Scholars@Duke
Tibor Vegh

Tibor Vegh

Assist Research Director
Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
tibor.vegh@duke.edu
90335, Durham, NC 27708-0335
2117 Campus Dr., Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Testing factors that enhance private participation in payments for ecosystem service programs targeting flood mitigation

Journal article Nature Based Solutions · June 1, 2025 To address the severe consequences of low participation, more studies are needed that empirically evaluate how different factors affect enrollment in payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. In this paper, we provide empirical insight into how diffe ... Full text Cite

A global assessment of preferential access areas for small-scale fisheries

Journal article Npj Ocean Sustainability · December 1, 2024 We provide the first global assessment of the status of preferential access areas (PAAs), a relatively understudied policy tool to govern small-scale fisheries. We find 44 countries, most of them of low or low-middle income, have established a total of 63 ... Full text Cite

Opportunities, tradeoffs, and caveats for private sector involvement in US floodplain buyout programs

Journal article Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · December 1, 2023 For several decades, the USA has increasingly relied on government-administered floodplain buyout programs to reduce flood risk and remove flood-damaged dwellings from floodplains. However, high transaction costs and long administrative timelines dramatica ... Full text Cite

Voluntary commitments made by the world's largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis.

Journal article One earth (Cambridge, Mass.) · November 2022 Plastic pollution has caused significant environmental and health challenges. Corporations that contribute to the make, use, and distribution of plastics can play a vital role in addressing global plastic pollution and many are committing to voluntary pled ... Full text Cite

A snapshot of the economic benefits from foreign bottom trawling in coastal West Africa: A mutually-beneficial trade in services, no winners or extractivism?

Journal article Fish and Fisheries · September 1, 2022 Large-scale fishing effort in the waters of tropical and lower income countries is predominantly driven by ‘distant water fishing fleets’ often owned by companies based in a small number of countries and has been associated with a range of negative environ ... Full text Cite

The evolving global plastics policy landscape: An inventory and effectiveness review

Journal article Environmental Science and Policy · August 1, 2022 Governments worldwide are increasingly adopting public policies, laws, and ordinances to reduce plastic pollution. To date, studies have not analyzed the content of, and trends in, these policies. Employing a content analysis and literature search, we set ... Full text Open Access Cite

Combatting illegal fishing through transparency initiatives: Lessons learned from comparative analysis of transparency initiatives in seafood, apparel, extractive, and timber supply chains

Journal article Marine Policy · April 1, 2022 Over the last two decades, efforts to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing have led to an expansion of initiatives to enhance transparency across the seafood industry through international agreements, national government regulations, a ... Full text Cite

The Ocean 100: Transnational corporations in the ocean economy.

Journal article Science advances · January 2021 The ocean economy is growing as commercial use of the ocean accelerates, while progress toward achieving international goals for ocean conservation and sustainability is lagging. In this context, the private sector is increasingly recognized as having the ... Full text Cite

Incentivizing the reduction of pollution at U.S. dairies: Addressing additionality when multiple environmental credit payments are combined

Journal article Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development · March 9, 2020 This article examines the intricacies of environmental credit generation from concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) farm systems. Livestock production generates large amounts of manure (solid and liquid waste) and consumes a high volume of water tha ... Full text Cite

Blue carbon conservation in West Africa: a first assessment of feasibility

Journal article Journal of Coastal Conservation · February 1, 2020 The loss of blue carbon ecosystems results in significant levels of carbon emissions and decreased supply of other ecosystem services. West Africa contains approximately 14% of the world’s mangrove area but despite 25% of coverage loss between 1980 and 200 ... Full text Cite

West Africa's coastal bottom trawl fishery: Initial examination of a trade in fishing services

Journal article Marine Policy · February 1, 2019 Many states attempt to increase the economic benefits generated from their fish resources through foreign fishing arrangements that can be characterized as trades in fishing services. This paper provides a first assessment of the net economic benefits in a ... Full text Cite

Biogas in the United States: estimating future production and learning from international experiences

Journal article Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · March 1, 2017 The substitution of biogas, an energy source derived from biological feedstock, for fossil natural gas (NG) can mitigate the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, making it an attractive renewable energy source in a carbon-constrained future. Alt ... Full text Cite

The environmental and economic effects of regional bioenergy policy in the southeastern U.S

Journal article Energy Policy · October 1, 2015 The unique generation, landownership, and resource attributes of the southeastern United States make the region an important test bed for implementation of novel renewable energy policy interventions. This study evaluates the environmental and economic imp ... Full text Cite

Carbon credit possibilities and economic implications of fuel reduction treatments

Journal article Western Journal of Applied Forestry · April 1, 2013 We determined the difference in carbon (C) stocks and C emissions between treated and untreated ponderosa pine stands over 100 years on the Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests, Arizona, USA, under assumed treatment scenarios, wildfire frequency, and ann ... Full text Cite