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Cómo los incentivos de mercado afectan el comportamiento de los que no reciben el PSA? Con este estudio el Programa de Investigación en Desarrollo, Economía y Ambiente (IDEA) de CATIE se dio a la…
12 November 2012 | Policy Brief | Central AmericaLecciones de 20 años de experiencia en servicios ambientales en Costa Rica DE RIO A RIO+: Lecciones de 20 años de experiencia en servicios ambientales en Costa Rica
12 November 2012 | Report | Central AmericaOur findings provide some of the first evidence that eco-certification can generate private benefits for tourism operators in developing countries and therefore has the potential to improve their…
9 November 2012 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central AmericaTo address simultaneity and the presence of spatially correlated unobservables, we measure for neighbors' deforestation using the slopes of neighbors' and neighbors' neighbors' parcels. We estimate…
9 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaEco-certification of coffee, timber and other high-value agricultural commodities is increasingly widespread. In principle, it can improve commodity producers' environmental performance, even in…
9 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaThe paper discusses the application of Elinor Ostrom’s Social Ecological Systems (SES) framework, using as example a community organization in Costa Rica, which collectively extracts turtle eggs. The…
8 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaWhy are some communities effective at providing safe drinking water, while others fail? In many rural communities around the world, villagers contest the policy prescription that all drinking water…
8 November 2012 | Policy Brief | Central AmericaThis paper analyzes the interaction between North (technology rich and gene poor) and South (gene rich but technology poor) in relation to bioprospecting in the life sciences industries. This sector…
6 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaIn this paper, we study the current water pricing system practised in Kigali, Rwanda, and evaluate the potential for efficiency gains by moving to other alternatives. Notably, our numerical examples…
5 November 2012 | Peer Reviewed | SwedenThis Brief presents a framework that can be used to assess the potential impact of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Factors that determines the impact of PES are discussed such as…
2 November 2012 | Policy Brief | Central America, Sweden