Land use policy

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• "Agricultural Subsidies: Cutting into Forest Conservation?" with Fanny Moffette. Environment and Development Economics, accepted 2023.

  • Final submitted manuscript

• "Overlapping land rights and deforestation in Uganda: 20 years of evidence" with Sarah Walker, Anne Bartlett, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Hannah Friedrick, Paulo Murrillo-Sandoval, and Rosemary Isoto. Global Environmental Change, vol. 82, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102701 .

• "The Impact of Near Real Time Deforestation Alerts Across the Tropics" with Fanny Moffette, Katherine Shea, and Amy Pickens, Nature Climate Change, 04 January 2021: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00956-w 

  • • • Data and code here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4054099 

• "Using referenda to improve targeting and decrease costs of environmental conditional cash transfers" with Katharine Sims and Daniel Phaneuf,  Journal of Public Economics, 176: 179-194, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.06.001

  • • • Final submitted manuscript 

• “Can Environmental Cash Transfers Reduce Deforestation and Improve Social Outcomes? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Mexico’s National Program (2011-2014) ”  with Katharine Sims, Victor Hugo Orozco-Olvera, Laura Costica, Jorge David Fernandez Medina, Sofia Romo Monroy, Stefano Pagiola, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8707, January 2019

  • • • Direct access to the paper

• "Payments for environmental services supported social capital while increasing land management" with Katharine R.E. Sims, Victor H. Orozco-Olvera, Laura E. Costica, Jorge David Fernandez Medina, and Sofia Romo Monroy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, published ahead of print June 14, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720873115

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      • Data

• “Avoided deforestation linked to environmental registration in the Brazilian Amazon” with Lisa Rausch, Jessica L’Roe, Holly Gibbs, and Jacob Munger, Conservation Letters, 11(3),  2017,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12414 

• “Forest conservation effects of Brazil’s zero deforestation agreements undermined by leakage” with Holly Gibbs, Global Environmental Change, 47: 201-217, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.08.009

• “Parks vs. PES: Evaluating Direct and Incentive-Based Land Conservation in Mexico” with Katharine Sims, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 86, 8-28, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2016.11.010, 

•  “Only One Tree from Each Seed ? Environmental effectiveness and poverty alleviation in programs of payments for ecosystem services”, with Katharine Sims and Patricia Yanez-Pagans, American Economic Journal – Economic Policy, 7(4): 1-40, 2015 http://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20130139

•  “Improving Environmental and Social Targeting through Adaptive Management in Mexico’s Payments for Hydrological Services Program”, with Katharine Sims, Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Leah Fine, Volker Radeloff, Glen Aronson, Selene Castillo, Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, and Patricia Yanez-Pagans, Conservation Biology 28 (5): 1151-1159, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12318

• “Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests” with Hendrik Wolff, Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 5: 2014  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100913-012524

• “Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program” with Elizabeth Shapiro and Katharine Sims, Land Economics 88(4): 613-638, 2012 https://doi.org/10.3368/le.88.4.613 

•  “The role of deforestation risk and calibrated compensation in designing payments for environmental services” with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet,  Environment and Development Economics 13: 375-394, 2008 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X08004336 

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “The Role of Risk in Targeting Payments for Environmental Services” in Avoided Deforestation eds. Charles Palmer and Stephanie Engel, 2008

• “Lessons Learned from Mexico’s Payment for Environmental Services Program” with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Juan Manuel Torres in Managing Environmental Services in Agricultural Landscapes eds David Zilberman, Randy Stringer, Leslie Lipper, and Takumi Sakuyama, Springer Press, 2008

REPORTS

• “Evaluation of CONAFOR’s Payments for Hydrological Services Program, 2003-2010,” with Katharine Sims, Glen Aronson, Volker Radeloff, Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, Elizabeth Shapiro, and Patricia Yanez-Pagans. Policy report for the Mexican National Forestry Commission, November, 2012.

• “Impact of Payments for Ecosystem Services on Deforestation in Mexico: Preliminary Lessons for REDD”, with Katharine Sims and Elizabeth Shapiro, Land Tenure Center Brief number 11, 2010 In Spanish.

• “An Assessment of Mexico’s Payment for Environmental Services Program” with Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Juan-Manuel Torres-Rojo A Report for the Food and Agriculture Organization, 2006