AFAERE Virtual Conference 2021
The Virtual Conference of the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) will be held from 2-4 August 2021. You are welcome to submit theoretical and empirical papers in all…
Spreading pro-social behavior, one smiley face at a time
Professor Marcela Jaime Torres grew up in Colombia but was drawn to Chile by a prestigious Master's program in environmental and natural resource economics offered by the University of Concepción
Impacts of the pandemic on forest communities and forest resource use - What do we know, what do we need to know and how to find out?
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives around the world, with significant implications for forest use and management. In many countries, sudden lockdowns spurred widespread urban to rural “reverse”…
Understanding Regressivity: Challenges and Opportunities of European Carbon Pricing
A lecture by Ulrike Kornek We examine how a European carbon price will affect citizens by studying the carbon tax incidence in 23 countries of the EU. At the national level, the distributional impact…
Preliminary: The Optimal Design of Clima
A presentation by Wolfgang Habla, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for Europe.
A climate pulse model of long-run development.
Ola Olsson, Professor of Economics, University of Gothenburg, will be presenting work on his new book. The title of the presentation is A climate pulse model of long-run development. Meeting ID: 639…
Crop farming adaptation to droughts in small-scale dryland agriculture in Chile
EfD Authors:
Small-scale agriculture is one of the fundamental economic sectors in Chile. An increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change suggest a higher weather risk for the future, with potential consequences for crop choices. These effects are expected to be greater in dryland areas, where producers are more vulnerable to shocks and, therefore, less able to protect themselves against these risks.
Seminar LAERE - EfD #1 - Input Efficiency, Technology Adoption and Disadoption: Two RCTs on Water Saving Technologies
Welcome to the first seminar LAERE - EfD - Input Efficiency, Technology Adoption and Disadoption: Two RCTs on Water Saving Technologies March 3rd, we will offer our first Seminar LAERE-EfD. In this…
EfD collaborative presents nine articles in the March issue of Marine Policy
The Blue Resources for Development presents some of its’ research results in a special section in the 2021 March issue of Marine Policy. The focus is on fisheries performance. “Fisheries performance…
AFAERE Webinar on Covid-19 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
AFAERE Webinar Panel Speakers: (1) Babatunde Abidoye: Global Policy Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York, USA; (2) Jean-Paul ADAM: Director, Technology, Climate Change and…