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chronology within each topical area or sub-area)
Deforestation
Brazilian Amazon
- (submitted) Pfaff, A., E.J. Reis, R. Walker, W. Laurance, S. Perz, C. Bohrer, J.A.
Robalino, S. Aldrich, E. Arima, M. Caldas and K. Kirby "Roads & Deforestation in
the Brazilian Amazon" download
- Pfaff, A., J.A. Robalino, R. Walker, E.J. Reis, S. Perz, C. Bohrer, S. Aldrich, E.
Arima, M. Caldas, W. Laurance and K. Kirby (2007) "Road Investments, Spatial
Intensification and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon". Journal of Regional
Science 47:109-123 download
- Pfaff, A. (1999). "What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?: Evidence
from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data". Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management 37(1):26-43. download
Costa Rica -- articles
- (submitted) Robalino J.A., A. Pfaff, A. Sanchez, F. Alpizar, C. Leon and C.M. Rodriguez.
"Deforestation Impacts of Environmental Services Payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program
2000-2005"
- (submitted) Kerr, S. and A. Pfaff "Development and Deforestation:
evidence from Costa Rica" download old
version
- (revise & resubmit) Robalino, J.A. and A. Pfaff "Contagious Development:
neighbors' interactions in deforestation" download
- (revise & resubmit) Kerr, S., J. Hendy, S. Liu and A. Pfaff "Tropical
Forest Protection, Uncertainty and Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation
Policies download
- (forthcoming) Pfaff, A. and S. Kerr. "What Would Have Happened? reviewing and
improving estimated baselines for tropical forests and sequestered carbon". download
- (forthcoming) Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., A. Pfaff, J. Robalino and J. Boomhower.
"Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Services Program: intention, implementation
and impact". Conservation Biology download
- Pfaff, A., S. Kerr and L. Lipper with R. Cavatassi, B. Davis, J. Hendy and A. Sanchez
(2007). "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit the Poor? evidence from
Costa Rica" Land Use Policy 24:600-610 download
- Pfaff, A. and A. Sanchez (2004). "Deforestation Pressure and Biological Reserve
Planning: A Conceptual Approach & An Illustrative Application For Costa Rica". Resource
& Energy Economics 26:237-254. download
- Kerr, S., S. Liu, A. Pfaff and R.F. Hughes (2003) "Carbon Dynamics and Land-Use
Choices: building a regional scale multidisciplinary model". Journal of
Environmental Management 69:25-37. download
- Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., G.C. Daily, A. Pfaff and C. Busch (2003). "Integrity and
Isolation of Costa Rica's National Parks and Biological Reserves: examining the dynamics
of land-cover change". Biological Conservation 109:123-135. download
- Pfaff, A., S. Kerr, R.F. Hughes, S. Liu, A. Sanchez, D. Schimel, J. Tosi and V. Watson
(2000). "The Kyoto Protocol & Payments For Tropical Forest: an
interdisciplinary method for estimating carbon-offset supply and increasing the
feasibility of a carbon market under the CDM". Ecological Economics 35(2):203-221.download
Costa Rica -- chapters
- Pfaff A.and S. Kerr with R. Cavatassi, B. Davis, L. Lipper, A. Sanchez and J. Timmins
(forthcoming). "Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: distinguishing behavior from
location" in (ed.) Economics of poverty, environment and natural resource use.
Wageningen University Environment / Resources.
- Robalino J.A. and A. Pfaff with G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa (forthcoming). "Estimating
Spatial Interactions in Deforestation Decisions" in (ed.) Frontiers of
Biodiversity Economics. Cambridge University Press
- Kerr, S., A. Pfaff, A. Sanchez and M. Boscolo (2001). "How Can Carbon Sequestration
In Tropical Forests Be Rewarded? evidence from Costa Rica", in Central America
Project: Conservation and Competitiveness, edited by HIID, Cambridge MA.
- Kerr, S., A. Pfaff and A. Sanchez (2001). "The Dynamics of Deforestation and the
Supply of Carbon Sequestration: Illustrative Results from Costa Rica", in Central
America Project: Conservation and Competitiveness, edited by HIID, Cambridge MA
United States
- (revise & resubmit) Pfaff, A. "Regional Resource Benefits of Urban
'Unsprawl'". download
- Pfaff, A. (2000). "From Deforestation to Reforestation in New England,
USA", in Palo, M. and H. Vanhanen, eds. Global Prospects of Deforestation
and Forest Transition. United National University, World Institute for
Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, Kluwer.
Water & Climate
Water Quantity & Climate Forecasts (NE Brazil Drought &
Peru Fishery)
- (forthcoming) Broad, K., A. Pfaff, R. Taddei with S. Arumugam, U. Lall and F.A. de Souza
Filho. "Climate, Stream Flow Prediction and Water Management in Northeast Brazil:
societal trends and forecast value". Climatic Change
- Broad, K., A. Pfaff and M.H. Glantz (2002). "Effective & Equitable
Dissemination of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Forecasts: policy implications from the
Peruvian fishery during El Nino 1997-98". Climatic Change 54(4):415-438.download
- Pfaff, A. and D.M. Peteet (2001). "Generating probabilities in support of societal
decision making: the case of abrupt climate change". EOS (American
Geophysical Union).download
- Pfaff, A., K. Broad and M.H. Glants (1999). "Who benefits from
seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasts?". Nature 397(6721):645-646,
February 25th.download
Water Quality & Testing (Bangladesh Arsenic)
- (forthcoming) Madajewicz, M., A. Pfaff et al. "Can Information Alone Both Improve
Awareness and Change Behavior? Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh" Journal
of Development Economics download
- Opar, A., A. Pfaff, A.A. Seddique, K.M. Ahmed, J. Graziano, and A. van Geen (2007).
"Responses of 6500 Households to Arsenic Mitigation in Araihazar,
Bangladesh". Health & Place 13:64 download
- Ahmed, M.F., S. Ahuja, M. Alauddin, S.J. Hug, J.R. Lloyd, A. Pfaff, T. Pichler, C.
Saltikov, M. Stute and A. van Geen (2006). "Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in
Bangladesh". Science 314:1687-88. download
- Madajewicz M. and A. Pfaff (2005). "Report on UNICEF K.A.P Survey Data"
in Rosenboom, J. (ed.) Arsenic in 15 Upazilas in Bangladesh: an analysis of
available data. UNICEF (with DFID and DPHE). download
Households' Choices &
Environmental / Air Quality
- (revise & resubmit) Chaudhuri, S. and A. Pfaff. "Fuel Choice and Indoor Air
Quality: a household-level perspective on economic growth and the environment". download
- Pfaff, A., S. Chaudhuri and H.L.M. Nye (2004). "Household Production &
Environmental Kuznets Curves: examining the desirability and feasibility of
substitution". Environmental and Resource Economics 27(2):187-200. download
- Pfaff, A., S. Chaudhuri and H.L.M. Nye (2004). "Endowments, Preferences,
Technologies and Abatement: growth-environment microfoundations". International
Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4:209-228 (invited for special issue: growth
& environment) download
- Pfaff, A., P. Barelli and S. Chaudhuri (2004). "Aid, Economic Growth, and
Environmental Sustainability: rich-poor interactions and environmental choices in
developing countries" International Journal of Global Environmental Issues
4:139-159 (invited for special issue: growth & environment) download
Firms' Information &
Environmental Regulation
- Pfaff, A., C.W. Sanchirico, J. Lee and D. Prager (2004). "Big Field, Small
Potatoes: An Empirical Assessment of EPA's Self-Audit Policy". Journal of Policy
Analysis & Management 23(3):415-432 download
- Graff Zivin, J. and A. Pfaff (2004). "To Err On Humans Is Not Benign: incentives
for adoption of medical error reporting systems". Journal of Health Economics
23:935-949 download
- Kahn, M.E. and A. Pfaff (2000). "Informal Economies, Information and the
Environment". Journal of International Affairs 54(2):525-544 download
- Pfaff, A. and C.W. Sanchirico (2000). "Environmental Self-Auditing: Setting the
Proper Incentives for Discovery and Correction of Environmental Harm". Journal of
Law, Economics & Organization 16(1):189-208 download
Other Reports
- Taddei, R., K. Broad and A. Pfaff. "Integrating Climate and Water Management in
Ceara: historical background, social and legal structures, and implications", for
IRI-FUNCEME Ceara Project book. download
- Meyerson, L.A., J. Baron, J. Melillo, R.J. Naiman, R. O'Malley, G. Orians, M. Palmer, A.
Pfaff, S.W. Running, O. Sala (2005). "Aggregate Measures of Ecosystem Services: can
we take the pulse of nature?" Frontiers in Ecology 3(1): 56-59.
- Pfaff, A.S.P. and R.N. Stavins (1999). "Readings in the Field of Natural Resource
and Environmental Economics" SSRN Working Paper (1,964 downloads). download from
SSRN
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Education
- Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
- B.A., Applied Math/Economics, summa cum laude, Yale, 1988
- Thesis Fellow, MIT Program on Science and Policy of Global Change, 1994-1995
- SSRC International Predissertation Fellow, 1993-1994
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1990-1993
Grants
Deforestation -- Brazil
- CoI, FAPERJ/CNPQ 'NEMESIS' grant for spatial analysis of deforestation, 2006-2009
- CoI., NASA LBA grant to study Brazilian Amazon deforestation and climate, 2005-2007
- CoI., NASA LBA grant to study Brazilian Amazon deforestation and roads, 2002-2005
- P.I., Tinker Foundation Institutional Grant for study of forest fragmentation, 2001-2003
- P.I., ISERP seed grant for analysis of forest fragmentation in Brazilian Amazon, 2001
- P.I., CERC Small Grant to study forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon, 1997
Deforestation -- Costa Rica
- P.I., IAI grant to study impacts on deforestation of conservation policies, 2007-2009
- CoI, SSHRC grant to examine effects of Costa Rican conservation policy, 2004-2006
- P.I., NSF-MMIA award for analysis of Costa Rica deforestation & carbon, 2000-2003
- P.I., U.N. FAO funded letter of agreement to analyze poverty and deforestation, 2002
- P.I., NCEAS - working group for the dynamic modeling of carbon supply, 2000-2002
- P.I., Tinker Foundation Institutional Grant for carbon sequestration study, 1998-2000
- P.I., NCEAS - working group for a carbon sequestration supply function, 1998-2000
- P.I., CERC Small Grant to build a project team to study Costa Rican forests, 1996
Water Quantity -- Northeast Brazil
- CoI, Earth Institute CCI seed grant to study vulnerability in rainfed agriculture,
2007-2009
- P.I., Tinker Foundation Institutional Grant to study water stakeholders' views,
2006-2008
- CoI, NSF center to study group decision making under climate uncertainty, 2004-2009
- CoI, NOAA grant on impacts of dam releases based on streamflow forecasts, 2004-2007
- CoI, Gov. of Ceara funding for a forecast-based policy on water release and management
Water Quality -- Bangladesh
- CoPI, NSF HSD grant to study collective action in public good provision, 2006-2008
- P.I., ISERP grant to expand our analysis of responses to arsenic contamination, 2002
- P.I., Earth Institute seed grant for social science analysis of arsenic responses, 2000
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