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A Contingent Valuation Approach to Estimating Regulatory Costs: Mexico’s Day Without Driving Program

Submitted by Eugenia Leon on Fri, 2015-05-29 20:28

EfD Authors:

Little is known about the cost of environmental regulations such as residential zoning restrictions and recycling mandates that target households instead of firms, partly because of significant methodological and data challenges. We use a survey-based approach, the contingent valuation method, to measure the costs of Mexico City’s Day Without Driving program, which seeks to stem pollution and traffic congestion by prohibiting vehicles from being driven one day each week.

Central America

Discussion Paper

EfD Discussion Paper

Health, Policy Design

Behavior change will improve air and public health

Air pollution caused by wood-burning in homes for cooking and heating purposes is one of the most important environmental problems in Chile, affecting thousands of families and causing early mortality

Wed, 2015-04-08 19:45 | Energy, Health, Policy Design | Chile

Greener Industry If Environmental Authorities Change Strategy

Fewer industrial firms would violate environmental legislation and a higher number would adopt cleaner technologies if environmental authorities would focus their monitoring efforts on companies with…

Fri, 2015-03-27 10:04 | Experiments, Climate Change, Policy Design | Sweden

‘Best practice’ for development-focused eco-tourism on the cards

How can tourism operators and nature conservationists leverage the most eco-tourism benefits for communities living on the borders of protected areas and conservancies? This is the motivating question…

Tue, 2015-03-17 23:00 | South Africa

Community buy-in and conservancies: a Southern African perspective

Development-focused eco-tourism partnerships between local communities and private enterprises are more likely to succeed if the communities living on the edge of protected areas are able to make

Tue, 2015-03-17 23:00 | Conservation | South Africa

Competition Commission takes on SA fishing industry

The Competition Commission has urged the South African government to revisit the fishing rights allocation process in a way that will counter what it perceives as entrenched anti-competitive behaviour…

Sun, 2015-03-15 23:00 | Fisheries | South Africa

Environmental and Economic Impacts of Growing Certified Organic Coffee in Colombia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2015-02-08 16:26

EfD Authors:

Blackman, Allen

According to advocates, eco-certification can improve developing country farmers’ environmental and economic performance. However, these notional benefits can be undercut by self-selection: the tendency of relatively wealthy farmers already meeting eco-certification standards to disproportionately participate.

Central America

Agriculture

Environmental impact assessment

Economic impact

EfD Discussion Paper

Agriculture