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This paper provides the first county-level analysis of the impacts of weather variability on rice yield in China, by compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We…

4 June 2014 | EfD Discussion Paper | China

We estimate local effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) programs on poverty in Costa Rica between 2007 and 2009. Using household surveys and spatial geographic data, we are able to…

4 June 2014 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central America

Implementing and complying with standards and certification often increases costs for supply chain actors. These increased costs are caused by upgrading production, logistics and marketing needed to…

1 June 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Kenya

The economic importance of the various attributes of dryland nature-based tourism in the Kgalagadi area is generally unknown, as is the distribution of benefits from such tourism. This study seeks to…

29 May 2014 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa

This report presents an evaluation of the Environmental Economics Program (EEP), that consists of the two sub-programs; Academic Capacity Building Program at University of Gothenburg (CBP) and the…

26 May 2014 | Report |

Given the considerable popularity of community-based wildlife management as a conservation tool, it is of interest to assess the long-run sustainability of this policy not only in conservation terms…

21 May 2014 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa

Because the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs depends on landowners’ engagement, understanding the relationship between the type of payment and participation is a key…

18 May 2014 | EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden

In this paper, we investigate how different levels of entrance fees affect donations for a public good, a natural park. To explore this issue, the researchers conducted a stated preference study…

18 May 2014 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central America, Sweden

Jorge Dresdner wrote an opinion article about discards in Chilean fisheries. http://www.elsur.cl/impresa/2014/05/09/full/2/

9 May 2014 | Other Publications | Chile

This paper derives Pareto-efficient provision rules for national and global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about his or her relative consumption of private goods…

1 May 2014 | Peer Reviewed |