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• 2012-01-31 | central america | Behavior ec. Climate change Policy design Paul J. Ferraro to EfD-Central America Center at CATIE, Costa Rica Ferraro is a Fulbright Scholar (2011-2012) and will be working at EfD-CA as guest researcher from January until June, 2012.
• 2011-12-16 | central america | Climate change Course on Emissions Trading for Emerging Economies & Developing Countries ICAP Training Course in Costa Rica. From 19-28 March 2012. Applications deadline extended to 20 December 2011 (previously 15 December 2011).
• 2011-12-07 | central america | Policy design EfD Fellow Umaña speaks at workshop on Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being Experts from around the world converge to discuss new approaches and policies for understanding the links between ecosystem services and evaluating the effects of agricultural development strategies and human well-being.
• 2011-11-10 | central america Travel Grants for Economists from Less Developed Countries Call for Nominations is open to attend the 2012 AAEA Annual Meeting in Seattle, August 12–14, 2012. Deadline: Monday, December 5th, 2011. For more info click on the web link below.
• 2011-10-24 | eeu sweden | Policy design 3ie Social Protection Thematic Window - Call for proposals The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)<http://www.3ieimpact.org/> is accepting proposals for quality impact evaluations of social protection programmes.
• 2011-10-19 | eeu sweden Call for Abstracts & Session Proposals for IIFET 2012 Tanzania Conference Please join us for IIFET’s 16th biennial conference: IIFET 2012 Tanzania Visible Possibilities: The Economics of Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Trade
• 2011-10-10 | central america | Climate change Policy design Experts Workshop on Climate Change & Water, Panama 2011 A highly selected interdisciplinary group of experts working on water and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean met in Panama City, Panama from Thursday, September 29th to Saturday, October 1st, 2011.
• 2011-08-25 | central america | Climate change Policy design Project will conduct socioeconomic studies of the links between water and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean The project seeks to promote capacity building for research, analysis and evaluation of the impacts of climate change and water, using the tools of environmental economics.
• 2011-08-24 | central america | Climate change Arranca proyecto de estudios socioeconómicos de los vínculos entre agua y cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe Con el proyecto se busca promover la creación de capacidad de investigación, análisis y la evaluación del impacto del cambio climático y agua, utilizando las herramientas de la economía ambiental
• 2011-07-29 | central america María Angélica Naranjo named EfD-CA Center Deputy Director Success in achievement. Congratulations!
• 2011-07-29 | central america | Policy design Capacity building: Twenty eight new trained in Policy and Program Impact Evaluation Participants from Latin America and the Caribbean completed the Environmental and Resource Economics Training Course on Impact Evaluation by LACEEP at CATIE
• 2011-06-29 | central america | Climate change Policy design Francisco Alpízar to participate in an international scientific workshop on IPBES The IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) will work to build capacity for and strengthen the use of science in policy making by linking the scientific community and policy makers. The workshop and assessments will take place in Tokyo, Japan from the 25 to 27 of July 2011.
• 2011-06-17 | central america | Behavior ec. Policy design Environmental and development issues in Latin America: moving forward Economists in Latin America are moving beyond the prevailing ‘macro’ orientation of their research focusing more on questions linked to development and the use and management of the environmental resource base in the region.
• 2011-05-27 | central america | Behavior ec. Forestry Policy design Field Survey Analysis of Conservation Policies and Deforestation Decisions Through gathering landowners’ experiences and actual practices in situ, researchers at EfD-CA Center work on confirming research findings, contextualize, validate research, and set new hypothesis.
• 2011-05-02 | central america | Climate change Parks & Wildlife Policy design Two New Research Projects on Climate Change at EfD-CA EfD-CA at CATIE takes advantage of research synergies in institutional aspects of climate change, biodiversity, and water.
• 2011-04-07 | central america | Behavior ec. Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity LACEEP's XI Biannual Short Course.
• 2011-03-25 | central america | Climate change Forestry CATIE and FONAFIFO to cooperate for rural and forest development The work of both organizations will be more effective through this alliance which promotes sharing technical assistance and experiences.
• 2011-03-01 | central america | Climate change Chacón to study mechanisms of compensation, certification and credit The project provides a systematization of cases studies in Central America and Dominican Republic.
• 2011-02-24 | central america | Parks & Wildlife Policy design LACEA 2010 Invited Sessions - Francisco Alpízar See research fellow and EfD-CA cordinator Francisco Alpízar presenting in an invited session of the XV Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA 2010).
• 2011-02-24 | central america Letter from regions - Latin America in EAERE Newsletter Read Francisco Alpízar's "Letter from regions on the autumn 2010 Newsletter of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE)
• 2011-01-24 | central america | Policy design Success factors for rural drinking water supply identified by EfD Costa Rica researchers Why can some communities succeed in solving collective problems such as provision of drinking water while others fail? Róger Madrigal, EfD Research Fellow, conducted fieldwork in 41 Costa Rican rural villages in order to identify success and failure factors. He made a substantial effort to present the results in an accessible way to people from all the communities as well as to academic peers and high level policy makers.
• 2011-01-23 | central america | Climate change Round Table: the positioning of CATIE and the experience of Costa Rica in the COP16/CMP6 An overview on the climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC hosted in in Cancun, Mexico
• 2010-11-10 | central america | Behavior ec. Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design CATIE began research on payments for environmental services EfD-CA at CATIE began study sponsored by The Tinker Foundation
• 2010-11-09 | central america | Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Concessions of services in protected areas of Costa Rica incorporate methodology created by EfD-CA Methodology based on environmental economics principles, to be replicated in wildlife protected areas
• 2010-10-29 | central america | Forestry Parks & Wildlife Policy design Concesiones de servicios en áreas protegidas en Costa Rica Metodología del EfD-CA en CATIE basada en principios de economía ambiental por replicarse en áreas silvestres protegidas // Methodology based on environmental economics principles created by EfD-CA at CATIE soon to be replicated in other protected areas.
• 2010-10-29 | central america | Behavior ec. Policy design Arranca investigación en pagos por servicios ambientales EfD-CA del CATIE inició estudio de dos años en el tema de pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA) financiado con fondos de la Fundación Tinker
• 2010-10-20 | central america Investigador del EfD-América Central candidato a junta directiva de AERE (In Spanish) Francisco Alpízar, Coordinador del Centro EfD-América Central, es uno de los candidatos a la junta directiva de la Asociación de Economistas de Recursos Ambientales (AERE). El plazo para votar vence el 1 de diciembre 2010.
• 2010-10-20 Francisco Alpizar candidate for AERE Francisco Alpizar, Coordinator of the Environment for Development in Central America, is one of the candidates for Association Of Environmental Resource Economists (AERE) Board Members. The deadline to vote will be December 1, 2010.
• 2010-10-12 | central america Open aplication for doctoral students in Evaluating resilience of ecological and social systems in changing landscapes of Idaho and Costa Rica The project is being implemented jointly with the University of Idaho and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica.
• 2010-09-30 Martin Persson to EfD Central America Martin Persson, currently Post Doc at the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development (www.gcgd.gu.se) will spend the next six months as a guest researcher at the EfD Center for Central America at CATIE, Costa Rica.

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