Rachel Lamb

Biographic Data

ID7175309
NAMERachel Lamb
GIVEN NAMESRachel
FAMILY NAMELamb
SIGNATURELAMB R
AFFILIATIONSUrban Institute
ORCID0000-0003-4718-2027
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The Effects of Public Pre-K for 3-Year-Olds on Early Elementary Public School Enrollment

    Open AccessBreno Braga, Justin B Doromal et al.ARTICLEEducational Evaluation and Policy…2026

    Universal public prekindergarten programs increasingly include 3-year-olds, but evidence on their effects on public school enrollment remains limited. This study uses data on 4,561 applicants to the District of Columbia’s (DC’s) Pre-K3 program (2014–2017) and a centralized admissions lottery to estimate causal impacts on early elementary enrollment. Students offered seats in school-based Pre-K3 were more likely to remain in the public education s…

  • Beyond MRV

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Members of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 24 states committed to achieving the emissions reductions outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, are considering policy options for inclusion of forest carbon in climate mitigation plans. These initiatives are generally limited by a lack of relevant data on forest carbon stocks and fluxes past-to-future. Previously, we developed a new forest carbon modeling system that combined high-resolution r…

  • High-resolution forest carbon modelling for climate mitigation planning over the RGGI region, USA

    Open AccessLei Ma, G C Hurtt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The inclusion of forest carbon in climate change mitigation planning requires the development of models able to project potential future carbon stocks—a step beyond traditional monitoring, reporting and verification frameworks. Here, we updated and expanded a high-resolution forest carbon modelling approach previously developed for the state of Maryland to 11 states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) domain, which includes Connectic…

  • Geospatial assessment of the economic opportunity for reforestation in Maryland, USA

    Open AccessRachel Lamb, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Afforestation and reforestation have the potential to provide effective climate mitigation through forest carbon sequestration. Strategic reforestation activities, which account for both carbon sequestration potential (CSP) and economic opportunity, can provide attractive options for policymakers who must manage competing social and environmental goals. In particular, forest carbon pricing can incentivize reforestation on private land, but this m…

  • Context and future directions for integrating forest carbon into sub-national climate mitigation planning in the RGGI region of the U.S

    Open AccessRachel Lamb, G C Hurtt et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    International frameworks for climate mitigation that build from national actions have been developed under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change and advanced most recently through the Paris Climate Agreement. In parallel, sub-national actors have set greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals and developed corresponding climate mitigation plans. Within the U.S., multi-state coalitions have formed to facilitate coordination of relat…

  • High-resolution forest carbon mapping for climate mitigation baselines over the RGGI region, USA

    Open AccessHao Tang, Lei Ma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Large-scale airborne lidar data collections can be used to generate high-resolution forest aboveground biomass maps at the state level and beyond as demonstrated in early phases of NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System program. While products like aboveground biomass maps derived from these leaf-off lidar datasets each can meet state- or substate-level measurement requirements individually, combining them over multiple jurisdictions does not guarantee …

  • Beyond MRV

    Open AccessG C Hurtt, Maosheng Zhao et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Forests are important ecosystems that are under increasing pressure from human use and environmental change, and have a significant ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and are therefore the focus of policy efforts aimed at reducing deforestation and degradation as well as increasing afforestation and reforestation for climate mitigation. Critical to these efforts is the accurate monitoring, reporting and verification of current …