Publications
) UK National Ecosystem Assessment Follow-on. Work Package Report 3: Economic value of ecosystem services
Bateman, I., Day, B., Agarwala, M., Bacon, P., Bad’ura, T., Binner, A., De-Gol, A., Ditchburn, B., Dugdale, S., Emmett, B., Ferrini,S., Carlo Fezzi, C., Harwood, A., Hillier, J., Hiscock, K., … read more »
The Economics of Climate Change: Alternative Approaches
Agarwala, M. and A. Kubursi. (2012). In Impact of Climate Change on Water Cycle and Health, edited by Velma I. Grover. Enfield, NH USA: Science Publishers.
Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes
We determine the effects of various management restrictions on adoption rates of marine PES schemes. Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation … read more »
Regulatory responses to scientific uncertainty and nanotechnology
Reference Porter, R.D., Breggin, L., Falkner, R., Pendergrass, J., and Jaspers, N. 2012. Regulatory responses to scientific uncertainty and nanotechnology. The Nanotechnology Challenge: creating law and legal institutions for uncertain risks … read more »
Are national economies (virtually) sustainable?: an empirical analysis of natural assets in international trade
Atkinson, G., Agarwala, M., and P. Muñoz. (2012). In Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 Measuring progress toward sustainability, eds. Partha Dasgupta, Anantha Duraiappah and Pablo Muñoz. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. … read more »
Improving cost-efficiency of conservation auctions with joint bidding
Most current models of conservation auctions are incompatible with the assessment that there are environmental externalities and synergies between bidders. Yet, conservation auctions are usually set up for the … read more »
Sustainability in the tropics: does a boom in deforestation lead to a bust in development?
We revisit the hypothesis tested in Rodrigues et al (2009) that the process of human development in Amazonia follows a boom-and-bust (inverted U) pattern. We show … read more »
Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring ‘permanence’ in carbon sequestration’
Opportunistic behaviour due to imperfect contract enforcement is a risk in many economic transactions. In this paper, an enforcement-proof incentive contract is developed in which a buyer demands a … read more »
The political economy of deforestation in the tropics
Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world’s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the … read more »
Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil
The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use, or indirectly, via the displacement … read more »
