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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

On 31 March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the impacts of climate change on humans and ecosystems ( see go.nature.com/ad5v1b). These are real risks…

This paper concerns optimal redistributive non-linear income taxation in an OLG model, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people's current consumption, (ii) own past…

Although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resources management issues in developing and developed economies…