Quantifying COVID-19’s Silver Lining: Avoided Deaths from Air Quality Improvements in Bogotá
Valuing the unvalued recreational ecosystem services in developing cities of sub-Saharan Africa: urban parks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Being mostly rural, Dar es Salaam has always been characterized by greenery and more recently by green space development. However, the values of these spaces are often not known. Note that these unknown values are common to sub-Saharan Africa. In order to make informed decisions in the management of these spaces, it is important that the values are assessed and documented. In this study, we do so by estimating the economic value of recreational parks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Valuation of nature-based tourism using contingent valuation survey: evidence from South Africa
The Impact of Farmer Input Support Programme Reform on Crop Diversification and Rotation in Zambia
Green economy reform - social inclusion and policy instrument support
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Briefing highlights
– Analyzing policy attitudes is important for understanding environmental policy feasibility.
– Pure self-interest is not sufficient to explain people’s policy positions. There are other factors that are also important for policy attitude formation.
– Policy packaging, earmarking and revenue recycling can potentially change people’s policy positions.
Carbon Taxes
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Economists argue that carbon taxation (and more generally carbon pricing) is the single most powerful way to combat climate change. Since this is so controversial, we need to explain it better, and to be precise, the efficiency gains are largest when the costs of abatement are strongly heterogeneous. This is often—but not always—the case. When it is not, standards can fill much the same role.