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.
Martin has a background in environmental science, doing interdisciplinary research on the economics of climate change and climate policy, with a special focus on non-CO2 greenhouse gases and tropical deforestation.
During his research visit at EfD Central America he aims to develop an agent-based model of the Costa Rican Payment for Environmental Services (PES) system that, e.g., can be used to explore consequences of different approaches to targeting and differentiating payments.