber Trade and Environment
This article is concerned with environmental-trade linkages in the global forest products sector, in particular the role of trade in influencing sustainable forest management. The latter term has been interpreted...
