June 23 - 24, 2022, 2-day virtual meeting + Uganda as part of the 2022 EfD Annual Meeting(1 day between September 22-26, 2022) Hosted by NENRE-EfD Chile at the University of Concepción and Duke…
Submit your work here: https://bit.ly/3x8uh34 The Seventh Annual Meeting of the EfD Chile center "Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE)", will take place on October…
Ghana's extractive industry faces challenges, limiting its potential to contribute effectively to the nation's economic growth. The EfD Ghana seminar, titled Getting More from Ghana’s Extractive…
Welcome to attend this free online EfD Webinar! Time: June 26, 17.00-18.00 CEST Topic: "Nature Prescription to Improve Human Health"
Approximately 25 people from the Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Ghana, and Costa Rica participated in the second meeting of the Transformative Pathways…
A new article published in the Environmental and Resources Economics journal estimates the marginal effects of increasing forest cover on dengue prevalence in Costa Rica. The study shows that an…
In this study, we estimate the marginal effects of increasing forest cover on dengue prevalence in Costa Rica using econometric models to relate hospital admission records to forest cover maps from 2001 and 2011. We find that increasing the percentage of forest cover significantly decreases both the number of hospital admissions for dengue and the probability of an outbreak.
Governments are catching up with economic theory and practice by increasingly integrating ecosystem service values into national planning processes, including benefit-cost analyses of public policies. Such analyses require information not only about today’s benefits from ecosystem services but also on how benefits change over time. We address a key limitation of existing policy guidance, which assumes that benefits from ecosystem services remain unchanged.
EfD Central America researchers worked with the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) to analyze the impact of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs implemented since the 90s on the…