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PROFILE | Margaret Walls's current research focuses on issues related to urban land use, ecosystem services, parks, and energy efficiency. She has analyzed transferable development rights programs for managing land use in urban fringe areas, assessed the value of different types of parks and open space, and investigated energy efficiency issues in buildings. In 2008-2009, she was the study director for the Outdoor Resources Review Group (see www.rff.org/orrg). In 2010, Walls became the first appointee to the Thomas J. Klutznick Chair at RFF.
Walls has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Economic Literature, among others.
Walls was a fellow at RFF from 1987 to 1996. She then spent nearly five years in New Zealand as an associate professor of economics at Victoria University of Wellington. Walls rejoined RFF in November 2000.
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| Featured Publications | | Dedicated Funds for Parks: Designing the Right Approach | | Margaret Walls | | Parks and Recreation magazine | March 2013 | | | | Strategically Placing Green Infrastructure: Cost-Effective Land Conservation in the Floodplain | | Kousky, C., S. M. Olmstead, M. A. Walls, and M. Macauley | | Environmental Science & Technology | DOI: 10.1021/es303938c | | | | Borrowing to Save Energy: An Assessment of Energy-Efficiency Financing Programs | | Karen L. Palmer, Margaret A. Walls, Todd Gerarden | | RFF Report | April 2012 | | | | Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls, and Elena Safirova | | Regional Science and Urban Economics | January 2012 | 42 | pp 198-210 | | | | The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Precipitation and Flooding: A Case Study in Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River Basin | | Carolyn Kousky, Sheila M. Olmstead, Margaret A. Walls, Adam Stern, Molly K. Macauley | | RFF Report | November 2011 | | | | An Agent-Based Model of Coupled Housing and Land Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Elena Safirova, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls | | Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems | May 2011 | Vol. 35, No.3 | pp. 183-191 | | | | Connecting Americans to the Great Outdoors | | Margaret A. Walls, Juha V. Siikamäki | | Resources | Summer 2010 (175) | | | | Climate Policy’s Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade | | Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw, Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-12-REV | March 2010 | | Related journal article | | | | The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenue from a Cap-and-Trade Auction | | Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney, and Margaret Walls | | National Tax Journal | September 2009 | Vol. 62 | 497-518 | Related Discussion Paper 09-17-REV | | | | The State of the Great Outdoors: America's Parks, Public Lands, and Recreation Resources | | Margaret A. Walls, Sarah R Darley, Juha V. Siikamäki | | RFF Report | September 2009 | | | | Policy Monitor: U.S. Experience with Transferable Development Rights | | Virginia McConnell and Margaret Walls | | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | June 2009 | Vol 3, no. 2 | 288-303 | | | | The Tradeoff between Private Lots and Public Open Space in Subdivisions at the Urban-Rural Fringe | | Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls | | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2007 | Vol. 89, No.5 | pp. 1191-1197 | Related Discussion Paper 07-33 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS | | Dedicated Funds for Parks: Designing the Right Approach | | Margaret Walls | | Parks and Recreation magazine | March 2013 | | | | | Goings On | | Joseph E. Stiglitz, Alan J. Krupnick, Carolyn Fischer, Randall Lutter, Margaret A. Walls, Dallas Burtraw, Sheila M. Olmstead, Karen L. Palmer, Joseph E. Aldy | | Resources | 2013 (182) | | | | | How Do the Costs of Climate Cap and Trade Affect Households? | | Josh Blonz, Dallas Burtraw and Margaret Walls | | Proceedings of the 103rd Annual Conference on Taxation, Washington DC: National Tax Association | forthcoming | 2011 | | | | | How Do the Costs of Climate Cap and Trade Affect Households? | | Josh Blonz, Dallas Burtraw and Margaret Walls | | National Tax Journal Conference Proceedings | forthcoming | 2011 | | | | | Connecting Americans to the Great Outdoors | | Margaret A. Walls, Juha V. Siikamäki | | Resources | Summer 2010 (175) | | | | | Natural Gas: A Bridge to a Low-Carbon Future? | | Stephen P.A. Brown, Alan J. Krupnick, Margaret A. Walls | | Issue Brief 09-11 | December 2009 | | | | | Parks and Recreation in the United States: Local Park Systems | | Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Backgrounder | June 2009 | | | | | Climate Change and Outdoor Recreation Resources | | Daniel F. Morris, Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Backgrounder | April 2009 | | | | | Current Challenges, Funding, and Popularity Trends in Local Parks and Recreation Areas: Responses to a Survey of Park Directors | | Margaret A. Walls, Juha V. Siikamäki, Sarah R Darley, Jeffrey Ferris, Joseph Maher | | RFF Backgrounder | March 2009 | | | | | Current Challenges, Funding, and Popularity Trends in State Parks: Responses to a Survey of Park Directors | | Margaret A. Walls, Juha V. Siikamäki, Sarah R Darley, Jeffrey Ferris, Joseph Maher | | RFF Backgrounder | March 2009 | | | | | Parks and Recreation in the United States: The National Park System | | Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Backgrounder | January 2009 | | | | | Parks and Recreation in the United States: State Park Systems | | Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Backgrounder | January 2009 | | | | | Federal Funding for Conservation and Recreation: The Land and Water Conservation Fund | | Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Backgrounder | January 2009 | | | | | Crafting a Fair and Equitable Climate Policy: A Closer Look at the Options | | Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney, Margaret A. Walls | | Resources | Fall (170) | | | | | Explaining Sprawl: How Much Does Zoning Matter? | | Virginia D. McConnell, Margaret A. Walls, Elizabeth A. Kopits | | Resources | Spring 2006 (161) | | | | | A Market Approach to Land Preservation | | Elizabeth A. Kopits, Virginia D. McConnell, Margaret A. Walls | | Resources | Spring 2003 (150) | | | | | Putting a Prod in Product Stewardship | | Karen L. Palmer and Margaret Walls | | Waste News (op-ed) | | | | | Motor Vehicles, U.S. Attitudes, and Inaction on Climate Change | | Margaret Walls | | Victoria Economic Commentaries | September 1996 | pp. 30-40 | | | | | Review of War on Waste: Can America Win Its Battle With Garbage? | | Margaret Walls and Robert P. Anex | | Environmental History Review | Winter 1993 | | | | | Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Alternative Fuels | | Alan J. Krupnick, Margaret Walls, Sari Radin, Carol Collins, and Joel Darmstadter | | Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Policy Analysis | June 1991 | | | | |
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| EVENTS | | Is Energy Efficieny Capitalized in Home Prices? Evidence From Three Cities | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 | | Whither Markets for Environmental Regulation of Air, Water, and Land? | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 | | Green Infrastructure: Using Natural Landscapes for Flood Mitigation and Water Quality Improvements | | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 | | Can Creative Financing Programs Close the Energy Efficiency Gap? | | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 | | View All Related Events |
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| RELATED SUBTOPICS | | Benefit-Cost Analysis, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Services, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Accounting, Green Infrastructure, Outdoor Recreation, Parks, Refuges, and Wildernesses, Public Lands, Regulation, State and U.S. Regional Policies, Urban Sprawl |
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