China’s Natural Forest Protection Program may have a better effect on forests held by village households than state-owned forests

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Liu, Zhaoyang
Xu, Jintao

Key Messages

• Overall, the NFPP has a moderately positive effect on forest cover in the program areas.

• The NFPP has a greater positive effect on forests held by village households than state-owned forests.

• The NFPP might achieve enhanced performance by (re)directing larger proportions of the program’s funds and forest restoration activities toward village forest managers.

Research Brief
Climate Change, Forestry, Land, Policy Design

Forest Cover and Dengue in Costa Rica: Panel Data Analysis of the Effects of Forest Cover Change on Hospital Admissions and Outbreaks

Submitted by Marianela Arguello on
EfD Authors:
Pacay, Eduardo
Robalino, Juan
Piaggio, Matías
Ricketts, Taylor

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.

Peer Reviewed
Conservation, Forestry, Health, Land, Policy Design

Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Sterner, Thomas

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.

Peer Reviewed
Conservation, Land, Policy Design

Alternatives for improving Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) effectiveness on water resources

Submitted by Marianela Arguello on
EfD Authors:
Viguera, Bárbara
Madrigal, Róger
Pacay, Eduardo

Environmental Services include all contributions of nature to humans, and these are relative according to the context and the existence of alternatives (IPBES 2019). Ecosystem degradation jeopardizes the sustainable provision of these services. In this context, Payne for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes arose as policy instruments that promote pro-environmental land use through financial incentives for actions that improve, maintain, or maximize the provision of ES (Kim et al. 2016). 

Peer Reviewed
Climate Change, Conservation, Forestry, Land, Policy Design, Water
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