One Interesting Thing: Bike-Sharing and Global Warming

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Date

Dec. 11, 2017

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Media Highlight

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Axios

"Not all bad: A new paper uses a big, multi-year dataset from bike-sharing programs in North America to conclude that climate change could boost the wider outdoor recreation economy for warm-weather activities. The study is by Resources For the Future fellow Casey Wichman and University of Massachusetts resource economics expert Nathan Chan. It's available via the RFF website here."

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Casey J. Wichman

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Casey Wichman is a university fellow at RFF. He performs research at the intersection of environmental and public economics, with an emphasis on examining the ways in which individuals make decisions in response to environmental policies.

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