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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Coffea eugenioides S. Moore and Coffea stenophylla G. Don: Distribution, botany, agronomic traits and growing areas
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2016-10)
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 ...
Risk management in agriculture Ongoing studies with coffee farmers in Costa Rica affected by coffee leaf rust
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica), 2015-09)
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. ...
In search of double dividends from climate change interventions evidence from forest conservation and household energy transitions
(Expertgruppen for biståndsanalys, Estocolmo (Suecia), 2015-09)
Klimatförändringarna utgör mänsklighetens största utmaning och vi har bara börjat hantera dem. Forskningen pekar på att klimatförändringarnas effekter kommer att drabba fattiga människor i
utvecklingsländer särskilt ...
La historia del cacao y del chocolate :
(Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), 2013)
Este manual se elaboró con el objetivo de servir como material de apoyo en procesos de educación e información sobre la Historia del cacao. En él se presenta una historieta que narra sobre el cultivo del café y algunos ...