Advances in Measuring the Environmental and Social Impacts of Environmental Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23362003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul J Ferraro (0000-0002-4777-5108, Johns Hopkins University), Merlin M Hanauer (Sonoma State University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 495-517 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Environment and Resources (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1543-5938 • E-ISSN: 1545-2050 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-environ-101813-013230 |
| OpenAlex | W2107475689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 75 |
Inspired by the success of evidence-based medicine, environmental scholars and practitioners have grown enthusiastic about applying a similar evidence-based approach to solve some of the world's most pressing environmental problems. An important component of the evidence-based movement is the empirical evaluation of program and policy impacts. Impact evaluations draw heavily from recent advances in the empirical study of causal relationships—the effect of one thing on another. This review highlights the key components of these advances and characterizes the way in which they contribute to better evaluations of the environmental and social impacts of environmental programs. The review emphasizes that a solid understanding of these advances is required before environmental scholars and practitioners can begin to collect the relevant data, analyze them within credible research designs, and generate reliable evidence about the effectiveness of the myriad proposed solutions to the world's environmental and social problems.
Component (thermodynamics) · Empirical evidence · Environmental data · Environmental impact assessment · Environmental planning · Environmental research · Environmental resource management · Environmental studies · Key (lock) · Management science · Political science · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Computer Science · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Environmental Science
Effects of protected areas on welfare of local households
Redd
Evaluating how we evaluate success
The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation
Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas
Approaches and terminology for causal analysis in land systems science
Using perceptions as evidence to improve conservation and environmental management
Action needed to make carbon offsets from forest conservation work for climate change mitigation
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation
Impermanence and failure
The importance of national political context to the impacts of international conservation aid
Selection biases and spillovers from collective conservation incentives in the Peruvian Amazon
Forests moderate the effectiveness of water treatment at reducing childhood diarrhea
Machine learning to analyze the social-ecological impacts of natural resource policy
Is international conservation aid enough
Using an integrated social-ecological analysis to detect effects of household herding practices on indicators of rangeland resilience in Mongolia
Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Tanzania
Shortfalls in Conservation Evidence
Applying landscape-level principles to koala management in Australia
Assessing the outcomes of implementing natural open space plans in a Global South city
General trends in research using impact evaluation methods on the effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing biodiversity loss
Payments for ecosystem services in the tropics
The environmental and social impacts of protected areas and conservation concessions in South America
Research frontiers in community forest management
Why carbon offsets may fail in complex systems
Evaluating the impact of ecosystem service assessments on decision-makers
The evolving global plastics policy landscape
Research frontiers on forests, trees, and poverty dynamics
A framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics
Benefits and costs of incentive-based forest conservation in the Peruvian Amazon
Conditions influencing the adoption of effective anti-deforestation policies in South America’s commodity frontiers
Building the evidence base for Redd
Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from Redd
Challenges in Attributing Avoided Deforestation to Policies and Actors
Do protected areas increase household income? Evidence from a Meta-Analysis
Decentralized forest management
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine
Identifying and detecting potentially adverse ecological outcomes associated with the release of gene-drive modified organisms
Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability
Ecotourism for Conservation
The maturation of ecosystem services
A Survey on Topics Rating for the Undergraduate and Diploma in Environmental Health
A decisional smart approach for the adoption of the IT green
A global review of the impact of forest property rights interventions on poverty
The double fence
Protected areas are effective on curbing fires in the Amazon
Forest cover effects of payments for ecosystem services
Decentralized Land Use Zoning Reduces Large-scale Deforestation in a Major Agricultural Frontier
Meta-Analysis of Livelihood Impacts of Payments for Environmental Services Programmes in Developing Countries
Do protected areas reduce blue carbon emissions? A quasi-experimental evaluation of mangroves in Indonesia
Greening for the greater good
An evaluation of the effectiveness of Critical Biodiversity Areas, identified through a systematic conservation planning process, to reduce biodiversity loss outside protected areas in South Africa
The impact of protected areas on the rural households’ incomes in Ethiopia
Incentive-based conservation in Peru
Estimating the parcel-level impacts of agricultural conservation easements on farmland loss using satellite data in New England
Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies
The impact on ecosystem service from rural revitalization activity in Japan, from a human-wellbeing perspective of local residential
Vers une prise en compte de la diversité des arrangements institutionnels et des pratiques dans l’analyse des paiements pour services environnementaux
Crime Prevention for Social Impact and Social Justice
Forbidden fire
Socio-economic impacts of scaling back a massive payments for ecosystem services programme in China
Observational Studies
Causality
Design of Observational Studies
Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation
Knowledge is (Less) Power
Better Late Than Nothing
Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation1
Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction
Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover? A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica
Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure
Protected areas reduced poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand
Does matching overcome LaLonde's critique of nonexperimental estimators?
Instruments, Randomization, and Learning about Development
Large Sample Properties of Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects
High and Far
Social norms and energy conservation
The design versus the analysis of observational studies for causal effects
The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
From temporary help jobs to permanent employment
Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms
Conservation and development
Counterfactual thinking and impact evaluation in environmental policy
Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator
Matching Methods for Causal Inference
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects
Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Effects of Environmental Regulations on Manufacturing Plant Births
The Ecological Footprint of Poverty Alleviation
Using Nonpecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior
More strictly protected areas are not necessarily more protective
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of yellow-eyed penguin recovery
Does eco-certification have environmental benefits? Organic coffee in Costa Rica
Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia’s Protected Areas on Poverty
Three conditions under which experiments and observational studies produce comparable causal estimates
Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables
Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market
Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude
Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects
Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference
Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
Forest Conservation and Slippage
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |