Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first,
the realization that it is a major contributor to climate change; and second, a revolution in …

Regression discontinuity designs (RDD) are increasingly being employed in agricultural and
environmental economics to identify causal effects. Here, we showcase recent applications …

Understanding the effectiveness of conservation interventions during times of political
instability is important given how much of the world's biodiversity is concentrated in …

We estimate the impact of wildfires on the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) and
employment of regional economies in Southern Europe from 2011 to 2018. To this end we …

Protecting the world's remaining forests is a global policy priority. Even though the value of
the world's remaining forests is global in nature, much of the protection has to come from …

Trade liberalization can spur environmental degradation. Concerns over these adverse
impacts have led to a debate over the need for environmental provisions in regional trade …

In support of the environmental justice (EJ) movement, researchers, activists, and
policymakers often use environmental data to document evidence of the unequal distribution …

The application of quasiexperimental impact evaluation to remotely sensed measures of
deforestation has yielded important evidence detailing the effectiveness of conservation …

Remotely sensed measurements and other machine learning predictions are increasingly
used in place of direct observations in empirical analyses. Errors in such measures may bias …

Decades of empirical ecological research have focused on understanding ecological
dynamics at local scales. Remote sensing products can help to scale-up ecological …