Alexandre Volle 🇺🇦

@avolle.bsky.social

Environmental Economics. Associate professor at UPPA.

Une bonne nouvelle (pour se remonter le moral) : après déforestation, les forêts tropicales pourraient se régénérer rapidement ! En Équateur, les forêts étudiées ont retrouvé en 30 ans l'abondance et la diversité initiales. À lire dans "Nature", 8 avril 2026 : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity resilience in a tropical rainforest - Nature

Assessment of how 16 taxonomic groups in a lowland tropical forest resist and recover from anthropogenic disturbance shows the potential of protecting naturally regenerating secondary f...

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As the US EPA’s decides to stop including a value for human life in its calculation of the costs of pollution, a repost.

Alistair Munro@alistair-munro.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Based on a special feature in Environmental and Resource Economics, the #Guardian documents unprecedented changes in US environmental policy, #EconSky #EAERE #EPA US Profs Catherine L Kling, Stephen Polasky, and Kathleen Segerson dissect the revolution... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."

Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

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Souffrances/risques climatiques dépendent des émissions de gaz a effet de serre présentes&futures. Les acteurs politiques d'ajd sont comptables par leurs choix&arbitrages des canicules dopées & de leurs morts invisibilisés. Le silence actuel de celles&ceux qui sapent la transition est lâche.

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🚨 #EconSky Updated WP 🚨 First empirical evidence that public environmental regulation can stimulate climate activism from civil society. This finding highlights an often-overlooked indirect effect of regulation in the fight against climate change. 📄 Paper link: drive.google.com/file/d/1TIzN...

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@jordanloper.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 🌍 We (w/ Michela Limardi & @akerlof.bsky.social) show that climate regulation amplifies NGO activism, especially where the state is weak 📈 Evidence from 75 countries (2010–2022) 🎯 A new take on public-private complementarities in climate governance 🔗 hal.science/hal-05047276