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…
Deforestation isn’t just an environmental and biodiversity issue. It’s recognized that it also harms human health. However, its effect on infant health has hardly been investigated. A recent study in…
Welcome to attend this free online EfD Webinar! Time: June 26, 17.00-18.00 CEST Topic: "Nature Prescription to Improve Human Health"
The EfD Uganda participants in the Inclusive Green Economy Program, IGE Fellows, cohort of 2024-25, were officially enrolled in a yearlong capacity-building program at Makerere University on May 15…
EfD researcher and WinEED member Etenesh Asfaw, based in Moldavia, has led a study applying a battery of OECD indicators of green growth of Uzbekistan’s economy. She explained the main findings and…
Researchers from EfD Uganda presented findings to the Ugandan parliament on May 3rd, shedding light on the country's heavy reliance on biomass and proposing policy adjustments towards cleaner energy…
Researchers have challenged the Nigerian traditional approach to managing sacred forests, stating that conserving the forests only for cultural purposes lacks sustainability in the face of cultural…
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.