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| Managing Water through Innovative Collaboration |
| Resources magazine: RFF Visiting Scholar Lynn Scarlett explains how network governance can address cross-jurisdictional water management issues in the United States. |
| Using Transferable Development Rights to Control Land Use |
| RFF’s Margaret Walls describes the virtues, and the pitfalls, of market-based programs for land conservation and discusses the lessons learned from three decades of a Maryland program. |
| High-Speed Rail Passions |
| Resources magazine: Will California’s proposed train system linking San Francisco and Los Angeles set the course for high-speed rail development across the country? RFF Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter investigates. |
| Resources 2020 with Thomas C. Schelling |
| Video now available for "Geoengineering: Time for Some Gentle Experimentation" with Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. |
| Clean Air Regulations and the Electricity Sector |
| Resources magazine: RFF experts weigh the potential effects of historic air pollution regulations compared to those of cheap natural gas and falling demand on electricity prices and the generation mix. |
| The Coming US Carbon Market: Planning for Ex Post Analysis |
| RFF experts have developed several background memos on cap-and-trade and carbon tax systems to provide informative overviews and highlight current work, available data, and potential research limitations. |
| Does Speculation Drive Oil Prices? |
| Resources magazine: Research on the forces behind the 2004–2008 dramatic spike in oil price challenges the common perception that excessive speculation in the futures market is to blame. |
| US Energy Policy: A Changing Landscape |
| As Congress gears up to overhaul the tax code, RFF President Phil Sharp examines developments reshaping today’s energy markets and assesses whether federal incentives are cost-effectively achieving the intended results. |
| Protecting Coastal Environments to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
| Preventing the release of “blue carbon” stored in mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marshes may be an effective way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. A new RFF report details the possibilities. |
| Have Questions About a Carbon Tax? |
| You can find answers at RFF's carbon tax FAQs, developed by the Center for Climate and Electricity Policy. |
| Resources 2020 with Kenneth J. Arrow |
| 1972 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences Kenneth J. Arrow delivered the second in a series of lectures celebrating RFF's 60th anniversary. Archived video of the event is now available. |
| Does Eco-Certification Pay? Costa Rica’s Blue Flag Program |
| RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman and his colleagues present some of the first evidence that eco-certification programs in developing countries can have positive impacts for both the economy and environment. |
| The Hidden Costs of Power: Health Effects of Coal Electricity Generation in India |
| Resources magazine: Emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from coal-fired power plants are costing Indians their lives. How stringently should these pollutants be regulated, and what form should regulations take? |
| Forest Tenure Reform in China |
| Resources magazine: To boost domestic forest production and correct rural–urban income disparity, China is putting forest management rights into the hands of its citizens. |
| Beyond CO2: The Other Agents of Influence |
| Resources magazine: Cutting emissions of soot and methane—two short-term contributors to climate change—would slow warming while improving human health and food security. |
| US Status on Climate Change Mitigation |
| The United States is on course to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 16.3 percent from 2005 levels in 2020—despite a lack of comprehensive climate legislation. RFF Senior Fellow Dallas Burtraw and coauthor Matthew Woerman examine the factors contributing to this outcome. |
| Managing Rural Water Systems: Keys to Success |
| Resources magzine: A study of village drinking water associations in Costa Rica reveals why some communities are effective at providing safe drinking water, while others fail. |
| Connecting Environmental Economics and Policy in Developing Countries |
| Resources magazine: Environment for Development (EfD) initiative Director Gunnar Köhlin talks about EfD’s achievements as it marks its fifth year and its goals for more policy-relevant environmental economics research in developing countries. |
| Eco-certification in Developing Countries: Truth in Advertising? |
| Resources magazine: RFF Senior Fellow Allen Blackman documents the surprising lack of hard evidence that eco-certification benefits the environment and describes some of the first rigorous studies showing that it can.
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| Tax Incentives for Developing Sewage Treatment Capacity in China |
| RFF’s Anthony Liu and coauthor Junjie Zhang examine the uneven development of sewage treatment plants throughout China and explore the relationship between tax incentives and investments in such infrastructure. |
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