Managing rural water systems: keys to success
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Why are some communities effective at providing safe drinking water, while others fail?
Policy Design
Realizing REDD+: what role for Payments for Environmental Services?
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This 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 additional forest conservation through targeted payments and the risk for unintended incentives and consequences and feelings of injustice among those who don´t receive payments. The brief further discuss the role for PES in national REDD+ policy.
Incentives, Impacts, and Behavioral issues in the context of Payment for Ecosystem Services programs: lessons for REDD+
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A framework that can be used to assess the potential impact of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes.
Francisco Alpízar to lecture in the IDB Biodiversity Speaker Series 2012
The Inter-American Development Bank is organizing a series of lectures with emphasis on Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. EfD Central America Center Director and Research Fellow…
EfD to become independent legal entity
At the recent EfD annual meeting in Costa Rica the Coordination Committee made a number of important decisions. First a five year strategic plan was decided upon. This plan includes ambitions of…
Media reports on EfD Policy Day in Costa Rica
International and Costa Rican local media showed great interest in covering the EfD Policy Day celebrated on October 25, 2012 What has been traditionally known as The Policy Day took place as part of…
Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources
The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America. Turrialba, Costa Rica. As the world tries to understand how to meet…
PRESS RELEASE: Experts and policymakers meet in Costa Rica to discuss climate change, water and natural resources
The goal is to identify needs for policy making and research in these three issues that are key for development in Central America. Turrialba, Costa Rica. As the world tries to understand how to meet…
Protecting forests, biodiversity, and the climate: predicting policy impact to improve policy choice
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We argue for integrating the consideration of location in policy planning in three ways, in order to help to predict policy impacts on deforestation and, thereby, improve policy choices.
The CASCADE Project: supporting smallholder’s climate adaptation in Central America based on ecosystem approaches.
CASCADE project promotes adaptation to climate change in vulnerable communities of smallholder farmers in Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala, through Ecosystem-based Adaptation strategies (EbA). In