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Bridging the Policy and Investment Gap for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Learning from Costa Rican Experience and Roads Ahead
(Global Green Growth Institute, Seúl (Corea del Sur), 2016-10)
Between 2000 to 2010, forests were lost at an average of 5.2 million hectares per year across the globe (FAO 2010). Though the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation vary, agricultural expansion is responsible for ...
Rapid participatory appraisal for the design and evaluation of payment for ecosystem services: An introduction to an assessment guide.
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2017-04)
Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015-07-22)
Both Tanzania’s and Costa Rica’s beaches provide important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles. Poaching of eggs by local people for food or for sale presents a major threat to these species, as do other predators. ...
The impacts of a capacity-building workshop in a randomized adaptation project
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2019)
Encouraging adaptation to climate change is fundamentally
about encouraging changes in human behaviour. To promote
these changes, governments, non-profits and multilateral
institutions have invested in a range of ...
Do entrance fees crowd out donations for public goods? Evidence from a protected area in Costa Rica
(Cambridge University, Cambridge (Reino Unido), 2014-06-30)
In this paper, we investigate how different levels of entrance fees affect donations for a public good, a natural park. To explore this issue, we conducted a stated preference study focusing on visitors’ preferences for ...
Spillovers from targeting of incentives: Exploring responses to being excluded.
(Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos), 2017)
A growing set of policies involve transfers conditioned upon socially desired actions, such as attending school or conserving forest. However, given a desire to maximize the impact of limited funds by avoiding transfers ...
A Contingent Valuation Approach to Estimating Regulatory Costs: Mexico’s Day without Driving Program
(Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. (Estados Unidos), 2015-05)
Little is known about the cost of environmental regulations such as residential zoning restrictions and recycling mandates that target households instead of firms, partly because of significant methodological and data ...
The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs.
(2019)
For decades, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations have invested in programs aimed at alleviating poverty and those aimed at protecting the environment. Whether these investments mutually reinforce each ...
Determinants of food insecurity among smallholder farmer households in Central America: recurrent versus extreme weather-driven events.
(2020)
To ensure food security among rural communities under a changing climate, policymakers need information on the prevalence and determinants of food insecurity, the role of extreme weather events in exacerbating food insecurity, ...
Policy design for the Anthropocene
(Nature, 2019)