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Research
Seeing the Forest for More Than the Trees: A Policy Strategy to Curb Deforestation and Advance Shared Prosperity in the Colombian Amazon
Does economic prosperity in the Colombian Amazon require sacrificing the forest?
Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies
Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway.
Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics
This article describes some of the challenges of effective governance for sustainability at the subnational level of government.
How Regressive are Mobility-Related User Fees and Gasoline Taxes?
Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation infrastructure, but these policies may place burdens on poorer households.
Let the WTO Referee Carbon Border Taxes
Efforts to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions must overcome the free-rider problem, and carbon border adjustment measures are the most effective way to level the playing field.
Analytical models for the design of photophoretically levitating macroscopic sensors in the stratosphere
Photophoretic forces could levitate thin 10 centimeter-scale structures in Earth's stratosphere indefinitely.
Ultralight and ultra-stiff nano-cardboard panels: mechanical analysis, characterization, and design principles
We introduce a class of ultra-light and ultra-stiff sandwich panels designed for use in photophoretic levitation applications and investigate their mechanical behavior using both computational analyse
Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2
The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) measures the monetized value of the damages to society caused by an incremental metric tonne of CO2 emissions and is a key metric informing climate policy.
How Is the US Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?
Economists have for decades recommended that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases be taxed—or otherwise priced—to provide incentives for their reduction.
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