MA R GA R ET A . WA L L S Research Director and Senior Fellow 202.328.5092 walls@rff.org
EXPERTISE Climate: Climate Adaptation, Climate Change Ecosystems: Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure Energy: Energy Efficiency Land Use: Green Infrastructure, Outdoor Recreation, Parks, Refuges, and Wildernesses, Public Lands, Urban Sprawl Policy and Analysis: Benefit–Cost Analysis, Environmental Accounting, Regulation, State and US Regional Policies
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Margaret Walls’s current research focuses on issues related to urban land use, ecosystem services, parks, and energy efficiency. She has analyzed transferable development rights programs for managing land use in urban fringe areas, assessed the value of different types of parks and open space, and investigated energy efficiency issues in buildings. In 2008 and 2009, she was the study director for the Outdoor Resources Review Group (see www.rff.org/orrg). From 2010 to 2013, Walls was the first appointee to the Thomas J. Klutznick Chair at RFF. Walls has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Economic Literature, among others. EDUCATION • PhD in economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988 • BS in agricultural economics, University of Kentucky, 1981 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Strategically Placing Green Infrastructure: Cost-Effective Land Conservation in the Floodplain (with C. Kousky, S. Olmstead, and M. Macauley), Environmental Science and Technology, Apr. 2013. Paying for State Parks: Evaluating Alternative Approaches for the 21st Century, RFF Report, Jan. 2013. Borrowing to Save Energy: An Assessment of Energy-Efficiency Financing Programs (with K.L. Palmer and T. Gerarden), RFF Report, Apr. 2012. Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets, (with N. Magliocca, V. McConnell, and E. Safirova), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Jan. 2012. The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Precipitation and Flooding: A Case Study in Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River Basin (with C. Kousky, S.M. Olmstead, A. Stern, and M.K. Macauley), RFF Report, Nov. 2011.
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