The empirical evidence of coffee production in Vietnam indicates that about 50% of environmental pressures could be reduced while maintaining the current value-added level.
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) just updated its Expert List in August 2020 related to the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery…
On July 1st PhD Jorge Dresdner and co-authors Julio Peña-Torres, Felipe Quezada and Iván Luzardo were honoured as the winners for the 2020 Outstanding Article in Marine Resource Economics. Their…
Martine Visser, head of the EfD Center in Cape Town South Africa, was interviewed on BBC Business on how we can use nudging as a way to change people's behavior in a favorable way. The program…
Vulnerability assessment using composite indices provides critical information for the policymakers on why certain regions are impacted more than the others. Several researchers have assessed the vulnerability to hazard in diverse spatial and environmental settings, however, not many studies have assessed the vulnerability to flood hazards in Bihar, where flooding is a perennial event.
To evaluate the management of Chilean universities in terms of their role as knowledge generators, the DEA methodology was applied to a subset of universities. Next, a fractional probit model was estimated with the efficiency scores obtained to explore factors that influence performance. The results show high levels of efficiency in research, with private institutions reporting higher scores than state institutions, and some important factors being detected in obtaining that performance.
