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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…
| Peer Reviewed | SwedenCombatting Poaching by Empowering Local Communities and Targeting Organised Crime. The illegal exploitation of wild abalone in South African coastal communities has been escalating since 1994, despite…
| Research Brief | South AfricaThe introduction of a price on CO2 is expected to be more efficient than prescriptive regulation. It also instantiates substantial economic value. Initially, programs allocated this value to incumbent…
| Peer Reviewed |This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under the Swedish system of refunded emissions charges and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy…
| Discussion Paper | SwedenMany cities worldwide have considered vehicle restriction policies to curb proliferating problems of traffic and pollution. At the beginning of 2011, Beijing became the first city to allocate vehicle…
| EfD Discussion Paper | ChinaWe study the design of an economic incentive based program – a subsidy – to induce adoption of more efficient technology in a pollution reduction program in southern Chile. Stated preferences methods…
| Peer Reviewed | ChileFor Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon, we find that protection types with differences in governance, including different constraints on local economic development, also differ in their locations. Taking…
| Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaWe analyze the performance of the Federal Industrial Inspection Program operated by the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) in Mexico City. We seek to answer three questions: What…
| Peer Reviewed | ChileWe study the effect of a household subsidy to induce the adoption of more efficient and less polluting wood combustion technologies. We compare, through numerical simulations, several subsidy designs…
| Peer Reviewed | ChileWe estimated a hazard function for the duration of micro-enterprises after they had been subject to a public seed financing programme in southern Chile. The programme aims to encourage innovative new…
| Peer Reviewed | Chile