In decision making all over the globe there tends to be a disregard of the contribution that ecosystem services make to human wellbeing. Eight EfD Centers are the key implementing partners in the new…
"This very readable book on Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa looks at different countries’ strategies to use tenure innovations to manage forest resources. An especially interesting…
Top-down climate negotiations embodied by the Kyoto Protocol have all but stalled, chiefly because of disagreements over targets and objections to financial transfers. To avoid those problems, many have shifted their focus to linkage of bottom-up climate policies such as regional carbon markets.
During the spring semester 2014, EfD Sweden/Environmental Economics Unit recorded lectures from three PhD specialization courses in Environmental and Climate Economics held at the Department of…
The Global Development Network (GDN) is inviting submissions under an open call for papers/posters/sessions for its forthcoming 16th Annual Global Development Conference on the major theme of…
Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Gothenburg, and Chair of EfD Research Committee, is awarded the Think Tank Green Budget Europe's prize of “Environmental Fiscal…
Samwel Lwiza is the winner of the newly created Gunnar Köhlin’s Best MSc Thesis Award. He received the prize at the closing day of the 8th Environment for Development Initiative Annual Meeting held in…
The IPCC 5th Assessment Report is coming to a close. EfD will live stream the world's leading climate researchers discussing future paths for climate research from 17-18 October 2014. Stay tuned.
We measure people's pro-social behavior, in terms of voluntary money and labor contributions to an archetypical public good, a bridge, and in terms of voluntary money contributions in a public good game, using the same non-student sample in rural Vietnam at four different points in time from 2005 to 2011.
The optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example, is analyzed in a model where people care about their relative consumption.