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NOx emissions and productive structure in Spain: An input–output perspective
(Instituto de Economia Montevideo (Uruguay), 2016-02)
We analyse the NOx gas emissions of different productive sectors in Spain. Using input–output analysis, we study all sectors as subsystems of the economy and classify them according to the explanatory factors of
their ...
Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
(2017-10-09)
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied ...
La agricultura familiar en las Américas: Principios y conceptos que guían la cooperación técnica del IICA
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016-01)
La agricultura familiar (AF), entendida como una categoría social integrada por individuos que viven en el medio rural y trabajan la tierra con fines productivos y reproductivos y predominantemente con sus familiares, ha ...
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 ...
Estado del arte de la investigación e innovación para la intensificación sostenible de los sistemas ganaderos y de la adaptación / mitigación ante el cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe.
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, San José (Costa Rica), 2018-11-20)
En los últimos 50 años la demanda por proteínas de origen animal en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC) se ha incrementado como consecuencia del crecimiento de la población, la mejora en el nivel de ingreso per cápita y la ...
Mecanismos de Coordinación Interinstitucional para una Política Climática Efectiva en Latinoamérica y el Caribe
(LEDSLAC Moravia (San José), 2017-02)
Coffea eugenioides S. Moore and Coffea stenophylla G. Don: Distribution, botany, agronomic traits and growing areas
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016-10)
The long-run relationship between CO2 emissions and economic activity in a small open economy: Uruguay 1882 - 2010
(Instituto de Economía, Montevideo (Uruguay), 2015-09)
The long-run relationship between carbon dioxide emissions from energy use and economic activity level is estimated for Uruguay between 1882 and 2010. We apply cointegration techniques and estimate a Vector Error Correction ...
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. ...