Scholars@Duke

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  Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • Environment
  • Environmental Policy
  • Environmental economics
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Angola (Country) 
    • Benin (Country) 
    • Cameroon (Country) 
    • Congo (Country) 
    • Côte d'Ivoire (Country) 
    • Equatorial Guinea (Country) 
    • Gabon (Country) 
    • Gambia (Country) 
    • Ghana (Country) 
    • Guinea (Country) 
    • Mauritania (Country) 
    • Nigeria (Country) 
    • Sao Tome and Principe (Country) 
    • Senegal (Country) 
    • Sierra Leone (Country) 
    • Togo (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Duke University Research and Training Support for Implementation of the Pew Plastic Pollution Strategy awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts 2022 - 2024
  • Securing a Safe Space for Small-Scale Fisheries: Research on Preferential Access Areas (Inshore Exclusion Zones) awarded by Oceans 5 2022 - 2023
  • Identifying Conservation Compatible Activities awarded by Department of Agriculture 2022 - 2023
  • Analysis of Voluntary Corporate Commitments to reduce Plastic Pollution awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts 2020 - 2021
  • Improving North Carolina¿s Resilience to Coastal Riverine Flooding awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2019 - 2021
  • Kenya-Tanzania Blue Economy awarded by Middlebury Institute of International Studies 2019 - 2021
  • Amendment: ResilienSEA Seagrass Project awarded by GRID-Arendal 2020
  • Global Public Policy Analysis for Reducing Ocean Plastics Pollution awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts 2019 - 2020
  • Local Community Mangrove Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Valuation Study (Guyana and Suriname) awarded by Conservation International 2019
  • Coral Reef Governance and Policy Analysis awarded by United Nations Environment Programme 2018
  • A Background Paper on a Hidden Harvests 2 Study awarded by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2017
  • Defining the Relationship- Nitrogen Surplus as an Indicator for Nitrate Losses from Agriculture awarded by Environmental Defense Fund 2016 - 2017
  • Ecosystem Services Reference Studies awarded by GRID-Arendal 2017
  • Blue Carbon West Africa awarded by GRID-Arendal 2015 - 2016
  • Southeast Energy and Environmental Leadership Forum 2015 awarded by Energy Foundation 2015 - 2016
  • Assessing North Carolina's Blue Economy awarded by North Carolina State University 2015 - 2016
  • Facilitating Environmental Market Development: Legal and Financial Considerations awarded by Department of Agriculture 2014 - 2015
  • Livestock Ecosystem Services Evaluation and Assessment of Existing Water Quality Metrics, Tools and Methods awarded by Department of Agriculture 2012 - 2014
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Diana, Zoie, Kelly Reilly, Rachel Karasik, Tibor Vegh, Yifan Wang, Zoe Wong, Lauren Dunn, et al. “Voluntary commitments made by the world's largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis.” One Earth (Cambridge, Mass.) 5, no. 11 (November 2022): 1286–1306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.10.008.
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    • Virdin, J., T. Vegh, S. Akester, J. Chu, A. Baio, J. Hamilton, J. Macias, S. Matthiasson, S. Sherif, and D. I. Grieco. “A snapshot of the economic benefits from foreign bottom trawling in coastal West Africa: A mutually-beneficial trade in services, no winners or extractivism?” Fish and Fisheries 23, no. 5 (September 1, 2022): 1070–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12670.
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    • Diana, Z., T. Vegh, R. Karasik, J. Bering, J. D. Llano Caldas, A. Pickle, D. Rittschof, W. Lau, and J. Virdin. “The evolving global plastics policy landscape: An inventory and effectiveness review.” Environmental Science and Policy 134 (August 1, 2022): 34–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.03.028.
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    • Bryan, T., J. Virdin, T. Vegh, C. Y. Kot, J. Cleary, and P. N. Halpin. “Blue carbon conservation in West Africa: a first assessment of feasibility.” Journal of Coastal Conservation 24, no. 1 (February 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-019-00722-x.
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    • Vegh, Tibor, and Brian Murray. “Incentivizing the Reduction of Pollution at U.S. Dairies: Addressing Additionality When Multiple Environmental Credit Payments Are Combined.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, January 27, 2020, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2020.092.010.
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    • Murray, B. C., C. S. Galik, and T. Vegh. “Biogas in the United States: estimating future production and learning from international experiences.” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 22, no. 3 (March 1, 2017): 485–501. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-015-9683-7.
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    • Galik, C. S., R. C. Abt, G. Latta, and T. Vegh. “The environmental and economic effects of regional bioenergy policy in the southeastern U.S.” Energy Policy 85 (October 1, 2015): 335–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2015.05.018.
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  • Reports

    • Virdin, John, Rachel Karasik, Tibor Vegh, Amy Pickle, Zoie Diana, Daniel Rittschof, Janet Bering, and Juan Caldas. “20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem: The Plastics Policy Inventory.” 20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem: The Plastics Policy Inventory. Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions: Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, May 15, 2020.
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    • Gumerman, Etan, and Tibor Vegh. “Modeling Energy Efficiency as a Supply Resource.” Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University, August 22, 2017.
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    • Galik, Christopher, Tibor Vegh, Robert Abt, and Gregory Latta. “Effect of Existing and Novel Policy Options on the Sustainable Development of Regional Bioenergy Systems: Lessons and Future Directions.” Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, August 1, 2016.
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