Michael Toman
Biographic Data
| ID | 458724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Toman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Toman |
| SIGNATURE | TOMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Resources For The Future |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6570-7398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Improved biomass cookstove use in the longer run: Results from a field experiment in rural Ethiopia
This study examines longer-run usage frequency of Mirt improved biomass cookstoves (ICS), one of the most important ICS promoted in Ethiopia. Mirt has been shown to improve childhood health, and reduce fuelwood consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, but to generate those benefits, households must regularly use it over extended periods. Thus, this paper focuses on longer-run use using stove surface temperature data over five time intervals. We …
Do Formal Community Forestry Programs Improve Collective Action and Forest Outcomes
Forest tenure reform and devolution are taking place around the world, especially in lower-income countries, primarily to support environmental and livelihood goals. However, whether forest devolution to communities results in improved forest collective action is not fully understood. In this paper, we assess the effect of Nepal’s formal Community Forestry (CF) Program on forest collective action and outcomes. We utilize data from a nationally re…
Mineral security” policies: Insights from oil markets
Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce fuelwood consumption and carbon emissions? Evidence from a field experiment in rural Ethiopia
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia
Addressing Fundamental Uncertainty in Benefit–Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining
Mineral deposits of base metals, precious metals, and rare earth elements have been discovered on deep seabeds, and the commercial exploitation of these resources seems poised to begin after faltering for many years. The development of seabed resources could be socially beneficial if all goes well, but the industry faces daunting challenges and uncertainties. Emerging regulations and contracting mechanisms are the principal means for managing the…
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
Spatially explicit valuation of the Brazilian Amazon Forest’s Ecosystem Services
Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program
Paradigms and poverty in global energy policy: Research needs for achieving universal energy access
This research letter discusses elements of a long-term interdisciplinary research effort needed to help \nensure the maximum social, economic, and environmental benefits of achieving secure universal access to modern energy services. Exclusion of these services affects the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. The research community has an important, but not yet well-defined, role to play
The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment
Many critics of economic analysis of climate change impacts and response options claim that information is needed on ecosystem characteristics as well as on economic values to fully inform decisions about how climate change affects human well-being. Information on the irreversibility of impacts also is important, critics argue, because it relates to how society evaluates implications for intergenerational equity. In addition, because climate chan…
Special Section: Forum on Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop
Alternative policies for the control of air pollution in Poland
Like other Central European countries, Poland faces the twin challenges of improving environmental quality while also promoting economic development. This study examines the cost of achieving alternative emission standards and the savings in abatement cost that might be achieved with policies that rely on economic incentives rather than with rigid " command and control " measures. The focus is primarily on three pollutants arising from energy com…
Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses
Prospects for a global greenhouse gas accord 1Lessons from other agreements
Analyzing Nonrenewable Resource Supply
Spatially explicit valuation of the Brazilian Amazon Forest’s Ecosystem Services
Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
Analyzing Nonrenewable Resource Supply
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia
The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment
Many critics of economic analysis of climate change impacts and response options claim that information is needed on ecosystem characteristics as well as on economic values to fully inform decisions about how climate change affects human well-being. Information on the irreversibility of impacts also is important, critics argue, because it relates to how society evaluates implications for intergenerational equity. In addition, because climate chan…
Prospects for a global greenhouse gas accord 1Lessons from other agreements
Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses
Analyzing Nonrenewable Resource Supply
Prospects for a global greenhouse gas accord 1Lessons from other agreements
Global Warming: Economic Policy Responses
Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming: Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop
Alternative policies for the control of air pollution in Poland
Like other Central European countries, Poland faces the twin challenges of improving environmental quality while also promoting economic development. This study examines the cost of achieving alternative emission standards and the savings in abatement cost that might be achieved with policies that rely on economic incentives rather than with rigid " command and control " measures. The focus is primarily on three pollutants arising from energy com…
Special Section: Forum on Valuation of Ecosystem Services
The need for multiple types of information to inform climate change assessment
Many critics of economic analysis of climate change impacts and response options claim that information is needed on ecosystem characteristics as well as on economic values to fully inform decisions about how climate change affects human well-being. Information on the irreversibility of impacts also is important, critics argue, because it relates to how society evaluates implications for intergenerational equity. In addition, because climate chan…
Paradigms and poverty in global energy policy: Research needs for achieving universal energy access
This research letter discusses elements of a long-term interdisciplinary research effort needed to help \nensure the maximum social, economic, and environmental benefits of achieving secure universal access to modern energy services. Exclusion of these services affects the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. The research community has an important, but not yet well-defined, role to play
Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program
Spatially explicit valuation of the Brazilian Amazon Forest’s Ecosystem Services
Addressing Fundamental Uncertainty in Benefit–Cost Analysis: The Case of Deep Seabed Mining
Mineral deposits of base metals, precious metals, and rare earth elements have been discovered on deep seabeds, and the commercial exploitation of these resources seems poised to begin after faltering for many years. The development of seabed resources could be socially beneficial if all goes well, but the industry faces daunting challenges and uncertainties. Emerging regulations and contracting mechanisms are the principal means for managing the…
Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce fuelwood consumption and carbon emissions? Evidence from a field experiment in rural Ethiopia
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia
Mineral security” policies: Insights from oil markets
Improved biomass cookstove use in the longer run: Results from a field experiment in rural Ethiopia
This study examines longer-run usage frequency of Mirt improved biomass cookstoves (ICS), one of the most important ICS promoted in Ethiopia. Mirt has been shown to improve childhood health, and reduce fuelwood consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, but to generate those benefits, households must regularly use it over extended periods. Thus, this paper focuses on longer-run use using stove surface temperature data over five time intervals. We …
Do Formal Community Forestry Programs Improve Collective Action and Forest Outcomes
Forest tenure reform and devolution are taking place around the world, especially in lower-income countries, primarily to support environmental and livelihood goals. However, whether forest devolution to communities results in improved forest collective action is not fully understood. In this paper, we assess the effect of Nepal’s formal Community Forestry (CF) Program on forest collective action and outcomes. We utilize data from a nationally re…
Economics (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Climate change (4 works)