Allen Blackman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3703453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Blackman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackman |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Resources For The Future |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3793-6120 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 217 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Decentralized forest management: Experimental and quasi-experimental evidence
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Clear, but don’t invest: Protected areas discourage some land uses more than others
Illegal land-use change inside protected areas (PAs) in the global south is common. Yet little is known about whether PAs disproportionately discourage conversion of forests to capital-intensive land uses (CILUs) like coffee and oil palm—an important consideration because CILUs likely have outsized adverse ecological and political-economic effects. We use remotely sensed fine-scale data on tree cover loss and land use along with quasi-experimenta…
Efficacy of Command-and-Control and Market-Based Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries
Like their counterparts in industrialized countries, environmental regulators in developing countries rely principally on two types of instruments: command-and-control (CAC) policies, such as emissions and technology standards, and to a lesser extent, market-based instruments (MBIs), such as emissions fees and tradable permits. But these regulators often lack the capacity to implement, monitor, and enforce CAC and MBI policies. As a result, the e…
Titled Amazon Indigenous Communities Cut Forest Carbon Emissions
Titling indigenous communities protects forests in the Peruvian Amazon
Significance Developing countries are increasingly granting local communities legal title to forests. Almost a third of forests in the global south are now managed by local communities, more than twice the share currently found in protected areas. However, we know little about the effects of titling on forest clearing and disturbance, which remain urgent problems. We use community-level longitudinal data derived from high-resolution satellite ima…
Natural climate solutions
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. …
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community's shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in a collective voluntary environmental program, the Ecological Blue Flag Program, by the entire population of beach communities in Costa Rica between 2001 and 2009. Collective voluntary environmental programs are relatively new an…
Is Eco-Certification a Win–Win for Developing Country Agriculture? Organic Coffee Certification in Colombia
Strict versus mixed-use protected areas: Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s
Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
Evaluating forest conservation policies in developing countries using remote sensing data: An introduction and practical guide
Revitalizing underperforming and contaminated land through voluntary action: Perspectives from U.S. voluntary cleanup programs
Voluntary environmental agreements in developing countries: The Colombian experience
Does eco-certification have environmental benefits? Organic coffee in Costa Rica
Producer-Level Benefits of Sustainability Certification: Benefits of Sustainability Certification
Initiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives create financial incentives for producers to improve their environmental, social, and economic performance. We reviewed the evidence on whether these initiatives have such benefits. We identified peer-reviewed, ex post, producer-level studies in eco…
Can Voluntary Environmental Regulation Work in Developing Countries? Lessons from Case Studies
Hamstrung by weak institutions that undermine conventional environmental regulatory tools, policymakers in developing countries are increasingly turning to voluntary approaches. To date, however, there have appeared few evaluations of these policy experiments. To help fill this gap, we summarize arguments for and against the use of voluntary regulation in developing countries, review the nascent literature on the topic, and present case studies o…
Location-Efficient Mortgages: Is the Rationale Sound
Location efficient mortgage (LEM) programs are an increasingly popular approach to combating urban sprawl. LEMs allow families who want to live in densely populated, transit-rich communities to obtain a larger mortgage with a smaller down payment than traditional underwriting guidelines allow. LEMs are premised on the proposition that homeowners in such “location-efficient” areas can safely be allowed to breach underwriting guidelines designed to…
Location‐Efficient Mortgages: Is the Rationale Sound
Location efficient mortgage (LEM) programs are an increasingly popular approach to combating urban sprawl. LEMs allow families who want to live in densely populated, transit‐rich communities to obtain a larger mortgage with a smaller down payment than traditional underwriting guidelines allow. LEMs are premised on the proposition that homeowners in such “location‐efficient” areas can safely be allowed to breach underwriting guidelines designed to…
Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have
Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Can Voluntary Environmental Regulation Work in Developing Countries? Lessons from Case Studies
Hamstrung by weak institutions that undermine conventional environmental regulatory tools, policymakers in developing countries are increasingly turning to voluntary approaches. To date, however, there have appeared few evaluations of these policy experiments. To help fill this gap, we summarize arguments for and against the use of voluntary regulation in developing countries, review the nascent literature on the topic, and present case studies o…
Is Eco-Certification a Win–Win for Developing Country Agriculture? Organic Coffee Certification in Colombia
Evaluating forest conservation policies in developing countries using remote sensing data: An introduction and practical guide
Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have
Voluntary environmental agreements in developing countries: The Colombian experience
Location‐Efficient Mortgages: Is the Rationale Sound
Location efficient mortgage (LEM) programs are an increasingly popular approach to combating urban sprawl. LEMs allow families who want to live in densely populated, transit‐rich communities to obtain a larger mortgage with a smaller down payment than traditional underwriting guidelines allow. LEMs are premised on the proposition that homeowners in such “location‐efficient” areas can safely be allowed to breach underwriting guidelines designed to…
Decentralized forest management: Experimental and quasi-experimental evidence
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community's shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in a collective voluntary environmental program, the Ecological Blue Flag Program, by the entire population of beach communities in Costa Rica between 2001 and 2009. Collective voluntary environmental programs are relatively new an…
Revitalizing underperforming and contaminated land through voluntary action: Perspectives from U.S. voluntary cleanup programs
Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have
Location-Efficient Mortgages: Is the Rationale Sound
Location efficient mortgage (LEM) programs are an increasingly popular approach to combating urban sprawl. LEMs allow families who want to live in densely populated, transit-rich communities to obtain a larger mortgage with a smaller down payment than traditional underwriting guidelines allow. LEMs are premised on the proposition that homeowners in such “location-efficient” areas can safely be allowed to breach underwriting guidelines designed to…
Location‐Efficient Mortgages: Is the Rationale Sound
Location efficient mortgage (LEM) programs are an increasingly popular approach to combating urban sprawl. LEMs allow families who want to live in densely populated, transit‐rich communities to obtain a larger mortgage with a smaller down payment than traditional underwriting guidelines allow. LEMs are premised on the proposition that homeowners in such “location‐efficient” areas can safely be allowed to breach underwriting guidelines designed to…
Can Voluntary Environmental Regulation Work in Developing Countries? Lessons from Case Studies
Hamstrung by weak institutions that undermine conventional environmental regulatory tools, policymakers in developing countries are increasingly turning to voluntary approaches. To date, however, there have appeared few evaluations of these policy experiments. To help fill this gap, we summarize arguments for and against the use of voluntary regulation in developing countries, review the nascent literature on the topic, and present case studies o…
Producer-Level Benefits of Sustainability Certification: Benefits of Sustainability Certification
Initiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental and social-welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, these initiatives create financial incentives for producers to improve their environmental, social, and economic performance. We reviewed the evidence on whether these initiatives have such benefits. We identified peer-reviewed, ex post, producer-level studies in eco…
Does eco-certification have environmental benefits? Organic coffee in Costa Rica
Evaluating forest conservation policies in developing countries using remote sensing data: An introduction and practical guide
Revitalizing underperforming and contaminated land through voluntary action: Perspectives from U.S. voluntary cleanup programs
Voluntary environmental agreements in developing countries: The Colombian experience
Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
Strict versus mixed-use protected areas: Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s
Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Is Eco-Certification a Win–Win for Developing Country Agriculture? Organic Coffee Certification in Colombia
Titling indigenous communities protects forests in the Peruvian Amazon
Significance Developing countries are increasingly granting local communities legal title to forests. Almost a third of forests in the global south are now managed by local communities, more than twice the share currently found in protected areas. However, we know little about the effects of titling on forest clearing and disturbance, which remain urgent problems. We use community-level longitudinal data derived from high-resolution satellite ima…
Natural climate solutions
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. …
Local Community Characteristics and Cooperation for Shared Green Reputation
This article examines how basic socioeconomic and political factors are associated with higher levels of cooperation to garner a local community's shared green reputation. We analyze panel data on participation efforts in a collective voluntary environmental program, the Ecological Blue Flag Program, by the entire population of beach communities in Costa Rica between 2001 and 2009. Collective voluntary environmental programs are relatively new an…
Efficacy of Command-and-Control and Market-Based Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries
Like their counterparts in industrialized countries, environmental regulators in developing countries rely principally on two types of instruments: command-and-control (CAC) policies, such as emissions and technology standards, and to a lesser extent, market-based instruments (MBIs), such as emissions fees and tradable permits. But these regulators often lack the capacity to implement, monitor, and enforce CAC and MBI policies. As a result, the e…
Titled Amazon Indigenous Communities Cut Forest Carbon Emissions
Clear, but don’t invest: Protected areas discourage some land uses more than others
Illegal land-use change inside protected areas (PAs) in the global south is common. Yet little is known about whether PAs disproportionately discourage conversion of forests to capital-intensive land uses (CILUs) like coffee and oil palm—an important consideration because CILUs likely have outsized adverse ecological and political-economic effects. We use remotely sensed fine-scale data on tree cover loss and land use along with quasi-experimenta…
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Decentralized forest management: Experimental and quasi-experimental evidence
Business (17 works) · Economics (17 works) · Geography (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Agroforestry (7 works) · Ecology (7 works)