environmental policy

Mediating collaborations: The role of participant diversity in watershed governance

This paper combines the difference-in-differences design and mediation analysis to examine the impacts of nonprofit watershed councils and the participant diversity on water quality.

Reward exploitation or exploration? The effects of local government sustainability strategies and performance information on citizen evaluation

This survey experiment finds that citizens evaluate government sustainability performance more favorably when it results from established policies (exploitation) rather than pioneering initiatives (exploration).

All hands on deck: The role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals

This paper combines the difference-in-differences (DiD) methods and content analysis to examine the effectiveness of collaborative platforms in supporting local collaborations for natural resource management.

The “watershed” of collaboration: The impact of legislation and collaborative actions on environmental outcomes

This paper combines the regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) design and longitudinal analysis to examine the impacts of state legislation and the subsequent collaborative projects on water quality.

The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing inter-jurisdictional natural resources

This paper uses the synthetic control method, incorporating monthly water quality data from 14 river monitoring sites in two neighboring cities, to examine the effectiveness of the Network Administrative Organization (NAO) model in reducing water pollution.