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Use when scoping or scope-testing a Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) manuscript — confirming the environmental/resource mechanism is load-bearing and the question clears the field-journal bar before any analysis is finalized. Decides fit and routes; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Topic Selection (jeem-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- The paper is aimed at JEEM and you are not sure the **environmental or resource mechanism is doing the work** versus being a label on a generic applied-micro result
- A coauthor asks "is this JEEM, JAERE, JPubE, AEJ: Policy, or Ecological Economics?"
- The result is interesting but the **policy or welfare stakes** are not articulated
- The paper is a method/valuation exercise and you must show it speaks to a substantive environmental question, not just a technique

## Data first or question first

Environmental economics is data-rich — satellite imagery, sensor networks, administrative permit registries, parcel records — and that abundance tempts a "we have a great dataset, what can we estimate?" approach. JEEM rewards the reverse: a sharp environmental-economic *question* that the data then answer. A novel dataset is an asset only if it identifies a welfare-relevant parameter the field wants; on its own it is a desk-reject risk ("interesting data, no contribution"). Before committing, write the one-sentence question and the regulator-usable number it targets, then ask whether the data identify it — not the other way around.

## The JEEM fit test
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