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Private sector initiatives certifying that producers of goods and services adhere to defined environmental process standards are increasingly popular worldwide. According to proponents, they can…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America and Mexico

Cómo los incentivos de mercado afectan el comportamiento de los que no reciben el PSA? Con este estudio el Programa de Investigación en Desarrollo, Economía y Ambiente (IDEA) de CATIE se dio a la…

| Policy Brief | Central America and Mexico

Lecciones de 20 años de experiencia en servicios ambientales en Costa Rica DE RIO A RIO+: Lecciones de 20 años de experiencia en servicios ambientales en Costa Rica

| Report | Central America and Mexico

Our findings provide some of the first evidence that eco-certification can generate private benefits for tourism operators in developing countries and therefore has the potential to improve their…

| EfD Discussion Paper | Central America and Mexico

To address simultaneity and the presence of spatially correlated unobservables, we measure for neighbors' deforestation using the slopes of neighbors' and neighbors' neighbors' parcels. We estimate…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America and Mexico

Eco-certification of coffee, timber and other high-value agricultural commodities is increasingly widespread. In principle, it can improve commodity producers' environmental performance, even in…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America and Mexico

The paper discusses the application of Elinor Ostrom’s Social Ecological Systems (SES) framework, using as example a community organization in Costa Rica, which collectively extracts turtle eggs. The…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America and Mexico

Why are some communities effective at providing safe drinking water, while others fail? In many rural communities around the world, villagers contest the policy prescription that all drinking water…

| Policy Brief | Central America and Mexico

This Brief presents a framework that can be used to assess the potential impact of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Factors that determines the impact of PES are discussed such as…

| Policy Brief | Central America and Mexico, Sweden

We argue for integrating the consideration of location in policy planning in three ways, in order to help to predict policy impacts on deforestation and, thereby, improve policy choices. Policies must…

| Peer Reviewed | Central America and Mexico