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Tropical Deforestation
Motu’s current work on tropical deforestation focuses on the design of international policy for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD). This builds on earlier work on deforestation, carbon sequestation, carbon reference levels, and deforestation policy in Costa Rica.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Bigger is Better: Avoided Deforestation Offsets in the Face of Adverse Selection," Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Conference, Melbourne, 8-11 February 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "The Economics of International Policy to Reduce Emissions from Deforestaton and Degradation (REDD)," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "Bigger is Better: Avoided Deforestation Offsets in the Face of Adverse Selection," Stanford Environmental Economics Brownbag Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford CA, November 2010.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "Global policies as a framework for effective local action to reduce deforestation: insights from Costa Rica and Indonesia," Bay Area Tropical Forests Network, 4 March, 2010
- Kerr, Suzi. 2007. "The economics of deforestation," invited presentation at the International Economics Association Roundtable, Beijing, July 13-14.
- van Benthem, Arthur A., and Kerr, Suzi C. 2011. "Bigger is Better: Avoided Deforestation Offsets in the Face of Adverse Selection," PESD Working Paper #102, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University, Stanford CA.
- van Benthem, Arthur and Suzi Kerr. 2010. "Optimizing Voluntary Deforestation Policy in the Face of Adverse Selection and Costly Transfers". Motu Working Paper 10-04.
- Pfaff, Alexander; Suzi Kerr, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Arturo Sanchez and Jason Timmins. 2008. "Effects of poverty on deforestation: distinguishing behaviour from location" in Economics of Poverty, the Environment and Natural Resource Use, Rob B. Dellink and Arjan Ruijs, Eds. Wageningen University: Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group.
- Pfaff, Alexander; Suzi Kerr, Leslie Lipper, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Joanna Hendy and G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa. 2007. "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica," Land Use Policy, 24:3, pp. 600-610.
- Kerr, Suzi; Leslie Lipper, Alexander Pfaff, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Joanna Hendy and Arturo Sanchez. 2004. "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit the Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica," ESA Working Paper No. 4-20.
- Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Arturo Sanchez and Jason Timmins. 2004. "Effects of poverty on deforestation: distinguishing behavior from location," ESA Working Paper No. 04-19.
- Kerr, Suzi; Joanna Hendy, Liu Shuguang and Alexander Pfaff. 2004. "Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies," Motu Working Paper 04-03.
- Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff and Arturo Sanchez. 2002. "The Dynamics of Deforestation: Evidence from Costa Rica".
- Kerr, Suzi. 2001. "Seeing the Forest and Saving the Trees: Tropical Land-Use Change and Global Climate Policy," Manuscript in Can Carbon Sinks Be Operational? Resources for the Future Discussion Paper no. 0126.
- Kerr, Suzi and Catherine Leining. 2000. "Permanence of LULUCF CERs in the Clean Development Mechanism," This paper was written for a presentation at COP-6 in The Hague, November 2000.
- Pfaff, Alexander. 2007. "What Would Have Happened? Reviewing and Improving Estimated Baselines for Tropical Forests and Sequestered Carbon," Accepted for Ecological Applications, (special issue).
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Agricultural and Development Economics Division. 2006. "Will Payments for Reducing Emissions From Deforestation Also Reduce Poverty?" Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA) Research Brief.
- Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff, Arturo Sanchez. 2001. "The Dynamics of Deforestation and the Supply of Carbon Sequestration: Illustrative Results from Costa Rica" in Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America, Theodore Panayotou, Ed. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, pp. 409 - 431.