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As an independent institute dedicated exclusively to analyzing environmental, energy, and natural resource topics, RFF gathers under one roof a unique community of scholars conducting impartial research to enable policymakers to make sound choices.
Since 1952, RFF scholars have been asking—and answering—tough questions, looking over the intellectual horizon, and providing successive generations of policy, business, environmental, and civic leaders with the core tools and fundamental approaches they need to improve environmental policymaking worldwide.
Through a half-century of scholarship, RFF has built a reputation for reasoned analysis of important problems and for developing innovative solutions to environmental challenges. RFF pioneered the research methods that allow for critical analysis of environmental and natural resource policies, enabling researchers to evaluate their true social costs and benefits.
At RFF headquarters in Washington, DC, academic research intersects with policy relevance. And it is at this juncture that RFF makes its unique contribution. Inventing new tools for social science research and developing the intellectual underpinnings of entirely new analytic approaches are at the core of RFF's independent, objective work.
All too often, advocates present facts selectively, scholars speak in impenetrable jargon, and political leaders act without adequately understanding the consequences of their decisions. By virtue of our mission to improve public policy through social science research, RFF is committed to disseminating findings in the clearest voice, to the broadest audience.
Policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)in Tropical Forests
Erin C. Myers
December 2007
State Efforts to Cap the Commons: Regulating Sources or Consumers?
Dallas Burtraw
November 2007
Washington START Transportation Model
Winston Harrington, Sébastien Houde, Elena Safirova
November 2007
Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes?
Timothy J. Brennan
October 2007
U.S. Climate Policy Developments
Toshi H. Arimura, Dallas Burtraw, Alan Krupnic k, Karen Palmer
October 2007
Carbon Credits for Avoided Deforestation
Roger A. Sedjo, Brent Sohngen
October 2007
Can Voluntary Environmental Regulation Work in Developing Countries? Lessons From Case Studies
Allen Blackman
October 2007
Climate Risk Management and Institutional Learning
Christina Cook, Hadi Dowlatabadi
August 2007
Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
Arik Levinson
July 2007
Compensation Rules for Climate Policy in the Electricity Sector
Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer
July 2007
Valuation of Cancer and Microbial Disease Risk Reductions in Municipal Drinking Water: An Analysis of Risk Context Using Multiple Valuation Methods
Wiktor Adamowicz, Diane Dupont, Alan Krupnick, Jing Zhang
July 2007
Should Urban Transit Subsidies Be Reduced?
Ian W.H. Parry, Kenneth A. Small
July 2007
Voluntary Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries: Mexico's Clean Industry Program
Allen Blackman, Bidisha Lahiri, Carlos Muñoz Piña, William Pizer, Marisol Rivera Planter
July 2007
Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Approaches to Environmental Economics
Ted Gayer, Michael Greenstone
July 2007
Morbidity Valuation with a Cessation Lag: Choice Experiments for Public- and Private-Goods Contexts in Japan
Makoto Akai, Kenshi Itaoka, Alan J. Krupnick, Aya Saito
July 2007
Fees in an Imperfect World: An Application to Motor Vehicle Emissions
Amy W. Ando, Winston Harrington, Virginia McConnell
June 2007
The Trade-off between Private Lots and Public Open Space in Subdivisions at the Urban–Rural Fringe
Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls
June 2007
A Cost-Index Approach to Valuing Investment in "Far into the Future" Environmental Technology
Molly K. Macauley, Jhih-Shyang Shih
June 2007
Non-Price Equilibria for Non-Marketed Goods
Jared C. Carbone, Joseph A. Herriges, Daniel J. Phaneuf
June 2007
Is a Voluntary Approach an Effective Environmental Policy Instrument? A Case for Environmental Management Systems
Toshi H. Arimura, Akira Hibiki, Hajime Katayama
May 2007
Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee
Heidi J. Albers, Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio, Allen Blackman, Lisa Crooks
May 2007
Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in Canada: Economics and GHG Reduction Potential
Hadi Dowlatabadi, Jana Hanova, Lynn Mueller
May 2007
An International Regulatory Framework for Risk Governance of Carbon Capture and Storage
Jenny Gode, Asbjørn Torvanger, Shalini Vajjhala
May 2007
Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the United States
Raymond J. Kopp
May 2007
Modeling Endogenous Technological Change for Climate Policy Analysis
Kenneth Gillingham, Richard G. Newell, William A. Pizer
May 2007
Cost-Benefit Analysis as Market Simulation: A New Approach to the Problem of Anomalies in Environmental Evaluation
Robert Sugden
April 2007
The Economics of Spatial-Dynamic Processes: Applications to Renewable Resources
James N. Sanchirico, Martin D. Smith, James E. Wilen
April 2007
What Drives Long-Term Biodiversity Change?
New Insights from Combining Economics, Paleo-Ecology, and Environmental History
Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Edward B. Barbier, Althea Davies, Nick Hanley, Dugald Tinch, Fiona Watson
April 2007
Toward Choice- Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel
April 2007
Modeling the Effects of Changes in New Source Review on National SO2 and NOx Emissions from Electricity-Generating Units
David A. Evans, Benjamin F. Hobbs, Craig Oren, Karen L. Palmer
April 2007
Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence
Joseph E. Aldy, W. Kip Viscusi
April 2007
Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?
Martin Persson, Miguel Quiroga, Thomas Sterner
April 2007
Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs
William A. Pizer, David Popp
March 2007
Too Good to Be True? An Examination of Three Economic Assessments of California Climate Change Policy
Judson Jaffe, Todd Schatzki, Robert N. Stavins
March 2007
Using Biomedical Technologies to Inform Economic Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Analysis of Environmental Policies
Tim Haab, Brian Roe
February 2007
A Dynamic Model of Household Location, Regional Growth, and Endogenous Natural Amenities with Cross-Scale Interactions
Yong Chen, Elena G. Irwin, Cir iyam Jayaprakash
February 2007
Decentralization in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Lessons for Global Policy
Joseph Kruger, Wallace E. Oates, William A. Pizer
February 2007
The Evolution of a Global Climate Change Agreement
William A. Pizer
February 2007
A U.S. Perspective on Future Climate Regimes
William A. Pizer
February 2007
The Impact of Delhi's CNG Program on Air Quality
Alan Krupnick, Urvashi Narain
February 2007
International Technology-Oriented Agreements to Address Climate Change
Heleen de Coninck, Carolyn Fischer, Richard G. Newell, Takahiro Ueno
January 2007
Public Treatment of Private Waste: Industrial Use of Municipal Wastewater Treatment
Winston Harrington, Peter Nelson
February 2006
Estimating the Cost of Institutional Controls
John Pendergrass, Katherine N. Probst
March 2005
The Value of Open Space: Evidence from Studies of Nonmarket Benefits
Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls
January 2005
Genetically Engineered Trees: Promise and Concerns
Roger A. Sedjo
November 2004
Electricity, Renewables, and Climate Change: Searching for a Cost-Effective Policy
Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer
May 2004
Post-Market Oversight of Biotech Foods: Is the System Prepared?
Michael Taylor, Jody Tick
April 2003
The Product Stewardship Movement: Understanding Costs, Effectiveness, and The Role for Policy
Karen Palmer, Margaret Walls
November 2002