Join us on Thursday for the Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and
Environmental Policy Forum, March 8, 2012, at 3.30 pm in the Toyota
Auditorium in the Baker Center.
Alex Pfaff, from Duke University will give a 45 minute presentation and then
lead a discussion with participants. His talk is titled:
“Avoided Amazonian Deforestation and Policy Design”
Description: We examine how protection type, specifically variation in
permission for local livelihoods, interacts with protection location so different
types have different impacts on deforestation. We study 2000-2004 and 2004-
2008 deforestation for Acre State, in the Brazilian Amazon, using matching to
improve baselines. This control for site features lowers estimates by half.
Sustainable-use areas avoid more clearing, despite the most clearing inside
their boundaries. One reason is that on average other protection types are
located further from deforestation, for instance further from roads and further
from cities, implying little pressure to be blocked.
Alex Pfaff is is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Environment
and an environmental and natural resource economist focused upon how
economic development and the environment & natural resources affect each
other. His research examines: impacts on deforestation of roads, protected
areas and ecopayments (Brazil's Amazon, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico and
US); influences on harmful exposures (stove emissions in China and Pakistan,
drinking arsenic in Bangladesh); responses to climate and water shocks in
production and bargaining under water policies (Brazil's NE and Colombia); and
how U.S. regulators might shift the incentives for firms to audit and provide
information. This applied research aims to raise the chance that interventions
have their intended impacts upon the environment and natural resources while
benefiting all the people and groups they are designed to help.
The Baker Center discussion forum is an opportunity for academics to share
their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers, and students
from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in
environmental and energy issues. For more information about the Baker Center
Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy visit the forum’s
website: http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html.
Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion and
presentation.
Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences
Jacob LaRiviere, College of Business Administration
Becky Jacobs, College of Law
Chris Clark, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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