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…
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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. The Program on Governance…
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 Twenty eight practitioners and students…
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…
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…
Optimum tax on foreign fishing in Africa protects stocks and domestic fishing
Press release from University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, Environmental Economics unit, 24 May 2011 People living in coastal areas in Africa can rarely utilise their entire…
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…
What do policymakers know about the factors influencing people’s well-being?
Press release from Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, 2011-05-13 Most people would probably agree that quality of life means more than just…
Diamond revenues must improve infrastructure
A contribution of EfD/EPRU Research Fellow Edwin Muchapondwa to the policy debate in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s civil servants offer vital services to the nation and they deserve decent pay. Unfortunately…
How Regressive Are Fuel Taxes? A Comparison of Countries from Around the World
Thomas Sterner makes the latest addition to RFF policy commentary series with a piece on whether fuel taxes are indeed regressive. Raising fuel taxes could significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse…