EfD Newsletter

EfD Newsletter 2009-10-05

Welcome to the newsletter of the Environment for Development initiative, a program that supports environmental economics research, policy advice and academic training in developing countries. Below you will find our latest publications and news from the past month. We hope you will find them interesting.

Greatly increased number of visitors. In one year, the number of visitors to the EfD website increased by 260 percent. During September 2009 there were 2 714 visitors and 3 570 visits.

Gunnar Köhlin, Director Environment for Development initiative

Peer reviewed

Climate change
An even Sterner Review, Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate

Policy design
Which Firms are More Sensitive to Public Disclosure Schemes for Pollution Control? Evidence from Indonesia’s PROPER Program

Behavior ec.
Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Agriculture
Poverty, Risk Aversion, and Path Dependence in Low-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Behavior ec.
Internalized Contribution Norms and Learning in a Public Goods Experiment in Ghana

Behavior ec.
Risk Aversion and Expected Utility of Consumption over Time

EfD/RFF Discussion papers

AgricultureClimate change
The Effect of Risk, Ambiguity, and Coordination on Farmers´Adaptation to Climate Change: A Framed Field Experiment

Forestry
To Bribe or Not to Bribe: Incentives to Protect Tanzania´s Forest

Behavior ec.
Conditional Cooperation and Social Group: Experimental Results from Colombia

Agriculture
Farmers' Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-Farm Conservation and Technology Adoption

Books/Book Chapters

Climate changePolicy design
Climate Change Abatement: Not "Stern" Enough?

Projects

Forestry
Household forest values under varying management regimes in rural Ethiopia

News

EfD represented in International Growth Week

UN Expert workshop on Economics of climate adaptation in Africa

Sterner stressed the urgency of emission reductions

"Groundbreaking research from EfD in Ethiopia"

Sterner invited speaker at conference for parliamentarians from EU

Call for evaluation of EEU/EfD

DN refers to research by Ping Qin

EfD researchers comments on fuel subsidies in Ghana

Upcoming Events

2009-10-30
4th Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics

2009-11-02
Public Lecture on Climate Change

2009-11-04
EfD Annual Meeting, 2009 in Kenya

2009-12-07
COP15 - United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009

2009-12-16
5th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

2010-06-28
The Fourth World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

Other

Conferences etc

Funding

Alumni

Job Links

EfD in media

The Environment for Development initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics focused on international research collaboration, policy advice, and academic training. It consists of centers in Central America, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, in partnership with the Environmental Economics Unit at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. Financial support is provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

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