Anthony Leiman gave a talk on the economic value of the False Bay Ecology Park and the City of Cape Town nature reserves (including wetlands and green belt) at the conference Local Climate Solutions…
Increased Brazilian beef exports indirectly lead to deforestation in the Amazon region. The environmental effect is much larger than previously indicated, according to new research from the University…
The project provides a systematization of cases studies in Central America and Dominican Republic. Adriana Chacón, Research Fellow at the EfD-CA Center in CATIE takes part of a project that examines…
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).
Read Francisco Alpízar's "Letter from regions on the autumn 2010 Newsletter of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE)
Rapidly-rising food prices and growing demand for all land-based commodities, like palm oil and biofuels, are driving an intensive global land hunt that threatens the rights of hundreds of millions of…
A climate tax corresponding to €60/ton CO2eq on meat and milk could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture by around seven per cent. If the land made available is used for bioenergy…
Does environmental economics produce aeroplanes without engines? In an upcoming special issue of the journal Environmental and Resource Economics, the editors professor Henk Folmer and professor and…
Plans for the research program Human Cooperation to Manage Natural Resources were elaborated on January 17-19 at Indiana University in Bloomington. Project partners are Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom's…
An overview on the climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC hosted in in Cancun, Mexico EfD-CA fellows in collaboration with CATIE’s office of the Director General and the Climate Change Program…