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This study examines the welfare effects of community plantations in Ethiopia via contingent valuation. Both single-bounded and double-bounded survey methods were considered, and, with respect to…
| Peer Reviewed | South AfricaAlthough developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than “paper parks” that are chronically short of the…
| Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaBiodiversity plays a key role in sustaining the functioning of ecosystems and thus in the provision of ecosystem services. A great deal of biodiversity is to be found in private forests, thus the way…
| Other Publications | SwedenThis paper uses the water-reallocation scheme created within the National Water Act (1998) to analyze the impacts of water policy on farm livelihoods in South Africa. Based on one of the most water…
| Peer Reviewed | South AfricaAlthough protected areas, or “parks”, are among the leading policy tools used to stem tropical deforestation, rigorous evaluations of their effectiveness—that is, evaluations that control for their…
| Peer Reviewed |This policy brief discusses the whether the preference of Swedish forestry stakeholders is biodiversity or production goals. Healthy and productive forests benefit us all, but what are the priorities…
| Policy Brief | SwedenThis study presents findings from a systematic comparative research effort to investigate the additionality claims of CDM afforestation projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Moldova. Using what we refer to…
| Discussion Paper | TanzaniaUsing three rounds of survey data that cover a decade, we analyze household preferences for energy types and energy choice in urban Ethiopia. We find that, during 2000-2009, households in major cities…
| Research Brief | Ethiopia, Global HubThis paper examines dependence on environmental resources and impacts on household welfare among the indigenous San and Mier rural communities neighbouring Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa…
| Peer Reviewed | South Africa