Kathryn Baragwanath
Biographic Data
| ID | 5801297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Baragwanath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Baragwanath |
| SIGNATURE | BARAGWANATH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; email: [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8950-3506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democracy and the Environment
We survey research on the relationship between democracy and the environment. The first part of our review examines how democratic systems influence environmental outcomes. Scholars have found, at best, a weakly positive correlation between democracy and environment, with little support for the proposed democratic environmental Kuznets curve, a finding we confirm with new data. We argue that democracy is too coarse a category to capture variation…
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery
Collective property rights reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Significance Deforestation in the Amazon has reached record highs in 2019 and poses a serious threat to climate change. In Brazil, about 2 million hectares of indigenous land are still awaiting homologation, and thus do not have their full property rights. We find that granting property rights significantly reduces the levels of deforestation inside indigenous territories, and the results are of significant orders of magnitude. Our local effects …
Collective property rights reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Significance Deforestation in the Amazon has reached record highs in 2019 and poses a serious threat to climate change. In Brazil, about 2 million hectares of indigenous land are still awaiting homologation, and thus do not have their full property rights. We find that granting property rights significantly reduces the levels of deforestation inside indigenous territories, and the results are of significant orders of magnitude. Our local effects …
Detecting urban markets with satellite imagery
Democracy and the Environment
We survey research on the relationship between democracy and the environment. The first part of our review examines how democratic systems influence environmental outcomes. Scholars have found, at best, a weakly positive correlation between democracy and environment, with little support for the proposed democratic environmental Kuznets curve, a finding we confirm with new data. We argue that democracy is too coarse a category to capture variation…
Environmental Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Agroforestry (1 work) · Amazon rainforest (1 work) · Atmospheric sciences (1 work) · Autocracy (1 work) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · Daytime (1 work)