2022
Grandfathering with anticipation
Costello and Grainger 2022, NBER
2021
Stranded land constrains public land management and contributes to larger fires
Leonard et al. 2021, Environmental Research Letters
Allow “nonuse rights” to conserve natural resources
Leonard et al. 2021, Science Magazine
Mapping and monitoring zero-deforestation commitments
Austin et al. 2021, BioScience
Do environmental markets improve on open access? Evidence from California groundwater rights
Ayers et al. 2021, Journal of Political Economy
A generalizable and accessible approach to machine learning with global satellite imagery
Rolf et al. 2021, Nature
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California
Buechi et al. 2021, International Journal of Wildland Fire
Recent advances in empirical land-use modeling
Plantinga 2021, Annual Review of Resource Economics
2020
Measure twice, cut once: Optimal inventory and harvest under volume uncertainty and stochastic price dynamics
Sloggy et al. 2020, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California
Buechi et al. 2020
Principal Investigator(s): Andrew Plantinga
Abstract for Long-term trends in wildfire damages in California
In California, record-breaking fires in 2017 and 2018 destroyed communities and dominated headlines across the country. The Thomas fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and the Tubbs fire in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties damaged or destroyed over 7,200 structures, burning over 318,000 acres in
2017. In 2018, the Woolsey fire in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties damaged 1,990 structures, burning almost 97,000 acres. The Camp fire in Paradise damaged 19,531 structures, becoming the most destructive fire in California history. In this report, we put these recent events into broader historical perspective, using a newly developed dataset that catalogues wildfire damages dating back to 1979. This report presents this novel data set, which illustrates that these recent severe fires are part of a broader trend of increasing fire burn area and damages over the last 40 years.
2019
Do environmental markets improve on open access? Evidence from California groundwater rights
Ayres et al. 2019, National Bureau of Economic Research
Scope and limitations of drought management within complex human–natural systems
Jaeger et al. 2019, Nature Sustainability
When do ecosystem services depend on rare species?
Dee et al. 2019, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets
Dinerstein et al. 2019, Science Advances
Broadly inflicted stressors can cause ecosystem thinning
Burgess et al. 2019, Theoretical Ecology
Designing freshwater protected areas (FPAs) for indiscriminate fisheries
Ecological Modelling
2018
Spatial renewable resource extraction under possible regime shift
Costello et al. 2018, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
An attainable global vision for conservation and human well‐being
Tallis et al. 2018, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Land-use regulations, property values, and rents: Decomposing the effects of the California Coastal Act
Severen et al. 2018, Journal of Urban Economics
The dangers of disaster-driven responses to climate change
Anderson et al. 2018, Nature Climate Change
