
EfD's 15th Annual Meeting
The EfD Annual Meeting is the largest annual conference in the Global South on the application of environmental economics to development. The EfD Annual Meeting this year will be held virtually this…
The EfD Annual Meeting is the largest annual conference in the Global South on the application of environmental economics to development. The EfD Annual Meeting this year will be held virtually this…
Environmental compensation (EC) aims at addressing environmental losses due to development projects and involves a need to compare development losses with compensation gains using relevant metrics. A conceptual procedure for computing no net loss is formulated and used as a point of departure for a comparative analysis of metrics used by five Swedish municipalities as a part of their EC implementation in the spatial planning context of detailed development plans.
Professor Gardner Brown passed away in his home on August 9th, 2021, surrounded by his family. He is greatly missed by friends and colleagues all over the world. Gardner Brown was one of the great…
The Environmental Education Initiative in marine plastic pollution, funded by the EfD Global Hub and implemented by the EfD Chile center, was one of the projects shown on August 18 at the TV show…
Does a devolution policy of forestland management to households help conserve forests? Does giving land use right as a property right or as per contract work better? A recent EfD research titled “Does…
For smallholder subsistence farmers, it is difficult to undertake adequate ex-ante strategies to prepare for shocks. These households are forced to attempt multiple ex-post coping strategies such as consuming less preferred food, limiting food diversity and reducing the size of meals. The literature on consumption has generally overlooked the potential impact of post-shock consumption adjustment on nutritional deprivation.
The 2021 Gothenburg International Research Conference on Sustainable Development Goal 8 will take place in a blended form (physically and virtually) 26th-27th of August. International and Swedish…
EfD researcher Jorge Dresdner, with co-authors Roberto Cárdenas and Adams Ceballos, have studied the effects of the salmon aquaculture industry on income distribution in coastal communities in Chile…
This publication explains how market-based instruments can be utilized to improve air quality, water, and waste management in Asia.
This course allows those that have been using benefit-cost analysis for some time to get a refresher on not just the how, but the why, of what we do, to keep improving the quality of our work. It also…