EfD’s collaborative program Sustainable Energy Transition Initiative, SETI, had several activities at EfD’s Annual Meeting on September 22-26 in Kampala, Uganda. The question of how to achieve a…
The participants in EfD’s Early Career Fellowship Program started with sessions on academic writing and research ethics three days prior to the Annual Meeting. They had also one extra day of training…
A selection of photos from EfD's 16th Annual Meeting in Uganda is available on EfD's Flickr Account. Have you checked it out? Link to the 16th Annual Meeting album. Link to EfD Initiative's Flickr…
Research Nucleus on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (NENRE), University of Concepción, EfD Chile, is hosting the 8th NENRE annual workshop. In the framework of this event, they will have…
We identify and explore the potential opportunities and challenges for promoting and expanding small-scale aquaculture (SSA) as an additional income-generating activity for coastal communities in southern Chile. Based on a conceptual model of SSA adoption decisions, we conducted field key informant semistructured interviews with stakeholders in the Los Lagos region and in the regional capital city, Puerto Montt. We conducted a qualitative analysis of the interviews to identify potential resource users’ perceptions of current SSA opportunities.
Plastic pollution of marine ecosystems is a global problem with severe consequences for wildlife and economic activity. The Sustainable Seas Trust (SST) hosted the second International Conference of…
Marine protected areas (MPAs) provide both conservation and economic benefits. Recent international conservation actors have called for a dramatic increase in the area of MPAs from almost 8% to 30% of marine area by 2030 in a policy called 30X30. Both the economics and conservation science literature consider MPA decisions and MPA impact, although the economics literature focuses on fishery economic outcomes. This review uses an optimization framework for MPA decisions as a lens through which to evaluate the economics literature on MPAs in the context of the 30X30 expansion decisions.