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Paul J. Ferraro

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor | Carey Business School | Bloomberg School of Public Health and Whiting School of Engineering | Johns Hopkins University

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July 24, 2017

Cost-Effective Targeting of Riparian Buffers in Georgia When Water Quality Benefits Are Difficult to Measure→

July 24, 2017/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ. 2001. Georgia Water Policy & Planning Center Working Paper #2001-005.

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Miscellaneous
2001
July 24, 2017

Water Quality Protection and the Cost-Effective Targeting of Riparian Buffers in Georgia→

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Ferraro, PJ. 2001. Georgia Water Policy & Planning Center Working Paper #2001-004.

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2001
July 24, 2017

Conservation Performance Payments: Efficient Investments for Ecoregion Conservation?→

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Ferraro, PJ. 2001. Sharing Across Boundaries (A Publication of the Conservation Strategies Unit of World Wildlife Fund) 3: 3.

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Miscellaneous
2001
July 24, 2017

Global Habitat Protection: Limitations of Development Interventions and a Role for Conservation Performance Payments→

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Ferraro, PJ. 2001. Conservation Biology 15(4): 990-1000. 
* Reprinted in special issue for International Year of Biodiversity: Conservation Social Science, April 2010, Conservation Biology

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Conservation Performance Payments, 2001
July 24, 2017

Reconciling the Long-term Conservation Needs of Large Mammals and Local Communities: Conservation Performance Payments→

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Ferraro, PJ. 2001. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: A Conservation Assessment, E. Wikramanayake, E. Dinerstein, & C.J. Loucks (eds).  Washington, D.C.:  Island Press, pp. 185-187.

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Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental evidence of anchoring in procurement auctions

Ferraro, PJ, K Messer, P Shukla, C Weigel. 2024. The Review of Economics & Statistics. Preprint. Data and Code

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Create a Culture of Experiments in Environmental Programs

Ferraro, PJ, T Cherry, J Shogren, C Vossler, T Cason, H Byerly Flint, J Hochard, O Johansson-Stenman, P Martinsson, J Murphy, S Newbold, L Thunstrom, D van Soest, K van't Veld, A Dannenberg, G Loewenstein, L van Boven. 2023. Science. Pre-print (the link above to final publication should be available to everyone regardless of whether they have a subscription and so pre-print link shouldn’t be necessary)

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Clarifying the Effect of Biodiversity on Productivity in Natural Ecosystems with Longitudinal Data and Methods for Causal Inference

Dee, L [corr], PJ Ferraro [corr], C Severen,  K Kimmel, ET Borer, J Byrnes, A Clark, Y Hautier, A Hector, X Raynaud, PB Reich, AJ Wright, CA Arnillas, KF Davies, A MacDougall, A Mori, MD Smith, PB Adler, JD Bakker, K Brauman, J Cowles, K Komatsu, JMH Knops, RL McCulley, JL Moore, JW Morgan, T Ohlert, SA Power, LL Sullivan, C Stevens, M Loreau. 2023. Nature Communications . Supplemental Information. Data and Code. [Featured by Editors and Commentary by Runge]

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Unraveling Complex Causal Processes that Affect Sustainability Requires More Integration between Empirical and Modeling Approaches.

Schlüter, M, C Brelsford, PJ Ferraro, M. Smith. K. Orach, M. Qiu. 2023. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities and Resource Scarcity: a randomized controlled trial

Alpízar, F, M Bernedo, and PJ Ferraro. 2024. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 11(1). Online Appendix. Data and Code. Preprint. Editor’s Choice Press Release.

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Synthesizing Evidence in Sustainability Science Through Harmonized Experiments: Community monitoring in common pool resources

Ferraro, PJ, Agrawal, A. 2021. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Press Release. Video. Special Issue

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Conditional Cash Transfers to Alleviate Poverty also Reduced Deforestation in Indonesia

Ferraro, PJ and R Simorangkir. 2020. Science Advances 6(24). Data/Code / Infographic / BBC-PRI “The World” segment / One of The Guardian’s Scientific Breakthrough of 2020

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Causal Effect of Impervious Cover on Annual Flood Magnitude for the United States

Blum, AG, PJ Ferraro, KR Ryberg, SA Archfield. 2020. Geophysical Research Letters 47(5) Data and Analysis Code

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Causal Inference in Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Ferraro, PJ, JN Sanchirico, and MD Smith. 2019.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116: 5311-5318

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The Impacts of a Capacity-Building Workshop in a Randomized Adaptation Project

Alpízar, F, M. Bernedo, PJ Ferraro, B Meiselman. 2019. Nature Climate Change 9: 587–591. Also see associated News & Views and Behind the Paper blog. Data/Code PrePrint of Article

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A Better Way to Agree to Stop Climate Change

Ferraro, PJ. Bloomberg View, Op-ed, 29 January 2019

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