Publications of Alexander Pfaff     :recent first  combined  bibtex listing:

Journal Articles

  1. Sanchez-Azofeifa, A. Pfaff, J. Robalino & J. Boomhower. "Costa Rica’s Payment for Environmental Services Program: Intention, Implementation and Impact." Conservation Biology (2007). (forthcoming) [pdf]
  2. Broad, K., A. Pfaff, R. Taddei, S. Arumugam, U. Lall & A. Souza Filho. "Climate, Stream Flow Prediction and Water Management in Northeast Brazil: societal trends and forecast value." Climatic Change (2007). (forthcoming)
  3. Madajewicz, M., A. Pfaff, J. Graziano, A. van Geen, I. Hussein, H. Momotaj, R. Sylvi & H. Ahsan. "Can Information Alone Both Improve Awareness and Change Behavior? Arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh." Journal of Development Economics (2007). (forthcoming) [pdf]
  4. Pfaff, A., J.A. Robalino, R. Walker, E. Reis, S. Perz, C. Bohrer, S. Aldrich, E. Arima & M. Caldas. "Road Investments, Spatial Intensification and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon." Journal of Regional Science 47 (February 2007): 109-123. [pdf]

Chapters in Books

  1. Pfaff, A. "From Deforestation to Reforestation in New England, USA." Global Prospects of Deforestation and Forest Transition. Ed. Palo, Matti and Heidi Vanhanen Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
  2. Kerr, S., A. Pfaff, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa & M. Boscolo. "How Can Carbon Sequestration in Tropical Forests Be Rewarded? Evidence from Case Of Costa Rica." Central America Project, Environment: Conservation and Competitiveness. HIIDCambridge, MA: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2001
  3. Kerr, S., A. Pfaff & G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa. "The Dynamics of Deforestation and the Supply of Carbon Sequestration: Illustrative Results from Costa Rica." Central America Project, Environment: Conservation and Competitiveness. HIIDCambridge, MA: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2001

Other Working Papers

  1. Pfaff, A. "What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data." Policy Research Working Paper 1772  (May, 1997).
  2. Pfaff, A. & R.N. Stavins. "Readings in the Field of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics." SSRN Working Paper  (June, 1999). 1,781 downloads
  3. Meyerson, L.A, J. Baron, , J. Melillo, R.J. Naiman, R. O'Malley, G. Orians, M. Palmer, A. Pfaff., S.W. Running, & O. Sala. "Aggregate Measures of Ecosystem Services: Can we take the pulse of nature?." Frontiers in Ecology 3.1 (2005): 56-59.

Papers Submitted

  1. Kerr, S., J. Hendy, S. Liu & A. Pfaff. "Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies."   (2007). Revised and resubmitted
  2. Pfaff, A. "Regional Resource Benefits of Urban ‘UnSprawl’."   (2007). Revised and resubmitted
  3. Robalino, J.A. & A. Pfaff. "Contagious Development: neighbors’ interactions in deforestation."   (2007). Revised and resubmitted
  4. Chaudhuri, S. & A. Pfaff. "Fuel-choice and indoor air quality: a household-level perspective on economic growth and the environment."   (2007). Revised and resubmitted
  5. Pfaff, A., R. Walker, S. Perz, W. Laurance, C. Bohrer, J.A. Robalino, S. Aldrich, E. Arima, M. Caldas & K. Kirby. "Roads & Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon."   (2007).
  6. Kerr, S., A. Pfaff & A. Sanchez. "Development and Deforestation: Evidence from Costa Rica."   (2007).
  7. Pfaff, A. & S. Kerr with R. Cavatassi, B. Davis, L. Lipper, A. Sanchez & J. Timmins. "Effects of Poverty on Deforestation: distinguishing behavior from location."   (2007).

Papers Published

  1. Pfaff, A. "What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 37.1 (1999): 26-43.
  2. Pfaff, A., K. Broad & M.H. Glantz. "Who benefits from seasonal-to-interannual climate forecasts?." Nature 397.6721 (February 25, 1999): 645-646.
  3. Pfaff, A., S. Kerr, R.F. Hughes, S. Liu, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, D. Schimel, J. Tosi & V. Watson. "The Kyoto Protocol & Payments for Tropical Forest: An Interdisciplinary Method for Estimating Carbon-Offset Supply and Increasing the Feasibility of a Carbon Market under the CDM." Ecological Economics 35.2 (2000): 203-221.
  4. Kahn, M.E. & A. Pfaff. "Informal Economies, Information and the Environment." Journal of International Affairs 54.2 (2000): 525-544.
  5. Pfaff, A. & C.W. Sanchirico. "Environmental Self-Auditing: Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovery and Correction of Environmental Harm." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 16.1 (2000): 189-208.
  6. Pfaff, A. & D.M. Peteet. "Generating Probabilities in Support of Societal Decision Making: the case of abrupt climate change." EOS (American Geophysical Union) (May 15, 2001).
  7. Broad, K., A. Pfaff & M.H. Glantz. "Effective & Equitable Dissemination of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Forecasts: policy implications from the Peruvian fishery during El Nino 1997-98." Climatic Change 54.4 (2002): 415-438.
  8. Kerr, S., S. Liu, A. Pfaff & R.F. Hughes. "Carbon dynamics and land-use choices: building a regional-scale, multidisciplinary model." Journal of Environmental Management 69 (2003): 25-37.
  9. Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., G.C. Daily, A. Pfaff & C. Busch. "Integrity and Isolation of Costa Rica’s National Parks and Biological Reserves: examining the dynamics of land-cover change." Biological Conservation 109 (2003): 123-135.
  10. Pfaff, A. & A. Sanchez. "Deforestation Pressure and Biological Reserve Planning: A Conceptual Approach & An Illustrative Application for Costa Rica." Resource and Energy Economics 26 (2004): 237-254.
  11. Pfaff, A., S. Chaudhuri & H.L.M. Nye. "Household Production & Environmental Kuznets Curves: examining the desirability and feasibility of substitution." Environmental and Resource Economics 27.2 (2004): 187-200.
  12. Pfaff, A., P. Barelli & S. Chaudhuri. "Aid, Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: rich-poor interactions and environmental choices in developing countries." International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004): 139-159. ((special issue on growth and environment, submission invited))
  13. Pfaff, A., S. Chaudhuri & H.L.M Nye. "Endowments, Preferences, Technologies and Abatement: growth-environment microfoundations." International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 4 (2004): 209-228. (invited)
  14. Pfaff, A. & C.W. Sanchirico. "Big Field, Small Potatoes: An Empirical Assessment of EPA’s Self-Audit Policy." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 23.3 (2004): 415-432.
  15. Graff Zivin, J. & A. Pfaff. "To Err on Humans is not Benign: Incentives for Adoption of Medical Error Reporting Systems." Journal of Health Economics 23 (2004): 935-949.
  16. Ahmed, M.F. , S. Ahuha, M. Alauddin, S.J. Hug, J.R. Lloyd, A. Pfaff, T. Pichler, C. Saltikov, M. Stute and A. van Geen. "Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in Bangladesh." Science 314 (December 15, 2006): 1687-88. [pdf]

Papers Accepted

  1. Robalino, J.A. & A. Pfaff with G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa. "Estimating Spatial Interactions in Deforestation Decisions." Frontiers of Biodiversity Economics  (2007). forthcoming
  2. Pfaff A., S. Kerr & L. Lipper with R. Cavatassi, B. Davis, J. Hendy & A. Sanchez. "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? evidence from Costa Rica." Land Use Policy  (2007).
  3. Pfaff, A. "What Would Have Happened? reviewing and improving estimated baselines for tropical forests and sequestered carbon." Ecological Applications (invited special issue)  (2007).
  4. Opar, A., A. Pfaff, A.A. Seddique, K.M. Ahmed, J.H. Graziano & A. van Geen. "Responses of 6500 Households to Arsenic Mitigation in Araihazar, Bangladesh."   (2007).
  5. Madajewicz, M. & A. Pfaff. "Report on UNICEF K.A.P. Survey Data." Arsenic in 15 Upazilas of Bangladesh: an analysis of available data  (2007). forthcoming
  6. Taddei, R., K. Broad & A. Pfaff. "Integrating Climate and Water Management in Ceará: background, social and legal structures, and implications." within IRI-FUNCEME Ceará Project book  (2007). forthcoming

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