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 | | Allen Blackman | | Senior Fellow | |
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PROFILE |
An expert on environmental and natural resource policy in developing countries, Allen Blackman focuses principally on industrial pollution control and tropical deforestation in Latin America and Asia. Much of his research evaluates environmental management strategies that aim to overcome barriers to conventional regulation in developing countries, including weak institutions and missing infrastructure. He coordinates RFF's participation in the Environment for Development (EfD) initiative and is a research fellow at the EfD Center for Central America.
Blackman's work on industrial pollution control analyzes public disclosure programs, economic incentive instruments, and voluntary regulation. He has also studied the adoption and diffusion of clean and climate-friendly technologies. His research on tropical deforestation assesses agroforestry systems and conservation policies such as protected areas and payments for environmental services initiatives. He also has worked extensively on U.S. environmental regulatory reform, including voluntary programs and mortgage innovations designed to affect land use.
Past work has examined conservation policies in Mexico and Costa Rica, air pollution issues along the U.S.–Mexico border, voluntary regulation in Mexico and Colombia, and voluntary efforts to clean up brownfield properties in the United States.
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| Featured Publications | | Does Ecocertification Have Environmental Benefits? Organic Coffee in Costa Rica | | A. Blackman and M. Naranjo | | Ecological Economics | forthcoming | | | | Resources Magazine: 180 | | Edward B. Barbier, Allen Blackman, Maureen L. Cropper, Róger Madrigal, David Popp, Drew Shindell, Juha V. Siikamäki, Thomas Sterner, Jintao Xu, Phil Sharp | | Resources | 2012 (180) | | | | Does Ecocertification in Developing Countries Boost Compliance? ISO 14001 Certification in Mexico. | | Allen Blackman | | Journal of Regulatory Economics | Related Discussion Paper 11-39 | | | | Ex Post Evaluation of Forest Conservation Policies Using Remote Sensing Data: An Introduction and Practical Guide | | Allen Blackman | | RFF Discussion Paper 12-13 | March 2012 | | | | Land Cover Change in Agroforestry: Shade Coffee in El Salvador | | A. Blackman, B. Ávalos-Sartorio, and J. Chow | | Land Economics | February 2012 | 88(1) | pp. 75-101 | | | | Producer-level Benefits of Sustainability Certification | | A. Blackman and J. Rivera | | Conservation Biology | December 2011 | Vol. 25, No. 6 | pp. 1176-1185 | | | | Does Public Disclosure Reduce Pollution? Evidence from India’s Pulp and Paper Industry | | N. Powers, A. Blackman, U. Narain, and T. Lyon | | Environmental and Resource Economics | September 2011 | Vol. 50, No. 1 | pp. 131-155 | | | | User-Financing in a National Payments for Environmental Services Program: Costa Rican Hydropower. | | A. Blackman and R. Woodward | | Ecological Economics | 1626-1638 | forthcoming | 69(8) | Related Discussion Paper 09-04-REV | | | | Alternative Pollution Control Policies in Developing Countries. | | Allen Blackman | | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. | 4(2) | 234-253 | Related Discussion Paper EfD 09-14 | | | | Voluntary Regulation in Developing Countries: Mexico’s Clean Industry Program. | | A. Blackman, B. Lahiri, B. Pizer, M. Rivera Planter, and C. Muñoz Piña. | | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 60(3) | 182-192 | Related Discussion Paper 07-36-REV | | | | View All Related Publications |
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REPORTS | | Voluntary Environmental Agreements in Developing Countries: The Colombian Experience | | Allen Blackman, Eduardo Uribe, Bart van Hoof, Thomas P. Lyon | | RFF Report | June 2009 | | | | | Pérdida de los Bosques en las Áreas de Cultivo del Café de Sombra en El Salvador | | Allen Blackman, Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio, Jeffrey Chow, Francisco Aguilar | | RFF Report | August 2006 | | | | | Review of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Colombia's Environmental Policies | | Allen Blackman, Richard D. Morgenstern, Libardo Montealegre Murcia, Juan Carlos Garcia de Brigard | | RFF Report | August 2006 | | | | | Tree Cover Loss in El Salvador's Shade Coffee Areas | | Allen Blackman, Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio, Jeffrey Chow, Francisco Aguilar | | RFF Report | July 2006 | | | | | Institutional Analysis of Colombia's Autonomous Regional Corporations (CARs) | | Allen Blackman, Richard D. Morgenstern, Elizabeth Topping | | RFF Report | June 2006 | | | | | Assessment of Colombia's National Environmental System (SINA) | | Allen Blackman, Sandra A. Hoffmann, Richard D. Morgenstern, Elizabeth Topping | | RFF Report | October 2005 | | | | | Assessment of Colombia's National Environmental System (SINA) | | Allen Blackman, Sandra Hoffmann, Richard Morgenstern, and Elizabeth Topping | | World Bank | May 2004 | Related RFF Report | | | | | Institutional Analysis of Colombia's Autonomous Regional Corporations (CARs) | | Allen Blackman, Richard Morgenstern, and E. Topping | | World Bank | 2004 | | | | | The Economics of Tailored Regulation and the Implications for Project XL | | Allen Blackman, James W. Boyd, Alan J. Krupnick, Janice Mazurek | | RFF Report | May 2001 | | | | | Tire Piles as an Environmental and Health Hazard on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Preliminary Assessment Focusing on Paso Del Norte | | Allen Blackman, Alan Krupnick, and Alejandra Palma | | Applied Sciences Laboratory, Inc. | 2001 | | | | | The Economics of Tailored Regulation and the Implications for Project XL | | Allen Blackman | | National Science Foundation (NSF)/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | December 2000, | | | | | Environmentally-Friendly Technological Change Among Mexico's Traditional Brickmakers: A Final Narrative Report to the Tinker Foundation | | Allen Blackman | | RFF Report | February 1999 | | | | | Final Project Report: Understanding Differences in the Diffusion of Environmentally Beneficial Technology | | Allen Blackman, James Boyd, R. David Simpson, and Michael A. Toman | | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) | 1996 | | | | | Less Developed Countries' Performance in High Value Agricultural Trade | | M. Burfisher, M. Missian and Allen Blackman | | U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) Staff Report No. AGES 9118 | 1990 | | | | |
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| RELATED SUBTOPICS | | Agricultural Land Use, Biodiversity, Central America, Coffee, Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Forest Carbon, Forest Conservation, Incentives, Information Disclosure, Mexico, Satellites, South America, Sustainable Development, Voluntary Programs |
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