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Siting Marine Protected Areas with Area Targets Protecting Rural Incomes, Fish Stocks, and Turtles in Costa Rica
(2020-04)
With many countries seeking to increase the area conserved in marine protected areas (MPAs) to achieve the Convention on Biodiversity’s protected area targets by 2020, we employ a bioeconomic model to determine which ...
Deforestation impacts of environmental services payments: Costa Rica's PSA Program 200-2005
(Environment for Development, 2008)
Costa Rica’s environmental services payments program (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales, or PSA) started in 1997 and was the true pioneer in this area. It is broadly cited and has led to numerous calls for emulating its ...
Paying the price of sweetening your donation: evidence from a natural field experiment
(Environment for Development, 2010-02)
Using a natural field experiment in a recreational site, a public good almost fully dependent on voluntary donations, we explored the crowding-out effect of gift rewards. First, we investigated whether receiving a map in ...
Simulation of potential banana photosynthesis in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
(IICA, San José (Costa Rica), 1991-07)
Para hacer una evaluación cuantitativa de la aptitud de la tierra para el cultivo del banano, sería útil disponer de un modelo de simulación. Por lo tanto, como primer paso para su diseño, se desarrolló un modelo de ...
Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015)
Community-based drinking water organizations (CBDWOs) are the most important providers of water in rural areas of the developing world. They are responsible for coping with future threats due to climate change, besides ...
Credit, Insurance, and Farmers’ Liability: Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment with Coffee Farmers in Costa Rica.
(2017-03)
To cope with losses from extreme hydro-meteorological events, governments typically implement disaster relief programs and offer debt relief to affected parties. Governments in developing countries have made extensive use ...
The Effect of Hydro-Meteorological Emergencies on Internal Migration
(Elsevier, Amsterdam (Paises Bajos), 2015-03)
We estimate the effect of hydro-meteorological emergencies on internal migration in Costa Rica during 1995–2000. We find that, on average, emergencies significantly increase average migration. However, we also find that ...
Colección internacional de café del CATIE
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Departamento de Agricultura y Agroforestería, 2021)
La colección de café del CATIE empezó en Turrialba, Costa Rica, a partir de los años cincuenta. Actualmente es la colección más grande de Coffea arabica en el continente Americano por su amplia diversidad genética, ...
Permanence of PES and the role of social context in the Regional Integrated Silvo-pastoral Ecosystem Management Project in Costa Rica
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2021-07)
We present rare, empirical evidence on the permanence of land use changes induced by a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program. A follow-up study was conducted a decade after the end of the Regional Integrated ...
Heterogeneous Local Spillovers from Protected Areas in Costa Rica
(2017)
Spillovers can significantly reduce or enhance the net effects of land-use policies, yet there exists little rigorous evidence concerning their magnitudes. We examine how Costa Rica’s national parks affect deforestation ...