Three Essays on Environmental and Development Economics

Diplôme Thèse Three Essays on Environmental and Development Economics eng 2023-06-19 2023-07-03 author Han Kyungbo 905240 director Di Falco Salvatore 788423 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) director Lucchetti Jérémy 788145 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) 101 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:173627 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1736277 GSEM 123 This thesis sheds light on 1) how less-developed or developing countries can resist climate change and 2) why they fundamentally face unintended consequences of a seemingly well-designed environmental policy. More specifically, the first chapter highlights the role of emergency aid as a long-term mitigating strategy against a large-scale disaster. Using novel geospatial data on the location of relief camps, this study finds that access to emergency aid after experiencing a severe drought in childhood enhances health outcomes and labor productivity in adulthood. The second and third chapters delve into the effectiveness of the protected area policy in a dynamic setting to underline why the policy fails and how it is to be reformed. The former presents a dynamic optimization model of nonrenewable resource extraction to explain how establishing a protected area gives rise to the displacement of extraction over time. The latter empirically studies the dynamic displacement effect of new protected areas on deforestation in both protected and non-protected areas. Both chapters deliver a strong message that the establishment of protected areas pushes out extraction activities to the neighborhoods, and those activities gradually shift back to protected areas as long as the resource extracted is nonrenewable. This finding suggests that the protected area policy should be designed in light of the dynamic transition of extraction costs in both protected and non-protected areas. Climate change Environmental policy Emergency aid Deforestation Protected area Health Human capital Nonrenewable resource Drought Natural disaster Childhood Relief operation Dynamic optimization Dewey 330 Prix William Rappard 2023 114 Institute of Economics and Econometrics S2 false 0b02d03b-74e6-4c52-ba84-24cfdc3a9830 Thesis Public Thesis_Kyungbo_Han.pdf 3860677 application/pdf 1d24734aa2d630f579949080f9add9bd7ee13b615869decf902cc3e778186172 b0fbfe75-4baa-42f9-9b03-077469df3edc Imprimatur Public HAN_Kyungbo_Imprimatur.pdf 203574 application/pdf af37f2fc082c1707fcaa4daa254756b5f34f1d4fd32f578a55002dcc874d0502 openAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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