The soil carbon pool plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. One of the
alternatives suggested for addressing climate change (McKinsey and Company, 2009) is the …

Protecting forests provides potential synergies for both biodiversity conservation and climate
change mitigation. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes are commonly used to …

We experimentally compare the performance of two multi-type environmental credit trading
markets. The first trading market is called the multiple market (MM) institution, which allows …

Soil scientists unanimously agree there are agronomic and environmental benefits
associated with rebuilding soil organic carbon in agricultural soils (Bradford et al., 2019) …

High transaction costs and thin participation plague water quality trading and prevent
markets from delivering expected efficiency gains. Little prior work explores the relationship …

This paper explores potential land-sector policies and practices that could help meet New
Zealand's 2030 Paris Agreement target of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 30 …

Water use in the western United States remains highly concentrated in irrigated agriculture,
in part because the “first in time, first in right” tenets of appropriative water law have insulated …

Recent evidence suggests that exposure to air pollution adversely impacts health outcomes,
cognitive function, and labor productivity, however, less is known about the effect of air …

This thesis examines how markets for biodiversity can make economic development
compatible with nature conservation by providing economic incentives for conserving …

Cap-and-trade policies can establish ecosystem service markets. We explore the
implications when landowners simultaneously produce and trade credits of local impact …