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A number of studies show that large-scale deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is necessary to limit the increase in global average temperature to less than 2 °C by 2100. However, some…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Most of the literature on the causes of tropical deforestation has focused on the proximate and distal causes. However, research exploring the psychological drivers of deforestation, i.e., motivations…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Highlights Expected mainstreaming of the Ecosystem Services Approach (ESA) has not been fulfilled. Sectors involved in ESA and their relationships drive pathways of mainstreaming in Latin America…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Globally, there is an increasing level of funding targeted to pay farmers and rural communities for the provision of ecosystem services, for example through Payments for Ecosystem or Environmental…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

The persisting inequalities women face while entering the labor market, make female economic empowerment a major policy objective for international organisations, local governments, non-profit…

2 March 2020 | Policy Brief | Colombia

En este trabajo se analiza la incidencia de ciertos factores individuales, académicos y socio-económicos sobre el tiempo de permanencia y deserción de los estudiantes en el Programa Especial de…

2 March 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

We analyze whether the decisions made by university students in a framed threshold public good game meet what artisanal gold miners decided in a lab-in-the-field experiment. This work contrasts with…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Understanding the influence of social variables on a beneficiary´s vulnerability to environmental change might improves the design of policies of mitigation and adaptation to global, regional and…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Small-scale gold mining is important to rural livelihoods in the developing world but also a source of environmental externalities. Incentives for individual producers are the classic policy response…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia

Rationing car use based on license plate number has become a popular policy in several cities around the world to address traffic congestion and air pollution. This paper studies the effects of the…

29 February 2020 | Peer Reviewed | Colombia