Although widely studied, deforestation remains a common research topic. The relationship
between economic development and deforestation is still in question. This paper presents a …

There have been significant improvements over the past four decades in our ability to
estimate the economic value of environmental amenities and disamenities. The …

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority
neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health …

Using data from Pennsylvania and an array of empirical techniques to control for
confounding factors, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from nearby …

Motivated by the 2006 report of a Work Group appointed by the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), this paper examines the present state of meta-analysis in environmental …

This chapter provides an introduction to Travel Cost Models used to estimate recreation
demand and value recreational uses of the environment such as fishing, rock climbing …

Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Program awards grants to
redevelop contaminated lands known as brownfields. This paper estimates cleanup benefits …

Economists often rely on publicly available data provided at coarse geographical resolution
to value spatially localized amenities. We propose a simple refinement to the hedonic …

We test for residential sorting and changes in neighborhood characteristics in response to
the cleanup of hazardous waste sites using restricted access fine-geographical-resolution …

In this study, we present an indexing scheme to screen large numbers of brownfield sites in
wide areas (municipalities, counties, states or other types of districts) in order to develop …