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This study examines the welfare effects of community plantations in Ethiopia via contingent valuation. Both single-bounded and double-bounded survey methods were considered, and, with respect to…
29 April 2015 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaAlthough developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than “paper parks” that are chronically short of the…
25 March 2015 | Peer Reviewed | Central AmericaLack of progress in global climate negotiations has led scholars to reconsider polycentric approaches to climate policy. Several examples of subglobal mechanisms to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions…
25 March 2015 | Peer Reviewed |We examine the welfare implications of the Tanzanian fisheries boom resulting from Lake Victoria Nile perch exports during 1993–2008. In the literature, there are two opposing views on the effect of…
12 March 2015 | Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaThis paper uses the water-reallocation scheme created within the National Water Act (1998) to analyze the impacts of water policy on farm livelihoods in South Africa. Based on one of the most water…
27 February 2015 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaThe study presented here considers the relative efficiency of planting tobacco and maize in the tobacco-producing Tabora region of Tanzania. The study used a 2013 survey that was conducted among…
17 February 2015 | Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaAlthough protected areas, or “parks”, are among the leading policy tools used to stem tropical deforestation, rigorous evaluations of their effectiveness—that is, evaluations that control for their…
14 February 2015 | Peer Reviewed |This article investigates the role of institutional isolation on the adoption of soil conservation technologies in Kenya. The study is based on the theory of induced technical and institutional…
31 January 2015 | Peer Reviewed | KenyaThis article presents a decision-making model based on situations that are typically encountered in fisheries management when setting the total allowable quota. The model allows assessing the…
9 January 2015 | Peer Reviewed | ChileStates have treaty-based and customary international law-based responsibilities to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions emanating from their territory do not cause transboundary harm. However, those…
14 December 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden