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Alexander Pfaff

Alexander Pfaff

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
50
Citations
16359
World Ranking
1355
National Ranking
820

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
16861
World Ranking
4856
National Ranking
1786

Overview

Alexander Pfaff is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research focuses on the intersection of environmental science and economics, with significant contributions spanning multiple areas within these fields.

The main fields of study for Pfaff include Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work delves into several specialized subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Safety Research, and Building and Construction.

Pfaff has extensively explored topics related to Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Forest Management and Policy. Other areas of research include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Mining and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact.

The scientist has published a number of research papers in well-established academic venues. Their recent works include:

  • The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs (2020) - Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon (2020) - Ecological Economics
  • Evaluating REDD+ at subnational level: Amazon fund impacts in Alta Floresta, Brazil (2020) - Forest Policy and Economics
  • Investing in local capacity to respond to a federal environmental mandate: Forest & economic impacts of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon (2020) - World Development
  • Forest concessions and eco-certifications in the Peruvian Amazon: Deforestation impacts of logging rights and logging restrictions (2022) - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Pfaff's work has appeared frequently in the following publication venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecological Economics
  • World Development
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Pfaff's academic output. Frequent coauthors include María Alejandra Vélez, Lina Moros, Michael B. Mascia, Esther Blanco, and Ivo Steimanis. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Sandra Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo S. Brondízio;Hien T. Ngo

  • Measuring the effectiveness of protected area networks in reducing deforestation

    Kwaw S. Andam;Paul J. Ferraro;Alexander Pfaff;G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa

  • High and far: biases in the location of protected areas.

    Lucas N. Joppa;Alexander Pfaff

  • What drives deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from satellite and socioeconomic data

    Alexander S.P. Pfaff

  • Global protected area impacts

    Lucas N. Joppa;Alexander Pfaff

  • Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Services Program: Intention, Implementation, and Impact

    G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa;Alexander Pfaff;Juan Andres Robalino;Judson P. Boomhower

  • Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

    Kathy Baylis;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Jan Börner;Esteve Corbera

  • Can information alone change behavior? Response to arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh

    Malgosia Madajewicz;Alexander Pfaff;Alexander van Geen;Joseph Graziano

  • Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in Bangladesh

    M. F. Ahmed;S. Ahuja;M. Alauddin;S. J. Hug

  • Integrity and isolation of Costa Rica's national parks and biological reserves: examining the dynamics of land-cover change

    G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa;Gretchen C. Daily;Alexander S.P. Pfaff;Christopher Busch

  • Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

    R. Naidoo;D. Gerkey;D. Hole;A. Pfaff

  • Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;Robert Walker;Steven Aldrich

  • Reassessing the forest impacts of protection: the challenge of nonrandom location and a corrective method.

    Lucas Joppa;Alexander Pfaff

  • Governance, Location and Avoided Deforestation from Protected Areas: Greater Restrictions Can Have Lower Impact, Due to Differences in Location

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;Eirivelthon Lima;Catalina Sandoval

  • The global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services: Summary for policy makers

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Josef Settele;Eduardo Brondízio;Hien Ngo

  • Indigenous Lands, Protected Areas, and Slowing Climate Change

    Taylor H. Ricketts;Britaldo Soares-Filho;Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca;Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca;Daniel Nepstad

  • Protected Areas’ Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation – Development Interactions to Inform Planning

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;Diego Herrera;Catalina Sandoval

  • Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa;Kwaw S Andam

  • Ecopayments and Deforestation in Costa Rica: A Nationwide Analysis of PSA’s Initial Years

    Juan Robalino;Alexander Pfaff

  • The Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies and Programs

    Jan Börner;Dario Schulz;Sven Wunder;Sven Wunder;Alexander Pfaff

  • Behavior, Environment, and Health in Developing Countries: Evaluation and Valuation

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Alexander Pfaff

  • Contagious development: Neighbor interactions in deforestation

    Juan A. Robalino;Alexander Pfaff

  • Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s

    Allen Blackman;Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino

  • Effective and Equitable Dissemination of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Forecasts: policy implications from the Peruvian fishery during El Niño 1997-98

    Kenneth Broad;Kenneth Broad;Alexander S. P. Pfaff;Michael H. Glantz

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzi Kerr
Suzi Kerr Environmental Defense Fund
Alexander van Geen
Alexander van Geen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Lucas Joppa
Lucas Joppa Microsoft (United States)
Kazi Matin Ahmed
Kazi Matin Ahmed University of Dhaka
Habibul Ahsan
Habibul Ahsan University of Chicago
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Stefanie Engel
Stefanie Engel Osnabrück University
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University

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