Environment for Development Unveils New Website
Environment for Development (EfD) is pleased to announce the release of its new website providing decision-makers, researchers and the general public easy access to the latest research findings on the…
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Karl Göran Mäler in memoriam
EfD and the World of environmental economics has lost a great mind and a great friend. Karl-Göran Mäler passed away a few days ago. He died peacefully in a retirement home in Stockholm. As the…
Prof. E Somanathan discusses how to escape the economic dangers of COVID-19.
Any further lockdown risks incurring a loss of over 10% of GDP without stemming the spread of Covid-19. The ideal strategy is to find and isolate the small fraction of infected people through…
Dr. Farzana Afridi along with Dr. Amrita Dhilon & Dr. Sanchari Roy explain how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the urban poor
Dr. Farzana Afridi along with Dr. Amrita Dhilon and Dr, Sanchari Roy explain how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the urban poor. The phone survey conducted sheds light on how the urban poor are…
A narrative based on an interview conducted with a tailor who walked from Jaipur to his home in Uttar Pradesh, by Prof. Rohini Somanathan and Bhavishya Mehta
Professor Rohini Somanathan and Bhavishya Mehta interviewed a tailor who walked most of the way from Jaipur to his home in Farrukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The interview narrates the impact of…
Laura Taylor
Laura Taylor, a mentor at the first WinEED workshop in Gothenburg, named as Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Fellow. Laura is a Professor and Chair of the School of…
Research study prioritizes food security and gender equity in Central America
Smallholder family farmers located in the dry corridor within the Trifinio Region, which comprehends the borders of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, are part of the sample used to develop this EfD…
In Costa Rica protected areas reduce the incidence of hydrological disasters
This is the main result of a research that can be useful for policy makers in the country, the most relevant information is shown in a four minutes video produced by EfD-CA March 25, 2020. In a period…
Using Payments for Ecosystem Services to Protect Water Resources
A four-minute video summarizes the work done by researchers from EfD-CA at CATIE to provide a PES scheme for two watersheds in Jamaica March 6, 2020. The experience of more than 15 years in the design…
A payment for ecosystem services to improve the management in two watershed of Jamaica
Researchers from CATIE supported the establishment of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schema for the Yallahs River and Hope River Watershed Management Units Tuesday February 19, 2020. On the…