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Registration for the Annual Meeting 2021 is now open!

EfD’s 15th Annual Meeting takes place on November 15-19 2021. The EfD Annual Meeting will be held…

“We look for win-win situations”

Elizabeth Robinson is the Director of the prestigious Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change…

Biodiversity, economy and social wellbeing goes hand in hand

What do Prince Charles and Leonardo DiCaprio have in common? At least one thing: the Royal Botanical…

Better together: Learnings and findings of mixed sex teams in mangrove use

Social expectations may indicate that women are more inclined than men towards protecting natural…

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Metrics for environmental compensation: A comparative analysis of Swedish municipalities

Environmental compensation (EC) aims at addressing environmental losses due to development projects and involves a need…

31 Aug 2021 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

Leaders’ distributional & efficiency effects in collective responses to policy: Lab-in-field experiments with small-scale gold miners in Colombia.

Abstract Globally, small-scale gold mining (SSGM) is an important economic option for many rural poor. It involves local…

5 Aug 2021 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

The value of forest water purification ecosystem services in Costa Rica

Highlights • Avoiding 1% of catchment's forest loss reduces chemicals use by 0.026% in Costa Rica. • Improving the…

1 Jun 2021 | Peer Reviewed | Central America

Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

The climate targets agreed upon in the Paris Agreement will eventually need to be backed by ambitious climate policies…

28 Sep 2021 | Peer Reviewed |

Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia

Abstract Understanding who would be affected in which way by carbon pricing is pivotal for effective and socially…

28 Sep 2021 | Peer Reviewed |

Households and tree-planting for wood energy production – Do perceptions matter?

While forests are a primary source of energy for the majority of Tanzanian households, the forest cover is rapidly…

28 Jun 2021 | Peer Reviewed | Tanzania

Upcoming events

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: European Conference 2021.

Monday 18 October — Wednesday 20 October, 2021

The second Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: European Conference 2021 (SBCAEC2021) will be held…

EfD's 15th annual meeting

Monday 15 November — Friday 19 November, 2021

The EfD Annual Meeting is the largest annual conference in the Global South on the application of…

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