Róger Madrigal, EfD Director of EfD Central America held two virtual presentations in May about the challenges regarding water management, with a focus on effective solutions. In rural and peri-urban…
A recent study which surveyed 2075 households randomly in Ho Chi Minh City has discovered some results which are new and unexpected about the reasonableness on monthly water bills.
Both in the United States and in Europe there is ongoing work on reversing habitat fragmentation and the attendant loss in biodiversity in river systems caused by hydropower and other developments. Fish ladders and other measures are being introduced to restore the connectivity in river systems. In this paper, we set up a theoretical model to investigate what the conditions are for such an investment to be socially profitable.
The Global Plastics Action Partnership (GPAP) is a major public-private partnership aimed at tackling global plastics pollution. It’s now is drawing on EfD expertise as it creates a roadmap for how to
In March 2021, the United Nations Statistical Commission took a major step toward moving beyond traditional measures of economic well-being by officially approving a framework for ecosystem accounting
Implications for Participatory Forest Management and Payments to Communities for Ecosystem Services
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a severe problem for Chile. Meet César Salazar, Associate Professor at Universidad del Bio-Bio, Chile, and a senior researcher at EfD Chile. He has been part of a
Most stated preference studies estimate discount rates using a split-sample approach. Each sample faces a different payment frequency (for instance, 1, 5, 10) together with a randomly assigned bid vector; both the frequency of payments and the bid are fixed for a specific individual. This paper evaluates whether allowing respondents to choose their preferred payment frequency affects the estimated discount rate.
